I just checked the mailbox for the fourth time today. Like some pathetic, desperate fool hoping today would finally be different.
Oh I got mail alright. But not a single sale.
All those stacks of fish I spent hours pulling out of Lake Elrendar, the herbs Abeke farmed until our backs ached, even those random green drops that surely some noob would want? Expired. Returned. Mocking me. Another few thousand gold I was counting on… gone. Evaporating into the air like it never existed.
My stomach is sinking and I can feel that familiar sting behind my eyes like I might actually cry if I let myself. We need this gold so badly right now. I still have to get my weapon enchanted properly, and Abeke needs her second blade done too. Every day we run around with half-finished gear, it feels like I’m failing both of us.
Whose dick do I gotta suck to get some actual gold up in this city? Gods, I’m pathetic.
Abeke keeps saying “just lower the price, sis” but then she gets annoyed when I do and it sells in two minutes flat. I can’t win.
And I know some rich asshole probably undercut me again. Someone who doesn’t need the gold nearly as much as we do, just dumping their extras to watch the numbers go up while we scrape by.
This gearing life is brutal. We’re out here grinding Honor and Conquest in battlegrounds like it’s our full-time job, but the Auction House always finds new ways to kick us when we’re already down.
Sigh I should probably cry into that river and fish more while I’m at it.
~Sahsha
(Professional Mail Checker, Financially Cursed)