Zuluhed, Warpforged, Flamewrought, Reservoir

Key to the city, Workshop, Jump-a-tron 4000, Northwind

Scarlet, Ethereum prison, Shadowlab, Deathforge

Prison cell, Master’s, Auchenai, Arcatraz

Skeleton, Key of time, Searing gorge, Shattered halls

Coilskar chest, two stacks

The RoDB Winner Interview

The big winner was Slokoshka, a 14 year old from New Zealand. His father helped with the interview, translating our questions to native Zealandish.

BRK: What path did you take to victory?

Slokoshka: I went up through the Barrens, caught the zep to UC, then ran down through Tirasfal Glades, through Silverpine forest, through Hillsbrad, and then through Arathi Highlands. I just followed the crowd. Every time somebody branched from the main group I knew they’d just get slaughtered.

BRK: What was your overall strategy?

S: I tried to stay in the middle of the group whenever I could, I only tried to cut corners when I knew there were no mobs around.

BRK: Did you make the first Zeppelin?

S: Yes, but I nearly went to the one going to Grom’gol by accident.

S’sDad: If only he’d listened to me and got on the other Zeppelin, I would so totally have won.

BRK: How many family and friends came with you?

S: One, my dad came with me, but everyone was watching over my shoulder

SDad: What he completely omits to mention is that his SuperDad (playing BigBlueCow) saved his hairy b*tt. In that last run into Hammerfall, BigBlueCow took the hit that won the race! Oh yes, he (well, she) did. In fact, there’s little question that BigBlueCow deserves a medal for self-sacrifice and heroism. If not for BigBlueCow, Slokoshka would have been a raptor’s dinner. With cold scraps for lunch the next day, judging by the size of his hairy butt. But SuperDad was there. SuperDad took the hit. SuperDad saved the day. Which makes it divine justice that it’s SuperDad who also saves the money with the prize! Ha! Karma is real after all.

BRK: What is your primary toon/class/spec?

S: My main is a 70 Tauren Resto druid on Shadow council (in the guild Oceanic Guardians), but I also have a level 70 BM hunter as an alt.

SDad: I am convinced that BM, in this context, stands for Bowel Motion. Almost every hunter I have ever known has been a BM hunter, in fact. Quite a few BM rogues about, too.

BRK: Shout out time’ anything you want to say to the BRK Masses?

S: Nothing.

SDad: Yeah, I have a question. Possibly more than one. Although there’s little doubt (none at all) that the rat shagger writes the most entertaining WoW blog in the world, what’s with this guild thing? Is it some global takeover, in which anybody who writes a halfway decent blog (and there aren’t all that many) gets co-opted into the same guild? Is this voluntary? Is money involved? What happens if a good blogger doesn’t actually want to kill baddies in the company of BRK? Is force involved? Blackmail? I wouldn’t have thought blackmail was possible with the rat shagger, actually.

What happens when the rat shagger pinches Ego … and gets slapped upside the head? Will there be a guild divorce? Does the pre-nuptial contract involve restrictions on blogging in the event of guild disaster? Are we going to get a full-blown guild blogging war, Ratshagger against the Ego, [BRK] against the Priest, drama up the wazoo, with full colour pictures?

And, of course, a running commentary from the infamous TJ, whoever she is, to bring her particularly peculiar point of view to bear on a particularly peculiar guild.

BRK: We do not collect bloggers, we do not force guildies to do anything, we don’t blackmail. We fear for anybody who messes with Ego, we won’t tolerate blogging wars, Cay on skittles would scare us straight, and TJ doesn’t blog about warcraft. /whew