Stuck in a Crack

Given the most recent patch, there is a whole new landscape of WOW. Everyone seems to be chatting about inscription; there is a new pet tab; talents and talent points are all fwizzled up; and more. You can even get your hair done.

Having gone with arms again for Skrah (lvl 63 warrior), I'm pretty happy with the various buttons that resulted. In testing them out, I even nixed a couple of Allies (both a bit lower than me, but whatev) without much trouble. Then nixed them again just to be sure.

On the topic of nixing, it should not go without saying that the other day, Monday, I got stuck in a crack. Reapmeister, an outstanding member of our guild, put together a little raid party, and when this party disbanded, I found myself atop a high tower covered with a maze of ramparts. I stood. I joked around. I danced. And then an ally on a flying mount landed right on top of me and started kicking my butt. With about 10 health left, I jumped ... and that's when I got stuck in the crack.

Here are a couple of screen captures of the carnage. My body ended up wedged in the crack about 500 ft in the air, making it unrecoverable from above or below.

Bringing the Crowd to Orgrimmar

Our guild, Sinister Legion, has always been obsessed with the fishing-pole-as-weapon. From the first time Skrah killed a low level ally with his pole, to the constant jokes about using a pole to beat down that annoying person who keeps attacking you with no hope of actually doing any damage . . . our guild has (slowly and surely) become obsessed.

So, what's a guild leader to do? How about sponsoring a Naked Fishing Pole Fight Tournament . . . out front of Orgrimmar? I offered 20 gold in prize money--and, of course, eternal fame--to contestants. Skrah will upload some screen shots later (I hope).

The best part was not the actual beatings, which were freaking hi-larious, but the audience that gathered to watch. We even had a few people join after Skrah put this message on the general:

"Want to join the guild sponsoring the naked fishing pole fight out front of Orgrimmar? Pst me!"

Oh they did--in droves.

But I must admit, we were finally hounded out by a "real" tourney of sorts: The Fighting Irish sponsored a 40-49 dual tourney that was, shall we say, a bit more official--but certainly less humorous.

On Being Found!

I've been leading the guild for a little while now, and although we've had some ups and downs, the guild seems to be getting stronger: we have several new players who are devoted and funny and fun to play with, everyone has more access to the guild bank (which, by the way is four tabs teaming full of stuff), we have a couple of new officers (and I couldn't be happier--Hi GUYS), and we have several events for this weekend all lined up: a dungeon run, and hide-n-seek.

I will say it again: I love this guild.

But maybe this is all a bit hyperbolic now for me, in part because we were found out(!) by a simple Google search for "feifer" and "wow" Oh my! Funny how simple it is to find us in this big net-thang.

So you might ask: how do you feel about having the guild know you blog?

Right now, it seems ok with me. A funny extension of the alternate life I lead in Wow for several hours of the day. My RL friends read my RL blogs, so why not have a Wow blog that my virtual friends and guildies can read? Guess we'll just have to be a bit more careful, about giving away those secrets . . . right skrah??