Guild Slut

I'm not one of those girls who likes to use the word "slut" as an oddly affectionate term. Much as I love the site, the name of "Bookslut" always inspires just the slightest shiver of disapproval in me, but then, I suppose I am old-fashioned in some respects. Still, even the most matronly of observers would have to characterize my WoW behavior as a bit promiscuous.

I am in three guilds and am considering joining a fourth. Actually, I am past considering. I am at the stage where I beg the officer to let me in. Not that it will take much begging, I hope, as a lot of my friends are in the guild. Which is of course the main reason for my wanting to join.

Perhaps it's possible to have too many friends?

Of course I joined my first guild because I figured it was only fair to inflict my newbishness on the very folks who had convinced me to join up. Then one day I was messing about on an alt and remarked on how cute a guild name another player was sporting. He invited me to join immediately, and on a whim, I did. Then just a couple of nights ago I was on yet another alt romping in the lovely Blood Elf starting area when I fell into conversation with a girl who kindly kept me healed up as I stupidly blundered into Darkwraiths and we bonded over boys and cats. Then she invited me into her guild. We had bonded! What could I say?

Finally, last night I sat in on 1UP's podcast about World of Warcraft, Legendary Thread, in which they told me about their group guild. That's the one I am now wanting to join. Because to roam around Stranglethorn Vale with Skip and Karen and Luke and Jeff and Demian seems like online bliss!

I know I am crazy. I know this. Because I will have to start a new character on a new server and catch up to all of them. I'm aware of this - and that's why I started two last night. I couldn't decide between warrior and paladin. So they are both at level 7 now, sitting in Stormwind waiting for me to come play. Just as soon as I can.

Comments

[JasonCross]

What servers do you have characters on?

I run the Horde guild for Quarter to Three (of which I'm sure you're familiar) on Arathor. Great bunch of people, not really big, totally casual and helpful of each other.

I was thinking about starting up an Alliance character somewhere, but I'm not sure what server. Maybe I'll join Can't Quit You, the 1up guys' guild.

[Jason]

It sounds like you're doing pretty much what I was doing when I first started playing. I wanted to explore as much of the world as I could at first, making lots of alts and ending up in a couple different guilds on different servers. (I liked my first guild, but what was a gay-oriented guild like on WoW? Should I join the guild a lot of my career-peers are in? Hey, these guys with the D&D-themed public access show are funny, and they're trying to start a group, I should join. Etc., etc....) The problem was that I didn't have enough time to play everywhere I ended up, so I was left with a lot of unplayed alts that got booted from guilds due to inactivity.

I'm sure someone else has thought of this, but it'd be nice if there was some sort of social networking tool that let people know what servers their friends are on so that your friends all end up on the server you pick, and not vice versa. One can dream. :)

[bcm]

Rupture.com is doing social networking around MMOs, but it's focused on the character, within the game, not on the human playing the game. Since they're eventually going to support more games than just WoW, I hope they have something more "meta" in mind.

[shazam]

Wow. How on earth do you find the time to do what you do AND play 12 characters in WoW? Amazing. I'm sitting in a panel on writing, and you're asking a question...how webcentric is this? Bizarre.

Anyhow, really enjoyed the Women in Gaming panel and hearing from you. Would love to interview you by email or phone for Joystiq!