Eglantine the human priest is venturing into dangerous places to bury the dead. I won’t have as much time to play now that we are past the holidays, but I am looking forward to instances and battlegrounds.

I didn’t notice it as much when playing a gnome, but many objects in Azeroth are simply enormous in comparison to player avatars. The trees can be excused as an old growth fantasy forest, but scatter items like mugs are more baffling.

Trink	13	85 Engineering	76 Mining	61 Cooking	85 Fishing	2 First Aid
Eglantine	15	90 Skinning	63 Tailoring	96 Cooking	85 Fishing	

I’m listening to the Murderbot audiobooks as I clean this week and the irony is not lost on me that I’m repeating a series that has self-comfort through repetitive media consumption as a major theme, and spending my other leisure time repeating 2005 in World of Warcraft. Murderbot is one of those fictional characters like Ignatius J. Reilly: you either see yourself, or you don’t understand the appeal. I read the series as ebooks the first time around and Kevin R. Free’s performance makes them more enjoyable because he gives subtle but distinct voices to the secondary characters, who don’t get much description in a novella’s space limitations.

We also reconnected with an old friend who we met on our original RPPvP server and lost track of after he left Facebook, so… reliving 2005 has some unambiguous positives!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to resume my episode of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.