June 20, 2008 - : I’m Still Alive
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To the wonderful people who’ve read my blog in the past, I am still here. I havent been playing WOW in over a month tho, due to the nerve damage in my mousing arm. It basically hurts to play.
Usually playing is where I get my ideas on writing from, so it’s been kind of difficult to stoke the creative fires lately. However, I do promise that I am still around, and I do intend on writing another entry very soon. I’m working on some ideas as we speak.
May 1, 2008 - : Good Gravy!
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Did I seriously just write all of that? Wowsers. I hope you enjoyed reading that as much as I enjoyed writing it. It’s great. I finally feel like I’m getting my creative chops back. I’m very happy that this site gets visited on a regular basis. If it were not for my visitors, I probably would have let this blog lapse a long time ago. Instead, you’ve all breathed a little bit of life back into the ember of my creativity. I’ve found the joy of writing again, and for that I truly, truly thank you.
Not many people know this, because well, this is not my personal blog, which can be found at http://www.tillmansmoot.com, but I used to write comics for a while. About 10 or so years ago, I worked for a short time at AC Comics, and actually got about 5 stories published. Unfortunately, the editor and I had a big disagreement of how things should work, and he and his wife resisted the changes that I was trying to put in place for their characters. Well, they were their characters, so they got the final decision.
When all was said and done, we parted ways on pretty good terms, and at least I still have good memories. Since then, I wrote for a while about my Everquest Characters, Motoko and Kaidako, seen here. I still plan on finishing their story, and I think, aside from my Jaynekobb stories, that will become another primary focus of mine. Who knows, perhaps I’ll create another site, just for them.
In the meantime, I think it’s pretty obvious that I wrote this whole thread simply to explain my switch from the standard black and white Nightsaber to the more unique light green and white one. Both my wife and one of my guildmates gave me hell for switching, saying that it was mean. Well, I figured it this way… if I could come up with a story to explain just how it was the same Vera, then I could get away with it.
After reading the installment from a few days ago, my wife finally relented a bit, and said.. “Well, that’s one way of explaining it.”
So, there it is. Green & white Vera is here to stay. She’s unique, she’s adorable and she’s got HUGE fangs!
And, she likes to Chew on Jaynekobb’s head… which I think is just adorable.
See you soon for the return of Jaynekobb’s Huntarding Journal!
Peace.
Jayne
April 24, 2008 - : Jaynekobb in the Resin!
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I got my Figureprint of Jaynekobb in today! Woot! He’s soooooooo cool looking. I kinda want to pull him out of the glass dome he’s in so I can take pics. We’ll see. But man.. he’s cool!
On the other side of things, I will have another installment up this weekend… poor Vera.
April 10, 2008 - : Karazhan
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This week I lobbied with our guild leader to allow Crazytrain to take over as the full time Kara raid leader. It will help promote training, teamwork and winning. Last night, with his position cemented, Crazy led us into Kara and we very successfully took down 5 bosses. I know some teams can do all of Kara in one night… hooray for them. However, we’re having to put together the pieces after our guild kind melted down in November. But, we’re getting there now. And I’m very excited for it.
In another note, I will be posting more either tommorow night or Saturday. I simply havent had the time this week to really knuckle down and get to the blog. Next week should be a bit better I hope.
April 2, 2008 - : OOC = Out of Character
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I’m sure many of you knew that already, but just in case, I figured I’d explain it. My friend Karthis over at http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com told me the other night that one of the cool things about my site was that I had a different angle, and that angle was stories.
Truth be told, I love to write. I’ve written since I was a kid, and it has always been in my mind. In the past couple of years though, the passion kind of dwindled. Realizing that, I decided a couple of months ago to put an end to the draught of creativity that had been plaguing me.
You see, back in the days of Everquest, I was a very active member of a role playing guild on Tunare called “Ancienne Noblesse.” While I was a member of that guild, I felt my creative juices bubbling every day. I would spend hours and hours writing about the adventures of my characters Motoko and Kaidako, seen below in a beautiful piece of art by my good friend Animeflux at http://animeflux.deviantart.com/. 
I was drawn to telling stories about these two women in ways that I had never before thought about. By the time I’d finished playing Everquest, I’d written over 200 pages of material on them. One day I hope that their stories will find a home somewhere, whether it be in the form of a website, book or comic.
Since then though, my passion for writing diminished. I came up with ideas, sure, but the actual desire to put them down on paper, or on my computer disappeared.
And that brings us to today. My stories about Jayne are very simple, rudimentary things that I hope will one day grow and be a bit more creative. Right now, I write for myself, my wife and a couple of people that know me. That being said, it really surprised me the other day when someone came up to me online and said “What’s up Huntard?”
Two or three thoughts went through my head at once. The first was that this was a friend of mine, like Bocci or Karthis playing one of their alts and messing with me. Then, I thought it might just be someone trying to be insulting. I joke that like Randall in Clerks 2, I’m trying to take “Huntard” back. So, when someone that I know calls me a Huntard, I really do view it as a term of affection and take it as a compliment.
Imagine my surprise then, when I found out that the person was neither a close friend of mine in disguise, or someone trying to be insulting. Instead, this was someone who’d discovered my blog online and actually enjoyed it! Wow! I have a real, honest to goodness reader! I am not going to go as far as calling them a fan though. I’m not a celebrity, and I most certainly don’t have enough material on Jayne to warrant anything resembling a fanbase. But… a READER! How cool is that?
So now, with renewed vigor, I’ve decided to put more effort into this site. I’ve added the OOC page, where I will talk about WOW things that are going on, and I’ve decided to continue with my Diary of the Most Uber Huntard in the World.
I am not sure what creativity will strike me when. I may change the perspective of the story occassionally, taking it out of the first person narrative to the third person. I may introduce new ideas and new characters as I go along, and I hope to even bring in a couple of my friends’ characters to add to the mix. We’ll see.
Until then, this site is officially open for business and I love it. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for spending a few minutes of your day to take a peek at what is going on in Jaynekobb’s Most Uber world.
Happy Huntarding, and I’ll see you in Azeroth.
Jaynekobb - Garona Server