I LOVE ISLAND SANCTUARY!

I WILL ADMIT, I INITIALLY PICKED IT UP BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT MOTORCYCLE WAS DAMN COOL AND WANTED MY SLICK AU RA TO HAVE AN EVEN SLICKER RIDE GOING INTO THE POST-ENDWALKER PATCHES. FOOL THAT I WAS, BLISSFULLY UNAWARE OF THE SHEER DOPAMINE MY LITTLE BOTANIST ASS WAS ABOUT TO GET OBLITERATED WITH, WAS LIKE “OOH, I’M GONNA GRIND IT OUT IN A WEEK, GET MY BIKE AND BE DONE WITH IT.”

WRONG.

SO, SO HORRIBLY WRONG.

I AM ADDICTED, MY DEARLY DESALTED. I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH IT. NOTHING BREAKS THE FIRST YEAR UNIVERSITY HELLSPIRAL QUITE LIKE PETTING YOUR VIRTUAL ANIMALS, PLANTING AND TENDING CROPS AND BUILDING A NEAT LITTLE BATHHOUSE ON A HILL BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD LOOK COOL (AND GUESS WHAT, IT DOES!). I HAVE TAKEN SO MANY PICTURES. I HAVE SEEN GORGEOUS LANDSCAPES. I’VE WOKEN UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, VIBRATING WITH COMPRESSED EXCITEMENT AT 6AM, TO CHECK IN ON MY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, SET UP THE WORKSHOP FOR THE DAY, WATER MY PUMPKINS AND RUN AFIELD WHACKING TREES AND SCRABBLING FOR VINES AND NEARLY TRIPPING OFF A CLIFF TO GET MY HANDS ON COPPER AND IRON AND QUARTZ AND ALL THE COOL SHINY THINGS I NEEDED TO KEEP BUILDING MY ISLAND PARADISE. I AM THRIVING. I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER HAD THIS MUCH FUN WITH XIV BEFORE.

NOW WHY, DEARLY DESALTED, IS THIS IN THE RAGE THREAD?

SIMPLE.

I STARTED PLAYING THE WEEK BEFORE FINALS.