Basically, life got so busy that I had less and less time to game. It became to much trouble to log in to the server and then be interrupted, so I gradually drifted away. Most of the people that played characters important to Hiroshu moved on, giving me less incentive to return.
So here I am, pretty pleased that we have an expanded place to talk about more than just the mod.
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Like many WoC played an amazing place in my development as a teenager, a gamer and later a writer. So happy to see the community evolve and remain. NWN was an incredible platform, as we all sadly know, nothing like it has ever come since. I havnt touched NWN in years like many. Reading through the thread I loved Urz's statement. NWN helped to birth this community but now it moves beyond any one platform and becomes what its really about. Community, RP, Gaming, Writing and Fantasy/SciFi.
Though we float in and out of our own lives I hope to keep this community a part of my life for as long as I can.
So on that I thought I'd ask this question. Ive learnt bits about many of you over the years, but I thought this would be kinda cool. So how has your life changed since first joining Caenyr and whats happened since?
So......whats the last ten years held for you guys?
Im sitting here trying to remember when I actually joined WoC. I just remember that Urz and I joined within days of each other. NWN was released 2002 so 2002/2003? That was when I was about 20yrs old doing a biomedical science degree. After progressing through original Diablo online and then waiting for Ultima Online to be released into my first actual RP experience. RP was always intermingled with Player Killers and such there. So after an hour playing the single player I found Caenyr and my first real Rp (and it turns out though I didnt realise it at the time) my first writing experience as my first character Cey'larn Dayan, the one who still really lives in my writing world. You know how characters sometimes change you? Well she did alot of good for my psyche
I think I stopped dropping into Chail and the BLI regularly in 2005 after I finished my degree. I ended up spending a year overseas in 2006/7 in India and on a Kibbutz in Israel which is where I discovered all my personal world building writing and Caenyr RP equalled the obvious fact that I liked writing (there was some input by a new mate who was a writer himself).
I came back to Aus and started concentrating on my writing more. Thats when I rejoined Caenyr and invented Cey's sister Nav'liel I think. I tried an evil character at that point. I didnt like it, Im terrible at mean characters.
Thats also when I decided to apply for Med School. when I started in 2008. Med was quite an RP wasteland for me. I was so busy and every time I tried to commit to something it just fell apart. I have an incredibly full MS OneNote on my computer, its my lifeblood. My writing, my stored old writing, my med school notes and now my teaching and research stuff all lives in OneNote. During med school I built a onenote notebook full of writing prompts, pics which inspired me etc. That was my compromise, that even thought I didnt have the mental space to write RP regularly I was doing something in some way creative.
I finished med school in 2011 and 2012 playing intern (I refer to scrubs for the feelings of a medical intern
) plus the start of a big relationship in my life played out like the years before. Only now I was getting inwardly frustrated and so 2013 I decided not to work full time and relearn life away from medicine for awhile.And that brings me to last year where I started tutoring at university and doing some work as a research assistant on the side. I started my first ever PbP group in 2007 (Played with Ed!). I ran a star wars PbP which fizzled out about 4 months in. Somewhere around the same time in my life I played a Vampire the Masquerade game with Spikey.
Since 2007 I tried to build another PbP group a few times. I had this awesome idea for a storyline and I really wanted to play it out. I tried restarting my star wars game in 2009 and 2011 but as with RP always it was difficult to find players. So last year SW:CtF got started and I got to harrass zeppy for free! That has been my main RP outlet for the past year, I did a creative writing course last year to get my own writing going but Im still learning how to rebalance my life after ramping up so much in med school and as an intern. Im looking at psychiatry training so im hoping I can keep more reasonable hours here on in (compared to those poor surgeons who dont leave the hospital much!)
And thats 10 years of Day (sorry my addition isnt working. Thats 11-12 years)
Woops that was long. Anyway love to hear what you guys have been up to over the years Statistics: Posted by Neshma — Tue May 13, 2014 11:37 am
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