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Vaguely, Audrey jealously wondered what it was like to be so easily pretty as Jada was. It wasn't a new emotion for the girl, it was how she casually felt about Nealite, and how she'd first regarded Tanzanite until Aree had proven herself a pretty amazing person. Simply, the bluenette was incredibly jealous and wary of any excessively attractive individual. Jada eased this, however, with her congenial sweetness. She was just too nice to hate based on her looks.

Moving over behind the girl and dislodging several throw pillows and stuffed animals of varying species in the process, Audrey peered and flipped a page or two to the class guide. "Classes change depending on what race you are. Tauren, the cowpeople, are the only ones who can be druids. Blood elves are the only paladins, unfortunately. The rest are fairly evenly distributed role-wise." Peering closer she pointed at the chart in the book. "See? It lists by race what you can or can't be with those symbols and they correspond to the key at the bottom." Tucking a leg up under her, Audrey smiled.

"Though once you do that, I'm afraid I can't teach you too much more about the game without hands-on experience. We can try and create you a character on my account for a bit though, on a random server or something." The avid player was, of course, all full on her normal haunts. Alternate characters were crazy addicting. "As for her," a finger pointed over to Sylvanas, "she's the queen of the Undead. You can visit her whenever you want, but you start out nearby if you are of that race." Getting to Undercity from Thunder Bluff was a right b***h.

Pondering this, Audrey considered both classes and shrugged equanimously. "Both are pretty good for a starting player. Pets can generally help deal damage and take the focus off of you, whereas a paladin is less skill-oriented and more of a 'bash its face in until it dies' class. It does help, however, that paladins come equipped with a heal off the beat, absolutely." Tilting her head and twirling curls around her finger thoughtfully, she considered again. "I suppose it's all about finesse? Paladins aren't big on strategy and elegance, whereas with a hunter you can potentially manage larger crowds. They're a definite crowd-control class, absolutely."

Hugging her legs up against her chest, Audrey smiled with her chin on her knees. "That works too, you having your own account! That way if you have a laptop, and I'm sure you do, you can go home and toy with it from there. We can even get you a nice headset and I can voicechat you through sometimes if you get lost. I'm sans guild at the moment, so I do a lot of random nothingness and PUGs. Er ah, that is, pick-up groups of random people I've never met before. Sorry, jargonmonster got me." It was a lot to take in, but she was confident. If Jada was already lightly paddling through the waters of WoW Basics 101 then the game wouldn't be hard to pick up. It even came with an annoyingly handy tutorial!

"'Sides, you could never take advantage of me Jada! I'm far too willing." Giggling and teasing, she leered playfully at her friend and poked her side lightly.

Squealing and all but tumbling off the daybed in her need to get away from the ticklish fingers of Jada, Audrey collapsed on the floor in giggles and clutched her stomach protectively. Apparently, she was highly ticklish in the stomach region, and Jada had gotten her in the proper spot. The hair tug hadn't helped either, and she was almost thankful for the tickle that followed. Audrey had a tendency to shiver when her hair was played with, and tugs were even worse. It was truly her deepest secret, something that would never be shared with anyone, for it was far too dangerous.

"That was unfaaaaair, oh gosh." Wheezing, she sat up on the carpet and grinned. "And yeah, I was born like this. I think my dad was the fluke in his family and his hair is dark. My cousin Kinkade has blue-ish hair too, and so does his dad. Dunno how I got bright sapphire, but it's something different at least." Pulling on a tangle in her hair she grimaced at her hair and tossed it back again. "The curls are a pain though." Crawling over and snagging both mouse and keyboard from their tray, she dragged them down to the floor and brought up the game before handing them off to Jada. The screen was easily visible, being the thirty-some inch TV mounted directly on the wall across from them. "Voice chats we can do wherever. In game, Ventrilo, Skype, whatever floats your tugboat."

Flop, she hit the floor on her back again and waited for Jada to enter her information. "I play on the Blackhand server for Horde, but you can join somewhere else if you want~ Totally up to you!" Ahhh, fresh meat. It was a joy, it really was.

Augh god, hands in the hair again! Behind her back, Audrey fisted one hand tightly and drove nails into her palm to stem back the ripples traveling down her nervous system. A light little jump made it out, however, and made her blush as the bluenette hopped up to finger the silky black hair with light fingers. "Fallon said that conditioner was important. I've been trying to listen, but I guess I haven't found the right one yet. I'll have to force you to tell me all your beauty secrets, I guess. Did you sleep for a hundred years first or something?" Haha, cute joke Audrey. Rolling eyes at her own awful pun, slim fingers pointed at the screen.

"It's all the same team, but you can't put too many people in the same room or it gets too crowded. So first you have to pick the room you want to play in. That's how servers work, separate game rooms, I guess. And I will save you because that would be awful, I'm not that awesome. At the game, okay maybe I am pretty freaking amazing but...yeah." Compliments had never sat too well with Audrey, though she seemed to expect them in some areas of her life. "I should probably follow you around with my pally, huh? Resurrect spell at the ready?" Bending, she scooped up a handy stuffed owl and hugged it to her chest as Jada flipped through the options for the races and all their many customizations.

"I have the laptop to play on too, if things really do get too difficult. I should log and come give you money or something so you're not scraping around for your skills." Lips split into a wide and cheeky grin as the blue-haired geek looked up at Jada. "That's a first huh? Me giving you money?"

Critically, Audrey eyed the inky mass on top of Jada's head and considered how cute she might look with a nice bow on the end of it. Everyone looked better with ribbons, and this was something she had firmly convinced herself through middle and most of high school when it had been pulled on cruelly. "You should let me braid your hair. I have these lovely little thin ribbons that would shine so pretty in there too if you wanted." Ribbons were like stockings, you couldn't really have too many. There were spools and spools of ribbon buried in the sewing room for whenever Audrey decided that it was time for a new one.

"But don't worry about gold or repayment, trust me, it's not so easy to make as all that and you end up needing all of it. Took me forever to farm up enough for epic flight the first time and then cold-weather? Hooboy. If I hadn't been a raider it wouldn't have happened, lemme tell you. Biggest gold drain I've ever seen." Well, that and the mechano-hog. And the three-person mammoth. The bluenette had them all, and the Blue Dragonhawk mount besides. She'd tried to get the arena mounts, but learned quickly that she was probably not as hardcore as she would have liked. At all. "And no, I doubt you'll need my delightful res services often. You don't take exp or armor damage before ten anyway, so you can die as much as you want. Takes up time, but that's what learning's for right?" She loved to learn.

Loved it!

Already Audrey was dragging out her laptop and punching up the game on a much smaller screen, fingers pulling what looked like a fancy USB stick out of her tower and plugged it straight into her monitor. "Authenticator. So nobody can log into my account without it." Fingers flew to enter her information, and suddenly there was quite a lot going on. "You should pick a name that you like, I guess. Some more common names are taken, but you can always use the randomizer if you really can't come up with something, I guess." Almost absently, she piloted her own character while watching Jada hem and haw over hers. "Name's not too important, I mean, if I don't see a p***s reference once every five toons, I wonder what's wrong today." Truth!

With permission given, the bluenette was eying her friend with an expression akin to absolute glee. Not only was the girl playing Warcraft, but all that long black hair was hers to do whatever she pleased with it? And she could braid ribbons into it?! Crawling again over the carpet, an old kaboodle box was pulled from out under the bed with much smiling on Audrey's part. The thing looked like it had seen better days, and probably been run over by a car at some point, but the plastic still held - for the most part. Dragging it over, the teen clambered behind the other and tugged her hair down to brush it before talking again.

"Raiding is the best way, but don't even worry about that. That's at least not a hard bit of jargon to get, they're just large groups taking on giant obstacles. Like a police raid is a big group of cops?" It was interesting, to be taking care of someone else's hair. Jada didn't have any of the snarls that so characterized Audrey's own hair. "But I don't think you'll need an authenticator just yet. I only got mine because I have so much money and a lot of high-end items on my account, don't want to be hacked. Lower-level accounts are generally free and clear." Logging in, Audrey pointed to the bright exclamation point over the blond elf's head. "See that? Means she has a quest for you. You right-click to take the quest and if you read it tells you what to kill. The general point of the game is to finish quests and kill things for better items and experience points. Eventually you level and start doing bigger and better things. Kinda like working up from a nobody to a hero!" Which was the lure, really.

Digging through her kit, she pulled out a shiny spool of metallic gold ribbon. "What do you think of this?"

Audrey'd caught the lyrics and well and grinned widely, adding her own voice quietly. Quiet was good, as it sounded a bit rough and warbling from the girl whose voice was normally solid as a rock. Certainly she wasn't a stutterer and it was almost as if she couldn't get the breath out to make the notes. A singer Audrey Collins was not, and she knew it, cheeks flaming as her voice died away and Jada confirmed the choice of the ribbon. Tucking a wave of that lovely hair back into place she simply grinned and shook her head.

"Nope, you just have to trust me. If you don't like it we can pull it down before you leave, but right now your hair is my delicious victim. I haven't had someone's hair to play with...well, ever so you get to have my stylist virginity. Congratulations!" There was a stutter now in the laugh that was slightly nervous. "You just worry about killing things and I will worry about alllll this." The brush started to run through again before fingers deftly started to braid the expanse and tied it off expertly at the bottom. Braids were always easy, she could braid her own hair! Fished out of the kit was the thick plastic needle and the ribbon was threaded through it before looping the braid over her friend's head and slowly starting to loop the ribbon through. Before long, the coronet was looped around and threaded twice with both black and gold ribbon to secure it to her head.

She'd been fielding questions the whole time, but this was probably going to be a greater concern and Audrey grinned and held out her hands on either side of Jada's head in a ta-daaaah motion. "There! It's done! Probably not the greatest thing ever, but heyyy it's my first!" Audrey had been dying to do this to her own hair for quite some time, but could never manage on her own. The lovely Crystal girl was the perfect test subject!

Flustered, Audrey dropped her eyes to her fingers and idly played with an elastic, face lurid pink and reddening slowly with the compliment and the euphemism. It was somewhat adorable the way the brash young woman went absolutely to pieces whenever something nice was said about her. You could compliment her math skills and she would simply beam and admit to them with shocking rapidity, but if you said she was good at other things, or god forbid compliment her looks, poor Audrey went all to pieces.

"Thanks...it was nice to try." Her voice was shy and quiet, and in the silence, it was easy to hear the sound of something repeatedly smacking against something else, with cheesy groans and moans. "Oh shi-" Almost tripping over herself, the teen wrenched the keyboard from where Jada'd left it to go prance over and look at her hair, mashing several keys at once. The screen flashed red and swearing profusely, the poor blood elf died a grisly death at the hands of a random red-named character that had snuck up on the idle character. "God damn it, I'm sorry Jada! I tried to fight but at this level you're just so damn squishy, augh balls." Angrily, she threw a pillow through the door just in time to barely miss a perky blond head that was peering around the doorway.

"Audrey Joanna Collins, what did we tell you about throwing things and swearing like that in this house?" Only an inch or two taller than her daughter, Shelley Collins had her hands on her hips in the doorway, scowling at her daughter before swapping over to a smile in Jada's direction. "Jada, dear, you don't have any allergies do you? I'm about to start heating up dinner and the hospital isn't too nearby." Practicality ran deep in the Collins family, even if the lady of the house was minorly forgetful.