video game sickness

5:20pm -8:00pm (lvl 5...i think)

Headed over to Sudikoff today to do a little leveling before people got together to play tonight. Ended up staying for longer than I expected, partially because leveling slows down considerable after level 4, and partially because I picked up the cultivating skill which distracted me for twenty minutes or so. 

 I had originally intended to run from my starting place to the flight master towards the top of the map and then fly out to human land, but it ended up taking me 2 and a half hours to do what should have taken 5 minutes. I found myself getting caught up in public quests to kill 20 orcs or rescue 30 injured miners which didn't really end up helping me level at all...though I did get some better weapons out of it. I found one gold farmer in-game, but he refused to talk to me aside from spamming his gold to real money rates and website continuously. 

By the time I left Sudikoff I was showing some definite symptoms of what I like to call video game sickness. My eyesight was fuzzy and unfocused from staring at a screen, my concentration was shot, and my mood seemed to have deteriorated significantly since when I had gone into the lab. I felt irritated and unproductive, disappointed in myself for not being able to tear myself away sooner. Seems like the first stages of addiction are setting in. Not in the sense that I constantly want to play Warhammer- in fact, nothing sounds worse at the moment, but in the sense that once I start playing there is always just ONE MORE THING i want to do...

and another... I'll leave in a minute... Let me just... Finish. This. Quest.

I don't think I'm going to make it back to Sudikoff tonight.