Alureith Silverbough

Sorry >.<

Alureith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:42:33 +0000

Right now, I am going to have to take a haitus from this blogging adventure, I didn’t really get too far along, which I like, because I do eventually want to keep this going. Just right now, at this point in time in my life, I am too busy with school and work.. *sigh* Real life wins again.

I want to thank everyone who checked out my blog so far, and I know some day in hopefully the near future, I will pick it up again. I have some great ideas, just need the time to put them to paper!!

*hugs*

Change of Heart…

Alureith — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:48:18 +0000

Ok, so, my prepared piece was going to be an adventure by Alureith, I was going to finally try my part at writing a little story about her. But, as I was thinking about where I would begin, I started thinking that… maybe who I created, wasn’t really who I wanted to play. It took me a while to realize, but I think I finally… might know what kind of person I want to make her; which is actually a little quite the opposite from whom I was beginning to portray. Does this often happen to most RP’ers? Where they think they know what character they want to play, then after a while, have a total change of heart? What do you do in these circumstances? Do you make an entirely knew character, or just start playing them the way you have decided to play them?

In my case, I haven’t really met people in game, so I think it would be perfectly fine to just start off playing her in her whole new light.

So, my next post will be her new adventure, and… well… look for changes to her character bio I wrote up last post and also to the site. =)

Busy Busy Busy!

Alureith — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:09:12 +0000

Hi everyone! I want to thank all of you that have been so welcoming to me, I really appreciate all of your support! I know I said I would post something every week, but I have been so incredibly busy with homework, ew… summer school is NOT fun, I haven’t even been able to play WoW for about a week and a half, so as it would be, there haven’t been any fun adventures to tell you about.

Just keep looking for a new post late next week, as I will be finishing up finals on Thurs, I’ll be sure to prepare something special for Friday!

Have a great week!!

Who am I?

Alureith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:28:34 +0000

So, now that I found a place for my RP craziness to begin, I find myself stumped as to who I want Alureith to be. Not only that, but after reading a lot of FlagRSP2‘s of other characters, I feel a little self-conscious about my writing and creative abilities. Some people have amazing bios and backstories, how am I supposed to live up to that?!

Well, I started off reading some guides other people posted about getting your character and you prepared for roleplaying. One really in depth resource I found was at, RP Made Simple where they had a RP Survival Guide starting from, What is Rp?, lore about the different races, how to create a backstory and description, to how to avoid being a Mary Sue (or someone who is extremely non-creative). You can check out the guide here {click me}.

As an example, I’m going to post one of the questionnaires I found on the WoW.com World’s End Tavern Forum, and finally get started on developing Alureith!

Full Name: Alureith Shand’ara Silverbough

Nicknames: Alure, Alu

Date of Birth: March 16

Age: 3,600

Race: Night Elf

Gender: Female

Hair: Very thick, aqua colored hair running down to the middle of her back. Her hair was left to grow untamed, and within her hair are many bits and pieces of bark, flowers and tendrils of plants, which creates a lovely smell of the most perfect, in bloom, mageroyal blossom.

Skin: Her skin is pristine, with no sign of any scars or blemishes, it has a rose-tinted hue about it, and she currently has painted patterns of leaves over each eye, but will notice that these often change.

Eyes: Glow amber colored

Height: 5’9″

Weight: 115 lbs.

Place of residence: Currently in Stormwind

Place of Birth: In the wilds of Teldrassil, along the shores of Lake Al’Ameth

Known Relatives: • Mother: Tendar’iia Silverbough
• Father: Aldereth Silverbough

Occupation: Researcher, Gatherer of various things, Explorer

Likes: Eavesdropping, and dressing up (not necessarily in the primary fashion)

Favorite Foods: Unknown

Favorite Drinks: Moonberry juice, and a nice Dwarven lager.

Favorite Colors: Deep purple

Weapon of Choice: Ornately carved and decorated daggers.

Dislikes: Politics, and Pompous nobility.

Hobbies: Exploring, Finding information about various going-ons.

Unique Physical Features: She is shorter than most of her race, and has amber glowing eyes, she is very lithe and thin, and for the most part, she is very clean except for the dirt often found under her nails and the bits and pieces of nature left in her hair.

Special Abilities: Stealth and the shadows are her friend.

Positive Personality Traits: Precise, respectful to who it matters, great listener.

Negative Personality Traits: Greedy, fake.

Misc. Quirks: When nervous, she will often touch her intricately carved ivy leaf hair pin, created from green glass with tendrils of mithril running around it and down around a few strands of hair.

History: Had a wonderful childhood raised by her two loving parents. The rest has fallen into obscurity and is unknown to many.

I found a home!

Alureith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:19:34 +0000

So I finally finished my quest of trying out the different servers I thought looked appealing for roleplaying. When I first logged onto a new server, I made a human so that it would be an easier trek to Stormwind. When I arrived, I started looking for some roleplaying, and even asked in the trade channel what it’s inhabitants thought of the roleplay on their server. Most responses were, “Roleplay? Where?” obviously these servers weren’t as RP oriented as they had originally claimed. I left immediately… -.- haha

Among the two servers that caught my eye, were Wyrmrest Accord and Moonguard. When I asked in trade, Wyrmrest said that their quality of roleplay was a lot better than Moonguard’s when you can find it, while on Moonguard, I found a lot of people roleplaying as soon as I logged in. I also found that the people were a bit more friendly on Moonguard and even got invited into an Explorer’s guild, where we go on monthly expeditions around the world! (which is a really cool idea btw!)

So, after much deliberation, I am proud to announce, that I have officially made my home on Moonguard, feel free to find me there if you’d like! Yay!

Finding a home.

Alureith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:04:02 +0000

As an avid gamer going on 5 years of playing World of Warcraft, I found I was beginning to get a little bored with my multiple level 80′s on my PVP servers. I raided in all the end game content, including 10/25 man Ulduar, and completed my dailies diligently. Unfortunately, the game I so loved, was beginning to seem more like work than actual fun. Repeating the same quests and killing the same bosses over and over, just lose their luster after a while. I became so discouraged that I stopped playing for a couple months.

Of course, even though I was essentially bored with the game, I couldn’t bear to leave it behind. I resumed listening to one of my favorite podcasts, The Epic Dolls (which unfortunately is no longer being recorded, as of this week *cry*) and was inspired by the section created by Stardancer. Her portion of the podcast focuses on “sightseeing guides, unusual quests, and RP tips” within WoW. I was really intrigued by how the little things in World of Warcraft, that usually go unnoticed actually seemed so much more appealing to me than obtaining that next purple item. Every podcast, I would look forward to what she would say and found myself craving that extra aspect of WoW that was missing from my game play. Other things that interested me from the podcast, were the guild events they would talk about, such as a Summer Beach Party BBQ! or an in-game Prom! How fun does that sound?! You get to dress up your toon and talk and play with all your friends! What an insanely fun idea! I want to do that!!

As soon as I finally made up my mind, that I was going to do something a little different, (Oh! Did I mention that I used to be horde! >.< Don't murder me yet!) I went all the way, and decided to play an Alliance character. I told myself that I was going to make it a prerogative to read all the quest text, and try to level slowly instead of grind myself up to 80… like usual. I wanted to actually enjoy the content, explore the low level areas, and just take my time. I also wanted to find some place where I could enjoy in-game events!

So, now that I have a general idea of what I would like to get out of the game, I began thinking, where do I go to actually achieve this? Obviously, a PVP realm would not harbor my fantasies of having a guild Prom in a mature and supportive way. *smirks* So I went to the server selection screen, on WoW, looked for an RP realm, and joined the first one I spotted.

*sigh* Well… Since the server says it is an RP realm, you would think it would be full of Roleplayers, right?… Right?!…. wrong. Roleplaying, it seems, is a dying fashion on most RP realms, and many of the servers you will come across will merely support RP but won't participate, in some cases, you will even find an RP realm with griefers, or people who will harass you for trying to Roleplay.

So… after EPIC Failing on choosing a "Good" Roleplay server on my first try, I decided to do a little research. I went straight to the the World of Warcraft Forums, and entered in the search field “Best RP Server” where I found tons of other posts like mine, asking "Which is the best RP realm for Horde/Alliance?" After reading a few posts, I found out you really have to sift through these things, as they get really spammy with a bunch of people thinking that their realm is… "simply the best!" -.- psscht.. yea right. But as I kept searching, I began to see a trend, and noticed a couple servers that got mentioned more than others. These were: Earthen Ring, Moon Guard, Blackwater Raiders, and Wyrmrest Accord.

Also, some good advice I found while searching the forums, was to go to the different realm forums, read the posts, and see how you like the atmospheres; then, roll a low level character on your top 2-3 choices and spend a couple days playing on those servers. By doing this, you should get the feel for the community and decide which server feels more like home to you and your character.

Well, I thought this was a great idea for finding a home, and am currently trying it out. If anyone else has any other ideas please leave a comment with your suggestions! I’ll be sure to let you know where I end up!

Also, be sure to check out Stardancer’s “Off the Beaten Path” Blog. {click here}

A world of firsts!

Alureith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:07:06 +0000

Wow! Way to start off a blog! I am proud to say that not only is this my first blog, but I am also going to be introducing my first RP character ever! I decided to start a blog, not only as a way to develop my character creation a bit further, but to also track my progress as a Beginner Roleplayer, and to bring up issues, resources, questions, and other tid-bits I encounter as I go along. Eventually, I hope that my blog can become a resource for other people new to Roleplaying, or people curious in exploring Roleplay (RP).

I essentially want to make this a weekly blog, so I am holding myself back from making a bunch of posts right away, hehehe, just stay tuned for more!

You can learn more about Alureith by visiting her page. {click here}