Talliska is circle 38, and well on her way toward 40 now.

I'm happy with Talli's training -- however her hiding and stalking are getting behind. I actually find it really boring to train hiding/stalking, oh well. The vipers still train it well for Talliska. My dream title (Penumbra) takes 400+ ranks of hiding/stalking so I have to get to it. ;.;

On the other hand, I'm about 23 Scouting ranks away from "Trailmaster", which I think is what Talli will wear next. :D

I'm wanting to play Ryshy more, but it's hard to keep track of two characters. I really want to train/RP Talli heavily, but the same with Ryshassa is also appealing. There's a lot of changes going on for empaths where empathic shock will become negligible, and they're already allowed to hit certain types of creatures with no shock (mostly constructs). Many new spells that are of interest, too. And eventually the old Empath healing spells will be phased out to consolidate them a bit.

I'm playing Dragonrealms again.
And I am so very hooked.

How could I ever have *left*? I can't even imagine it. It's still the best gaming experience I've ever had, even after all the bumps along the way. And the GMs have been consistently trying to make training easier and fun. Maybe a pain in the arse for those who trained hard with the old ways, but me? I don't care.

Talli is circle 36 and looks like she'll be doing a fast track to level 40. She needs a crapload of Scouting, Climbing and Swimming (in that order) to get there, and a smaller amount of Medium Edged. After that I think I'll cut down on the circle chasing and get my weapons and defenses trained some more.

As for those wondering about my Order involvement. I had previously wanted to keep Talliska uninvolved, but after meeting with Manze and several new members he picked up since I was gone, I decided I really *liked* these people. I have some hope for the future direction of the Order, and wanted to stay on at least a while longer to see where that will go.

Also Halcier is still a member, too! TOTALLY a plus. He's one of my oldest remaining friends in DR. :)

I forgot to mention this, but a few days ago I finally, officially canceled FFXI. I think that one IRC convo where someone said "FFXI isn't for the weak of heart" (insinuating it's only for hardcore gamers) ticked me off too much to try it any more. Besides the fact I already put a great deal of my time into other activities (RP).

On the other hand, I have this REALLY weird urge lately to play DR again. WTF! D: D:

Unfortunately, the one character I really want to play I pretty much don't want to bring back any more :( Honestly, I wish I'd left Talliska to be a hermit like she used to be. It's not because I dislike the Order she was in or the people in it, just... I don't really want to play with that kind of social responsibility mixed into my game time any more.

Kalli's leaving tomorrow... I guess I've not been very much in the mood to post.

I've been irritable for the past few days. One could say that I have trouble trusting people and thus my first thought is to assume they think ill of me, or think me a burden. I'm very paranoid about that, and enough suspicion on my part can make me just want to disappear.

I feel like I can say little to anyone lately. :/ I've been making an effort to, lately, especially now that I won't be talking Kalli's ear off, but my urge is just to be withdrawn. Maybe it's the big change coming up for me (note: we are indeed moving August 1st.) I have no idea. I know I ought not to discredit my friends -- there are people that truly care about me. But I get paranoid they might change their minds, so I keep a certain distance. Maybe they're just saying x just to be nice, is what my depression says.

So I spend most of my time playing Dragonrealms and Sims 2.

A couple of things, actually.

Well, yesterday, I finally heard from Manze about the Prydaen document I wrote, and he was pretty impressed. I'm happy that the all-nighter I pulled was worth it.

Apparently he wants Talliska to be the Order's Race Sage for Prydaens now. I told him it amused me, because Talliska so doesn't think of herself as the teaching type. But I didn't outright refuse. After all, I DO feel like I know Prydaen culture backwards and forwards after all the research I did. ^^;

Also, yesterday night (today), I created this: Iyadali Waveshorn. It's an Exalted 2nd edition character sheet for a Roleplay Online game. Young Solar exalts, +10 bp more than normal, blah blah.