Well, my luck is great so far.

Game Journal – Week 1

This has not been a good week in the gaming world for me. I have Eve Online downloaded and installed, but haven’t really tried to play it yet. I finally installed Sims 2 on my new computer that will actually run it, surprise surprise. I created an account on Second Life, pretty little Kristin Frostwych. I was molested within the first half hour, but got over it. Then I opened WoW to play for probably the third or fourth time since last summer.

It opened automatically to a server I’ve never created a character on. There were nine characters there, a few little 5-10s, but also a 40, a 30, and a 20. All of them were male, and I never play male. The 40 was a rogue, and I really, really cannot play a rogue. You can imagine how thrilled I was.

I checked out my main character, a 69 Tauren hunter, and she was exactly where I left her, with all of her possessions. I initially thought I was missing a BE, but she was there, too. All of my keybindings were messed up; imagine a very confused-looking cow running sideways, stopping, and then running sideways again. I reset them to default, and changed the few I like changed.

This is like a test of players’ attachment to avatars and the sanctity of gaming in high-stress environments. The third thing I did, after changing my password and inspecting my account for damage, was of course to blog about it in a WoW group. Once it was clear there was no actual damage done to my account, people started saying things like, “Man, it's like those stories about burglars who break into your home and do the dishes,” and “Lol, weird but funny really. Maybe someone was being kind and just felt like leveling some characters for you?”

I felt really strange about this. I did not like, on principle, someone else playing with my stuff. I'm never going to use these new characters. It's not a favor to me. I'm considering deleting all of them, after maybe making an alt to mail anything valuable to, just in case I ever have reason to play on that server. But - "kind"? Really, people?