#cattgirl the jedi

(Dictated by my daughter)

Today we played CattGirl.

There is her pretty self.

She called the monster “Mr. Poopy Butt”. 

She’s resting now. CattGirl likes other stuff than just fighting bad guys. CattGirl likes to dance and sing and color. She sings really nice. Like “Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh”. (Daughter proceeds to improv a little song about being nice)

CattGirl wanted two lightsabers like Ahsoka. She looks so pretty but I wish she was smiling. She couldn’t get lightsabers. There was a bug.

(The bug prompted a rage-quit. I totally don’t blame her, not getting those lightsabers was disappointing! My daughter is now drawing a picture of CattGirl and her cat husband and a cat baby.)

EDIT: Here is the picture:

My 5 y/o is still staunchly dedicated to playing CattGirl, and has made it all the way to Tattooine. I kind of figured her interest would wane a bit, but she asks to play nearly every night, so it’s become her reward for practicing her reading words from school in the evenings. And privately, my geeky little heart is exploding.

CattGirl was excited to visit the desert. But first she had to run around in this corner of the spaceport. Because “THIS RUG IS FANTASTIC!” 

Followed by some vigorous jumping on this… statue? thing I never noticed was here in the fifty million times I’ve wandered around this area…

Finally we made it outside because it had been a hot minute since CattGirl had ridden around on her beloved bantha, Isabela. Since 7.0 it took another hot minute for me to find the vehicle options, but I eventually succeeded, much to my daughter’s delight. She did a… creative (and very silly) voice for Isabela as she ran around that I wish I could somehow translate to text and couldn’t quite decipher, but I was able to hear “They hid me because I’m so pretty.”

So. Pretty.

Apparently this is a thing I’ll be doing a lot?

My daughter had her little heart set on climbing the Karagga statue today, and even though I’m not the most agile SWTOR player ever, I decided to give it a shot – for her! 

It was quite the journey, but it made her so happy. So if I accomplished nothing else today, at least there’s that.

Then I got CattGirl stuck under the hat and had to /stuck out

CattGirl has been getting up to some shenanigans on Nar Shadaa. No, not thoseshenanigans. Just totally normal stuff. Like stomping on the plants.

“They’ll grow back in a few minutes.”

Also jumping through the pretty trees.

Asking important questions. Like “WHY IS JABBA WEARING THAT RIDICULOUS HAT??!”

And even meeting a few new friends. My daughter took a particular shine to Holiday because “She has a nice voice.” Tharan Cedrax, on the other hand, she found “quite rude” for suggesting CattGirl send Qyzen away “because we don’t send away our friends”.

Also, watch out. “Ew. Pee pee.”

My daughter was thrilled that there was a mechanic that allowed her to give Qyzen a gift. She insisted on buying two, “in case he breaks one” and made sure I kept quiet while she was “surprising him” with his presents.

Around this point, My daughter noticed another player riding a bantha and it absolutely DELIGHTED her. She insisted that CattGirl chase him (I tried to keep a respectful distance) They made it as far as the taxi pad before the poor guy (and his bantha) got away. 

My daughter declared that CattGirl needs a bantha, too. As it happened, I have some old purchases from long, long ago squirreled away in my stash. I told her if I had a bantha, she could have it.

Turns out, I had one bantha. So I let CattGirl take it. CattGirl has a bantha now. 

“I’m going to name him Isabela!”

CattGirl has been busy this week, hitting all the bad guys with her brand new lightsaber. She loved Coruscant and made sure to stop regularly to admire the scenery and bounce around the Senate tower. My daughter has declared that she “will never stop playing this game.”

Some highlights:

CattGirl got a SKIRT! This, I have been informed, is a very big deal.

“I’m naming this cutie Lilliana after a girl in my class. She says it’s okay.”

“Qyzen, NO! That is VERY impolite. Get off that bed right now!”

“MOM!!!!! IT’S C3PO!!!!” (Proud mom moment )

Bonus: “Did he just call me ‘master’? I’m his master?? I’m gonna make him take out the trash!”

Up next… CattGirl takes on Taris!

The legend continues.

After some bitter negotiations, I allowed my daughter to play a little more tonight after she practiced her reading. 

CattGirl had a lot of fun today. I let her pick a new pet from my stash, and she chose this guy:

My daughter was delighted that Lolly now had a friend. She named her Bluey after one of her favorite shows. The three of them played hide and seek.

Followed by some splashing in the water.

CattGirl frolicked in the flowers.

And fed a starving infant! (My daughter was a bit annoyed you don’t get to see the flesh raider baby)

It was around this point that I had to answer a call and stepped away from the computer. Upon hanging up, I turned around to see a grim little face informing me that something terrible had happened.

Thankfully, CattGirl was only mostly dead, so she is expected to make a full recovery, but she is taking the rest of the evening easy.

I was informed by my 5 y/o today that she is NOT bored of CattGirl yet and that she has many important things to do in the game. Such as…

1.) Making sure Lolly is still following her (He was)

2.) Jumping up and down for Lolly “because he’s TOO CUTE!!!”

3.) Standing under all the waterfalls on Tython so CattGirl can take a shower…

4.) “Checking on the floating things"

5.) Visiting Kolovish. And singing a song about Kolovish all the way up the mountain… and all the way down. I was informed rather savagely that Kolovish is an old woman just like me.

6.) Lolly sat on the couch. Reminder: He is very cute

7.) “Him again! I can’t understand him, but I think he’s nice.”

8.) “Uh oh. I don’t think we’re supposed to be here.”

Here’s to another fun night of running, jumping and looting with CattGirl!

My 5y/o daughter wanted to play SWTOR with me, so I sat her on my lap and let her hit the space button to make my character jump, which delighted her for about fifteen minutes. She said she liked my character, but thought she would look better with purple hair. Eventually, she became so insistent that I just let her jump into the character creator to mess around (I wielded the mouse and let her make the big, executive decisions).

She wanted to make a Jedi with “big force powers”, and selected the Jedi Sage as her class. Toying briefly with the idea of making a Togruta (”Like Ahsoka”!), she eventually settled on a Cathar. She was only moderately disappointed that this choice meant she could not have purple hair. Luckily, the cool stripes on her face made up for the inconvenience. 

Next she set about the task of naming her new character. Sadly, Rose was taken. As was Lily. Not to be deterred, my daughter declared that she knew EXACTLY what her character’s name should be.

And thus… CattGirl was born.

CattGirl likes running and jumping. 

She also “needs to relax once in a while” after a long day kicking bad guy butts.

CattGirl’s favorite thing is this rainbow:

And her adorable pet Tauntaun named Lolly (My daughter was very upset that there is no feature that allows CattGirl to cuddle and/or snuggle Lolly)

I’m very much looking forward to the ongoing adventures of CattGirl.

For those of you following the thrilling exploits of CattGirl, you may recall that last time a bug prevented CattGirl from completing the “Training in the Force” mission. My daughter was very much looking forward to having two lightsabers (”like Ahsoka”) and was extremely bummed about the bug. And we can’t have that, now, can we?

So, like any dutiful parent, I looked it up on google. And while others had experienced the bug, I saw nothing about fixes. The only difference I noticed between CattGirl and my other characters who had completed the mission without issue was that my subscription had run out. How about that.

And… out came the credit card, and for the price of one renewed subscription (which means, oooooh noooo I’m going to have to play this game I love and get my money’s worth, what a shaaaame) I can report that CattGirl now officially wields two lightsabers.

Like Ahsoka.