Azeroth has a new citizen!

Woah! I finally got time to sit down! It has been a busy family & "Warcrafty" two days! Mr. Sky finally had a day off after 2 straight 60 hour weeks so we treated us to some ice cream and a petting zoo with the babies and dinner with grandma. It has been so hot and muggy and saturated with deer and mosquitoes flies that we had began to feel like prisoners in our home! We desperately needed to get out on the road and make a day of it. Even though we had a blast, I hate when the babes have to go without a nap because they turn into Betty White from the Snicker Bar commercials... or gremlins ...... yes they turn into Gremlins and not the fluffy cute kind.

Azeroth acquired a new citizen yesterday! I helped my mom log into her battle net launcher and select World of Warcraft for the first time and it was awesome!  She chose a Blood Elf and I suggested she play a Hunter because I love mine and l knew she would love to have a pet to share her travels with. I also didn't waste any time showing her that she can name her pet and she was elated. We were lucky to get her into the guild I play my Blood Elf hunter in called Fates Call on Borean Tundra ran by Marathal. The last video game she  had played was Frogger on Atari decades ago so this was quite a different experience for her and for me too.
I realized how much I take for granted in regards to the knowledge that seems to be second nature to me. It is weird trying to teach someone entirely from scratch with zero MMORPG experience how to play a game that really is never finished! That you can equip gear, that you can run around and see other players also running around, that you can log out and pick up right where you left off! I also asked myself, " How in the hell did I survive when I started!?" I didn't have anyone teaching me the little things about the game lol I mean yeah, I could have asked someone but I am stubborn and like to tough stuff out on my own. lol  It was cool to see how she was starting to pick up the AWSD keys and then incorporate the mouse to move around toward her questing zone on the map.

At first she said she was scared and felt intimidated and I had to keep reminding her it is just a game. You are here to just have fun and explore a beautiful world like nothing you have ever seen before. Before she knew it, she got to level four before my little ones started to wake up and she felt so proud of herself. I had to laugh though because during one of her quests in the Blood Elf starting zone had to kill Spring Paw Cats and Cubs and she was wondering why none of the cats she was killing were dropping collars and Iooked and saw she had been shooting the little kitty cats that are pets and running around ! LOL I laughed so hard , I said , "Oh no, you have to go outside of the building and kill those cats, they drop the collars and you will loot collars off of those." She started to feel bad about killing the little tabby cats running around the house but got a kick out of the brooms I showed her that swish around cleaning on their own lol Boy Oh Boy those would sure come in handy to us parents wouldn't they!?

After showing her around a bit and seeing the game through a new set of eyes it made we think of how critical veterans of the game actually are. It is actually kind of sad in comparison to the excitement a new player has. I have a feeling that if more people saw Azeroth through the eyes that they had first seen it they would spend less time feeling so jaded... It was nice to sit down with her and show her the ropes and then I suddenly became full of excitement thinking of all the things I will get to show her that many of us consider an old hat. Many of my fellow Warcraft brothers and sisters feel let down, mad, angry , or  thirsty for better. They hang on every Dev tweet and examine it with the largest magnifying glass they can find and pick as much meat off of the PTR bone they can with such a hunger I often wonder if they will ever be as happy as they were when they first steped foot in their starting zone.  I felt particularly proud to show her how big the community actually is. I even sat her down over a pot of tea one evening and took her on a mini you tube tour of what Warcraft is to others. I showed her some of my favorite You Tube Parodies, I found her some You Tubers who took the time to do starting zone walk throughs of the characters she will be able to play. I had her listen to some of the beautiful music that she will be listening too. I had fun sharing with her the world that expands past the actual game and she had no idea that there were so many people involved with what had first seemed like just a little video game she would hear her daughters talk about. lol It was nice!

Well it is time to make dinner, I am sure I will have more stories to share in the future!
Esme Out!