Monthly Archives: May 2012

Chat log’d

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I’ve been sinking a lot of time into Earth Online this week, so I figured I’d toss up another one of these logs from <Warchief> guild chat. We’ve been getting some new members joining, so that’s good, although now that it’s not just a bunch of people I know in real life, I’m having to be a little more careful about RL info. You know how it is. Actually, you probably don’t, seeing as most of you aren’t famous and important and shit like I am. Anyway, point being, I figure it will save us all some headaches in-game if everyone doesn’t know I’m Garrosh, or Sylvanas is Sylvanas, or…well, we’re the only ones who really matter, honestly. But you get the point.

 

You have logged on.

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Dammit!

[Guild][Metzen] UGH

[Guild][Proudleslie] well at least we were closer that time

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] hey chief

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Hey

[Guild][Metzen] did you get all the interrupts there?

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah, I did.

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] greetings sir

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Hey Gil

[Guild][Metzen] are you sure? it looked like he got one off at the end right when livin & i died

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] No, I got all of them.

[Guild][Metzen] it’s not showing up in the logs

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Let’s just finish running back, and we can argue about it later.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] What are you guys running?

[Guild][Proudleslie] heroic cc

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] ComicCon heroic

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Last boss

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Ah, okay, the comic dealer guy is kind of tough

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] So we’re finding.

[Guild][Metzen] yeah

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] All right, let’s get healed up and rebuffed.

[Nightengayle | Garona] has logged on.

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] hey gayle

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] hello nighten

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] ugh thank goodness

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] What’s wrong?

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] It’s you guys and the new people in there, right?

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] I got hacked

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] oh damn

[Guild][Metzen] oh yikes that sucks

[Officer][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] not me

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Me, Mokvar, Metzen, and Proudleslie, yes.

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Right, I didn’t mean you, Spaz

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] did you lose anything, gayle?

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] don’t think so

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] looks like they restored everything

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] How are they doing?

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] Not bad.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] but I don’t think whoever hacked me was trying to steal stuff

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] why?

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Fairly well, I’d say.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] well my toon is stuck out here in the middle of nowhere

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] egypt I think

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] weird

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] Metzen’s a little pull-happy, seems like he just can’t stand to wait a couple seconds to start a new fight.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] The paramedic isn’t playing *badly*, although she seems to have kind of a low active time.

[Guild][Metzen] yeah that is odd

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] and if they just wanted to steal my stuff you would figure they’d have me parked by a post office

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] hmm yeah

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I’m not sure if she’s just learning a new rotation or distracted or what.

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] do you want me to do a little looking for you?

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] sure

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] But they’re staying out of the bad and stuff like that?

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] As far as I can tell, yeah.

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] kk I’m going to e-mail you with a couple pieces of info I’ll need you to look up for me, then I can poke around a little

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] ok

[Guild][Metzen] oh damn, badcrumble’s like some master computer guy huh?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Dude, you have no idea

[Guild][Metzen] maybe he’s the one that hacked her haha

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Okay, let’s try this again.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Nah, he wouldn’t do that

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Plus he would be too busy reading comic books or something

[Guild][Metzen] haha nerd

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] …

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Heh… Yeah maybe, but he’s our nerd

[Guild][Metzen] lol

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Metzen, attention over here now please.

[Guild][Metzen] ok

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Let me know how it goes this time through

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] I know that fight can be a pain in the ass

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Good luck

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Thanks.

[Dranosh | Utvoch] has logged on.

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] hey guys

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] um…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] wtf

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] …

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Dude

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] ?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] What the hell is up with your name?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] damn your an idiot

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] oh yeah i did a paid name change

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah, I get that

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] figured i might as well get rid of the generic name and get a real one

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Right, and that’s fine

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] that’s not the point

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] But THAT name?

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] yeah

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] NOT COOL, dude

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] totally not cool

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] um ok?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] /headdesk

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] sigh

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] NO

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] It is NOT “ok”

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] what’s wrong with this name?

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] it means heart of draenor in orcish

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT IT FUCKING MEANS

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] do you not know whose name that is?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] really really not cool

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] that’s really disrespectful

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] do you like know someone with this name?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] head

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] desk

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Um, YEAH

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] you think he would mind or something?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] And he was killed by the Lich King

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] he died

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] OH

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] crap

[Guild][Proudleslie] damnit

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] BAH

[Guild][Metzen] fuckkkk

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] ok ok i’ll go change it back

[Guild][Dranosh | Utvoch] be back later

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] still no luck?

[Dranosh | Utvoch] has logged off.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Well they’re not talking to…never mind

[Guild][Proudleslie] no

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] What’s killing you?

[Guild][Metzen] hey was that guys toon named after saurfangs kid?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah

[Guild][Metzen] that’s totally not cool

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] INORITE?

[Guild][Metzen] lights sake

[Guild][Metzen] I dont know what the hell is wrong with some people

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I’m not sure. It’s the same as last time; we seemed to be doing fine, and then the whole attempt fell apart.

[Guild][Metzen] i have a son myself, and if something happened to him i would be PISSED if someone went around using his name

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah, I can imagine, Metzen

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Not cool at all

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah, the boss just started one-shotting everyone.

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I think it’s some kind of enrage.

[Guild][Proudleslie] its really frustrating

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Anyway

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] You’re using the superhero buffs, right?

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah.

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Yes.

[Guild][Proudleslie] if you want to swap me out for a better healer I’ll understand

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] I’m getting the utility belt, LivinDead is getting the golden lasso

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I don’t think it’s a healing issue, Leslie.

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Metzen’s getting the green power ring

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] who has the web shooters?

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Wrong faction.

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] That’s one of the other faction’s buffs.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] oh

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] lol in my other guild we do the marvel ones

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Okay, so you’ve got the buffs covered

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] You know what to do when he casts Zero Hour, right?

[Guild][Metzen] run out

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Get away from him till he finishes channeling, yeah.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Well yeah, run out

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Oh wait a minute

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Are we missing something?

[Guild][Proudleslie] mmmm yea you like when I do that?

[Guild][Proudleslie] oops sorry mistell!

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] …

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] wut

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] um

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] OKAY MOVING ON

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I suppose that might account for her low active time…

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] Just watch, she’s a human…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] So yeah, you have to get out when he’s casting, but then you’ve got to get back to where you started the fight and retrace your steps

[Guild][Metzen] huh

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Ah, I think I’ve heard of this mechanic.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] It’s kind of a dance

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I just didn’t realize it was this fight.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah, basically the game remembers all your movements for each cycle

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Any time you make a mistake retracing your steps, you get this stacking debuff called Retcon

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] So every time the comic dealer does the Zero Hour reset, you have to get back to where you started

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] If your Retcon debuff stacks too high, his Nerdrage timer goes off and yeah, pretty much wipes the group right off

[Guild][Metzen] ahhh

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] This makes a lot more sense now.

[Guild][Proudleslie] it doesnt seem too hard

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Must…resist…easy…joke

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] haha

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] -sigh- Men.

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Okay, rebuff and let’s get this done.

[Guild][Metzen] kk

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] hey gayle, still there?

[Lorthemar] has logged on.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] yes

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] so I did a little tracing on the logins for your account

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] you’re not going to believe this

[Guild][Lorthemar] Greetings, all!

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] what?

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] hi lorthemar

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] hey whos the new guy?

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] well I think I’ve tracked down who the hacker was

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] It wasn’t Sylvanas, was it? Please tell me it wasn’t Sylvanas

[Officer][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] actually since he brought it up, who IS the new guy?

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Friend of Sylvanas

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] …

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] who?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] the new guy, lorthemar

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] no not that who

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] the hacker who

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] the hacker who what?

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] check this out

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] The hacker who HACKS YOUR SKULL INTO LITTLE TINY BITS if you don’t SHUT UP

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] I’m pretty sure your account was hacked by brann bronzebeard

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] sorry sir

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] omg

[Guild][Lorthemar] Brann Bronzebeard, the explorer?

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] wow thats fucked up

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] No, Brann Bronzebeard the district attorney. OF COURSE the explorer

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] yeah, I double and triple checked on this

[Guild][Lorthemar] Oh wow.

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] the suspicious logins were all coming in through a wireless network very few people use

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] since when is brann bronzebeard a hacker?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Oh, man, that dude could NEVER resist poking around places he doesn’t belong

[Metzen] has earned the achievement [Heroic: Comic Con]!

[LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] has earned the achievement [Heroic: Comic Con]!

[Bartleby | Mokvar] has earned the achievement [Heroic: Comic Con]!

[Proudleslie] has earned the achievement [Heroic: Comic Con]!

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] grats!

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] grats

[Guild][Lorthemar] Congratulations, all!

[Guild][Metzen] whew

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Well that was much easier.

[Guild][Proudleslie] woot!

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] And of course…he drops teacher gear.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Oh dammit!

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] lol

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] anyway gayle, I’ll send you what I found in case you want to contact support about it

[Guild][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] The itemization is far from ideal, but I might take it to play around with for off-sepc.

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] ok thanks

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Sure, all yours.

[Guild][Metzen] its just a pawn shop voucher to the rest of us

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Anyway, though, grats guys

[Guild][Proudleslie] ty pwn! =)

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Thanks.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] See, all you needed was the intervention of my SUPREME BRILLIANCE

[Guild][Metzen] oh good, now he’s going to be even more full of himself

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] lol

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] oh you have no idea

[Guild][Metzen] hey speaking of which

[Guild][Metzen] how many guild leaders does it take to change a light bulb?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Oh boy, here we go

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] haha

[Guild][Lorthemar] How many?

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Thanks for the help, though, Garrosh, really.

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] No biggie

[Guild][Metzen] just one – he holds it still, and the whole world revolves around him

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] haha

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] lol

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Fuck you, Metzen

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] i dont get it

[Guild][Metzen] lmao

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Haha

[Guild][Metzen] just kidding – I’m kind of in charge at my job irl so I know what a pain it can be

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah, it’s cool

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] I mean, joking around is cool

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Being in charge of stuff not so much sometimes

[Guild][Metzen] yeah but then, who knows what idiot would be making a mess of everything otherwise

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Hmm.

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] I like this guy.

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah, he seems pretty good.

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Hmm what?

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Oh nothing.

[Guild][Metzen] anyway i should probably get going

[Guild][Metzen] need to go pick my son up at the priest trainers

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Just a passing thought.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Huh.

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] k metzen

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] cya

[Officer][Bartleby | Mokvar] What?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Later man

[SteveKravitz | Utvoch] has logged on.

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Why are you being all cryptic all of a sudden

[Guild][Lorthemar] Farewell!

[Metzen] has logged off.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Never mind, don’t mind me.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Probably nothing.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] brb

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] no I’m just logging on now

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] hey man

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] um…yeah you are

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] why the ‘no’?

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] someone said farewell when i came on

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Have you people seriously not figured out not to ask him to explain when he says something fucked up?

[Guild][Lorthemar] That was me, but I wasn’t talking to you.

[Guild][Lorthemar] That was for Metzen.

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] oh

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] oh ok

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] oh hey are you new?

[Guild][Lorthemar] Um…not really.

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] huh ok

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] so anyway i changed my name back

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] obviously

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] so yeah that was some wasted gold

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] probably for the best, though

[Guild][Proudleslie] mmmmmm yea shoot it all over me

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] yeah i guess

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] omg

[Guild][Proudleslie] omg so so so sorry mistell!!

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] …

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] lol wut

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] HEY HEY HEY HEY

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] TAKE THAT SHIT TO SECOND AZEROTH IF THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO DO

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] what did i miss

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Wow…just…wow.

[Guild][Proudleslie] soooooo sorry!!!

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] you want us to answer that chronologically or in order of magnitude?

[Officer][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] The fuck is wrong with people, seriously

[Proudleslie] has logged off.

[Officer][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] Welcome to the internet…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Okay so on THAT note

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] no seriously what did i miss

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] I should get going in a minute. I need to help my mom with something

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] ok boss

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] ya i was just helping ur mom with something

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah, because

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] um…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Hold it

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] …

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Oh no

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Hang on a minute

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] ok so even i know that was kind of dumb

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] So I realize that “ha ha I fucked your mom ha ha” jokes are like the bread and butter of chat line retards all over the internet

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] is it weird that I’m not even in the same room as him and I’m seriously looking for something to hide behind?

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] But usually when you say that shit, you’re not saying it to, you know, somebody who KNOWS WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] lol

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Right there with ya, Spaz.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] and can GET THERE in like TEN MINUTES

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] lol

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] sorry sir

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] wont happen again

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Yeah you better believe it won’t, fuckwit

[Guild][Lorthemar] Please don’t take offense, but are you all sure you’re really friends?

[Guild][Lorthemar] Because, well…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] No, not at all

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Welcome to the guild, by the way. Not sure if we’ve properly met

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] i think he just joined

[Guild][Lorthemar] Um…

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] ANYWAY, as I was saying

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] My mom’s been saying she’d like to go to Grom’s monument in Ashenvale

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] And I’ve got a bunch of stuff I need to get done here the next couple days

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Yeah, that makes sense if she hasn’t been there.

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] But I’m going to try to clear things out so we can take a trip over there during the weekend

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] So I should probably go take care of some of that

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] kk boss, see you later

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] back

[Guild][Nightengayle | Garona] cya

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] l8r sir

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] sorry again

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] bye sir

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Later people

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] And Dontrag

[Guild][GilbertRose | Dontrag] yes sir

[Guild][Omgipwnedurface | Garrosh] Sleep lightly

[Guild][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] haha

[Guild][SteveKravitz | Utvoch] pwned lol

[Guild][Bartleby | Mokvar] Take it easy, chief.

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] Spazzle, did you say you can track IP addresses from logins?

[Officer][MrBadcrumble | Spazzle] yup

[Officer][LivinDeadGrl | Sylvanas] I’d like you to check something for me if you don’t mind.

You have logged off.

 

Memento from Children’s Week

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Just a quick post today.

What with Children’s Week just finishing up here in Orgrimmar, I thought I’d toss a picture up here for everyone. Gurtash has been by a few times during the week – what with me being busy all of a sudden with family stuff, he’s been putting in a little extra time helping take care of Mortimer.

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He was at Grommash Hold a couple days a go when Spazzle was also dropping by, so I had Spazzle use one of his nerdy photographic doohickeys to get a shot for us.

Then he got his ass back to the toxic-waste-smelling goblin slums, and Gurtash got back to work sweeping up the droppings from Mortimer’s pen out back.

Good day overall.

 

Oops

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A little piece of handy advice to all of you, so you can maybe avoid repeating some of my mistakes. If you have older relatives who aren’t really aware of the internet, and they seem pretty content to carry on not knowing much about it, seriously, don’t try to bring them into the digital age. Yeah, there might be that one site you know of that they might find interesting. Doesn’t matter. Think big picture. It will only bring you pain.

My mom was dimly aware of the internet, I mean she knew what it was, pretty much, and had heard of some of the major things like Facebook and Twitter and ebAH. And so I had the bright idea that I could sit her down and show her how to navigate. Hoo boy, was that a bad idea.

You know, when you’re below a certain age, you really forget that things like folder hierarchies, left clicking, right clicking, double clicking, point-and-fucking-clicking are just kind of things you’ve internalized because you pretty much grew up with them. Having to explain them to someone who doesn’t quite get how a mouse works? Crap. It’s like, do you need me to talk you through using a fork, too?

I mean I love my mom and I’m glad she’s back and all, but… Ugh.

Also while I was showing her the web, I had the bright idea to show her the blog as an example, and she was all happy that I’m still writing, but…now she knows about the blog. So now I’m going to have to be thinking of my mother looking in here and worrying about if I should be watching my fucking language or some shit like that.

Crap.

 

Polyphonic pro moronic

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After my trip up to Hyjal a few weeks ago – the Twilight’s Hammer crackdown part, not the grabby dryad part – things have quieted down some up there, but there’ve still been a few random Twilight flare-ups here and there. Mostly they seem to have gotten fewer and farther between, but every so often I’ve been getting reports of them turning up again. Usually the reports end with them promptly getting smacked down by our people.

I just got another heads-up from Stonetalon. First the basic information itself: Dontrag and Utvoch (of course) were making a scouting sweep around Battlescar Valley, doing a little followup on the skirmishes we’ve had there with Alliance forces, when they ran into another one of the faceless ones we’d found down around Thal’darah Grove. It must have been the runt of the faceless litter, because D&U were able to smack it down pretty easily, but they decided to have an extra look around the area. A rare non-retarded move by those two, I know. It happens.

Turns out, this was creepily close to the makeshift graveyard that we’d set up in the valley after everything that had gone down there some months back. They found a few signs that someone had been poking around there, but the main disturbing news item was that one of the graves had been dug up – specifically, former General Grebo. (Okay, I’m not sure why I felt the need to call him “former General” – I mean yeah, he ended up dying in disgrace and relinquished his rank as a result, but, I mean, he’s dead. He’s pretty much “former” everything.) Someone had dug up Grebo’s grave. It was empty. I’m not sure I want to think about what they want with his remains, but when your best case scenario is that someone decided to Calder Gray it up, that can’t be a happy thing. I may get Krog up there to do some checking around.

Anyway, that’s the basic information itself, which obviously isn’t fun. But on top of it, the news came to me from D&U themselves, which tells you right there that just GETTING the update was even LESS fun. Because I think I’ve just discovered ANOTHER down side to the whole Earth Online situation – the two of them decided to deliver this little tidbit to me IN TELLS while I was ON THE GAME. Which, first of all, that’s supposed to be my down time, to relax. Second of all, there are actually OFFICIAL CHANNELS they could use to report things, which would not involve intruding on the aforementioned down time, and, you know, distracting me with WTF news while I’m trying not to die to an elite. And then, just to finish off, the pickle on the crap sandwich of the whole situation if you will, the TWO of them decided they were going to deliver the news by BOTH getting into whispers with me, INDIVIDUALLY, at the SAME TIME.

Read that again. Once more. Now think about that. Are your ears bleeding yet? No? Read it one more time then. Now think about it some more.

See?

Do you have ANY IDEA how frustrating it is to try to drag a story out of TWO mental defectives SIMULTANEOUSLY, on the same topic, while trying to keep straight which idiot has told you what, and half the time it’s all you can do to keep straight which one of them is which? It’s like fucking moron stereo with extra reverb, turned up to eleven.

I think I need to roll an alt.

 

Children’s Week

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Ever since I got that letter from my mother a couple weeks ago, I’ve been thinking a lot about the old days in Nagrand. Like I’ve mentioned a few times already, I used to keep a journal back then. About a week ago, before I left for Nagrand, I pulled it out again, and I’ve been paging through now and then.

I don’t know if any of you have had the experience, but it’s funny reading things you wrote so long ago that you don’t even remember writing them. It’s like this weird ping pong game between “Oh crap, I wrote that? Was I ever really that stupid?” and “Hey, that sounds really smart, who wrote that?” I know, I know, I shouldn’t be all that surprised by that second one. Modesty is the burden of the preternaturally awesome.

Anyhow, I’ve been reading through those very first entries in particular. It wasn’t even really a journal at that point so much as a notebook I used to fill up with all kinds of stuff – drawings, my early half-assed attempts at poems, stories about things that had happened to me or that I just plain invented… I guess Greatmother Geyah and my mother both thought I had this creative side, so they figured they’d give me some notebooks to try to encourage me.

(Side note, you should totally see some of these cartoony little-kid pictures I drew of Jorin Deadeye, with like “POOP HEAD” written in and arrows pointing to him.)

I’ve been coming back to a few passages I’d written about my mom. Reading me stories (thinking back, that’s probably what got me started writing in the first place, all the nights she read me to sleep), like that rhyming kids’ book Talbuk Luck, kind of an old standard for Draenor kids back then. She even did this goofy sing-song voice for Tahri the Talbuk – I’d forgotten all about that until I started reading back over this stuff. Or the time later on when she took me on that long trip on foot out by Oshu’gun, and sat on one of the bluffs to watch Bach’lor running around in the fields with his herd.

The little-kid entries come to a stop all of a sudden, and don’t pick up again until I started writing again in my teens. And, oh boy, here comes the emo. But, yeah, the gap. Kicked in right about the point when she died. “Died”?  Should I put that in quotation marks now? Anyway. Disappeared. Any desire to look at those notebooks went with her, for a long time.

Yesterday afternoon, Lakkara went out to go exploring Orgrimmar. I’d been showing her around, but I’m sure a lot of it was just this big blur of information, and she seemed pretty blown away by the place in general. No surprise – the city is gigantic compared to villages like Garadar that she’s used to, and even Shattrath doesn’t come across quite so vast and, well, overwhelming. So she wanted to have a little time to just look around at her own pace. Reasonable enough.

After a while when she hadn’t come back, I figured I’d go have a look around. As big and sprawling as Orgrimmar is, it’s pretty easy to get turned around even if you know the place, much less if you’re still new to it all. It took a while, and no small amount of circling around, but I finally tracked her down. In retrospect, I should have known where she’d be right off, considering what week it is.

I found her in the Orgrimmar orphanage. It was starting to get dark, and she and Matron Battlewail had the kids gathered around…while she read to them. Talbuk Luck. Of course. She was even doing her goofy Tahri the Talbuk voice, which was cracking this little troll girl up especially. She read through to the end, this silly sing-song rhyming story, and when she finished, Gurtash hopped up and shouted “Epic verse!”

Nobody noticed me when I first got there, so I just hung back and watched in the doorway, then headed back to Grommash Hold.

Tomorrow I’m sending out new orders to some of our field commanders. We’ve lost a lot of soldiers over the last year or so – in Vashj’ir, in Twilight Highlands, in Deepholm… Most of the time we recover the bodies and bring them home, give the fallen the burial they deserve. Sometimes, though, there’s no body found. People just disappear. And after a while, they wind up on the rolls of the dead.

Since Deathwing was defeated, things have been relatively quiet on most fronts. So I think we can spare the personnel to take on a few extra missions. I’m having the field commanders send out some additional patrols, an extra scouting party here and there, to make another sweep or two in the areas where we’ve taken those losses. In particular, the places where we’ve had people disappear, presumed dead but never confirmed beyond a doubt. The ones, especially, who’d left children behind. Just in case.

I’m not going to advertise it, and I’m sure not going to let them know at the orphanage and risk getting the kids’ hopes up. Life is hard enough, and cruel enough, which the orphans know better than anyone, without me setting them up for more disappointment. But who knows. Maybe there’s still some good news for one or two of them, out there waiting to be brought home. Doesn’t hurt to have a look.

Every once in a while – not often, but sometimes – life decides to be generous.

More soon.

 

 

[Header image provided by Khizzara from Blog of the Treant, used here with permission and many thanks.]