Hello ODO!
I'm Xin, that is actually short for Xinaura (Zin-ar-ah.) I have been a gamer a long time and my first tabletop D character was a cleric/mage half-elf named Xinara, so the name sort of stuck and generally I am the Xinaura you will meet in a lot of mmo's. I have game mastered table top "Call of Cthulhu," for a while.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and work the night shift, so I tend to play at odd times which means I have a lot of euro-friends. I tend to generally have more time in the mornings and weekends, except when I'm doing a show.
I direct plays and musicals and last year I directed "Avenue Q."
I was able to rent the Broadway version of the puppets for the show and it is easily my favorite show. I started working in the entertainment industry out of high school and worked on different projects for 15 years, including the Jim Henson Creature Shop. I helped to create the fabulous guinea pig for "Dr Doolittle" with Eddie Murphy.
Then Disney scooped me up and I made odd props and puppets for the live shows at Disneyland.
Throughout it all, I played Age of Conan, DDO, LOTRO, Rift, Neverwinter, DCO, Vanguard, ESO, Guild Wars 2 and of course, The Secret World.
I was in one of the early beta groups. I loved the game from the beginning and once Funcom offered a lifetime membership, I took the gamble cause I believed in the game and where it could go. I was gone for a little over a year, primarily because the people of the cabal I was in, just started disappearing. So I dived into GW2 for a while and now I am back and looking forward to more wonderfully creepy play!
