Sapherna Avis

As we approach the second anniversary of Vier's death, I've been asked to share any of the avatars I have from her favourite avatar site Sapherna.com

Here they are:

Vier's pictures of Taxi, her "dinosair" pet from her cat roleplay forum are found here: Taxi

Vier Memorial - Sunday, August 26, 2018 8:00 pm CDT - The Shrine

Sunday, August 26 at 8pm CDT

Vier's Square - Inn @ The Shrine

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Part 1 of 3:
The backstory of Jenn's WoW history, Blog Review "My Mom Plays WoW", some other memories.

Part 2 of 3:
Vier and Taxi.  The story [as I know it], my wish for and in-game memorial.

Part 3 of 3: This post: Memorial Invite and Requests.

(Obituary for those who may have missed it)

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You're Invited

Vier Memorial - 26 Aug. 2018 8pm CDT, 

Inn @ The Shrine, Stormwind Park

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How you may have known Jenn/Vier: Battle Tag: jennlee#1411

Main: Vier [Wyrmrest Accord];
Alts : Halirran [Undermine]; Tobey/Tobian [Undermine]; Molim [Undermine];  Orc Hunter [Blackhand]; Sieben [Undermine];
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Noritam's Info:
WoW - noritam#1287,
Discord - Noritam#6049
Discord Noritam's Nexus: Vier Memorial Channel 
https://discord.gg/hBsb7WV
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Event 1: Toys - Shrine
Vier's Square at Inn at the Shrine

1-A: Someone post a Sign on her square [Dhan knows her square]
1-B: Darkmoon Feast 'cause everyone dresses up for a funeral/memorial [and it was included in an event Vier and Nor were working on for the Guild, that never happened]

1-C: Toy Extravaganza in memory of Vier's most annoying habit of playing with her toys whilst waiting on Raid Nights.

We all have toys to annoy people with.

• Pumpkins-Orange, 
• Turnips-Pink,
• Mask  Of Shame[Ken Ken Mask],
• Wear the stupid Turtle shell hat [Nor needs one][Timeless Isle]

Event 2: Mounts - Stormwind Park

2-A: Someone post a Sign in a prominent location

2-B: Darkmoon Feast 'cause everyone dresses up for a funeral/memorial [and it was included in an event Vier and Nor were working on for the Guild that never happened]

2-C: Display as many mounts as possible, the more dinosaurs the better.

• Dino Faire riding toy, or cat ones [tigers etc]
• Make as much of a spectacle as we can.  

Final Event: Sparkle Ponies and Graveside Circle

Sparkle Ponies: Olivia's Pond at bottom of the hill to the Unmarked grave.
- Sparkle Pony Specialist organizes a sparkle pony hill climb to the grave

Graveside Circle

• - Sign Specialist posts on the grave,
• - Circle around the unmarked grave,
• - place blue/green stuffed toy or any other toy that can be placed on the ground, flowers?,
• - Paladins Contemplation,
• - Everyone else - Kneel,
• - FIREWORKS! and done.

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Guilds:

• Fists of Rage - Undermine - Vier's Raiding Guild
• Campion's Champions - Wyrmrest Accord RP Guild
• Of The Sun - Undermine  Noritam's New Guild Aug. 27. "A New Chapter: The Story Continues"

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Volunteer Request For:

1. Fists of Rage: Guild Contact
2. Campion's Champions: Guild Contact
3. Of the Sun: Guild Contact
4. Memorial Raid Leader
5. Sign Specialist
6. Sparkle Pony Leader
7. Graveside Circle Ring Master
8. Screenshot Maker:
9. You Tuber:
[I'm looking for people who are not emotionally involved to help run this event]
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Non-WoW Players:
There will be a recap blog post. [Hopefully a YouTube vid]
If you'd like to make a free-to-play character, you'll be able to join the Memorial event at Stormwind Park and go with us to the Unmarked Graveside ceremony.  [You won't be able to participate in the Shrine Event because you have to be a paid, subscribed level 90 player]
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... Looking for: Frost(Labbattblue), Cross, Heavy,  Thunderbutt, Bambooholic, Kat, Sarge, Bearminimum, Nindae, Navimie, Ancient, Jormot.
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... Things to Bring:
- Darkmoon Feast
TOYS  - throwing, kicking and annoying toys and items
- Fire Stallion Sharesies Mount
- Faire Riding Toys
- Green or Blue Stuffed Toy [or other toys or items you can place on the ground/grave like flowers?]
FIREWORKS
MOUNTS
- Get your Sparklepony XL toy - 150 Darkmoon Fair Tickets

- Vier's Favourite Mounts: Any Dinosaur, Dragon Fey, Nightmare Warhorse Hitching Post.
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Transmogs
- Noblemen's Finery from the Faire
- Vier's Taxi Xmog - Cataclysmic Gladiator's Chain Armor
- Match Queen Vier Transmog
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HUNTERS
Hunter Pet Spectral Porpupette Green = Alphonse
Battle Pets Spectral Porcupette Green = Alphonse Jr.
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In case anyone missed it, Jenn's Obituary.

Missing Vier - Vier and Taxi

Three Memorial Posts - Missing Vier - Almost a Year.
1. The backstory of Jenn's WoW history, Blog Review "My Mom Plays WoW", some other memories.

2. This post: Vier and Taxi.  The story [as I know it], my wish for an in-game memorial.

3. Memorial Invite and Requests.
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My goal/wish is to get Vier and Taxi in-game.  I think at the Inn or by the travel portal at the Shrine.

They'll always be throwing stuff at random players. [and for members of the 3 guilds, throwing an Awesome Fish].

The best case scenario is that they become a throwing toy vendor!

Fists of Rage-Undermine; Campion's Champions-Wyrmrest Accord; Of the Sun-Undermine.
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Dinosair

Jenn has loved dinosaurs since the first "Land Before Time" movie came out. The story of Taxi, I just learned recently.

As a tween, Jenn belonged to an online cat RP forum. Only, Jenn had her pet dinosaur, named Taxi, whom she insisted believed he was a cat.  And they didn't kick her out of the forum, they played along.

One of her friends recently shared some early Taxi pics.

Her fondness for giraffes also appear.

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Taxi's colouring also showed up in her avatar forum, Sapherna.

While I was reviewing screenshots for these memorial posts, I noticed that Vier was sporting Sapherna/Taxi colours as well!

Her yellow sleeves really show in this ss.

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I discovered some Overwatch videos that Jenn was in on YouTube.
Cron Virus' two videos: ctf pro squad and DROP THE BEAT, in which Jay got POTG.

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On Raid Night with "Fists of Rage", apparently everyone had their own square in the Inn at The Shrine, whilst waiting for raids to begin.

This is Jenn's square, where I want to start her memorial.

3 up from the wall, 3 left from the stairs

Lunar Festival Highlights

The Lunar Festival in the World of Warcraft coincides with our Chinese New Year. Every year the druids of Moonglade hold a celebration of their city's great triumph over an ancient evil. During the Lunar Festival, citizens of Azeroth have the opportunity to honor their elders by celebrating their sage wisdom, sharing in magnificent feasts, and of course...shooting fireworks!  Elder Ghosts are found throughout the world of Azeroth and each time players finds a new Elder, they receive a token that can be redeemed for special holiday-related items.  I wanted to earn the Purple Festival Dress [cost: 5 Coins of Ancestry] and the Lantern companion [cost: 50 Coins of Ancestry].

Imagine my shock and chagrin when I realized that it meant traveling and exploring all the continents of the in-game world, including some places in Horde territory.  Fortunately for me, Vier had only done a bit of the festival a long time ago and she was game to take me to meet all of the Elders.  Even with Vier's savvy and expertise, I got killed a couple of times and she even got surprised and killed once.  The Festival it seems, is not for the faint of heart.  We started off in Moonglade.  Drank some Moonglow and fired off a few rocket clusters.

In hindsight, again a World Event that offers little opportunity to participate for low level characters.  There is no way I could have traveled to all the elders on foot.  Highly unlikely that I would have survived any attempt at speaking with an Elder in Horde territory.  I love to explore the world and word on the internets is that Blizzard is keen for me to do so.  Why then make it impossible for low levels to participate?  Very Frustrating.

Now that I've had my little rant, some screenshots of our adventures.

Off we went with Vier as her Obsidian Nightwing and me riding on her back. We over flew and discovered a lot of new territory for my character.  Here we are overflying Sar'theris Stand.  No, I didn't get screenshots of every place we were, just a few in fact!

Approaching the Twin Colossals, Vier had to go AFK for a bit.

She tucked me into a safe corner to wait for her return.  I was practicing summoning pets.  With my newly learned skill of "left-click and drag" to move the camera around, I took a gazillion screenshots.   Here's one with Tamm out.

It's quite the trick to get everyone lined up and facing the same way, with none of the on-screen labels obscuring anything.  No way could I get it all done and have Orangey Cu facing the camera!

Here we are leaving the Twin Colossals, over-flying the nasty red beasts

By the time we were overflying Tanaris, I had leveled up to 28!

We had to kill a Sandstone Golem to get to the elder at the Valley of the Watchers.

We followed some mysterious tracks in the desert at the Southmoon Ruins

I leveled up again to 29 by the time we were overflying the Blasted Lands

Discovered Ironforge_Airfield,

and New Tinkertown where we encountered some bad guys.  This is where we both died, me a couple of times and were it took some strategy and low flying and hovering to grab the Elder!

By the time we left and were overflying Dun Morogh, I had leveled up to 30 and my gear and equipment were in bad shape.  This is the first time I saw that red guy over on the right of the screenshot.

Overflying the Howling Fjord, Vier spotted something she had never seen before.  Lucky for me, she was eager to investigate. ... It was High  --  Lair  --  Eee  --  Us! ... ...  A Turtle Boat!

Here we are on the upper deck of the turtle boat, riding Vier's rocket

 A boat structure built on the shell of a turtle, propelled by dangling some carrots in front of the turtle's nose.  Literally!

Check out Vier's Rhino pet "Taxi"!

 We'll see if I can ever find it again once I get my flying mount at level 60, or get the super powers granted to a level 90 character.  At the end of the day, I wanted to go "home", so Vier took us to a point where I could grab a hippogryph ride back to Azuremyst Isles.

There you have it, some highlights of the Lunar Festival 2014.

Nor.