Ralaya
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:17 am
(IC) What name or title do you go by?
-Ralaya.
(IC) What is your gender and race?
-Female Troll.
(IC) What is your class in life? Why did you choose to follow this class?
-I am a rogue. There has never been a question that there would be any other path to follow that would provide me with such an array of tools or grant me the joy of mastering them. That mastery is its own reward - but it is useless to explain it. Does the witchdoctor know why he is elated with each shrunken head and strange voodoo dance he masters? Or the mage, when he sculpts form from the rain and air? Of course they do, but they cannot tell you why it brings spirit to their soul. You know, or you don't. It cannot be taught.
(IC) How would you describe yourself?
-I wouldn't.
(IC) How many "Honorable" Kills do the Battlemasters currently have recorded for you?
-48,664. But there's so much more than "killing" that can be done.
(IC) What drives you in life? How would the Grim benefit from having you among its ranks?
-The utter pursuit of perfection in my craft. Some rogues take a hand at mastering assassinations; others still are spies and deceivers. Some relish in the joy of combat. Even among them, there are depths to the mastery - an assassin must learn to kill, but she must also learn to get close enough to kill, to sneak undetected, and then to vanish after the deed is done; a true master, perhaps, would do such a thing without ever being caught. Without ever being suspected. Even such a master is only a master of a shade of what it is to be a rogue.
I am driven to obtain that transcendent perfection of what it is to be a rogue. Sometimes I will choose someone or something thought unobtainable and I will seek to understand it, to copy it, to learn it and become it so that I can know how best to make it fall. I will stalk it until it is helpless but to fall to me, and then, sometimes, I will indulge in the mercy of letting it. If it is worthy, I will let the memory of its spirit live on through me.
I am a woman of such spirits and trophies. The Grim would be wise to count someone with my memories as an ally.
(IC) What did you do prior to The Grim?
-Just prior? I made a human my prey, I found his strengths, stole his knowledge and skills and spirit for my trophy, and fell him from his weaknesses. He counted you among his enemies, and I am curious to see why. He seemed well your better, and that I cannot fathom his judgment in this shows me that I have yet more to learn.
(IC) What are your thoughts on the pact between the Alliance and the Warchief Thrall?
-I haven't any. It doesn't concern me.
(OOC) The Grim is a role-playing guild that requires full immersion (heavy RP) of their members. What does that mean to you?
-The way I see it, there are three basic stances that a guild can take with regard to RP; they can 1) ridicule it or dismiss it, 2) accept it and instruct their members to be "RP-friendly" (but not necessarily required to participate) or, 3) enforce and require RPing. The Grim falls into the third category.
(OOC) The Grim are considered a Lawful Evil guild, ruled by structure and a defined chain of command with the intent to see the complete annihilation of their enemies. How does your character's personality and storyline follow the Grim Mandate? Is there any conflict between how you want to play your character and the theme of the Grim? If so, what do you expect out of joining us?
-Ralaya is interested in the Grim because she is seeking to understand them and feels a bond, in a twisted way, with them. In a broad interpretation of her character, she is like an actor who commits fully to a role and cannot get quite back out of it; she is a chameleon of her targets, and her last target was (my previous character) Henri Fynne. That isn't to say that she's "like" him, but it serves as a good in-character way of me being able to reference things that I have done in the past on my previous character through the sense of someone who has studied him and knows the extent of his experiences very intimately. (Not THAT kind of very intimately!) I don't perceive any conflict; she's not anti-Grim, and she is certainly willing to (and equipped to) do very Grim things.
(OOC) What sort of role-playing experience do you have, online or off-line? Do you consider yourself a beginner or Gary Gygax?
-I have plenty of role-playing experience both online and offline. With online games, I find it as easy to be in character as out, mostly because it's not an immense amount of effort to cut back on the non-immersive chatter or jargon (for example) that creeps up. Maybe I have it all wrong and my idea of RPing is not at all what other people are expecting, but I don't think that a person should have to be doing wacky evil things or giving huge speeches to be "in character". I'm probably not Gary Gygax, but I don't consider myself a beginner.
(OOC) Do you have any previous WoW experience? (PvP, Raiding, Battlegrounds, Different Servers, Different Guilds, Different Factions, etc.)
-I have prior experience in most of these areas. I am more of a raider than I am a PvPer, but I have been out of the serious/cutting edge raiding game for a year now.
(OOC) Is this character a server-transfer or has it been renamed recently?
-Yes, this character is a faction-transfer from Twisting Nether-Alliance, previously named Fynne
(OOC) What are you, the player, looking for in the Grim? What are your expectations of the guild?
-I'm looking to play WoW again and enjoy it. I haven't really been able to do that since a falling out with a large part of the core of First Legion a year ago and am hoping that a change of faction to a guild that I admire (although I admit that that hasn't always been the case) will help facilitate that. I'm sure that there will be a level of "demonstrating the falsity of misconceptions" will exist on both sides, from me as a raider trying to show that not all progression-content raiders are stereotypical RP-incompetent asshats, and from the Grim trying to show me that not all RP raiders are a bunch of chucklefucks that have no idea what "real" raiding is like. I can say "I know" it's the case all I want, but I'm sure that it will be an elephant in the room in the back of someone's head from time to time, regardless.
(OOC) When joining the Grim, each new applicant will be matched up with someone to help them get into the swing of being Grim. In order to coordinate this, we will need to have a fair approximation of your play schedule. Please give a general outline below, OR if you wish to keep it private, send a PM to Aquizit.
-I do not have a set play schedule at this time. I work a set schedule M-F until 6:00pm server time and do not anticipate ALL of my free time going to WoW.
(OOC) Please provide an armory link to your character for verification.
- http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... &cn=Ralaya
(IC/OOC) Do you have anything further to add?
-(IC) That man? His name was Fynne. ...and you aren't as desperate as I was led to believe. "Peace through Annihilation." Ha!
-Ralaya.
(IC) What is your gender and race?
-Female Troll.
(IC) What is your class in life? Why did you choose to follow this class?
-I am a rogue. There has never been a question that there would be any other path to follow that would provide me with such an array of tools or grant me the joy of mastering them. That mastery is its own reward - but it is useless to explain it. Does the witchdoctor know why he is elated with each shrunken head and strange voodoo dance he masters? Or the mage, when he sculpts form from the rain and air? Of course they do, but they cannot tell you why it brings spirit to their soul. You know, or you don't. It cannot be taught.
(IC) How would you describe yourself?
-I wouldn't.
(IC) How many "Honorable" Kills do the Battlemasters currently have recorded for you?
-48,664. But there's so much more than "killing" that can be done.
(IC) What drives you in life? How would the Grim benefit from having you among its ranks?
-The utter pursuit of perfection in my craft. Some rogues take a hand at mastering assassinations; others still are spies and deceivers. Some relish in the joy of combat. Even among them, there are depths to the mastery - an assassin must learn to kill, but she must also learn to get close enough to kill, to sneak undetected, and then to vanish after the deed is done; a true master, perhaps, would do such a thing without ever being caught. Without ever being suspected. Even such a master is only a master of a shade of what it is to be a rogue.
I am driven to obtain that transcendent perfection of what it is to be a rogue. Sometimes I will choose someone or something thought unobtainable and I will seek to understand it, to copy it, to learn it and become it so that I can know how best to make it fall. I will stalk it until it is helpless but to fall to me, and then, sometimes, I will indulge in the mercy of letting it. If it is worthy, I will let the memory of its spirit live on through me.
I am a woman of such spirits and trophies. The Grim would be wise to count someone with my memories as an ally.
(IC) What did you do prior to The Grim?
-Just prior? I made a human my prey, I found his strengths, stole his knowledge and skills and spirit for my trophy, and fell him from his weaknesses. He counted you among his enemies, and I am curious to see why. He seemed well your better, and that I cannot fathom his judgment in this shows me that I have yet more to learn.
(IC) What are your thoughts on the pact between the Alliance and the Warchief Thrall?
-I haven't any. It doesn't concern me.
(OOC) The Grim is a role-playing guild that requires full immersion (heavy RP) of their members. What does that mean to you?
-The way I see it, there are three basic stances that a guild can take with regard to RP; they can 1) ridicule it or dismiss it, 2) accept it and instruct their members to be "RP-friendly" (but not necessarily required to participate) or, 3) enforce and require RPing. The Grim falls into the third category.
(OOC) The Grim are considered a Lawful Evil guild, ruled by structure and a defined chain of command with the intent to see the complete annihilation of their enemies. How does your character's personality and storyline follow the Grim Mandate? Is there any conflict between how you want to play your character and the theme of the Grim? If so, what do you expect out of joining us?
-Ralaya is interested in the Grim because she is seeking to understand them and feels a bond, in a twisted way, with them. In a broad interpretation of her character, she is like an actor who commits fully to a role and cannot get quite back out of it; she is a chameleon of her targets, and her last target was (my previous character) Henri Fynne. That isn't to say that she's "like" him, but it serves as a good in-character way of me being able to reference things that I have done in the past on my previous character through the sense of someone who has studied him and knows the extent of his experiences very intimately. (Not THAT kind of very intimately!) I don't perceive any conflict; she's not anti-Grim, and she is certainly willing to (and equipped to) do very Grim things.
(OOC) What sort of role-playing experience do you have, online or off-line? Do you consider yourself a beginner or Gary Gygax?
-I have plenty of role-playing experience both online and offline. With online games, I find it as easy to be in character as out, mostly because it's not an immense amount of effort to cut back on the non-immersive chatter or jargon (for example) that creeps up. Maybe I have it all wrong and my idea of RPing is not at all what other people are expecting, but I don't think that a person should have to be doing wacky evil things or giving huge speeches to be "in character". I'm probably not Gary Gygax, but I don't consider myself a beginner.
(OOC) Do you have any previous WoW experience? (PvP, Raiding, Battlegrounds, Different Servers, Different Guilds, Different Factions, etc.)
-I have prior experience in most of these areas. I am more of a raider than I am a PvPer, but I have been out of the serious/cutting edge raiding game for a year now.
(OOC) Is this character a server-transfer or has it been renamed recently?
-Yes, this character is a faction-transfer from Twisting Nether-Alliance, previously named Fynne
(OOC) What are you, the player, looking for in the Grim? What are your expectations of the guild?
-I'm looking to play WoW again and enjoy it. I haven't really been able to do that since a falling out with a large part of the core of First Legion a year ago and am hoping that a change of faction to a guild that I admire (although I admit that that hasn't always been the case) will help facilitate that. I'm sure that there will be a level of "demonstrating the falsity of misconceptions" will exist on both sides, from me as a raider trying to show that not all progression-content raiders are stereotypical RP-incompetent asshats, and from the Grim trying to show me that not all RP raiders are a bunch of chucklefucks that have no idea what "real" raiding is like. I can say "I know" it's the case all I want, but I'm sure that it will be an elephant in the room in the back of someone's head from time to time, regardless.
(OOC) When joining the Grim, each new applicant will be matched up with someone to help them get into the swing of being Grim. In order to coordinate this, we will need to have a fair approximation of your play schedule. Please give a general outline below, OR if you wish to keep it private, send a PM to Aquizit.
-I do not have a set play schedule at this time. I work a set schedule M-F until 6:00pm server time and do not anticipate ALL of my free time going to WoW.
(OOC) Please provide an armory link to your character for verification.
- http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... &cn=Ralaya
(IC/OOC) Do you have anything further to add?
-(IC) That man? His name was Fynne. ...and you aren't as desperate as I was led to believe. "Peace through Annihilation." Ha!
I figure it's go big or go home!)
))