OMGBARBERSHOPS

Yeah, so, the thing I was most looking forward to in the truly massive Echoes of Doom patch? Barbershops. Hand down. Check this out: I have yet to spend any talent points on my priest, but I have already given some makeovers. So not even kidding about that.

Sinead before:


Sinead after:

Wholahay before:


Wholahay after:

I think Melisende and Matesha are staying as is for the moment, as they have undeniably awesome 'dos already. Or maybe I just don't play them as much and thus aren't yet bored.

Brewfest Kodo!

Woot.

Keridwen is awesome.

Just how awesome?  

He has the same amount of 70s as Sarah Palin does children.  

He still has blind powder.  

He has full Dragonstalker, all 8 of 7 pieces.  

His rogue will mutilate your ass.  Yes, I said mutilate.  Yes, I meant it.

Yes, he heals better than you.  Yes, he's discipline.

All his toons are chicks.  What?  You like staring at men's asses?  Tsk.

If you need more proof, then feel free to contact me.

The Strike is Over, and it's a Birthday!

So, I don't have much fun and exciting news to report as now that we're coming up on the expansion slowly but surely the servers are thinning out. There is an idea that anything you do now will be obsolete in a few months, and so the population is scarce. However! This is the ideal time to... level alts!

Now I am not an altaholic like our lovely birthday girl(more on that later), but I do have a small army of very low level alts as I try to find the fit for my soul. I think I found something that can at least be a close second in my heart to my happy rogue. I'm playing a hunter. It's easy, which is a good incentive. Also, I don't die. Now that is rare for me, so oo and aah. And? I get a nifty pet. A fun and nifty pet. I am pleased.

So, as I restart my slow unhappy grind to 70, just so I can grind back to 80, I get to rediscover all the joys of leveling I forgot the first time. Hurrah. Really, it's exactly like the first time. With a few differences, like I know how little I know.

One thing I meant to blog about before and did not was my experiences playing WoW at the hospital. I was in for a simple gallbladder booboo and had internet. It was long and boring days, 6 o them to be exact, so I thought I would play me some WoW. At first I just did it when I was sure no one would notice, but by day 3, the nurses saw that I was playing a video game.

It was amazing.

THere were multiple nurses that played! And one in particular was talking to me all about how she played a rogue too, and what server she was on and the gear she was going for. Of course, I was secretly very pleased that she had not yet been in a clear Kara, and I had been to Hyjal, but I didn't express this secret joy. I was really only happy because for once in my life i could talk about a video game with another girl and we weren't just talkng about how cute Kirby was. Well, other than Sinead's lovely player. But she never ceases to surprise me. Or be smarter than me. In everything.

Speaking of her, did you hear it was her birthday? It is. Today is the day she becomes as ancient as I. And for a few months we can share our woe at the same age. Then I get older. So there is much happiness and love to be said to her. I hope she has a good one!

That's all for now, but there's a better post coming.

Kucinich takes over the world....of warcraft

I am awful at keeping up to date with my own blog. Melissa, however, is not. This is my fault, I promise you.

However, aside from my guilty begging for your forgiveness, I have a few things to say. A couple of weeks ago now, Dennis Kucinich, the former presidential candidate, decided to do something totally wacky: try to impeach the president. Now, for anyone that knows him, the probably isn't a surprise. For me? Well I found it hilarious. And so, in regular Dani style, I wanted to do something perhaps too cheesy to be funny. But you never know.

I made myself a little gnome character and caused him to look just like Denis. How does this work? He had a receding hair line, HUGE ears and short stubby arms. His wife, of course, had to be there. For that feat I asked Melissa to help me, and she made a tall, thin, red headed human woman.

the uncanny resemblance between the real Kucinich and his in-game gnomish warrior counterpart

We went to Ironforge.

Now, Ironforge, for those of you that don't know is a nice condensed Alliance city. It's my favorite because, unlike Stormwind, the auction house and the bank are right across from each other. Of course, this makes for lots and lots of traffic in that little area.

Is it the dwarf and gnome city and in it is a lot of lava, smelting and funny gadgets. it was an obvious place for us to meet because, well, it was easy to get there for both humans and gnomes (what with the Deeprun Tram and all), and it would have the most foot traffic in a single area.

Once I arrived at the bank, and met up with Melissa, we decided to just go wild. Now, if you know me, I can be quite silly and so doing things like running about and hollaring "LOOK I'M GOING TO BE PRESIDENT!" and "I HATE BUSH!" bring me much joy. And that's what I did.

Dennis makes proclamations, his special ladyfriend watches on adoringly

At first people just pointed and laughed. And then? Then people started to get really into it. One man, of course, thought that I should not have such a lovely wife and decided to bring a picnic. He wooed my woman, although unsuccessfully. And when I tried to come to the picnic? He called me gay! The nerve!

This kept up for awhile with people kissing the wife and saying mean things to Dennis. Then? Then people started to think I was serious! The tells were the best, where people wanted to know why I hate eating meat, why I am such a pansy liberal and more and more ridiculous things.

the great Ironforge Love-In of '08

We tried to make a parade, but sadly no one wanted to play. In the end, it was just an hour of silly gallivanting, lots of waving, and a whole lot of angry people. You'd be surprised how fired up people get over Warcraft politicians!

Next time? Go go. The myth, the magic, the phrase.

They grow up so fast!

the triumphant mounting of Sveren

Sorry for the multiple posts in one day, but it turns out I'm not the only one to hit a game-centric milestone. After hitting 50, I took a (in my opinion) much-deserved break from Sinead to play with my alts. While we were killing Kurzen bitches in Stranglethorn Vale, my boyfriend's night elf warrior Sveren dinged 40! I escorted him to Darnassus and loaned him a little gold to purchase his super-fantastic spotted saber and then we rode off into the sunset together. Isn't that nice?

Maintenance Day

My near-pathological breakneck leveling pace has been halted briefly by maintenance day. As Blizzard toils away on my realm (and I always, for some reason, envision that this process is somewhat similar to getting your house fumigated for pests, what with the being unable to go into for a certain period of time and patches tha fix bugs and all...but maybe that's just me), I'll take the time to reflect on Sinead's whirlwind tour¹ of Azeroth so far.

Sometimes Azeroth seems like it's really in the Twilight Zone. I'm not talking about the inordinate number of zhevras that refuse to drop hooves (though they will kick the shit out of you with them) or the damaging effect the sheer number of predators in such close proximity to one another should have on the ecosystem. No, I'm talking about things like this:


It's half a cat! Sticking out of a mountain! The hell?! How did it get there? Where is it going - wait, can it even go anywhere? In the end, there's no answer to these questions, and you just have to saddle up and ride into the sunset.

I have to say that in leveling Sinead, I've learned a lot more about being dead. Don't get me wrong, I've died plenty of times on my alts, too, but this is (much to my chagrin, I remind you) a PVP server and the ganking is a constant danger. Long story short, after being ganked yet again - this time by a stealthed rogue who waited until I had a rock elemental down to around 15% health before leaping out and brutally killing me - I noticed that my ghost was emitting a weird sort of light.


See what I mean? I'm like a dead glowbug or something. It's actually kind of cool, and noticing it for the first time softened the ego blow of having been mercilessly ganked yet again.

Ok. I have one more for you, but I'm going to warn you now that it's...uh...not in the best of taste. Yeah, so, I was running around the badlands and turned to say something to Dani or Jon (the boyfriend) and when I turned back I realized that my elekk had gotten kind of hung up on a small tree. And the more I looked at it, the more it looked like the elekk was kind of humping the tree. Here, I made a video to show you what I mean:



See what I'm talking about? My mount is a total dendrophiliac! Wasn't expecting that, honestly, but hey, no judgment, right?

PS - we did something totally awesome, but as it was Dani's brainchild, I'm going to let her tell you all about it. Stay tuned!
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¹Ok, for some people out there in internetland, this may not actually constitute breakneck leveling speed. But for me it does, so make of that what you will.