Gamer Babe: GM Nirvelli

Name: Edverlyn B
Currently Traveling USA, Japan and Philippines
Born: USA but Proud Pinoy from Paranaque

GM T: tell me a little something about yourself.
Nirvelli: I’m a manga enthusiast, Italian food and animal lover and a fan of both PC and online games
GM T: how did you get into gaming? Isn’t that rare for a girl?
Nirvelli: I lived with my male cousins as a kid my dad every Xmas would get us the latest Nintendo console games and we would play Mario 1 and 3, pabilisan sa unlimited life. Then come college my best friend introduced me to Diablo 1. I got instantly hooked. Since I was tomboyish in nature, liking video games and stuff became natural for me
GM T: So how did your girl friends react to this?
Nirvelli: They found it weird, since I wasn’t like normal girls who liked to play with dolls and stuff, I really enjoyed playing RPG. But when I introduced them to Silent Hill they too told me they have been harboring the desire to play video games too. In high school, me and my barkada would sleep at the house just to play Silent hill without saving for 11 hours straight
GM T: without saving? why?
Nirvelli: We played at 7pm at night till wee hours of morning. We just wanted to do it hardcore, see how we girls can play it really extreme and get the A ending. It was fun too because one would read the map, the other shoots and may isang taga sigaw.We took rotations too.
GM T: kewl!
GM T: anyways... most people know you as GM Nirvelli. Tell me how you became a pRO GM?
Nirvelli: I was still taking my MBA degree then, I was also a freelance writer for Women Today magazine for the teen section. They asked me to do an article on girl hobbies and I decided to make an article about the game of a friend of mine. Little did I know that friend of mine was secretly GM Preator. So he told me, if I play the game he would grant me the interview. Long story short, I became one of the first beta testers in pRO back in 2003 and after I graduated from school, Gm Preator bugged me for months to apply for the GM-ship. Basically that’s where I started. I was lucky too since an old schoolmate of mine - Sumire was working there as well.
GM T: Baka crush ka ni Preator. Hehe. Anyways, what is your most unforgettable pRO "moment", bloopers, etc?
Nirvelli: we used to have a GM race for the night shift. Before the shift ended, all GM's will go to Aldebaran and just race. GM Sumire and GM Lilith would always beat me
GM T: ahh the good old days, eh. Now, where do you work? And what do you do there?
Nirvelli: I worked for SCEA (Sony Computer Electronic Arts) for a while and I did game testing for a couple of the PS2 games and PSP as well. After that I moved on to the Construction companies, I work for the equivalent of Meralco here in California but I’m also a moderator currently for the Ragnaboards.
GM T: Sweet! What PS2 and PSP titles did you test?
Nirvelli: The best would be Shadow of the Colossus. It’s from the same creators of ICO. Basically the character has to defeat a number of colossi to obtain the power to resurrect his loved one.
GM T: Yeah! I played that... great game. Wow! A real-life, girl beta tester (who gets paid). Kaiingit. Final words for our readers?
Nirvelli: RoK on!!! and cant wait to be physically there to be with my LUG family again. Also kids dont forget to eat your veggies. Lolz

SHORTS

Favorite Job: Wizard and Priest
Favorite Skill: Lord of vermillion
Favorite Monster: Evil Nymph
Favorite RO map or area: GM land ( Discovery by GM Hector and GM Sumire)
Favorite Weapon: hmmm tough one Wing Staff and Book of Apocalypse
Cutest headgear for you and why? Preator gave me a Bunny band I like that, or bao bao. I just want to look feminine in those things
(complete the sentence) If I were the most powerful being in pRO I would:
Wow, I would like to make a new GM wars or something. But I would literally would like to eliminate all the bots in the game. And also mosnter summoning for every one ( Monster summon trigger happy GM) and eliminate all jologs...sorry too many male cousin na Jologs.
Song genre you love: I discovered I liked Choral Music jsut lately, j-pop
3 songs in your mp3 player? How to save a life by The Fray, Love Show by Skye and Kiss me Goodbye by Angela Aki
Movies you watched recently: 300, the Grudge, Sense and Sensibility
Books you recently read: Harry Potter Series, All Clamp Manga Im a die Hard fan of CLAMP Photo above: with the pRO GM Team

Thanks for your time, GM Nirvelli! Best of luck and take care always..

GM T