Lady "Nadie" Hawke - (w/VIDEOS)

People approach life with varying levels of intensity, and engage in experiences that tend to satisfy their needs, wants, and desires, including those in our virtual world. This week's Wednesday's Who's Who is no different, except that her level of intensity is so dynamic, that it's incredible, infectious, and inspiring.

A Natural Progression

It all started 12+ years ago while playing FPS games. "I needed a nic," says Nadie, "and proceeded to look around the house for inspiration." It came in the form of a video called LadyHawke, which she felt would do nicely, but never thought she would still be using it all these years later.

The middle name "Nadie," which is actually pronounced Nay-dee, "to rhyme with Lady" says Nadie, "came about from my spot-on grenade throwing in another game." As a result, Nades + Lady became Nadie. She was named by a Swedish clan mate, which she says accounts for the spelling, and also says that most people who know her in Entropia call her Nads for short. "This becomes an amusing situation though when on a crafting run and I see 'Go Nads' in chat," laughs Nadie.

It was on October 21, 2006 when Nadie first stepped foot into the Entropia Universe. For 10+ years, she had been playing FPS games with a squad called the Anti Infantry Army (-=AiA=-), and a few of the Swedish members had been playing Entropia. After talking her into downloading it, she entered Port Atlantis, and claims that she was totally hooked from that first night.




It seemed a natural progression of course to join the -=AiA=- society once she became a citizen of Calypso. However, her soc mates began playing less and Nadie found herself on her own the majority of the time, so decided to become a Freelancer. She claims that most of the -=AiA=- members are back playing again, and one in particular who goes by the name Kristoffer Larethania Strom is still very active.

A chance encounter with Neodav and Sorg at Jamhots Club 3G on her birthday led to an invite into the Vampires HQ (VHQ) society. "I made some great friends in this society," shares Nadie, "and still chat with them in-world and real life." Oki Teddy Dokie was the Leader of the soc at that time according to Nadie, and one of the funniest people she knows. "Amore’ Ted if you read this," says Nadie.

She found it a hard decision to leave VHQ, but felt it was time to move on. She joined the society Nomads of the Apocolypse (=NotA=) for a brief period of time, and while there were great and memorable people in the society that she still speaks to, they too were not quite as active at the time as she had hoped for, and it was time to move on to yet another society.

In January 2008, she met Ben Cobra Boner at the Treasure Island Central Trade Center, which led to them going on a few fun hunts together. It eventually garnered an invite into the Dark Knights society where she has been a member since February 2008. "Dark Knights is a great society," says Nadie, "and we have fun team hunts, and even more fun in society chat."

Influences

Nadie didn't have a mentor, but says she has met so many people in-world that have influenced and helped her. She would like to mention them all, but there would be far too many and has chosen just a few to acknowledge:
Professions

[wrap=right]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/3-nadiearmorweapon_907494.jpg[/wrap] From day one, Nadie claims she wanted to be a hunter. However, "After looting some materials and successfully crafting a pair of Basic Pattern Pants on the first click, I rather liked the idea of crafting," she says. The pants needed to be colored, and as others had realized, there weren't many colorers at the time, so she decided to give it a go herself. It eventually became her main profession, as well as texturizing when it was implemented.

She also kept up with crafting, mainly clicking amps. At one point, she had a shop selling OA and MA 101's-103's, and says she ended up clicking 8+ hours a day to keep it fully stocked.

[wrap=left]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/4a-nadiecraftingaths_416366.jpg[/wrap] It was "very very hard work," she says, especially on her wrist which was already suffering with Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). She has since learned that others within our community suffer from this injury as well.

However, in spite of the hard work, it was thanks to all those clicks that got her the 3 crafting ATHs.

Nadie now only crafts on the odd occasions when she has materials, and no longer does coloring or texturizing. Sometimes she will take a trip to CND for a few days of mining when she feels like a change.

While hunting is now her main profession, she also does taming, and has unlocked handling and taming of 5 pets at one time.




The Events Circuit

[wrap=right]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/6-nadie-cl-card.jpg[/wrap] Over the years, Nadie has taken part in various events, and like so many others, started off by participating in the Longumania and Ambulimania competitions that are hosted by the Hunters Unlimited society. She claims, "It made me become a bit of an event addict," because "This then led me into Pink Saturday and Global Madness (no longer running), which then turned into Champions League (CL) and World of Firepower (WoF)."

She shares that she's been fortunate enough to win a few events, and made it to a 2nd place position in Champions League so far. She has completed two full seasons of Champions League where she finished in 6th and 8th place over all, and as the 4th highest female avatar in the 2008 season, it resulted in her avatar being made into the Queen of Clubs for the Champions League deck of cards.

Last year, Nadie took part in her first WoF event, and was selected to represent England in the Main 12 team. She shares that it was a real honor to be chosen by England's Captain at the time, Oracle Kev FountofWisdom to lead England's Main 12 team in the Final. She said, "It was a great privilege, but also the most pressure I’ve felt in any competition in-world or in real life," and further states, "I was just so relieved after it was over, and even more so that we won!"

She definitely has the WoF bug, because she also participated in three rounds of the WoF Pro Series (WPS), and came in 1st in Round 2 as team "Sex on Ice" with Jenna Star Mercury, and 2nd in Rounds 6 and 10 as a solo entry.

Nadie also enjoys team hunts with her soc mates and others on Daspletors and Spiders, as well as the odd Beacon Mission. She was also absolutely delighted that she placed 3rd in the 2009 Miss Entropia Universe competition, which is now sponsored by MindArk.

Lending A Helping Hand

On occasion, Nadie engages in rescue missions that include running people out of a location when they are stuck, or if there are too many mobs, she will wormhole them back to safety. Her most recent mission was to kill a spider in the Omegaton West Trade Center.

[wrap=left]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/7-nadiewormholes_957191.jpg[/wrap] And speaking of wormholes, Nadie is known for helping new players get from one place to another as witnessed here and here. "The locations vary from Sweat Camp to Twin," says Nadie, and "the Rig if requested," but also includes Nea's as a point of travel, as well as getting people new teleporters. "These are always great fun to do," shares Nadie, and "I always try to help people out if they are in a sticky situation, or just need some advice." Nadie thanks the wormhole receivers as well, because without them, she wouldn't be able to do the wormholes.

Other Activities

Nadie has a few favorite mobs, but among them can be counted the Scipulor, Phasm, Hogglo, Aurli and Atrox (especially at the Rig). She shares that Kingfisher, Kreltin, and Sumima are definitely her nemesis when it comes to loot, and the ones she tends to avoid. Oh, and says she should also add the Furor as a favorite since her 15.9k HoF.

And speaking of favorite mobs, it seems she also has a periodic love affair with the almighty Spider, and ... I’m not talking about the itsy bitsy kind either based on her most recent birthday hunt on Tuesday, March 17th with fellow Dark Knights soc mates and other friends. The initial team consisted of the following members:




[wrap=right]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/9-nadiebdayhuntspider.jpg[/wrap] I tagged along to get video footage and can attest to the fact that the herd of Spiders harassed were of the higher maturity up to Stalkers. We all shared in the birthday spankings, but I left that out of the video of course. Throughout the hunt, many joined when they logged in, such as Mac (DK), Sorg (LFB), Princess (M2S), CG-63 (Freelancer), and even Jenna Star Mercury who popped into TeamSpeak with Nadie, Blood Moon and me, and gave the event a bit more flavor with his commentary. I can't tell you how much fun that was. No really ... I can't.

During the hunt, it seemed a couple of mobs got wind that it was Nadie's birthday, so they wanted to drop in to sing Happy Birthday to her. However, while the Tripudion didn't do half a bad job, the Foul's version was just … well, foul … and Moonie (Blood Moon) made short order of that to save our ears from the excruciating pain.




The birthday hunt turned out to be a wild adventure, as I'm sure you can imagine, and not without a few globals and two hofs. A video is presented at the end of this profile, and highlights some of the action that took place that kept the intensity level high.

An Entropia Perspective

It was around the time of VU 7.5 that Nadie began her Entropian life, and says that "There have been some good improvements, as well as some not so good additions." She shares that she was originally worried about the new avatar look after having spent so much time perfecting hers. She does say however, that for the most part, she prefers them now, commenting that, "I miss the facial expressions, and why can the men almost speak, yet the women haven’t seemed to evolve that far?," and further states that she would love even more emotes, "A ‘slap’ one could be really handy sometimes … lol."

She's also quick to say that the masks are great fun as well, and "can be used to give avatars some individuality so we don’t all look like Barbie and Ken … bring on the tattoos and piercings!"

There were good and bad elements with VU 9.0, and Nadie shares that the bad "almost made me quit EU, as overnight I went from having the 4 big colors left to unlock in coloring (dark wine, red, white, and black) and had to skill all over again on umber." It took her well over three months to re-unlock dark blue, which she had already unlocked once. She states that the good part of VU 9.0 was the adding of textures that give a new dimension to clothing and other things. And speaking of clothing, Nadie has quite the wardrobe, and shares that her Storm and Centurion coats are her pride and joy. You will be able to see many of her ensembles in the one woman fashion show video presented at the end of this profile.

Nadie admits that it can be a struggle at times to keep playing, especially when on a losing streak, so she can certainly understand why people get so frustrated with the loot. In times like these, she takes a step back and does some eco hunting, or turns to a different profession for a while.

There are quite a few things she would like to see implemented or improved, such as a much larger and better Friends List, as well as private messaging system. She says perhaps something along the lines of MSN where you can have groups, appear offline, and with other features. "There was nothing worse than when I was a colorer and got 20 PMs before my avatar finished rendering."

Nadie continues skilling taming, as an upgrade has been promised since before she joined EU in October 2006, and would like to see a usefulness for pets. She would also like to see farming and fishing introduced, as well as having special areas to hold events such as Capture The Flag (CTF) and Search & Destroy (S&D). Improving the event system is also on her list so that the Top 3 in an event is updated quicker, as well as being able to see the whole list of people in place order. She would like to see mining, pairs, and team hunting events, not to mention having a built-in screenshot capture that shows the time and coordinates. Then there's the improvement in the (L) FAP skill requirements. She has quite the wish list.

In the meantime, Nadie is looking forward to seeing what the CryEngine2 brings to Entropia, and hopes that "with all its prettiness, it won’t still be the same old grind." She says, "The Planet Partnerships look interesting," and "the Next Island video clips here and here look absolutely stunning with some things being offered that look quite intriguing. She would like to see MindArk start doing some serious publicity with all the major gaming websites after all this is implemented, and "not keep relying on the ‘word of mouth’ of the player base."

Nadie loves the fact that she can log into Entropia and have a multitude of things to choose from, "be that hunting, mining, crafting, pet taming, or even sweating in newbie undies at PA Sweat Camp," she says. She enjoys that she can just stand around and chat with friends and have a laugh without any pressure to do anything, but the main thing that keeps her involved in Entropia, "is the hope that MA/FPC will make EU what it can and should be by now," she states, but also shares, that above all else, it's the friendships she's made that keeps her coming back.

Advice To New Entropians

Most Entropians who have been around a while seem to have some sage advice for new players, and Nadie has quite the interesting list:
Her own newbie experiences include:She shares that the funniest thing that ever happened to her in EU (not as a newbie though) was this, and says, "I was literally crying with laughter when that happened."

On A Personal Note

Nadie turned 41 on March 17th, and lives in Somerset in the South West of England with her dog, a Springer Spaniel named Todd, a cat, 2 tame sheep, 1 horse, and 3 ponies. It seems that Nadie isn't the only one in the family who likes to hunt.




Horses are her main passion in life, and is not only a qualified riding instructor, but competes all over the UK in County Show Classes, which may account for the level of competitiveness she shows within Entropia.

[wrap=left]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/6/14-nadiehorse.jpg[/wrap] In the past, she has represented the South West Area Riding Clubs and Pony Clubs at the National Finals in Dressage, as well as coming in 5th in the Riding Club's Dressage to Music National Finals. She has also competed successfully in Show Jumping, Eventing, and Side Saddle classes.

With over 30 years of riding experience, Nadie has had a total of 10 ponies, 7 horses, "some good, some bad," she says, and the first pony she owned was with her for 22 years. Her first horse was with her for 21 years, and claims that "He was my horse of a lifetime." His name was Charlgrove Bezique, or Bezi (pronounced Bizzy) for short. Nadie says, "He was an incredible horse, and he is dearly missed."

She shares that, "He was an absolute star and total gentleman, but he very sadly had to be put to sleep at the age of 26 in 2006." He traveled all over the UK with Nadie, and was always in the ribbons at the top shows in at least two different classes.




There's another activity that Nadie enjoys when away from her horses and EU, and that's fly fishing. It was her father who has since passed that used to take her fly fishing and teach her the best techniques. Her best catch was a 16 pound Rainbow Trout which she still holds the reservoir record for after three years.




She also enjoys playing cards … "for money of course," she says, and "am in a card school." Seeing shows in the West End of London is fun, and claims that she's a collector of DVD Boxsets. She used to run her own website design business for about 8 years, but has given that up to concentrate on the horses and Entropia. You can see her signature designs here.

Nadie would love to travel more, but finds it a struggle with all the animals. However, she has been fortunate enough to travel to a few countries such as Barbados, Bermuda, Corfu, Cyprus, Spain, France, and Italy, not to mention two long trips to the USA where she traveled on her own by planes, trains and automobiles. She was also able to meet up with 18 of her -=AiA=- Squad mates in Sweden (photo included earlier).

Last year, she attended her first Entropia meet-up in London, and shares that she "was incredibly nervous about walking in and meeting everyone, but luckily, DannyO found me wandering the streets, so I didn't have to arrive alone." She states that she had a terrific time, and it was great to meet so many people both from the UK and abroad.




There's an opportunity coming up in late Summer, and "All being well," she says, "I shall be at the London meet this year in August, so I hope to meet a few more people there."

One thing is for sure, Nadie is quite the active individual, both in real life, as well as in Entropia. She enjoys many things, including chatting at Twin Peaks with an occasional "quick shoot in the ring," Nadie says, but one PK HoF left her sprawled a little unlady-like in the aftermath.

Whether Nadie is hanging out in some of her favorite places, like Oshiri, CND, Treasure Island (City and Central), or Twin Peaks, she at least knows how to relax when it's time to get away from it all, and has a special place where she goes to unwind. Although she says ... "It's probably not so good for my pale skin."




Nadie is an avid Entropia clothes collector, inspired by Skam as mentioned earlier. Here is a one-woman fashion show of just a portion of her wardrobe, and she continues to add to it.






On March 17th, Nadie celebrated her birthday by inviting soc mates and friends to join her in a Spider smack down. These were the monster Spiders that must have known that it was her birthday, because they were not discriminating in handing out the birthday spankings. Of course, being Nadie's birthday and all, I couldn't very well show those. Lorfat demonstrates his "run in place" skills, and there's an interesting interlude between Nadie and Star ... not to mention some nasty-ass Spiders meeting the business end of some pretty impressive weapons.






Special Thanks To ... MK Design once again for graphics assistance.



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GratZ! On making the FrontPage, Nads

And very well reported as always MS9.

Gratz on being a famous frontpager Nadie
Had a blast on that hunt, wish I had been in TS to join in on the drunken banter hehe.

As usual a slick production from MS9 with so much well put-together detail, thanks

Yeah great article MS9,
I never met nads but you sound like a nice , fun gal

reading this makes me feel like i am stalking a friend

::: runs off to have a drink::

Hawk by day, woman by night !
Partner, man by Day, wolf by night.
The eternal curse.

Loved that movie.

Great writeup MS9

Great person it seems, I have heard of her helping out others on occassion

Very funny too; this one made me laugh the most

• Thought turrets were MA watching us on cameras.

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hehe cute !

Great look Her avatar reminds me of Carrie-Anne Moss.
Trinity in the Matrix.

Nice story

nice story,but thats nothing new.

/Spikey

Yay, it's Nadie!

LadyHawke, awesome movie.
Nadie you got a SHITLOAD of clothes , some awesome Outfits there.

I like that you also like Horse and Dogs and other animals, just like me

: )

Gratz on making the headlines Nadie..

See you out in the bush again soon..

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cool story about the coolest chick !

Thx MS for writing a great article and Nadie for sharing !

Great biography MS9!

I really enjoyed reading about Nadie and her mini tribute is very well deserved!

Ahhhh we are digging into the less known characters

Me likes

Nice article as always!

wonderful article awesome.

Great person - great journalist!

great article

Thank you so much MS9 for selecting me for this WWW!

You put so much work into these articles and I loved every minute of the whole process. The TS session on that Spider Hunt will be one to remember for a long time!

Well you know your allways going 2 be the Lady in green for

Uknow i still have thouse printscreens from the noobs days on you Lady/nadieee hahaha , pay me and ill lockèm in on a secret place

no need to sit down in the WWW-thread, standing ovations for that great article!

Happy Birthday and all the best Nadie!

ty MS9 for this great thread for my lovely Nadie

Great article as always MS9, and Congrats to Nadie, well deserved.

Yay Nadie Sorry I missed birthday hunt but it was St Patrick's Day

I don't get the DK Lady's (inc Duke ) obsession with all these clothes. I only changed my underpants for first time last month

Thanks as always for your wonderful comments ... I love working on every profile that I produce, because each one brings a uniqueness of its own that makes it incredibly special.

This one was no different ... and I enjoyed the time spent getting to know more about an individual so multi-layered that I really couldn't fit it all in without blowin' your retinas out from a much longer read than it already is. I appreciate your indulgence as it is in my liberty to take up so much space in these profiles, but it wouldn't be doing the person justice without this type of expansion, because telling their stories is so much more than just a walk in the park.

To FJRMac ... it would have been nice for you to join us in TeamSpeak during the spider hunt, because I think you would have agreed that it probably would rank as one of the most memorable sessions you might have had. It wasn't just the fact that Star joined us, but the overall craziness that was going on that kept us laughing constantly. Moonie is quite the comic himself, and of course, Star's colorful commentary made it all that more out there. It's been a while since our TS chat with Deathifier during the Furor deployment, so maybe we can work it in again sometime during another crazy DK hunt.

To Star ... thank you for taking the time to join the birthday party spider hunt and making it fun, but also for bringing your crazy-ass self into the TeamSpeak chat with us ... it was a nutbar session for sure, but most enjoyable. You were a delight, and an absolute sweetheart in the end for logging in and out to accommodate a couple of things we wanted to get done ... especially being the receiver of the wormhole that Nadie created. Oops ... did I ruin your reputation?

To Moonie ... thanks for bringing your big weapon to the birthday party (oops, did I just say that ) ... also for being such an elegant meat shield, but ... we all pretty much got birthday spankings in this intense event, over and over again, but that was mostly from the Stalkers that Nadie said seemed to be handing out a lot of high crits. It's not too often we see ubers splattered all over the terrain.

MAYbe ... I might consider doing another video called ... "The Uber Smack Down" ... ... maybe, maybe not ... I don't wanna find myself on some hit list if I happen to be filming in a PvP zone. You always make it fun too Moonie, so thank you.

To Dark Knights and Friends ... it's always a party when I spend time with you guys, so thank you again for helping to make Nadie's birthday party, and profile process a fun thing, it's much appreciated.

Nadie said:

Thank you so much MS9 for selecting me for this WWW!

You put so much work into these articles and I loved every minute of the whole process. The TS session on that Spider Hunt will be one to remember for a long time!

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To Ms Queen of Clubs (Nadie) ... what can I say girlfriend ... what an absolute star you are indeed. I can't tell you how much I SO enjoyed this journey with you, and ... what impressed me the most is how humble, helpful, sweet, and incredibly genuine you are. Let me also thank you straight away for all the work you did in helping to pull this profile together. Providing not only a crapload of photos, but links as well, made my job a whole lot easier, and less that I had to research.

You're right about one thing ... the TeamSpeak session will not be one soon forgotten, especially after the birthday hunt was over and Star left you, Moonie and I to ourselves. I can't remember when I laughed so hard as when we attempted after the hunt to do the fashion show footage. You my dear were funny as hell trying to walk that runway under the influence. After several attempts, with you almost falling off the edges, we scrapped it and rescheduled for Friday, but not before we laughed our asses off. Thanks for the fun.

Oh, and one more thing ... you're going to need more storage boxes, trunks, and maybe safes to keep that insane wardrobe ... especially after telling me in an email that you just created a new stunning outfit.


Thanks for the fun my dear ... you are one special lady indeed, and well deserving of being recognized.


As a sidenote ... I have a new profile scheduled for April 8th that is already in production, and one scheduled for April 22nd.



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Awesome article! Thans a lot!!

Gosh I told you it's honor to meet you mate Should have believed me

Happy a happy birthday my friend!

Another great article!

As another thank you ... I just can't put into words how much I appreciate my graphics partner of late who just seems to nail my concepts right out the gate. We work like a well-orchestrated symphony together, and he's incredibly dependable despite our time zone differences.

Thank you MK Design ... your time and effort is invaluable to me, and ... I am SO happy that you will be burning the midnight oil with me this Friday in order to get the Letomie deployment event article to the Front Page as quickly as possible. I'm looking forward to it.

MindStar9 said:

As another thank you ... I just can't put into words how much I appreciate my graphics partner of late who just seems to nail my concepts right out the gate. We work like a well-orchestrated symphony together, and he's incredibly dependable despite our time zone differences.

Thank you MK Design ... your time and effort is invaluable to me, and ... I am SO happy that you will be burning the midnight oil with me this Friday in order to get the Letomie deployment event article to the Front Page as quickly as possible. I'm looking forward to it.

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Right on, looking forward to friday

Nice article

Yayyy Nadie
Definatly a worthy WWW!

Great read Ms9, this is definatly one of my favs you've done! Nadie's kickass!


And not bc Im mentioned.. btw:

Skam – "for her extensive wardrobe and inspiring me to become a fellow clothes collector," says Nadie.

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Ive said this to my soc for 'inspiring' them too, and I guess it should be said here aswell: Im sorry