Freya White

Freya White

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Reminiscing #1: How I Started Out

Once upon a time my husband, Rikk Steamweaver, took a computer course in college that required him to create a Second Life account. He and I both played a few hours, were extremely bored and resumed our online playing to World of Warcraft. We were guild leaders on WoW and loved every minute of it for 4 years. We were incredibly close to our guild members. After four years of playing on a daily basis with each other sharing their real life woes and triumphs, marriages, divorces, birth of children, death of parents, cancer, car accidents- you know them as well as your own family if not more.

It came as quite a shock when my husband created a new avatar and began playing Second Life again in July 2009. I would wait for hours and hours for him to log in to WoW to no avail. Our guildies became concerned and I was feeling very lost. What in the hell did Second Life offer him this time? It was soooo boring that first night. He began to change. After 3 long months of arguing, begging, pleading, trying to understand- I quit WoW. It had grown monotonous for me as well grinding for hours. I was stuck in a rut with nothing to show for it but exalted reputations. I called a meeting of the guild members, explained Rikk wasn't coming back. I sold all the items I had, gave everything away and made someone else the leader of the guild.

Rikk had been approached by a female vampire in a noob area a few weeks after he rejoined SL. She asked if he liked vampires. That was that. With his permission she bit him, took his soul and turned him into a vampire. He joined her clan and was immediately smitten with the members. They were all so much fun! So helpful, having events, chatting. Everyone looked so beautiful! It was intoxicating. I couldn't compete with that on WoW. WoW had become work. Rikk soon found out he would need to feed and needed blood based on the Bloodlines game. After much strife in our real life marriage over this nonsense I joined Second Life and became his blood doll in October 2009.  We bought some linden dollars, shopped for some items so I wouldn't look like a complete noob and that was that.  I had the presence of mind to photograph the turning.

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