Hurricane Cronesmoon (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cronesmoon) wrote,@ 2008-01-21 06:42:00 |
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Fear of Falling
Those of you who play WoW may all know that the Outlands is a piece of a planet floating in space, with edges a character can easily fall off. Now, death in the game is an inconvenience at worst, and even falling off the Outlands would only entail an in-game repair bill because one would have to spirit rez instead of running back to one's body.
And I'm petrified of falling off. If anything takes me near (and by "near," I basically mean "in sight of") the edge, my skin crawls. It's got to the point where I cringe at every height in the game. Though, come to think of it, my Horde main had a lot of trouble with Freewind Post (and to a lesser extent with Thunder Bluff) long before we ever got to the Outlands. I always tried to avoid the Great Lift where I could.
I don't consciously RP, so this fear of falling seems extremely odd to me. (Though I guess I RP more than some: I have a friend who always walks off edges rather than take the stairs, and whose fighting involves pressing buttons without knowing for sure what will happen....) But I can't seem to get over it. I've been trying to talk myself into going back and doing a quest I skipped that involves walking over a "fallen mushroom" bridge from the main chunk of land to an island floating in space, and so far I can't do it. It's too scary.
IMO that's just weird.
Those of you who play WoW may all know that the Outlands is a piece of a planet floating in space, with edges a character can easily fall off. Now, death in the game is an inconvenience at worst, and even falling off the Outlands would only entail an in-game repair bill because one would have to spirit rez instead of running back to one's body.
And I'm petrified of falling off. If anything takes me near (and by "near," I basically mean "in sight of") the edge, my skin crawls. It's got to the point where I cringe at every height in the game. Though, come to think of it, my Horde main had a lot of trouble with Freewind Post (and to a lesser extent with Thunder Bluff) long before we ever got to the Outlands. I always tried to avoid the Great Lift where I could.
I don't consciously RP, so this fear of falling seems extremely odd to me. (Though I guess I RP more than some: I have a friend who always walks off edges rather than take the stairs, and whose fighting involves pressing buttons without knowing for sure what will happen....) But I can't seem to get over it. I've been trying to talk myself into going back and doing a quest I skipped that involves walking over a "fallen mushroom" bridge from the main chunk of land to an island floating in space, and so far I can't do it. It's too scary.
IMO that's just weird.
