We Love This Story
During our first week of writing this blog, we came across a story on the WoW Europe forums that was just tremendous. We posted it here and it received a whopping three comments. We were thrilled at our popularity! /cheer
And in the intervening months, we’ve completely forgotten about it. But a unplanned but entirely lucky mouse-click brought it to our attention. This story deserves a rez, so we’re breaking out our old Goblin Jumpercables and reposting it for your reading pleasure.
I often play PUGs, and I encounter a lot of bad players on the opposite team. But, I just can’t take it when they’re female gnomes. I have a heart, and it just feels so bad killing those small buggers, especially around christmas times.
My story begins with me playing my shaman. I run up to a female gnome mage and slay her without her being able to do anything. Now I do this another 5-6 times and that poor female gnome mage is like the only alliance who dares to step outside their flagroom (EVERYONE DEFEND FTW!)
It is a really bad player, I don’t even have to try very hard and could just autoattack kill the poor female gnome. She tries to channel fireballs, I ES and she wont even channel another fireball before my ES is ready again. She never silences and overall she’s like one of the worst players I ever seen. (but at least she tries to move out from the flagroom and WIN the game!)
So, I just can’t take it anymore. I see that gnome mage running up to me for like the 7-8th time and I look at the scoreboard, the mage got like 0 HKs and 10 deaths. She starts channeling a fireball and I just let it hit me. And let another fireball hit me. She doesn’t have very good gear, it’s noticable - still decent gear though. I hit her 2-3 times, with windfury deactivated to not get some lucky instant killing WF crits.
And I die after a time. I don’t know why. Somehow in my mind I see this dad, who actually plays the character, who sits with his kid and lets him play. Because it was really THAT bad play, slow reactions and everything.
And that female gnome.. I just couldn’t.
I respawn again, the score is 2-0 at this time and we’re really dominating the game. The female gnome, who still is the only alliance stepping out of the flagroom, is now in our base, running VERY slowly and stopping on every corner. Which only makes me believe even more it’s a someone showing a small kid the game. Move around the corner, standing still for a few seconds, move a bit further.
The only reason she managed to get this far, was because all other 9 hordes are killing the defenders in their flagroom.
I follow the gnome (looking at the female gnome around the corners by rotating my camera) slowly into our flagroom. She entered our base from the ramp, and from entering it took probably 1 minute to get into our flagroom - which for a “normal” player takes a few seconds tops.
Now she stands in front of our flag, totally still. Nothing happening for 10 seconds, and in my mind I’m so sure that it’s the dad saying “Good kid, now rightclick on this flag and run fast back to our base!”. I’m so sure of it, I can’t believe anyone who’s level 60 can play this badly and move around so slow if they level hours & days by themselves.
She picks up the flag, and I run in. Hey, can’t have them capture without having to fight for it. The female gnome mage stops, looks at me for a bit and after 4-5 seconds starts channeling a fireball. After a epic battle of attempting to make it look like a epic battle, she brings me down. She slowly moves closer to my corpse, then a bit closer and then loots my corpse. She turns around, stands there 3-4 seconds before she runs the 10 yards to reach the tunnel in our flagroom. Stands still another 4 seconds then she turns facing the tunnel and after another 3 seconds she starts running forward.
I’m so sure now, but no matter - a player that bad and who’s the only one who actually is trying to win the game needs to be rewarded for the fighting spirit.
“/bg Hey guys, the one who picked up our flag is a friend of mine, it’s his little kid playing. He loves this game and is it ok if we let him score 1 time to make a little kid happy? It’s christmas week after all.”
Ok, it’s a lie. I don’t know the guy, and I don’t know if it’s a kid. It can just as well be a really bad player. But believe it or not, the brutal hordes all show a great heart. The female gnome runs through the middle to their tunnel, which takes probably a 3 minutes. The hordes are all ganking people who’s defending their flagroom now, it’s actually quite a slaughter. All of the hordes, including me, are in their flagroom killing everyone trying to get in there.
Then our favorite gnome comes running into the room, she almost hits the glasswindow straight ahead before he stop. Waits 3 seconds, turns 90 degrees to 3 seconds later walk straight into the middle of the room. He walks a bit to far to the west, so it takes another 3 seconds and he moves backwards a few steps with all the hordes watching. She turns around facing their flag. Moves forward, stops for a second, then moves forward again and the female gnome mage captures the horde flag!
Horde picks up the respawning flag and runs back to the base with a female gnome mage untouched shooting fireballs after them. Some people stops to /wave and /dance with the female gnome mage, and let her kill them - as she don’t have the speed to keep up with the flag carrier.
Horde wins 3-1, but one little happy mage ended 4th in killing blows (among alliance) with her 8 KBs and 17 deaths.
Maybe it wasn’t a kid playing, maybe it was a handicapped person, maybe it was a regular person watching TV while playing, or maybe someone who just opened a ebay account. I have no clue.
But I had a merry christmas.
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Props. Serious, serious props to a respectful player.
Awwwwwww!!! This reminds me of the cute little gnome mage that poly healed my pet while I was farming the other day.
Shifttusk
Wish we all had more friends, co-workers and fellow players like the story’s author. Thanks for reposting, BRK.
Wolfreign
Llane
I remember this story. One day I was reading some of your back posts. It was a warm story.
I love this story.
I’m getting BRK’d up reading that story! It’s wonderful. My mom, who will turn 65 this year, started playing WoW just a couple of months ago and I can imagine her as that mage. thanks for the repost.
You should have waited ’till xmas for added effect before reposting!
Still it’s a nice story!
(And I’m guessing this time you’ll have a “little” bit more than 3 comments!)
Awesome story. =] Well worth a repost.
Aww :’)
Warmed my heart BRK, well worth reposting it!
BRK’s popularity has grown exponentially with his ego. 8 comments already and growing
*sniffle*
That’s…. so…. cute!
Awesome story, and hey, it’s Xmas in July! XD
~<3Cay
oaky.. that brought a tear to my eye.
I’d advise everyone to go back and read BRK, the early years. Good reads.
cool story. Maybe I shouldn’t be on a PvP server but I always find it hard to gank people unless they’ve made it their intention to attack me. Heck I’ve even helped those of the other faction before if I see they are having some trouble.
Awesome story…Just the type of people WoW needs more of!
Cute story.
The most amazing thing is that Horde won a WSG. I play Horde most of the time (I have one active Alliance character) and my last dozen or more times in WSG Horde has gotten spanked.
When playing my Tauren Shaman I have an uncontrollable urge to step on all the little pink-haired gnomes I see.
>> BRK’s popularity has grown exponentially with his ego.
Oh, i dunno, was his ego ever really smaller than it is now? At least, after he hit 60?
It’s people like this guy who make them game worth playing despite all the crap you see on the day to day basis. Thanks for the repost, I never would’ve seen it otherwise.
I love stories like these. I love them so much.
It’s like the times I run into some random AC doing a quest and instead of killing him or her, I just help them kill the mobs they tank.
I did that in the Forge Camp: Annihilated quest: helped the AC kill some of the elite demons. Afterwards they MC’ed me and buffed me. Very cool.
But this story is ever so much cooler. Thanks for the repost!
it’s funny…i’ve read this blog backwards and forwards, being a late adopter, but this is the one post that always stuck in my mind…
with all of the douchebags that play this game, the gankers, the egomaniacs, the immature adults and the really immature not-adults…it’s really heartwarming to see something like this happen…
always good to see that there’s some people that still remember that when all is said and done….WoW is just a game, and everyone deserves to have fun…
–j
Stories like this always make me glad to play the game all over again. It’s nice to have a reminder that there are actually nice people on the other side of the computer sometimes, who will show a little bit of consideration and make sure someone else has as much fun as they do.
I let my 8-year-old daughter play. She’s not allowed to chat with anybody, join groups, duel anybody, let anyone know her age, or join a guild (she gets invites all the time). She asks me all the time why she can’t talk to anybody but I’m always “This is an ADULT mostly played by older people and you never know who is on the other end of their character.”
I have two accounts so she’s only allowed to play when I’m playing right next to her.
She basically just likes to grind (it’s funny ’cause she knows all the terms) and buff people.
It sure is possible that it was a little kid in that story. As much as mine has seen be do a BG or two, she’d still not really have a clue how to PVP.
I love you BRK…You are yummy!
What a wonderful story.
Thank you for sharing this.
that is a cool story, i enjoyed it. it’s actually quite well written as well, entertaining. i have encountered many, many instances of people being polite and kind in this game, sometimes it actually blows my mind. i see it as testament to the changes which have occurred across the internet in the last few years. i think the anonymity of it used to encourage disrespect. why has this changed? why would people who have no connection to each other in real life (and maybe no connection in game!) help each other? the world (at least, on the net) seems to be changing. it’s a bit like game theory. we could rip each other off, but in the end, we all lose out. if we all collaborate, we create a great community. big up mass collaboration! big up open source! big up the internet! woot! <3 FTW
P.S. with that said, ganking enemies is part of the game, is really fun, and is a great addition to the game
zomga eat gnomes….. zuz zug