For Cheeva
When I first started
playing WoW, I didn't have a clue about guilds and such. Fortunately for me, I got invited to one
called "Knights of Rememberance" on the Antonidas realm. It was a good guild run by a crappy GM (later KoR became Sanctity, which I was in until I moved to Premonition). People in this guild were very friendly and
helpful. 2 people who were really helpful
for me were Neuroticon (yes the master fluffer) and Cheeva. Without these 2, I probably wouldn't have
played WoW as long as I have.
Cheeva was an older
female player. I didn't know her age but
I do remember saying that she was pretty old.
I'm sure she was older than Quinnie or Alphaseven - lol. Well anyways, Cheeva played a female
warlock. Like me, WoW was probably her
first online game (alot of noobness questions were asked by me and her). When I first started playing, I didn't
realize that Antonidas was newly created realm so most of the realm hadn't
reached 70 yet and most players on that server were busy levelling their
characters. I quickly realized that I
was playing often and was one of the more higher level character in our
guild. There were a few that were ahead
of me (like Neuroticon) but most were lower level. But one who was mostly at the same level from
me was Cheeva. So therefore we often did
quests together.
Now when you do
quests and levelling together, you often create a bond with the people that
help you. I know I really appreciate all
the help people have given me to better my character. It's something that I won't ever forget. With Cheeva, I know she helped me get my
pally mount and I also helped her get her warlock mount. We did many instances together also. I didn't mind helping her at all because I
knew she would help me whenever I asked.
So after KoR became
Sanctity and about couple months later, our guild decided to run Kara casually
at first since many weren't geared for it.
It was going good until after a while we usually had quite a few who
wanted to do Kara. I guess there some
people in our guild who weren't happy that they weren't able to go do Kara so
there was big fight about it. I don't
know the complete details of it because I wasn't there at that time. I know Livi (Gene's sister-in-law) who was
our GM at that time was pretty upset about it.
A bunch of people then left our guild, including Cheeva (who was
standing up for one of her friends).
Cheeva, being the leader that she was, created a guild called
"Unbroken".
Well our guild
Sanctity managed to survive and further progress into Kara, but unfortuanetly
for Cheeva, her guild didn't become as good as ours. I don't know what happened but most of
Cheeva's guild then decides to transfer to another server (the ones who started
this whole mess). I thought Cheeva might
transfer too but she didn't.
So one day in
Strattrah, I asked her how she was doing and why she hadn't transferred with
the other members of her guild. Her
response was that this guild (Unbroken) was hers and that she wouldn't abandon
it (I think she was peeved that I even mentioned the thought of
transferring). The one thing you have to
realize about Cheeva was that she was very strong minded individual. Anything she put her mind into, she knew she
could achieve it. I guess some people in
our realm doubted that she could run a guild in the first place so it must have
been real satisfying for her to prove them wrong. She often would tell me "Juno, I am
going to do this" and I would nod and say "Of course, you're
Cheeva". I have never met another
person as strong minded as Cheeva.
So after Sanctity
broke up, I made the painful decision to transfer servers over to
Windrunner. It was a very difficult
decision for me because I knew I would be leaving many friends back on
Antonidas. What made transferring worth
it though was being in Premonition and meeting another batch of good
people. After raiding for several weeks
and feeling very comfortable in Premonition, I often checked the Antonidas
realm forum to see how my old server was doing.
One day while
checking the forum, I saw the thread that I dreaded the most. Cheeva had passed away. Cheeva's death was the definately the worst
feeling I ever had while playing WoW.
Even more so, that same night we were doing a raid (I think it was
Tempest Keep). I decided to dedicate
that raid to her so I macro'ed a shout everytime I hit my avenging wrath. I would shout out "For Cheeva!!!"
everytime I did my macro. Most of the
raid didn't have a clue what I was doing and I didn't bother to tell
anyone. I didn't have a mic either at
that point so I didn't talk about. Even
if I did have a mic, I would have been crying too much to say anything. The only other person who knew was Neuro so
he kinda told everyone about it.
Whenever things get
tough now, I often think about Cheeva and how she would handle things. She is one of the reasons why I won't leave
Premonition. I know that if Cheeva could
do it, so could I. Cheeva, I will always
remember you and what you have taught me.
R.I.P.
"For
Cheeva!!!"
Love, Juno
