*tap* *tap* ...hello?

Greetings! I was going to add something about how We are Legion, for we are many, but I don't want to really give the wrong impression about what I'm trying to do here. As far as that goes, I'd better start by introducing myself.

I'm a 24-year-old guy who loves his video games. Particularly his World of Warcraft. I started out when a roommate told me all about this interesting new game he'd stumbled across. He'd done right by me in the past, introducing me to games I'd never played before, and enjoyed heartily, including Age of Mythology, Warcraft III, and Neverwinter Nights. I'd had little experience with online play, most of which consisted of blundering about on some hardcore roleplaying-oriented (*shudder*) private servers for NWN. I wasn't very impressed, mostly because the servers were sparsely populated, and the rules were very strict. But that's beside the point. World of Warcraft soon taught me that online play can be whatever you want it to be, and some of the best things about it can be the people you play with.

So to resume the flashback, I will introduce you to Loritekk. Say hello, Loritekk.

Isn't he adorable.
He's the first character I ever created for WoW, and I leveled him for a day or so before I showed him to my roommate. "Hey [insert roommate's name here]," I said, "check it out, a gnome rogue, isn't it great? Now we can play together!"

Alas, it was not meant to be. Despite his very Gnomish name (still proud of it), and his stealthy moves, and his nifty goggles, Loritekk was Alliance. Apparently this meant I could not play in a friendly way with roommate's character, Thunderhorns, who was, yes you guessed it, a Tauren. On the Horde. A new dimension of gameplay had presented itself to me. I soon learned that in addition, Loritekk and Thunderhorns were on completely different servers. Bah. Lesson learned.

And then came Lodaxus.

(Lodaxus is no longer with us, as he was cruelly deleted to make room for a flashy new character, but more on that later)

Wow he was slick though. He cast magic spells that brought pain to his enemies, and he had a choice of several demon pets with which to strike terror into the hearts of his foes. Warlocks were awesome! I leveled him almost to 20, and then decided he was very easy to kill, as he had no armor, and his pet was not very helpful in slowing down the getting-killed process. Also I was a newb and had a lot to learn. What was I to do? I knew so little about the game, leveling was becoming a frustrating challenge, and I needed something that would let me make my newb mistakes and yet remain alive. What to do indeed.

And so I rolled a hunter. And so my first main, Mangle, was born. Say hello, Mangle.

Aw, he's shy. Probably because I've been neglecting him. Don't feel bad though, I'll never abandon him like I did Lodaxus. I learned how to play the game with him, for cripes' sake.

Mangle was my first 60, and he, his faithful pig and I went all over Azeroth together: nearly all the five-man dungeons, Upper Blackrock Spire, Molten Core, and even once, briefly, into the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj. The raids I participated in weren't terribly successful, but they were fun, and I learned a lot about my class, and the game (not nearly as much as I have in the last month or so reading BRK though. check him out).

A lot of time passed, and I accumulated a healthy stable of alts, most of whom languished while I played with Mangle. After a while, though, and as seems inevitable, Mangle's guild deteriorated a bit, and circumstances led to me creating Zephérine.

Say hello to the friendly people, Zeph. (assuming anyone is reading this)

My, exuberant, aren't we?

Zephérine (now Zepherine, thanks to Blizz' impossible-to-decipher ToA* and an unfriendly snitch) quickly became my new main. We raided together, much more successfully than I had with Mangle (due mostly to the great team I had joined, rather than any stellar gameplay on my part). She's now 70, and happily searching for gear to make her the best Paladin ever. Ok maybe that's shooting a bit high. But it's good to have goals.

Zeph has many friends at this point. In fact, I have maxed out the number of characters I can have on Cenarius, the server I've played on almost since release. There's Zabulon, Zwift, Zafir, Zaneta, Zobera, Zahid, Zeppy, and Slap (maybe I'll share that story later). These keep me busy, although I am taking my sweet time in leveling them, and some have been at their current levels for quite a while.

And now we come to the point of this "web-based log" or diary or as the kids call it, a "webliary":
I've created a monster.

Actually, to be specific, I have created nine monsters. And I've somehow convinced a friend of mine to create nine monsters of her own. On another server, we have a horde alt for each class. This blog will be about their story.

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*go ahead, follow the link, you won't find the rule there. Bonus points to anyone who actually digs it up.