The Winged Lion.

7/4 12:29:17.890[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Can you help me with a quest? I've got something to tell you.

7/4 12:29:30.453 [Party] LIGIA: I can.

7/4 12:29:34.015[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Come to Shadowmoon Village. I'll wait for you there.

7/4 12:33:44.546 [Party] LIGIA: So — you were going to tell me something?
7/4 12:34:00.875 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: Yeah, after the quest.

7/4 12:34:47.125[Party] LIGIA: I've got a whole pile of quests to do in this valley.

7/4 12:47:00.296[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Come over here. Talk to Olrokk.

7/4 12:48:50.015[Party] LIGIA: What the hell am I supposed to say to Olrokk?!

7/4 12:49:09.171 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: Just talk to him. He teaches you a skill.
7/4 12:49:20.765 [Party] LIGIA: Yeah, well, I don't exactly have the cash to pay for that lesson.

7/4 12:49:35.531[Party] ARHANGHELUL: No problem. How much are you short?

7/4 12:50:00.187[Party] LIGIA: Relax, I don't really need this flying lion. I'm 4000 gold short. There's no way I can scrape that much together.

7/4 12:50:35.781[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Here. Take it! That's my quest done.

7/4 12:51:28.906 [Party] LIGIA: Give me a second to pull myself together.
7/4 12:51:51.765 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: Okay.

7/4 12:59:20.906[Party] LIGIA: Eeeee aaawesoooome!!!! It flies so fast!!!!!

7/4 12:59:30.031 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: Glad you like it. :)

7/4 13:00:20.062[Party] LIGIA: Come stand next to me. Here, a little higher, so I can get a shot. There. Hold still.

7/4 13:02:25.328 [Party] LIGIA: Photo shoot's over!

7/4 13:02:32.390[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Ok. Let me show you where to get the flyer you actually want.

7/4 13:05:03.171[Party] LIGIA: Wonderful!! I've managed to lose you. I don't think I know how to fly. I keep smacking into every branch!

7/4 13:05:54.515[Party] ARHANGHELUL: You'll learn. Is this the kind you want?

7/4 13:06:29.250[Party] LIGIA: Yes.

7/4 13:10:18.296[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Watch yourself around here, the place is crawling with Alliance headcases. Anyway, once you're exalted with the Shatari Skyguard, you buy the flyer right here, from Grella. It's a quest you have to do every day. There are these eggs guarded by birds that really lay into you. You can't do it while you're grouped. So I'm going to drop party and go smoke a cigarette.

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7/4 13:38:03.875 ARHANGHELUL whispers: Done with the eggs?
7/4 13:39:39.796 LIGIA whispers: Four more. There — done.

7/4 13:42:17.093[Party] ARHANGHELUL: I wanted to tell you, your writing keeps getting better…

7/4 13:42:41.406[Party] LIGIA: Are you going to spend your whole birthday handing me amazing presents?

7/4 13:42:46.453[Party] ARHANGHELUL: It's getting more and more connected, more fluid. It's not a present, it's the truth.

7/4 13:43:07.859 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: But…

7/4 13:43:23.546[Party] LIGIA: Hold on — now I'm a little touched!

7/4 13:43:43.109[Party] ARHANGHELUL: …you keep forgetting one thing, and to my mind it matters.

7/4 13:44:13.484 [Party] LIGIA: What?

7/4 13:45:01.453[Party] ARHANGHELUL: When you write about what Ligia gets up to in the game, you mustn't forget for a single second that you're not addressing WoW players, but people who have no idea this sort of thing even exists.

7/4 13:45:27.359[Party] LIGIA: A little more concrete. As in, more down to earth.

7/413:45:42.734[Party] ARHANGHELUL: So make the story intelligible to anyone. Don't talk in player jargon. Reinvent the words so that even the neighbour across the street can follow them.

7/4 13:46:57.250 [Party] LIGIA: Ani! You know her?
7/4 13:47:17.125 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: No. But there's always a neighbour across the street.
7/4 13:47:29.296 [Party] LIGIA: Ani's been her name as long as I've known her — which is since childhood.
7/4 13:47:34.937 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: :)
7/4 13:48:02.593 [Party] LIGIA: She's forever scolding me for wasting too much time on WoW.

7/4 13:48:20.328[Party] ARHANGHELUL: We waste it gladly.

7/413:48:27.718[Party] LIGIA: Tell me — how does the WoW/rl alternation feel?

7/4 13:48:36.828 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: What's that?

7/4 13:48:50.265[Party]LIGIA: The intersecting planes. The ones in WoW and in my narrated Real Life, which in the end will sound like a kind of WoW too.

7/4 13:49:52.718[Party] ARHANGHELUL: Mix them. They're all tangled together anyway. The idea of writing a novel built out of two different pieces strikes me as wonderful. Your life and the story from the game are both astonishing.

7/4 13:49:53.150[Party] LIGIA: That's it. Give me courage.

7/4 13:59:14.843 [Party] ARHANGHELUL: You don't need it.

7/4 13:59:21.921[Party] LIGIA: I do.

7/4 13:59:28.937[Party] ARHANGHELUL: You're doing just fine anyway. Come on, let's go fishing.