You know you play too much Achaea when ...

Wyd

When your work pays a huge amount of money to let you go to America for a conference.

And your first thought is "Sweet, now I can see what it is like to fight with US ping times"

Xith

Oceana said:

Anaidiana said:

Iocun said:

You know you play too much Achaea when you start getting seriously annoyed by the fact that you have certain equipment attached to your computer you haven't yet found a way of somehow putting to use for playing Achaea.

Like that external mini-monitor. Or my some of my midi controllers.

go bard. Attach macros to certain midi-music keyboard keys. 

You're welcome. 

Go Druid. Play animal sounds when you morph or you call your bees, a soothing rainy sound when you do a grove rain, a lightning sound when you evoke lightning....

Go Jester.

Arrange macros for your attacks so that your combo pattern is Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer".

Quit Jester.

Wysteria

Chinese New Year celebrations starting up.

See lion dancers warming up — they kick their feet in the air against a person's hands to stretch.

First thing to mind: "I NEED KAI!!"

(;_; )

Erasariel

"KAI ME"

*palmstrike*

"AAH HELP ME MY NOOOOSSEEEEE"

wee woo wee woo

Oceana

When you watch a quiz on tv and learn that the scientific name for ankle bone is talus, and you go "Wait, isn't that the guy in Dun who..."

Hyraeth

Years later, whenever you're traveling/getting lost, you're still thinking "Oh well, at least I'm gaining explorer points."

Jurixe

When your friend asks you where your brother is, and you type out 'Nah, he left to Mhal- *backspacebackspacebackspace* Melbourne...'

Nizaris

... when, despite being an American, you spell out the word "behaviour" on a job application.

Trevize

Jiraishin said:

when you regularly walk places and long for the convenience of dash and worm warp.

Trey said:

When you remember the last eight threads like this throughout the years.

Jhaeli said:

Or, to take it a little further, when you walk down the vitamin section in the pharmacy and get excited at their great selection of herbs.

These.

Alcinae

So, I'm shoveling snow when a fellow neighbor of mine decides to help out:

-1 hour later-

Me: Thank you so much!

Neighbor: No problem.

Me: Need any runes?

Neighbor: What-

Me: Ah, never mind.

*commence silence*

Anaidiana

Nizaris said:

... when, despite being an American, you spell out the word "behaviour" on a job application.

I add the u in on everything. -_-

Trilliana

Nizaris said:

... when, despite being an American, you spell out the word "behaviour" on a job application.

I caught myself doing that on two of my essays today

Sena

Because of Achaea, I use UK spellings almost exclusively now.

Valden

Sena said:

Because of Achaea, I use UK spellings almost exclusively now.

As it should be

Alcinae

Sena said:

Because of Achaea, I use UK spellings almost exclusively now.

This x1000. And I also find myself using the word "Aye" much more often, though I'm not so sure who I got that from.

It's colour, not color!

Vadimuses

Went looking at cars yesterday, saw a clover on a Mito. GF said "it gets increased critical hits!" (something from Lusternia).

Eld

Clovers exist in Achaea, too.

Yue

^ Vadimuses

When your collection of friends in real life consists primarily of Achaeans....

When you respond to things in chats, IMs, e-mails, etc. with 'say <message>' or 'reply <message>'.

When your time spent in-realms is only an hour short of the total life of your character.

When you master lookarounds/zero-width assertions.

When you're Penwize.

When you want to play other IRE MUDs but never will, on account of Achaea already consuming most of your life.

When you spend whatever time you have out-of-realms on (these) forums instead.

Katzchen

Always use ' instead of say. That way when you use it by mistake it doesn't look as weird.

ETA: Also faster to type.

Yue

@Katzchen - GENIUS!

Chryenth

When you get a stitch whilst running, and think 'Oh, s-t. Naga gank incoming.'

Ruth

Chryenth said:

When you get a stitch whilst running, and think 'Oh, s-t. Naga gank incoming.'

Keep running!

Chryenth

Ruth said:

When you get a stitch whilst running, and think 'Oh, s-t. Naga gank incoming.'

Keep running!

I did. I think they were so busy organizing that they let me slip away. Or possibly I've developed the ability to evade IRL.

Daslin

@Chryenth You know you've played too much when you actually develop the ability to evade IRL.

Also, eff you guys, I'm trans Survival IRL.

Chryenth

@daslin I'm ~90% certain Vitality kicked in over the last 2-300 meters. 

Xith

When you say "What the foozle" without realizing it.

Valden

I always thought QQ meant to rage quit, not some strange emoticon for crying

Kyrra

QQ is pretty much how I look most of the time. Broken tear ducts are awesome :P

Ognog

When I'm using some other text chat program like skype or facebook, I struggle not to prefix everything with "say".

Valden

Ognog said:

When I'm using some other text chat program like skype or facebook, I struggle not to prefix everything with "say".

use ' instead, it's faster to type and doesn't look so odd if you use it by mistake outside of Achaea.