Arhena Renaal Dawnstalker

*The entry is written in a barely legible, drunken scrawl.*

Something is off

 All these things I gotta                do

Kill off those    poorsoldiers        they're gona die anyway but
                    they don't deseve to die, but they don't    wanna be turned into scourge either sooooo

  save the miners in yuhmurhiem but I hear that voice talking to me

it says it's my    fault

it's not my fault

it's my fault

Arhena... came to visit.  She got into Orgrimmar.  She looked normal.  I had recieved a note from Kalrin telling me it was alright to see her.

Then the Scourge attacked.

I could tell she was in pain.  She told me to stay inside, not to step outside for any reason whatsoever.  She left, then came back.  She said it didn't look good.  The Warchief, the Banshee and their commanders and overlords were all gathered at the Valley of Honor. 

She said that Frostwyrms were flying overhead, snatching people from the ground.  Horrible Scourge abominations appeared within the city walls and it took many people to bring them down.  Thrall himself was doing twice the work any of the rest of them were doing, Arhena said.  She seemed flled with admiration.  And guilt.  I could vaguely feel it coming from her.  The connection is reistablishing itself.

She told me again, to stay inside, then she left.

It's the next morning, and she hasn't come back yet.

Yeah, okay, so I was bored.  So I snuck into Silvermoon.  It was tricky, and I think the guards almost spotted me, but I did it.

Notes:  If I see that one Blood Elf Rogue - Wave and him and say hi.  If I see that -other- Blood Elf Rogue... torment him a bit.  The big robot guard things can see me, no matter how well I hide. 

Good spots to duck for cover:  That place that I think they used to keep the Naaru thingy.  Nobody seems to go through that hallway, and it's pretty dimly lit.

Next place to sneak into - Undercity.

I can't feel Arhena anymore.

*A copy of a letter is tucked into the journal, written in shaky handwriting.  The player, for some reason, cannot recall Gamehshog's alias' last name, or even figure out how Xhenara would get this to him in the first place.  Bear with her.*

Kalrin,

I know you have more important things to worry about, and I wouldn't be asking your help if I couldn't go out and do this myself... but Arhena has not come to visit me.  I went to see her instead, despite the dangers, three days ago.  She was not herself and refused to come back with me to Orgrimmar, despite the fact that she says she misses me.  I journeyed back to Orgrimmar without her so much as bothering to ask if I needed an escort.  I came back home safe, never saw her again.

Arhena and I share a mental link of sorts, and at approximately five this morning, that link was severed.  I can't feel that link anymore, and I don't know where she might be, who she might be with or what's happening to her, even as I right this.  I've almost always been able to feel some kind of reading from her. 

You're the only one I can turn to who I have no doubt will be able to find out what's happened to her. 

Xhenara Dawnstalker

Well, old Rilien Sunlance finally delivered the ultimate ultimatum.

I'm guessing there's probably a warrant for my arrest in Silvermoon, if I'm ever spotted there.

Eh, it doesn't matter.  The whole place is going to hell anyway, Doc says.  And I'm glad.  It's too full of stupid people.  Not entirely sure why I got all shakey and stuff afterward.  I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. 

What -really- kinda rubs me the wrong way is that he and Shaali are so stupid, worrying about some former human in their city, when the damned Scourge are running around.

It funny seeing people run around all scared like that.  I suppose it's even funnier that there are people who can't see who the -real- threats are and are instead bent on being close-minded.  It's what I like about Doc, he doesn't see things that way.  He told me I could be a talking goat, for all he cared, he wouldn't shun me as others do.

And I guess that's all I really ask for from people.  I'm an accepting person, I just want to be acceped back.

The Scourge.  What can I say?  Arhena and I lived in Southshore, so we heard tell of it, but it never came as far south as our home.  They were able to stop the spread of the grain before it got to us. 

But we heard eough terrifying stories.  People dying and then rising back up as mindless husks, mercilessly devouring whatever living thing they could get their hands on.  I've had the most horrible dreams.

Arhena is scaring me.  She doesn't feel right to me, something's different.  I can feel random emotions coming from her.  Stress, mostly.  But there's never any fright.  Is she not scared of the Scourge?  I am.  A little.

Yeah okay, Kalrin, a lot.

*There are a few splats of ink here, the quill being held over the page*

I will survive though.  I'll live for Augut and for the baby.  Even if I am scared.

The last few strands of reason are telling me I'm going insane.

Okay, I'm just going to rant for a minute.

Picture this:

Player A is me.  Player B is the person I'm roleplaying with.  We're probably sitting somewhere public, like, say, the Royal Exchange in Silvermoon.  We're just keeping to ourselves, talking about whatever.

Along comes Player C.  Player C is walking around aimlessly, probably looking for some RP for themselves.  They walk around for a bit, unsuccessful in their attempt to find RP.  So they single out Player A and Player B and think "I should join their RP!"

Yes!  Totally!  Come RP with us.

No.  Player C instead decides to sit somewhere closeby and try to get noticed by our characters with silly emotes.

"Player C opens a book and begins reading."

Or

"Player C coughs loudly."

Or

"Player C gives a loud sigh."

Things like this aren't going to attract the attention of my character.  She's not going to suddenly divert her attention from whatever it is she's doing because she hears someone cough and turn a page in their book.

Arhena's not even one to come up and say hello and introduce herself to someone she doesn't know anyway.  Which is probably why I have to few people to RP with most of the time.

Bottom Line:  You want to RP with me?  Come up to me and introduce yourself.  Don't sit around sighing and moping trying to get my attention.

/endrant

(( Well, somebody started it, and now I'm doing it, soooo...

Follow the link, pick any character of mine and generate five numbers. Post them and I will answer the corresponding questions from that list of questions I'm sure you've already read. And since I don't know how to do that thing where you turn a phrase or word into a link... www.random.org/integers ))

So a few things have happened these last few days.  I meant an absolutely adorable Tauren Brave named Keowuk.  He's so funny how he's so serious all the time and trying to act all grown up.  I'm sure he is grown-up, if only just.  He keeps calling me 'Ma'am or 'Miss Xhenara', though I've told him Xhenny or Xhenara was fine.  I met him at the Crossroads while I was taking a walk.  I stopped at the Crossroads to take a nice break and wondered how I was going to make it back without having to spend the night at the Crossroads to get a good amount of energy back.  Keowuk must have seen me then and he asked if I needed help.  We introduced ourselves and he kindly escorted me back home to Orgrimmar.

He's never really been outside of Mulgore before, so he was very curious and wide-eyed when he saw various things, the zeppelin for instance.  He took me the rest of the way home and we parted ways.

Then the next day (Which I suppose is today, it was rather early in the morning), I saw him again.  This time I saw him while I was on my way to Silvermoon.  He said it was rude to leave a pregnant woman to travel by herself, and that he needed to work on his jewel crafting anyway, so he escorted me to Silvermoon too.  On the way, I explained to him the difference between Scourge and Forsaken.  He looked like he was going to be sick when he touched the Orb of Translocation.  He was amazed by the Arcane Guardians, the Silvermoon City Guards and the random floating objects around the city.  He was also amazed by the size of the forge in Silvermoon.  He gave me a ring and a necklace before I left, I gave him a Darkmoon flower as thanks.  I'm pretty sure I know what he'll do with it.

I think I need to remember that I'm a Blood Elf and that I don't like other Blood Elves because we don't get along, not because I was a human.

He noticed that when I talked about Blood Elves, I said 'They' instead of 'We'.  I said that I felt rather distanced from other Blood Elves, that I'm different than they are and that I don't hold the values they do and for that reason, we don't get along.  I told him that was why I live in Orgrimmar.  Which, is rather true I suppose.

I wonder what I'll name this baby.