You know you've been playing too much Istaria when...

[awdz]

I started painting our house this month. It began with scraping; I figured I gained a bunch of levels in learning how a power washer worked and how to scrape only the loose paint without damaging the wood beneath. I could tell I was gaining skill points as my efficiency improved.

I gained a few more levels in fixing boards. Some were just loose, so hammering a few nails in worked; other required replacing altogether. Learning to pull boards without damaging the ones above them made me thing I made it to a new tier. I figured I gained another tier in having to replace the rotted boards behind a damaged baseboard... or maybe it was multiclassing, learning carpentry? Is pine wood tier 0 ? I made it up to cedar with the siding, but I'm still not very good at handling that.

Next came primer. I already had skill points in handling paint brushes from working on sets for the local theatre group, so I was near maximum efficiency with that. I'm low tier, though, because getting the right paint color to go over top of it took several tries.

I figure I made tier 2 housepainting with trim work (including spindles all around the porch, ugh!) that was a different color than the main paint. It's all latex, though; I suppose higher tier would be oils and indoor paint?

Anyway, part of our house is looking better despite my inexperience. One thing is for sure: I much prefer crafting in Istaria!!

[Magnus Bane]

Lawl~! Awdz, I think you've had too much crafting also~!

[Kerech]

Are you able to use the T6 wheelbarrow yet? That really speeds things up!!

[Steelclaw]

Better not start working on plumbing -- your clothes might fall off!

[awdz]

o.O Actually, I could kind of see that happening if I got drenched by a broken pipe, off with the wet clothes to get dry ones on...

Another sort of unrelated sign for me... I love blowing big soap bubbles, catching them on the bubble wand and then blowing several smaller bubbles inside them. When I can manage it, those always remind me of Istarian wisps. :-)

Anyone else have "too much Istaria on the brain" moments like that?

[LOVWYRM]

hmm- wasen`t sure if I want to publish this
but if you ask so kindly..
I wrote this about 6 months ago, when I started my new job
(at a time when it was impossible to open chests with our keys).


I have a new job.
I work for a German charity, who have their offices in an old church/monastary.
All beautiful.
I have a nice modern office, all tech eqippment I need or could live without^^

And they gave me a bunch of keys: normal keys, big old rusty keys, keys for doors, trap doors??, those little things you can open your pc with, keys, keys

2 days ago I stood in the large stairway, floors going up, floors going down-
barred from the rest of the world- LOST.

So I tried to open several doors with my keys-
in vain.

And then a thought came into my mind...
...and I found myself laughing loud in that big, old, cold stairway..

"Amon, fix that **** keys" was what I thought.

Well,
"excessive gaming is dangerous to your mental health"?
No- it safed my life- I opend a door with "bite"
(Walked all steps down to the chapel, opened it with the rusty key, left chapel on the other side and took the elevator back to my office)^^

[Magnus Bane]

Lawl~ For me, Playing istaria too long, you get this:
1.) Dreaming with the language set to dragonic
2.) Answering A'na and D'na when asked questions in public
3.) saying ANYTHING in draconic somewhere on accident
4.) When you actually role-play in your head while you're doing something by telling yourself what you're doing.

[katt31m]

Not as good as the rest but, more than once some guild mates and I were fighting one thing or another. During the battle the dragon of the group moved overtop of me and filled my screen. Instead of rotating my camera I leaned to one side and moved my head to look around the dragon...didnt work to well.

[awdz]

LOL, LOVWYRM!
Magnus Bane, I've gotten into the habit of using the phrase "aww crumblies!" when minor things go awry - folks give me odd looks the first time they hear me use it.
*chuckles* I'm the reverse, katt31m. Numerous times I've come across an interesting picture online, but no matter how much I try, I can't zoom in/out with insert/home or change the view angle with page up/down or delete/end.

[Image]

LOL, LOVWYRM!
Magnus Bane, I've gotten into the habit of using the phrase "aww crumblies!" when minor things go awry - folks give me odd looks the first time they hear me use it.
*chuckles* I'm the reverse, katt31m. Numerous times I've come across an interesting picture online, but no matter how much I try, I can't zoom in/out with insert/home or change the view angle with page up/down or delete/end.

LOL I've done the exact same thing, way too many times, with pictures. no matter what the camera angle just wont change.

[Frith-Rae]

Oh yes with pictures and screenshots of games (not just this one) I'll find myself trying to change the angle..that's just too much gaming though lol.

For a direct Istaria reference - using the draconic language outside of game is the one I'm most often tempted to do .

[Magnus Bane]

Lawl~! Or answering questions of "What is your name" in public and answering with your character's name~! And yes, I've tried to look around behind my laptop at an ascension~!

[Nambroth]

For a direct Istaria reference - using the draconic language outside of game is the one I'm most often tempted to do .

*raises hand!* All the time! I've found myself thinking in it as well. 5 years of Spanish and none of it stuck with me, but a few years of Istaria and a new language is learned! XD

[awdz]

I see in the news and think, "That's Dralk! I wonder which lava pool it is?"

[Kerech]

About a month after Horizons first was released (deep in the middle of the Satyr mine construction era), I was driving to work the day after a big ice storm had hit the area. I drove past a house in the country with a big gazebo sitting next to it. The gazebo had been destroyed by a large ice-covered limb falling onto it during the storm.

I remember thinking "I wonder what the construction requirements are on fixing that?"

[Glaciera]

I spend a lot of time working construction jobs in Istaria, mostly for other people.

After a particularly long week of masonry work on sidewalks, I had an "in game" dream about plot construction.

[Khetienn]

Awdz, that picture you posted made me think, "Ooh! Hatching dragon's egg!", closely followed by, "Where did they find that lava pool?"

...and then I read the rest of your comment, and realized it wasn't Dralk at all. Oops?

Dreaming a Hatching, and a 'lesson in flying', were my clues I've been enjoying Istaria too much.

[awdz]

Okies, I know I've really got it bad... I was dreaming about making something while following a recipe, and some of my friends were watching and kibbutzing about how I should do it. They mentioned some sort of bean, and I asked where I could get it. Immediately a message (like on these forums) from Amon appeared explaning that it was an item received after completing a quest, and I thought, "Oh, OK."

[velveeta]

Lawl~! Or answering questions of "What is your name" in public and answering with your character's name~! And yes, I've tried to look around behind my laptop at an ascension~!

heehee my friends don't even call me by my real name anymore - even my godkids call me vel.....

[Magnus Bane]

O_O Lawl~ Was caught in traffic yesterday (just before a car crash) and I screamed about the 'lag' on the highway~