Reflections From The Pond

There are bosses in RL too, you know.

No, I’m not talking about the one sneaking up behind you while you browse WoW blogs at work, I mean the real nasty bosses that eventually may kill or severely cripple you.

Bosses like depression and diseases, self-inflicted or not, some of which may be one-shotting you, some of the more slow-moving variety but in the end not less painful or lethal.

Do you think a RL BossMod would help?

It’s one thing knowing that smoking is bad for you, that a sedentary lifestyle is equally bad, that additives in your food may be bad, etc etc but how would you feel if a Skull Icon suddenly popped over your head with a raid warning telling you in no uncertain terms:

Tessy has Couch Potato!

Couch Potato – debuff caused by a sedentary lifestyle. All stats are decreased by 1 every day as long as the debuff is on. Failure to get rid of the Couch Potato will result in one or more severe debuffs like Depression, Muscle Atrophy, Heart Disease and Premature Death.

Depression will adversely affect  the targets health, her social relationships and her sleeping and eating habits.

Muscle Atrophy will render the target unable to move.

Heart Disease may take one of several forms, including Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Diseases and Congestive Cardiac Failure.

Cleansing the Couch Potato debuff requires the target to engage in Physical Activity. Physical Activity will increase that targets Strength, Agility and Stamina. If the Activity goes on long enough, the target will gain the Runner’s High buff, granting her a Spirit increase and a sense of remarkable well-being and power, aka King-of-the-World-syndrome. As the buff fades she will keep a feeling of happiness and being one with the world, affecting people around her and increasing their Spirit.

In a raid environment, you can’t say “yeye, I’ll run away from the boss tomorrow”, you need to do it NOW! You need to do it right away or you risk wiping the raid.

In real life, you can say “yeye, I’ll get off the couch/stop smoking/eat healthier/whatever tomorrow” and you only risk wiping yourself.

In fact, I can almost see that Skull icon hovering over my head as I write this, so I will take my body, which is already aching from a sweaty kettlebell workout two days ago after a month long hiatus, out into the sun and work on getting me that Runner’s High buff.

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