The First Posting

Welcome to the Rift Diary blog! Here you will find daily stories, images, videos and some other fun things taken from my play time in Trion's new MMO Rift. I hope you enjoy your time here as much I as will enjoy writing for this blog.

I recently began playing Rift a couple days ago at the suggestion of a long time gaming friend. While he has extensive MMO experience, I come from a much more action oriented gaming class, the shooter enthusiast. Quake, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor you name it, if it has bullets or head shots I probably played it. However, I have always had a more adventurous side and love to delve into the occasional RPG. Diablo, Guild Wars, Elder Scrolls are some of my all time favorite Role Playing Games.

At my friends insistence I downloaded the 7 Day free trial for Rift and started up a new character. Sure I was going to be bored inside a few hours like every other MMO I have tried I randomed my character appearence named my self "SlackNoff" and set out.

First impression? WOW graphics are gorgeous! A slight bump with the default keybinding and I was on my way. (Turns out all those years with shooters I need A and D to be strafe not turn or I get motion sick really quick)

My friend, eager to show me the world, rolled a new character on the shard I had selected and off we went. While the game played exactly as I imagined it would there was something pulling me into the world. Nothing in the starting area seemed to really catch my attention though and I figured I would end up playing for 7 days and then just uninstall. I could not have been more wrong.

After rushing me through the starter area my friend said good night and logged off. I took a quick 20 minute or so rest and decided to have another go at the game alone and really get into the nuts and bolts of it. About an hour or so later things suddenly took a turn for the great! There I was completing my third or fourth "Go kill 10 widgy-jiggies" when all of a sudden the music and tempo of the game changed, little did I know at the time I was about to engage in my first Rift event.

The next few hours are a blur of fighting, leveling, learning and dieing. Somewhere along the way I had forgotten that I did not like MMO games and was genuinely having a great time. The next day I bought Rift through Steam and turned my account into a non-trial. Last night I joined my friends shard and started a proper character with one of my default RPG character names.

And so begins the journey of Guardian Qwicked, not just in Telara but here in the blog-o-sphere as well.