User:Jaywizardess

Riyeko's Beginning


My name is Riyeko, and I come from a PvE realm famously named after Grom Hellscream. My World of Warcraft experiance was not much until December of 2006, when my husbands friend (a fellow and ex member of Zealots of Gir) invited us over for a barbeque with him and a few friends. As dinner was completed and people started to go home, he got onto his computer and opened up a computer game screen that was very interesting looking. At first, I was against the World of Warcraft. I didnt like the fact that it was a whole new "world" in which you could play, that you could ignore the outside world in hopes of becoming somebody "important" in a fake realm. But as the oldest of my two children walked into the room he was captured by the sound (my husbands friend has subwoofers hooked to his computer so you can imagine the sound of battle) and the pictures that flashed before him. He stood memorized. My husband told me that this was World of Warcraft and that this was the game he wanted to try out so desperately to see if it was any good. At first I told him that I didnt like the numbers floating around on the screen... you couldnt see what was going on with your character or the enemy which was clearly out in front. So, I frowned on the game and we politely left as it was 8pm (central time and our friend had to work at 7am).

A few months later my husband recieved his income tax return and using the majority to fulfill some direly needed items, with the remainder he decided to buy us both a computer. It was a good idea and a few days later World of Warcraft the original game and the Burning Crusade expansion pack made it boldly into our home. I did lay down a few rules and to this day he has followed them, as well as telling him the children are not allowed to play WoW until they are old enough and/or mature enough to realize that WoW isnt everything and that if they get tired of it, they know to turn it off and go see the grass and the trees once again. I was interested in this game a bit because of the versitality in the beginning. So after two months of having the game gather dust on top of my computer tower, after grueling conversations trying to get the internet connection kinks worked out, I finally installed the game and the original screen opened up (I told my husband I wouldnt need the expansion as soon as he did because I wasnt near enough to 60... Plus there were other things that were more important that required the $40). I had created my account a day before I installed the game so that all the proper "papers" had gone through and when the log-in screen opened up finally, I logged in.

The game was interesting at first and with my husband at his computer behind me, drug me through the first few steps to becoming a "member" of the ongoing community. My first character reached level 13 on a different server named Shu'halo, when my husband told me that many of his friends played on Hellscream. So, abandoning my sorry druid, I created a temporary character on Hellscream, a level 1 Night Elf Priest. She was horrid. I hated playing her. I tried a Rogue next. More disapointment. My characters would reach level 18 and I would become bored or unloving of them. My husbands first character, a Draenei Paladin had bored him as well. He said he was having fun, but was looking for more. We were deciding which characters to make when I told him that instead of taking a "randomized" name, to make it mean something so maybe the character would mean a little more to me and that I would want to play it more. So, I suggested that he make a hunter. Why not? I made a druid in return on the Alliance side (because our friends were alliance) and named her Riyeko (which means "daughter blessed with logic" in Japanese) and we started to play.



Level 10 came and went and we had more fun than ever trying to decide which animal for my husband to pet. He helped me out with the druid bear quest and finally... finally I had a form that I knew about as much about as I did the spells I cast. After about level 25 I told my husband that just runing around as an ugly bear was just not for me. I didnt like it and remotely was considereing making a new character. But, my husband had his friend (already a lvl 70 druid that had about 20k hp unbuffed in game) talk to me a bit about the druids abilities, in and out of bear form. So finally I understood the druid a little more than before. And thats when I decided I wanted to be a healer (plus I thought that moonkin form was ugly). A resto druid. Thats what I decided and thats what I have become.

The Forums for Riyeko
The forums are another story, accompanied by flaming, insults and possibly the most horrid and most respectable people I have ever met in game. I was only a month into my level 70 accomplishment and still running instances for gear that I could call mine when I discovered a whole new world on the Hellscream Forums. I thought, here is place I can speak to others on the realm (mostly cross faction) and recieve advice, help, and maybe an encourageing word. Was I wrong, and very naive. After about a month of posting in the forums, giving my opinion like everyone else, I was accousted by a fellow poster (whos name will remain unmentioned because no matter how much anybody insults me, youre a person as well and I do not wish anything bad to become of you after my hot headed anger has subsided. ---while the hot headed anger is still being experianced I will warn that I do curse, insult and say horrid things about such said people--) in the general chat of the Hellfire Pennensula. At first I was annoyed and aggrivated by this interuption in game play. Why would somebody go out of their way to bring something so trivial from the forums... to the actual game? I felt harrassed and angered that this person would want to ruin my in game experiance. So, she/he brought the subject to the forums and the topic ensued all the flaming aggrivations you can imagine. Of course I felt that if everyone was feeling this way, I had a right to voice my opinion as well, no matter how stupid or ignorant I seemed to everyone else. After a few weeks of trolling the forums again a few wise words were said on the topic and I decided to take them and use them. "Develop an iron skin here or you will be shot down" the poster informed me. So I have. It stands today that my signature for Riyeko (and I make a point of posting on my main character because too often I see level 30 and below characters posting flames and whanot and everyone else posting replys saying "post on your main or it never happened" etc.) is this "I'm tired of pleasing everyone. If you dont like or want it? Dont Fing read it.". I stand true to this idea that if you do not want to read what I have typed out on my computer in the middle of nowhere, then scroll past my post with your mouse button and ignore what I type.

Personal Life
In my personal life I am a proud mother of two young boys and will remain so until the day I die (or have other children, thus I will be a proud mother of "said number" of children). I am a loving wife and stay at home mom (for now), and am a christian at heart. I have a strange faith that many would call erratic and very maniacal in nature, but I do believe that it is the one true faith for myself. All that aside I do love my family, my children, my husband, horses, writing, reading (mostly sci-fi fantasy/romance novels... Anne McCaffrey is fav author), chatting online, typing (if you can believe it), cool weather (where im from if its 90 degrees outside its more than likely with 100% humidity.. yuck), mountains and the outdoors. I do not like dishonorable people, lieing, doing dishes, disciplining my children (though it must be done), and some of my old aqaintences that come knocking on my door. I live in a small apartment complex with a variety of people, including a lady who has been living in it since it was built (shes 94 years old and saw the building that once was mine before rennovations built from the ground up). I do not have many real life friends because being a stay at home mom with one vehicle limits ones mobility, but the friends that I do have I cherish and hold close to my heart.



The End
After all I have said above and beyond I hope you can find this article about Riyeko aka Jaywizardess or Jay for short, a good example of just another mom that has nothing to do during those sleepless nights than play a video game and talk to people from around the world. Thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed some of it. Jay