Nope, Still Doesn't Want'im

Darger /snickers as the King of the Lich monologues.

Arthas blinks in disbelief, feeling robbed once again.

Remember back when I'd written about Fordring and Darger racing to Mass Rez? Well, we went back to the Citadel again, and... Well... Things didn't change. This time, still sporting half his hp, Darger even appeared to be taunting the Lich King with a "neerner-neener" from partly behind the ice block that was Fordring.

WKM

Don't ask me to explain to you how we got there. People have filmed it, explained it, demonstrated it. Not exactly sure what it's supposed to stand for, though there are plenty of rumors. It was all Pally's idea. I was something of an innocent, curious bystander. But I also have absolutely no skill at walking through walls, like both he and Darg always somehow manage. So, hitching rides with them, on various mounts, I made it through to the other side...

Into the Building

Through the Wall

Down on the Ground, Look Around

After the initial shock of seeing Orgrimmar from inside-out, we continued our trek, in flight...

With Pally in the lead, we flew to this vault-like place that looks like some sort of shrine or memorial. Pally and Darg had already been here before, I think. But I never look for the "inside scoops", or the "hacks, loopholes and glitches", so this was all eerily new to me.

Up the Rabbit Hole (Glowing with a creepy green light.)

Moment of Silence

Banana of Honor

Raising Our Glasses in a Toast to WKM

Bubbles of Life

A Touch of Greenery (Well, maybe more than a touch...)

Silly Party Stuff (To lighten the somber mood...)

Darkmoon Gryphon —Pally waits on the Mushroom Chair

Nomi Brings Snacks

Anou's Final Farewell

As I'm not the type to go looking for these things, it really was a final farewell. I'm glad I saw it though. I was amazed at the "back end" of the game, how strange things felt, like looking through a two-way mirror. WKM is likely to remain a mystery, unless someone has concrete proof pointing to who/what it was supposed to honor. Though I feel there's more to just it than what that ticket response had to say. I can't imagine a long tunnel ending in a room with three framed letters on the wall being made by mistake...

Even the Lich King Didn't Want Him

On one of those nights, at the end of an expansion, when friends just get together for no reason and run old content, I was ninja-vited into a Heroic 25-man ICC raid group. We were seven, including myself.

At the very end, you know that part.. you remember... when everyone would accidentally release because the Lich King "took their soul"... the part that Blizz only thought of hot-fixing at the end because they were fed-up of people opening missed-loot-because-of-premature-release tickets?.. yeah, that part. We were at that part. The seven of us. But only six of us died. One man was left standing...

Darger Baits the Devil of Ice (Get it? BAITS?Bwaha!)

My soul belonged to the Lich King. And Taint's, and Pally's, and Kuip's, and Rul's. Tirion was rushing to our aid... He could have tripped on that open clam Darg left lying around. Or fainted at the sight of our rugged Orc warrior/GM/raid leader, standing there in naught but a loin cloth... Alas, he beat Darger to a mass rez, brought us back to life, we slayed the Lich Lord, end of story.

But seriously. That was unexpected.

Speaking of the man with 1198k HP, who literally survived the wrath of the Lich King...

From all of us in SD. <3

Turtle-Headed

There are no words able to describe Octavien's dismay when he realized I took this screenshot and planned to make a post on it. He took it all in stride, I mean, he's used to worse from the guildies, but I think he felt this was a betrayal on my part, against the virility I try so much to promote on his behalf.

Oh well. Sucks to be you, Oct.

Floating Ferel

An image is worth a thousand words...

Little Orc, Big Pony

Darger gets off his 'high horse' at the Darkmoon Faire. /smirk

Darkmoon Picnic

Darger went to meet Anou at the Darkmoon Faire. He said he wanted to run the dailies, but Anou secretly thinks he was curious to see her newest outfit. Any who, Ava accidentally joined them, and partook of the humble snacks Anou had brought along and spread across the table. (By "partook" what I actually meant was "overindulged".)

A Comic of Mice and Men (or something like that)

Savage Credo

Savage Darkness is a laid back guild. I don't know how many times we've said this over the years, to the point that it's starting to feel like abused terminology.

During the course of a raid night, we tend to do random, immature things, from praying to non-existent gods, to attributing nightly theme companion pets. Like superstitious religious fanatics, we consider raid wipes the fault of the same particular players (even if they weren't even online that night), or the fault of one person not having repeated the night's mantra. We continuously shout in vent that "THIS IS OUR LAST ATTEMPT" to convince the Blizzard ninjas that we will truly not attempt the boss if we wipe again. We hold onto these beliefs like a dying man drinks.

When all else fails, we know we can fall back on the fact that we're the 11:30 guild, who will slay the boss at the last possible second of our raid time.

This being said, you have all previously met Octavien's Waffle.

Our credo on that particular night was, in some way, to interact with Waffle.

Without going into it, though I'm sure everyone here is old enough to put two and two together, the boys went all-out.

Of Moos and Men

On a regular basis, during raids, Kuip uses his Whole-Body Shrinka', turning him into a tiny tankin' tauren. He switches his mic to "munchkin voice" then let's out a miniscule "CHARGE!" in vent and starts charging the boss.

This started back with Horridon in Throne of Thunder. It's absolutely the funniest thing he's ever done, and no matter when he does it, it always gets a laugh. See, his 'toon takes such teensy steps, we actually have time to /dbm pull 10 and he still hasn't reached his target. Actually, we usually all out-run him.

Sleeping Lions

Erysi logged on (back when she was still Erysi), sleeping in Dragonblight, to find a guild roster full of druids. Oddly, we only have one main druid player. Just as well. His heals are so good I bet he's eating a sandwich, cleaning his ear and talking to his girlfriend all the while dragging his elbow over the keyboard halfheartedly. And he still beats all of us other healers. #JealousOfNazzak

Size Matters

We were having too much fun with this. Were? Heck, we still are!

Back before patch 5.4, when we ran The Barrens Weekly to get coins and stuff, one of the vendors sold a trinket in exchange for 500 Kor'kron Stone: Whole-Body Shrinka'. Pallyblood, Darger and I went and farmed all that stone the night before 5.4 to be able to buy this vanity item.

We had previously seen Kuiper use it on his shaman during raid. He'd shrink down and auto-run towards the boss, then he'd actually talk in vent like a shrunk person, with this voice-altering program he has. It is one of the absolute funniest things I have ever experienced in game, and had all of us laughing hysterically.

On a side note, here's a shot of Hercules walking the roads of Orgrimmar with his bodyguards.

Taint's Eerie Mechano-Hog

Octavien Confesses...

One night, during raid, I believe it was Berdine (or possibly Ava) making people confess things. It was creepy to see how accurate the things Octavien was confessing, considering the person who plays him. /sheepish

The Best Passenger Ever!

Anou is not one of those passive passengers (ahem! like my IRL hubby (Hapis), who falls asleep 3 seconds after I take the wheel). She's a co-pilot! Here she is, map open despite the forceful wind beating at her face in the sidecar, checking their progress and making sure they don't get lost...

Four Freebooters Fishing for Fortune

Kuiper: There's this cave I discovered right around here. There are little piles of sand in the shape of a heart. Something's got to happen in there, but I haven't figured out what yet.
[Much swimming occurs.]

Octavien: Ok, so we're here. Now what? [While picking up all the sand piles.]
Pallyblood: Octavien, quit taking all the sand.
[Octavien pouts.]
Kuiper: Maybe something special happens if all the chairs are occupied.
[Everyone takes a seat.]
[Some waiting occurs, in silence.]
[Octavien gets the brilliant idea of putting his Rime of the Time-Lost Mariner to good use. Others follow suit.]

Pallyblood: Nothing seems to be happening, Kuip.
Kuiper: Well, maybe not. Maybe it's just here for no reason. [Goes off to Google it.]
Pallyblood: I wonder if... [He summons a Plump Turkey.]
[Darger laughs his sadistic laugh.]

[The Plump Turkey does not jump into the fire. Everyone but Octavien is disappointed.]
Octavien: Hahaha! I mean... Yarrrr! Foiled by the poultry!
[Pallyblood casts Cooking Fire, beating Darger to the punch line.]
Darger: I was just about to do that myself.
Plump Turkey: Gobble gobble gobluhhkk...
[Octavien hangs his head in dismay.]

The pirates are all upset, can't eat the turkey, can't feel the flames, they missed pirate's day by at least a month, thus loosing out on notoriety...

Octavien gets another idea, and decides to summon a Ghostly Skull who speaks to the band of woeful miscreants.

"For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh." ~Captain Barbossa

But the Skull's secret will remain untold. For shortly after, one by one, the conspicuously pink buccaneers left the cave, never to be seen again... [Cue dramatic music.]

The Peanut Gallery

Here are some screen caps I've taken of our random conversations in Guild Chat.

Tomute = Kim Kardashian

[Imperial Silk Worm] Free to a good home!

In all honesty, if it wasn't for the people in my guild, who make me smile and laugh, the people who tease and joke and whine, and yes, sometimes they even make me want to tear my hair out, I would not still be playing WoW.

It's the people. The conversations. There are ups and downs in every guild, but really, if you didn't care about these people, it wouldn't affect you.