CO Applicant - Kaaya

[Morriyana]

Which branch(es) are you joining us in? (Aion, Champs, DDO, GA, STO): Champions Online

Are you over 18? (you must be 18+ to apply) Only according to official documents. My inner 5 year old takes charge more often than not.

Are you a member of any other guild in that game? I used to be in an SG composed of only about 6 people, and we were in a guild together in WOW, which I am not playing anymore. Unfortunately none of them ever seem to play this, either.
What is the name/class/current level of the character(s) you intend to join with? Name - Kaaya.aat , celestial/fire, level 30

Do you have friends or family in the guild? If so what is their forum name? I've run a few missions with Bambi@nothtatbright, but other than that no.

Did you read our charter and rules? Which rules translation was your favorite? yes, the Scottish/Drunken one, though I'd love to hear someone reading the Yorkshire one.

Do you have an issue using Ventrilo? (Being able to at least listen is helpful for active participation in PvP/raids) Nope. I have Ventrilo.

Answer the following 4 questions. PROTIP: if your answer is shorter than the question, we will make fun of you for being boring. (Glad that condition didn't exist in the previous questions.)
1. What's the dumbest, funniest or most embarrassing thing you have ever done: Oh, way too many to sort through. Uhm.. one time, I was sitting naked in the living room with a towel around my head, having just gotten out of the shower (thats my story and I am sticking to it) when my boyfriend walked by and shot me with a supersoaker. Then he ran out the door and down the apartment comlpex to his car, thinking himself safe from my revenge. Not to be thwarted, I took the towel off my head, grabbed the super soaker and chased after him.. Sadly.. He got away. And to the best of my knowledge no one saw me do it, except for our girlfriend. Boy, you shoulda seen her face when I ran back in the house naked with a supersoaker.
2. What is your Zombie Plan? I’d say go out to sea, except I worry about the fish-eaten dead “buried” in the sea. I mean, will those rise again too? And do zombies swim? These things can keep a girl up at night. I do know something for sure. If your significant other says to you “If you loved me, you’d let me eat your brains..” don’t do it! It’s a con. Tell him if he loved you, he wouldn’t have turned into a zombie.
3. Tell us the story of why you will no longer drink <name of drink>: 7&7.. I used to drink these all the time. Then 1 new years eve I ordered 7 of them, tall. I got verrrrrry drunk, and the hot guy I was with ended up holding my hair while I puked. So now 7&7 smells like puke to me. After I threw up I hopped in the shower to rinse off. The guy, thinking himself very clever, pulled the shower curtain door open while I was in there. His face fell like a kid who found coal in his stocking xmas morning, because I was fully dressed in the shower. Meh, I figured my clothes needed washing too.
4. Tell us something cool about yourself that has nothing to do with gaming: I don’t know if its “cool” per se, but I am a Native American college student finishing up my masters degree in American Indian studies, and when I am not being a geek I am an activist.

Quick survey! We will totally judge you by the answers you make below:
• Favorite Type of Music: Industrial, EBM and Disney songs
• Favorite Movie: Drop Dead Fred
• Favorite Book: hmm.. A tie between The Stand, Gone with the Wind, and the Anita Blake Series by Laurell K Hamilton
• Favorite Drink: I’m a sucker for lime margaritas with salt.
• Favorite Non MMO Game: I should say strip poker or something but I really like scrabble. I find it very Freudian.

[Morriyana]

Oh whoops.. the bad news.. I got so excited I forgot to leave my ingame contact info:

kaaya.aat@morriyana or mordessa@morriyana

The good news is that I did NOT piddle on the carpet.

[ChefBourdain]

Hey, this is a pretty solid app. I have one bone to pick, in that your Zombie Plan is really more of a Zombie Tangent instead of a Zombie Plan.

Mind you, I agree that these are important questions, but I'm not sure that anyone has the answers--at least, not until the Zombies rise from the Earth and start cracking heads open. As for the burial-at-sea Zombies, IMO I think that even if they were Zombified, they would have a long way to swim in order to even get at any of The Living. They would probably run out of Zombie Energy before breaking the surface, unless of course dolphin brains are a suitable substitute for human brains...

So yeah, come back and give us a solid zombie plan...show us what kind of girl you are when the Zombies come knocking! How will you survive, fight off the Zombies, protect your man, defeat the Zombie Menace, and repopulate the shattered Earth?

What is your flavor of activism? Presumably since you're a Native American person studying Native American stuff, it's Native American activism, but I don't want to jump to conclusions just because I think I sense a theme.
Reminds me of my younger, better days. I used to care about stuff too, until adulthood crushed my gentle soul and left me a bitter, amoral man capable of enjoying life only though alcohol, the suffering of others, the International House of Pancakes, and dwarf porn.

Join us in game in the Wildcards channel (/channel_join WildCards) while we process your app. Hang out, get to know us, we'll get to know you, etc. It'll be fun, I promise!

[Morriyana]

Hiding on a boat and avoiding zombie boyfriends isn't a plan? Oh dear. I'm actually so afraid of zombies that I'd probably forget any plan and stand there and.. on second thought.. I might be one of those folks that shoots themselves to avoid my intestines being eaten. Because is there really any hope in a zombie infested world? Wouldn't we just be postponing the inevitable?

Hopefully I won't be denied membership for being zombaphobic.. I don't even recall zombies in the guild charter. Personally I think we should just cremate everyone now and make this a non-issue.

And yeah.. American Indian activism. It just seemed redundant to say so. I suppose I occasionally hug trees and throw my boat in front of Japanese whalers from time to time, too, but mainly its civil rights and getting burial remains back from museums (yet ANOTHER issue that could have been resolved if more people were simply cremated.)

I'm not really an optimistic, lovey dovey person despite my activism hobbies. I don't know that we can change anything. But I figure its better to pretend we can make a difference, thereby limiting existential angst.. and it gets me out of the house, sometimes.

[ChefBourdain]

Zombiephobia is why we have Zombie Plans, so like you, we're all Zombiephobic to some degree or another.

Now I don't need a Zombie Plan from someone who can otherwise talk Zombie Stuff well, because it shows a connection to pop culture, and that to me is what really matters. I would say you're fine, although I would have preferred a cinematic, crazy rootin' tootin' beer-fueled Zombie shoot 'em up plan to a simple, logical suicide plan. Your funniest story was real-life cinema though, so it's all good.

Hang in there, maybe you can actually make a difference, or at least enough of an illusion of making a difference against the that you can make a paid career out of it.
Plus you get to yell stuff like Stick it To The Man and refer to guys like me as The White Devil, which gets points for style.

Having fun in Champs?

[Tanuki]

I would say you're fine, although I would have preferred a cinematic, crazy rootin' tootin' beer-fueled Zombie shoot 'em up plan to a simple, logical suicide plan.

Plans which can be simplified down to "Imma gonna shoot da zombies" are actually suicide plans, the smart plans involve running/driving/whatever the hell away...

And yeah.. American Indian activism. It just seemed redundant to say so. I suppose I occasionally hug trees and throw my boat in front of Japanese whalers from time to time, too, but mainly its civil rights and getting burial remains back from museums (yet ANOTHER issue that could have been resolved if more people were simply cremated.)

Are Japanese whalers really big oppressors of native americans?

Oh and I like scrabble too! (although everyone I play with thinks I cheat because I know obscure scientific or mythology words. )

[Morriyana]

Are Japanese whalers really big oppressors of native americans?

LoL, no. He asked if I was involved in activism that was OTHER than native american activism. In point of fact the "Save the Whales" group are less than thrilled with the Inuit, who still whale hunt on a small scall, and the Makah Indians who want to start whaling again, albeit just one whale a year. In those instances I am not sure how I feel about the Inuits whale hunts but I am in support of their seal hunts (which are a necessity if they don't want to starve, and they don't kill cute little white furry seal pups or threatened species), but am very against the Makah hunts restarting because it is completely unnecessary. Their elders don't want to do it - it's the modern fishermen who happen to BE Indian who want to bring it back. So uh.. yeah. That would be where the 2 topics meet.

As far as scrabble goes.. it annoys me that "doxy" is NOT in the scrabble dictionary, despite being in a ton of period romance novels. LoL

[Morriyana]

Now I don't need a Zombie Plan from someone who can otherwise talk Zombie Stuff well, because it shows a connection to pop culture, and that to me is what really matters.

How come no one ever remember the scene (I think from one of the Return of the Living Dead movies) where a girl is locked in the attack and her steadily zombifying boyfriend is pounding on the attic door, yelling "If you loved me, you'd let me eat your brains!" AND SHE LETS HIM! Oh ok honey, since you put it THAT way.

[Amdusias440]

Somebody in this VERY ROOM, murdered Miss Scarlet, and ate her brain....was you Professor Plum, or perhaps it was YOU Colonel Mustard.....or perhaps it was YOU.....zombie!

**shrugs his shoulders protesting his innocense** "AAaaaaaaAAAAAArrrrraaaaaaannnmmmm"

[gwyn]

Boy, you shoulda seen her face when I ran back in the house naked with a supersoaker.

I strongly suspect there is more to this story and I demand details.

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