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Super fast late late Saturday post.

Life was nuts friday. We managed to purchase a new mount for our RL-avitars. Apparently in RL you can get mounts that seat 7. Anyways the process took all day friday and involved a lot of re-budgetting. Saturday was also nuts but we managed to sneak in some playing time late. Serayamuij is now level 14. Dammerung will be played on monday at some point. I think right now I am going to split my playtime like this: Sera on the weekends(friday/sat/sun) when the server(emerald dream) is busy. Dammerung on Mon-thursday. Ravenserver is never busy and always lets me straight in. Which is nice. Horde owns that server though. Every alliance town was hit this saturday. Everything flagged....died in the smaller towns. Not sure how the SW/IF/DN raids went. Well thats it. Lack of playing generally = lack of posting for us. Tomorrow we'll try and rectify this with multi posts!

On playing a female gnome.

Wow, this has been harder than I thought. Everytime I finish a quest and help some bugger of a derf, I have this moment where I think, "What am I doing? I shouldn't be doing this... I"M ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS. Why am I helping the Alliance?". And the poor Trolls in their ice cave. I had to slaughter them for no reason other than the fact that some dwarf lost his notebook. So icky. So evil. So this is what it is like when you are playing and this is your 'toon' and not 'you'. I mean. Dammerung is me. I am Dammerung. I'm an orc. I like axes. I fish. Serayamuij. She is not me. I control her. She's a gnome. She fishes. I mean I like her. She's cute. I wish she wouldn't help out the baby-eaters so much, but hey you have to get xp where you can. Also, I'm still working on her story. I mean other than this blurb: "Hi! I'm Seraymuij. I'm an alchemist. I use magic to melt down bodies for their components then I use the components

On tattoos and WOW

My name is 'Wulfa. And I think there should be tattooing allowed in Azeroth. I already got mine outside, can't tell ya how or I'd have to kill ya, so I'm all set. It's those other orcs I'm advocating for. It's a rite of passage, a passage of pain, which we orcs enjoy. Oh alright, other races would jump for the chance to put themselves under the needle. But there's some things you ought to know 'fores you get a tattoo. First, think about it. If you're not man-orc or woman-orc enough to not squeal when the pigment is being etched into your skin, do us orcs a favor and don't do it. You'll disgrace us all. Second, think carefully about what design you want. That hot orc-mama named GnomeSlayer might like you now, but what about a season from now? Do you want her name etched on you for all eternity? Thirdly, choose your artist carefully. You go in thinking your arm's gonna say "I love mom" and it comes out saying "I love wow&

Twice in one day . . .

So I make fun of Dammy when he posts more than once. And here I am, doing it AND posting over him. But I had the urge to play a dwarf again. It's all BBB's fault and his discussion of beauty and Mr. Eco and it got me thinking of my first dwarf character and how cool she was . . . so I created a pretty dwarf hunter (pike was right-there never can be enough hunters). A guild was inviting to their ranks and the invite sounded grown-up and professional so I requested additional info. The person inviting wanted to meet me in person which I've not had happen before (well, the guild 'Wulfa's in is a group of gaming friends who've been around forever and Dammy knew them so I was an automatic in). anyway, long story short I was impressed, they let me join, and I have a cool new hunter. In a cool guild with a cool name. On the server Ravenholdt. I chose that server at random because the name was pretty and I thought I had heard the name mentioned before . . . who is on ra

On whimpering, pvp, and tactics. In a rambly way.

Where to start... Lets start here: I don't mind getting ganked. I really really don't. I do mind getting ganked 3 times straight by the same person right after corpse runs but who doesn't? But I want to clarify that if your dear level 70 comes along and see's me. I EXPECT to die, I'm on a PVP server. If there was a /whimper, though I could go ghostwolf form, /dance /sleep /whimper and you'd feel bad and pat me or /chicken me and you would wander away. Sort of like a feign death in PVP. And if not... well like I said I was expecting to die. To me this is just another weapon. Why not /wave or /kiss? Because too many times I see people use those emotes as combat openers. And I don't want any suggestion of a threat. I'm a wolf showing my belly to a bigger wolf hoping he'll just go away. As for PVP with people who are not 10+ levels higher than me. Like multiple people have commented.... 90% of the time the winner is the person who se

Wee! My turn!

So I'm going to share my thoughts on killing the Alliance. Remember the British army's reluctance to switch their fighting style when guns came into vogue? It just wasn't as honorable as their swords. Or the Confederate army's reluctance to deploy guerrilla tactics like Longstreet wanted them to because it wasn't honorable? I'm just like the British and the old-style Confederate generals. There's honorable, and then there's the new- fangled tactics that just don't smell right. But I have to share a story to illustrate how this subject came up twixt Dammy and myself. Dammy had to run through Stranglethorn . Orclette was asleep so I volunteered myself to be his escort. We were killing the animals that got in our way (we were staying off the beaten path 'cause of the massive amounts of alliance) and we come upon a lvl 36 dwarf hunter. He was just finishing off his prey, his mana was low, his pet was not near to hand. I didn't even conside

Another Ding.

Ding 39. If I get lucky I'll break 40 before wulfa levels again and I'll have a glance at her before she vanishes into a cloud of xp. I now have all but my hands/chest/wrist already pre-purchased for level 40. I adore the Badlands. This zone was hand carved for me by whoever hand carves things for orcs. Its perfect. I made about 20-30g just xping, well if everything sells like auctioneer says I did. But thats life. This is tech-nik-gobliny a Tuesday post so tomorrow you won't see me posting. Only wulfa. Cus she's smart and pretty. And smexy and awesome and maybe she'll read this before she does her morning auctioning and buy me that blue jazzerite chest piece that I want that is so expensive. :P Anyways, g'night hordies! FOR THE HORDE! AND PONIES! Dammerung P.S. yay I found out: Mac OS X Version 10.4. 10 11 I think this is 'tiger'. Because I'm thinking leapard is 10.5. I could be wrong.

RSS feeds?

One among many posted an awesome ode to our dead car. I thought so anyways. And then I noticed I had not added her to my blog roll. That shall be rectified. Kestrel posted something about RSS feeds. I read it. I felt bad. I went to change my Rolling Supper Soaker's feed line and realized... I had no clue what he was talking about. So someone needs to enliven me, please ;p. What is an RSS feed? Who do you feed it to? Does it come in purple? Tomorrow I think we'll post the PVP post. At least I hope to. I'm really really sad about the Ghostwolf being no longer tameable . And I'm not a hunter. I just thought it was awesome and cool. /sigh I've got shoulders, belt, legs, and a level 30 mail helmet so far. We've given up on the "specific" set gear, and are going for str/mail gear. I've also gotten one of two 'greater scythe of str'(level 35 + 7 str onehanded). Apparently at level 40 all mail drops as eagle, gorrilla, monkey, wolf. /Sigh. Still

Regarding the weekend

Car is still dying. But we had ice cream, which makes life good. Was very disappointed with weekend at work because I have no new stories to tell. Usually I get at least one funny thing that happened or I said something but no, nothing. Just my car breaking down on me. I barely played WOW this weekend. 'Wulfa is currently hanging out in the Swamp of Sorrows because the dragon-thingies there drop worn dragonscales and green dragonscales occasionally, both of which I need. I've gotten attacked twice by the nice ?? elite dragon that flies SLOWLY and LAZILY around (so slowly) but only died once-my feign death fooled him. And there's too much green. And it's depressing. But I got the worn dragonscales for my leatherworking quest so woot! Now I have to farm a gajillion scorpid thingies to get my scorpid scales . . . I need 40 and about 1/6 or 7 drop the scorpid scale. I know I could buy it (and I might end up doing that) but it feels like cheating. The dude asked

A Real Life Adventure

So my noble bookstore is an hour away from where we live. Our vehicle has been giving signs of impending doom but it had so far kept running. I work the closing shift on Sundays so we're not out of the store until 11 p.m. Started my car and it felt funny. Got onto the highway and realized that it wasn't shifting. Figured it was due to the cold and so pulled off to a gas station, stopped and then restarted the car. During this time period I had been on the phone with Dammy but had kept myself calm. Have I mentioned that all the crappy car stuff has happened to me while I'm by myself or with Orclette? Bah. So anyway restarting the car wasn't helping and I was envisioning being stuck on the side of the road all by myself in the deep darkness that is my road home. So I let notes of panic creep into my voice so Dammy would take me seriously, that I COULD NOT drive all the way home and that he needed to wake up his brother and have him come get me. So brother was w