also I got older today!
I stormed through the Sporeggar reputation grind today - for some reason I'd expected it to be a tough one but it really took no time at all. Well, some hours, but that's no big deal. Sha'tari Skyguard was quite a bit more involved, at any rate. I wonder if I should have Thilan go for The Diplomat now? Kurenai and Timbermaw will both take longer, I am thinking. (Of course, my primary motivation here was obtaining the Tiny Sporebat. I think Thilan's on eighty-three non-combat pets now.)
Regardless, it somehow suddenly felt like... the right time to try and hit Westfall. (This is about to get all character-based, you are warned.) I've known since before the Cataclysm hit that the state of Stormwind and Westfall would have the largest potential impact on Thilan.
Stormwind, well... I think he's let go of Stormwind. Which is hardly what I expected at all, and I don't find it particularly admirable (though more consistent than anticipated). I don't know if this is a particularly permanent sentiment, mind. Only time will tell with that. He's been home the once on a pressing matter, and again to take a more thoughtful look around, and he's ready to drop everything and be part of something else now. Stormwind is the grand city of the Alliance, and that still means something but... it's no longer his place to go back to. It's not somewhere he wants to see.
(For the record, 'drop everything' is being used incredibly loosely here, which is absolutely fine because he also functions on sweeping generalisations and vague definitions. This isn't even the first time he'll have done something like this, albeit not quite so consciously - he was really pretty comfy in Dalaran for a while there. (Then something scared him. Oh my hopeless boy.))
This was only supposed to be a short update, haaa. For all that Thilan is walking away from Stormwind for the time being, Westfall has been playing on his mind. And, as previously mentioned, today was suddenly the time. And I can just... tell you now, I didn't manage to so much as pick up the first quest before he was done. I don't care how goofy the NPC is being, that quest is just... so much everything Thilan doesn't need to see anywhere, nevermind against the actual backdrop of Westfall.
So I didn't manage to pick up the first quest, though I'll grant you that he did go and speak to homeless folk. He pretty much went and lost himself among them, and I guess that's where he'll be for the very immediate future. Until he leaves Westfall just as suddenly as he came, or until he... manages to get himself together, I suppose. Whichever comes first.
Enough about that, though. Back to work tomorrow, oh boy! Only working two days this week though, and vampireduzell is hopefully coming over to play on Friday (New Years Eve) which is a splendid thing.
I had a pretty okay day, in the end. Very calm and relaxed and... warm, I suppose. It was a largely warm day. Now I have to decide whether to buy new headphones tomorrow or not. I want them, but good ones are so expensive and I always seem to break them. Oh, the difficult decisions of my life...
Also, I need to upload music already. :|
Regardless, it somehow suddenly felt like... the right time to try and hit Westfall. (This is about to get all character-based, you are warned.) I've known since before the Cataclysm hit that the state of Stormwind and Westfall would have the largest potential impact on Thilan.
Stormwind, well... I think he's let go of Stormwind. Which is hardly what I expected at all, and I don't find it particularly admirable (though more consistent than anticipated). I don't know if this is a particularly permanent sentiment, mind. Only time will tell with that. He's been home the once on a pressing matter, and again to take a more thoughtful look around, and he's ready to drop everything and be part of something else now. Stormwind is the grand city of the Alliance, and that still means something but... it's no longer his place to go back to. It's not somewhere he wants to see.
(For the record, 'drop everything' is being used incredibly loosely here, which is absolutely fine because he also functions on sweeping generalisations and vague definitions. This isn't even the first time he'll have done something like this, albeit not quite so consciously - he was really pretty comfy in Dalaran for a while there. (Then something scared him. Oh my hopeless boy.))
This was only supposed to be a short update, haaa. For all that Thilan is walking away from Stormwind for the time being, Westfall has been playing on his mind. And, as previously mentioned, today was suddenly the time. And I can just... tell you now, I didn't manage to so much as pick up the first quest before he was done. I don't care how goofy the NPC is being, that quest is just... so much everything Thilan doesn't need to see anywhere, nevermind against the actual backdrop of Westfall.
So I didn't manage to pick up the first quest, though I'll grant you that he did go and speak to homeless folk. He pretty much went and lost himself among them, and I guess that's where he'll be for the very immediate future. Until he leaves Westfall just as suddenly as he came, or until he... manages to get himself together, I suppose. Whichever comes first.
Enough about that, though. Back to work tomorrow, oh boy! Only working two days this week though, and vampireduzell is hopefully coming over to play on Friday (New Years Eve) which is a splendid thing.
I had a pretty okay day, in the end. Very calm and relaxed and... warm, I suppose. It was a largely warm day. Now I have to decide whether to buy new headphones tomorrow or not. I want them, but good ones are so expensive and I always seem to break them. Oh, the difficult decisions of my life...
Also, I need to upload music already. :|