User:Qaza

Roleplaying Experience: I started writing (really poor) fanfiction back in about the fourth grade, and eventually ran into enough good influence (Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Dinotopia, Voyage of the Basset, and the like). I've played one tabletop RPG in my time, but I really enjoyed the process of developing a character and having that characters interact with others, often with unplanned consequences.

MMO Experience: World of Warcraft is the first MMO I've played, although I've tried others and not found them nearly as engaging.

Warcraft Experience: I started off playing WoW on my friend's PvE server as a female Gnome warrior. I wasn't terribly excited by the raiding (which is what my friend was into), and wasn't finding very many people I enjoyed playing with. So, in a fit of stubborness, I went to the Horde side and made a warrior from the first race that had caught my eye in the manual: a male troll. I quickly learned the difference between playing a male and female character on a PvE server, and enjoyed my new character quite a lot more. Then I finally got ahold of my nephew's server information and left to the greener pastures of a RP server. I made myself a female Troll hunter named Acha and had even more fun, although the roleplay element was still lacking, and I was once told to go roll a Night Elf because I used proper grammar in OOC chat.

I then found out that yet another one of my friends was playing WoW, on the Silver Hand server. He told me about his shaman, Lurie, and how awesome the roleplaying guild he was with was. I was skeptical, but I made a temporary character on his server to attend some of Ironsong's moots. Shortly after, I transferred Acha (who was re-named Qaza) to the server, and the rest is... well, what's going on now.

Hobbies: I'm an illustrator with a focus on character, costume, and monster design. When I'm not doodling, I like to kayak, hike, and play with creepy-crawly things. I also enjoy teaching art and zoology. I collect armadillos, vultures, and goggles.

And now for something completely different:

Qaza's No-Bake Cookies

2 cups sugar

1 cube margarine

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups oatmeal

Combine sugar, margarine, cocoa, and milk; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add peanut butter, vanilla, and oatmeal. Mix well, make little heaps on wax paper in the size of your prefrence. Let set to cool and harden, or give into temptation and end up covered in chocolate/peanut butter/oatmeal.

You might be able to do this in non-chocolate form by omitting the cocoa and some of the sugar, but I've never tried...

Also. Yes, TWO cups of sugar. Feed to children at your own risk. Do not attempt to eat while wearing a mask.

And now: More health food.

Cracker Brittle

1 row saltine crackers

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup butter

1 6 oz. package of chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla

Line a cookie sheet with foil, then butter it. Put crackers in a single layer, salty side up.

In a pan, bring butter and sugar to a boil, let is boil for 3 minutes, remove from heat, add vanilla. Pour mixture evenly over crackers, bake for 5-6 minutes at 350 degrees, remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over the crackers.

Let stand until the chips get melty, spread the chocolate around with a small spatula, chill until firm, then break into pieces. Slightly easier to eat behind a mask, because it's flat.

The chocolate chips could most likely be replaced with something else, like peanut butter chips or semisweet chocolate.

And then there's...

Heari's Apple Stuff:

(Translated to avoid horrible kitchen accidents within the tribe)

Put cream cheese in a bowl. However much you feel like eating.

Add brown sugar and stir it in until the cream cheese is the same color as, say, a really froofy coffee drink.

Slice up an apple and dip it in the stuff. It's good!