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Post by Skegg on Dec 17, 2012 12:27:57 GMT -5
Preferred name, Alts, disability, personal info, etc. However much you want us to know about you I'm Skegg, the Guild Leader. I was born 3 mo's early and, as such, have bad eyes, ear, back, joints, and especially lungs. I also have PTSD-induced nightmares from some bad decisions in my youth. I made this guild so no disabled person would ever feel subhuman and alone as I once did.
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Post by trygveseim on Dec 17, 2012 20:37:59 GMT -5
Hello! The one toon I have in the guild is a monk named Kotex, however my main for the past couple of years has been a priest named Trygveseim. I don't mind being called by my character names, nicknames or whichever--as long as I know who you're talking to. I have no major [known] disabilities [yet], but do try to take lots of breaks due to frequent headaches and hand pain. I've also had my share of issues with vertigo in the past few years but that doesn't affect gameplay, just sleep and early mornings. I'm not an RP'er and would have a very difficult time getting into it, though I do enjoy all kinds of non-progression guild activities from character meetups to cliff jumping :3 In real life, I'm 25 years old and in the USAF. Talphin (or whatever she'll call herself) is my wife and we joined together. We have a 2ish year old baby German Shepherd to keep us company
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Post by Skegg on Dec 17, 2012 21:22:48 GMT -5
Neato. Welcome, both of you. Yeah, RP is encouraged. Didn't used to be so I saved the questionairre
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Post by wyldefyre on Dec 18, 2012 0:28:31 GMT -5
Finally...found you guys
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Post by kaelara on Dec 18, 2012 7:43:36 GMT -5
My real name is Elizabeth Age 52 Occupation RN Nurse Case Manager
Will not say I am disabled but I have my own health issues Insulin Dependent Diabetic, Asthma, Migraines
Played WoW since release of Burning Crusade I have mult accounts currently 5 at 90 23 at 85 about 18 between 70-80 and at least 45 lowbies under 70
My guilded toons are Sshadowfire- 90 hunter, Irresistable 85 holy pally and Sshameless under 10 pally. I also have an undead priest on the server named Ssinfull.. and will be moving my Druid Yazy over and one of my rogues I play on several servers, Draenor , Sen Jin, Korgath, Feathermoon and Lightbringer to name a few ,
My most frequently played toons Ssolitude- Shammy, yazy- Horde druid, Samarui-Pally, Sshadowfire hunter Horde, Sshadowfalls priest, Glorianna Horde pally, Sshambulance Horde Shammy, Ssnowstorm ally mage, Sshandrisa Warrior, My 85 DK can not remember her name and last but not least Kaelara my original hunter.
There are others 3 85 rogues, 4 more 85 pallies, 4 more 85 druids, 3 more 85 hunters 2 85 warlocks,
In BC and Wrath and to some degree Cata I was a very active raider.. Ran my own raiding guild in BC and Wrath. I am known to my friends as Queen of Alts.. basically I enjoy the game
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weebliz
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Southeastern United States
Posts: 8
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Post by weebliz on Dec 18, 2012 9:14:52 GMT -5
Hi all, Weebliz here. I'm 46, mother to a 7-year-old son and wife to a fellow WoW player. I have multiple sclerosis, diagnosed in October of 2010 after a couple of years of weird maladies taking their toll on me. MS is an autoimmune disease which comes in attacks that cause the protective material that surround the nerves that go to our brains to disintegrate, leaving us open to all sorts of crazy neurological disorders. MS manifests during an attack (or "relapse") as lesions on the brain -- something that was only discovered with the advent of MRIs; before this, MS could only be diagnosed by taking a lumbar puncture and timing it just right during the height of the relapse. Good times for MS patients in the days before MRIs, huh? My diagnoses involved having to have a lumbar puncture (just to make sure the diagnosis was correct) and I never want to go through that again! Leading up to my diagnosis, I played Wolfar the tauren hunter in Wrath on the Steamwheedle Cartel server. (She's now on WRA and in this guild.) She was my first serious character, my first level 80, and the guild I was in was super-nice to me, the fresh-faced newbie, and began taking me on late-expac ICC farm runs so that I could learn to raid. But then in mid-September of 2010 I was stricken with optic neuritis in my right eye, and this quickly turned into a two-month-long ordeal that wound up with me being about 95% blind for much of October and led to my diagnosis. I eventually regained my sight, but it was permanently damaged, and my body was also changed. I got immensely tired very quickly, and would have to go take naps that would stretch into hours. The house fell into ruin; in-game, the Cata expansion came out with its brutal new dungeons that required a high level of gameplay that I could not deliver. My vision was still recovering and I had a terrible time seeing ground effects in places like Grim Batol and my reaction times were awful. For the first time ever, I found myself getting kicked, and even in guild runs, people started getting mad at me. Everyone knew what had happened to me, but no one cared to hear what that meant and I, too, knew that I was now a "baddie". In late February of 2011, I took an extended break from the game. I came back early this year; spent a long time on Wolfar just messing around, getting old achievements and re-acquainting myself with everything. I got a beta pass and played pretty extensively there, quite enjoying that. In late July I rolled Weebliz the goblin DK, power-leveled her up to 85 well in advance of the expansion. I had thought I was going to try to raid again, but to make this long story a bit shorter, this has not worked out. I just get too tired to keep up with the requirements of gearing and I have to admit to myself that doing both that and hours per week of progression would just not be feasible, especially when, inevitably, I have another relapse. Plus, my vision varies from day to day and is not the best on its best days, and my reaction times are not up to snuff for raider material. After doing a fight 30 times I might be OK, but it wouldn't be fair to a guild to apply and then not be able to deliver. But since admitting this to myself I'm having a lot more fun. I always wanted to explore RP, and I'm getting into that. Farming old mounts, leveling alts, etc. In the guild besides Wolfar I have a pandaren monk called Jiangjin who is currently at level 72. I work on him in big bursts and then let him sit a while. Also on the server I've got a pandaren shaman who I will also put in the guild when I get around to it, and a troll hunter that I rolled for heavy RP purposes, so I might actually apply to an all-troll RP guild with him or keep him indie for a while, not sure. Also some toons across other servers that I rarely touch: Emerald Dream, Cenarion Circle, Medivh, Turalyon, and of course Steamwheedle Cartel. Sorry for the novel. If you read all of it, bless you.
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Post by Skegg on Dec 18, 2012 9:19:34 GMT -5
I love a good read, personally. We've got a good Heavy RP troll guild here (Shadowtusk I think) but I'm unsure of their stance on your MS. I'd hang around areas they frequent and kind of get a feel for them before trying anything. *shrug*
Anyway, I'm very happy to see people using the forum! I'd like to keep this baby going as actively as possible.
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Post by stormy on Dec 18, 2012 12:21:42 GMT -5
Hello! Right now I'm playing as Landus the Forsaken shadow priest in-game, but I've been known as Stormy online for so long that I actually respond to it IRL. I have a weird fascination with the WoW forums (despite their well-deserved reputation as the dregs of WoW society) and ran across Skegg's post there. I thought perhaps a guild aimed at folks with disabilities would be a more open and welcoming environment than the average WoW guild of jerks and moochers.
Anyhooooo...
Landus is my fourth shadow priest (Seriously, stop staring at me. It's rude.). I have a weird addiction to shadow magic. I am GM of Sane Asylum of Garrosh, but we're down to basically just myself and my two officers, so I'm looking for a place to hang my hat where I can do things (dungeons and hopefully some raiding?) with other people. I also have an alt (a shadow priest, shockingly) in Eff the Ineffable of Azuremyst, but the future of EtI (and thus my future in EtI) are kind of up in the air right now. I'm a Wrath baby and started my WoW career on a Tauren hunter, and then they took my mana bar away and replaced it with an icky focus bar. I've mained a SV hunter, a resto druid, a balance druid, and now dueling Alliance and Horde shadow priests over the years.
As for the icky part of this conversation: I was born in 1982 with spina bifida, and I'm one of the first spina bifida kids to really make it. I walk with a cane and have various issues caused by lack of nerve coordination below the waist, but luckily my brain and my mental faculties seem to be intact (*joke about me being crazy goes here*). I also play for Team Gay, and I hope that isn't a problem.
I've never really role-played, but each of my serious characters has at least a bit of a backstory in my head. I don't know how much actual RP I'll be getting into, but I appreciate RPers because they're generally smarter and more polite than the average mouth-breather.
TL, DR: Hi. I'm socially awkward and play lots of WoW. Let's play WoW together?
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Post by Skegg on Dec 18, 2012 13:12:29 GMT -5
It's acting, no more or less. Easy to grasp, hard to master. We'll set you up. Try the questionairre
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Post by Talphin on Dec 18, 2012 15:15:48 GMT -5
Greetings! I am Talphin in the guild. I'm new to the server, so I don't have a bunch of alts to list (and too many on other servers to list). I'm not picky about what people call me, as long as it's not an obscenity, I'm probably okay with it. ;D What's wrong with me? Who knows...I've been (mis)diagnosed and tested for everything. I had fun doctors that liked to tell me they knew I had something before testing for it That led to many scary waits for tests. So it's easier just to explain a few symptoms than try to give it a name. Joint pain, deteriorating cartilage, fatigue, swelling, syncope (fancy generalized term for dizzy/faint), shaking, and weird blotches. I do know (for sure) that I'm bonkers, because enough doctors agreed on that. I know I have PTSD and anxiety, but I don't know if I'm schizoaffective or bipolar w/ psychotic features. The doctors...they never agree. Because of my issues, I am unemployed. I'm a housewife, but not a very good one. Other than playing WoW I enjoy reading, becoming one with the couch, and making soap. And since my husband mentioned our adorable GSD www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRMM8Sv6rk It's better with sound! Also, I may attempt to RP at some point, since I've never bothered before (and yes, I snagged the character questionnaire). I feel I should embrace the new! Anyway, mind just blanked on me, so I guess I'll just see everyone in game!
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Post by Silverskye on Dec 19, 2012 11:04:02 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, I should have had the second post on the page, so sue me for being lazy. At any rate, introduction time: I am Silverskye in the guild, Skegg's second in command, real life wife, and the official "Voice" of the guild proper. This title is mostly due to the fact that Skegg has a hard time with large roleplay meetings, and up until recently, there was a large, in-character, multi-guild meeting on Wyrmrest every couple of weeks, which I attended as our representative. (Due to in game events, that meeting cannot "legally" take place any longer, however, the guilds that made it up are all still QUITE active, friendly, and willing to RP, quest, run dungeons and raids, or just chill and talk.) As for real life, due to some unfortunate stalker issues back in my Moon Guard days, I really don't like to give much of that out anymore. However, just from talking to me, you'll know that I love my family, even though my mom and I are usually at loggerheads, I think my brother and sister are the best two kids in the world, and probably the only two worth anything anymore (personal bias, and I can admit it), and that anyone wanting to date my sister is likely going to die. (She's MUCH younger than me, very pretty, and my dad and I both like weapons, guns for him, bows and swords for me.) Oh, and I also still have a bit of hero worship for my dad, I think he's probably the most intelligent person I know. (No offense, Skegg, hon.) Silverskye has been my main character even since BC, although I actually began with a Night Elf hunter the day WoW was first released. (Didn't get my own copy, sadly, but I had a friend who insisted I try it out. Who knew it would lead to all this?) I am also a minor alt-aholic, having recently downgraded myself after reading Kaelara's post. (Good lords, you make me look like a single-character player, I love it!) I do play both Alliance and Horde side, although I'm thinking of segregating my characters by server (Alliance on Moon Guard, Horde on Wyrmrest, because that's where the friendliest people on each server seem to be.). My alts in the guild are Inyansha (troll druid), Tarliana (Belf mage), Fenhua (Belf monk), and Talamei (Belf hunter), but I keep a few unguilded characters as well as a bank alt, Jianshen. Feel free to add Jian as a friend and pester me on her, as she keeps wierd crafting goods like Wildvine and other greens in my vault there. As for disabilities, I am admittedly one of the least disabled people in the guild. I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease a few years ago, resulting in the removal of my thyroid and the necessity of daily medication for the rest of my life. Occasionally this makes me get very tired, which is why I can NOT take a hardcore progression raiding guild anymore. However, for anyone interested, I do want you to know that as we get people high enough in levels, I do want to start running raids. While we would request that everyone does their best, I also know that your best for YOU may not be the same as my best for ME, and we'll respect each other accordingly. Really, as far as raiding goes, I at least want to take people along just to see the places and events for themselves, even if they can't pull the numbers that hardcore guilds requires. (I always thought that was stupid anyway. Best raid I ever ran was my first ICC when I was TOTALLY undergeared, and when we wiped, I was the only one left standing. Skill versus numbers, right?) And I ramble. Once I get started, I pretty much just write a novel, you'll have to get used to that from me. Otherwise, YAY FOR ALL THE NEW PEOPLE! Skegg and I love having you and we hope you love being here! (Did I mention that I'm also pretty excitable?) ;D
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Post by theteathief on Dec 21, 2012 10:59:18 GMT -5
Hi. My name's Angel or Angela, though I don't hear the latter very often. I'm twenty three years old, currently a student at an online University, working on my Bachelor's in a duel-credit program to become a teacher. K-8/Special Education. I want to work with children with disabilities and help them as much as I've been helped in my life. I hear horror stories of students that often get put into a classroom and kind of cast-off, ignored, where no one bothers to try and reach those who they deem unreachable, and I've seen it happen as well, though luckily my high school had a much better Special Education program than any of the other schools I've been to.
One day, if it's meant to happen, my goal is to travel and learn from other cultures, while also helping to teach English and setting up programs in areas that don't have them, not just for children with special needs, but for all children that don't have the chance to get an education. I know, it's a big goal, but that's what I'm working on now.
I was diagnosed with ALL Leukemia at the age of 8. I went through over 32 spinal times and numerous bone-marrow biopsies over the course of the 3-year chemo treatment plan I was on. I'm currently in remission and have been in remission, off of chemo, since 2001--quite a long time! Unfortunately, I still deal with a lot of long-term side effects and more that keep popping up as I go along. I go back for yearly check-ups and I'm part of a lot of case studies because I was on several experimental drugs.
Currently I suffer from chronic migraines, joint pain, arthritis, bouts of fatigue and I was recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, which ties in with a lot of the symptoms I suffer from, but that they also believe is just another long-term effect from the chemo. I have some short-term memory problems due to the medications I'm taking, but that mostly effects my ability to remember words. I also suffer from panic disorder and PTSD. I still don't deal well with some things, and earlier in the year some things came to a head emotionally for me, causing the panic disorder to explode, so that I had to quit the physical college I was going to as well as my job, but I've come back from that experience and I think I'm the better for it. Because I had an anxiety attack while I was driving and blacked out in five lanes of traffic, though, I still have trouble driving. Working on that!
If you haven't been able to tell from my extremely wordy introduction, words are, and have long been, a passion of mine--when I was sick, writing was my escape. It still is. I love to roleplay, and I love to plot (stories), two things that go extremely well together! So if you see me around and I'm not on a leveling binge in WoW, please, ask me to roleplay--if you have an idea, I'd love to brainstorm with you!
I'm pretty open about almost every aspect of my life, but that doesn't mean I'll be open about yours if you need to have an ear to vent at. I don't know how good my advice is, but I'd like to think that I'm a pretty good listener, and I don't gossip, is what I'm saying, so if anyone needs someone to talk to, please don't hesitate to message me. I consider everyone a friend before they give me a reason to distrust them, and though that may be an extremely naive way of viewing life, it's gotten me this far. :) It's also landed me with six dogs and five cats, and one stray bunny rabbit, but hey, they're good company.
That's about it! I hope to meet all of y'all soon, if I haven't already. Thank you for letting me join your guild, I already really love it.
Edit: I forgot to add my alts. :) In the guild, I'm Wendy, but I have a few other toons on the game. Horde-side I have Ming and Firefly, a shaman and monk, respectively, both of them Pandaren. Alliance-side I have a nelf druid whom I heal on named Laewyn. I can be contacted on any of these toons, be it for help, conversation, questions, or anything, really!
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xedric
New Member
I AM TROLL!
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Post by xedric on Dec 21, 2012 16:36:01 GMT -5
Sup.
I'm the Troll.
Deal with it.
Main character is Xedric. Call me Xedric. Fuck off.
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Post by badhatharry on Jan 23, 2013 22:48:42 GMT -5
Hi all. I luckily came across Skegg's post while debating coming back to the game. I had hoped someone would start a guild for we disabled and those with the patience and understanding for AFKs and sometimes protracted time off. Aggramar was my first server and I once raided quite heavily with a wonderfully friendly guild during MC and BWL. Great times and memories. I worked nights then and they were all Aussies. Late night raiding was difficult to maintain and they transfered to an oceanic server when they came online. I have played off and on since then. Sept. 15 '09 was the day I felt severe pain in my abdomen. 3 days later I woke up in ICU and found out life had changed. Most of my intestines, gall bladder and pancreas were removed due to a blood clot in my mesenteric artery. It's called short gut syndrome. I cannot absorb the nutrients I need to survive so I subsist on TPN with a central line. Thank you blood infections! I have to step away from whatever I'm doing to make sure I am eating small meals all day with snacks in between and oral rehydration solution to drink. Almost always something going in and if I'm lucky I hold onto it when I do everything right. Makes social game time a real pain for those who can't/don't want to wait. I will forgo the ugly details all of this concludes but that is another reason I have to step away frequently. My love of fantasy and science fiction drew me to this game and meeting great people has kept me coming back when I can. If you want to talk books or films I can keep up. I love the old guys. Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov, etc. Sadly all the operations have taken a toll on my ability to concentrate enough to follow any novels of decent length. Short stories and articles are my mainstays now. I am a 41 year old husband and father to an 18 month old boy. He spends his days in daycare because I cannot take care of him adequately. So besides an hour in the morning and about 2 hours after his school you may find me in game. My toon transfer will be done soon so I will see you in game. Last time I played Dungeons weren't so long that I couldn't do them. If Blizz is still doing the winged instances, I do enjoy LFD. Hit me up if you want in on some runs. I like farming mounts and pets as it affords all the time I need depending on the quality of day I'm having. Yo wrap it up B! OK, I'm done but always willing to chat, listen, goof off or answer any questions I might be able to answer. also I'm a bit of a smart alec (not sure about age appropriate language here or in game so I will keep it civil... for now)
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Post by Skegg on Jan 24, 2013 0:59:28 GMT -5
Don't worry about the language. Welcome. I won't be on as much as I'd like because of the Christmas rush of games but I check in daily and Sil, the wife, is always on to relay information to me. Feel free to add me to Realid. It's in one of those damn threads Gonna get your kid into WoW? Does your wife game?
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