Can’t Be Said Better Than This
“Dear BRK, I’m still laughing so hard. Thank you BRK.
“Last October my Dad passed away due to Cancer. When I was 3 my mum died in a car accident so it was up to my dad to raise me. I think he did a good job, though him being the joker that he was would no doubt say something like, “Yeah but you don’t have my looks”.
“Anyway. He fought the cancer for a good five years, but during that fight he would also fight alongside me in WoW. We both [were] Tauren Hunters and we would do everything together: Raid, Quest, PVP. Sadly as time went by, he became much sicker and soon couldn’t play anymore.
“After he passed away I couldn’t do much. I just shut down completely. I eventually composed myself. Got back to living my life and returned to WoW. I’ll never truly get over losing my Dad but let me say today helped. It helped alot.
“I ran for Ezra. I ran for BRK. I ran for my Dad. I’m sure I wasn’t alone in this. I’m sure that around the world today many of those Baby Cows themselves have had or do have someone they know with this [Ed: colorful adjective deleted] awful disease. No tears were shed for me today, well maybe one or two but those tears were from laughter. Not because we brought a server down. More because we brought many servers together. [Ed: bold added, 'cause these words made us get misty-eyed.] To Honour a young boy taken from his life far to early.
“I /salute you BRK. I /salute all of you who took part in this. Regards, Chris”
Thank you for giving us permission to print your email, Chris. We’ve written a couple thousand sentences here, but none of them better than that.
How Nice!
Smackdown.
Banned. Jailed. Shutdown. Broke Kalimdor.
Then the 300 or so Alliance people who were defending Stormwind - see the above pic, which was taken 30 minutes before 6pm - broke the Eastern Kingdom.
Then the GMs told us to just step off. So we stepped off. Everything canceled.
What was weird was that we were all just fine standing around the Tauren starting area. It’s when we ran to
Ratchet when things went kablooie.
Screenshots incoming. Complaints incoming. Apologies outgoing.
The GMs said that the 897 taurens, 55 level 70s, 30-40 level 50s, and the 300 or so Alliance toons gathered at Stormwind would’ve crashed any server, not just Argent Dawn. It wasn’t the server or time of day that was the problem, it was the fanatical and enthusiastic players that they just couldn’t accomodate.
More to come later. But it was cool while it lasted.
Baby Tauren Army, 200 Strong
Cow Spelling
So far, so good. Over 500 members of the Baby Tauren Army guild, we’ve lost the ability to keep count. Hopefully the raids we form will provide some measure of… measurement.
Logged in to Argent Dawn at 2:40pm EST, no issues whatsoever. No delays, no lagging, nada.
We haz Tabards!
And we got our keys from Mrs. BRK!
T-3 hours and counting…
Today’s the Day
BRK’s Running of da Bulls for Ezra: The Sacking of Stormwind.
Saturday, November 8th, 6:00pm EST/11:00pm GMT.
Argent Dawn (US)
Some basic rules:
1. Make a donation to Make a Wish, even if it’s only a dollar. That’s the entire point of this silliness, to help a sick child.
2. Be a good visitor. This is probably not your home-server, so treat like you’re a house guest. No /yelling, no bombarding global or local channels with babbling. Do not engage in rant-fests with trolls, (not Horde-trolls, but people who are trying to disrupt and cause acrimony.) Watch your language, folks, there are kids here.
3. You do not have to PvP to participate. If you just want to run a baby Tauren with us, please enjoy. But remember, if enter Stormwind, you’re automatically flagged for PvP.
4. You do not have to join the Run for Ezra guild, but you will not be invited to Bloodmoon Chosen. That’s their family, they’re just helping us out.
5. You do not have to stay in the Tauren starting area. Level, get gear, do whatever you like.
6. The Baby Tauren Army will depart the Tauren starting area at 6pm EST, 11pm GMT. You don’t have to be at the starting area if you don’t want to, but that’s when our march commences. You can meet up with us in Ratchet, STV, or even be waiting for us outside of Stormwind.
7. Events like these are like waves crashing on the beach; everybody can see it happening, everybody can participate, but nobody is really in charge. We can’t prevent people from deviating from the goals of the event, we can’t control the insanity at all. Use your morale compass to have a good time.
8. TJ has made her appearance already. If she chooses to pop in again, we’ll be shocked.
9. From our history with these events, we believe the entire thing should be done in no more than an hour. Run to Stormwind will take twenty minutes, then we’ll either get massacred due to the lack of high-end participants, or we’ll mow through the place and kill the king quickly. Either way, you can expect to be off of Argent Dawn and back on your own server pretty quickly. Don’t think this is a multi-hour event, it’s not.
10. Mrs. BRK took our keys, and our authenticator, with her to work. We are fetching them right after we post this. We won’t be on Argent Dawn until probably 3 or 4pm EST as a result. /sigh
It’s Already Begun
It’s one in the morning. No pic, we can hardly see.
We made our BigRedKitty baby Tauren a few minutes ago. We joined the “Run for Ezra” guild. 145 members already, 45 online. At one in the morning.
You people amaze us.
/cast [target=you people] love
Ah, heck, now we gotta have a picture.
Incentive Plus Hard Work Equals Happiness
“Dear BRK … I just wanted to share a gold beggar story with you.
“I’m in an RP guild with my alt and we were having a guild meeting, so we were all meeting up at Northshire Abbey when a level 31 druid came running along attracted to [our] bunch of 70’s.
“There it started, “Hey could I get twenty-nine gold for my riding training please?” Of course being a BRK reader I went, ‘If you get me one hundren light feathers I will give you the twenty-nine gold you need, young druid.’ “
Druid: “No way, are you joking?”
Me: “No, if you bring me the feathers I will give you the gold you need.”
Druid: “Where can I find these light feathers?”
Me: “The vultures in Westfall carry them”
“And so the little druid was off screaming, “You better be here when I get back!”
“A few hours later … I kept getting whispers. The druid was first complaining, then suddenly sharing personal things with me. After a long, while I was riding back to Stormwind, I see the druid on her fresh new mount. So I congratulated the druid and complemented the mount.
Druid: “Thanks, stay right here while I get the rest of your feathers cause you’re so cool!”
Me: “How many do you have?”
Druid: “I have seventy-three right now, I’ll have the others by tomorrow morning”
Me: “That’s alright, I’ll take those seventy-three for the twenty-nine I promised.”
“I was really surprised she offered to finish the job and happy to see that she wasn’t just another beggar. That kinda was the story, it just reminded me of the blog. Hrothar - Earthen ring EU.”
Isn’t it great to find someone will do put in the time to earn their gear? One can only hope this WoW-lesson will be applied to real life.
+5 BRK Cool Points to Hrothar, verily.
Three million. Y’all are nuts. We here at BigRedKitty.net would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every reader for spending a little of their day with us. It’s and honor and a privilege to be a part of your WoW-experience.
OverWin
Sometimes, very infrequently, there’s just too much Win. It’s rare, we’ve never had it happen here at BRK the Blog, but happen it has. The following is the conversation that spawns our first ever case of OverWin:
BRK to TJ: “Hidden message. The readers love those.”
TJ to BRK: “Where’s my cheetos.”
BRK: “Where did you put them?”
TJ: “There’s a lot of cheetos on top of the microwave and a lot of diet soda in the fridge. Those are my WORK cheetos and my WORK diet soda.”
BRK: “I didn’t realize they required such distinct categorization. I doubt you’d be fired if you enjoyed a Work diet soda and Work cheetos while you did my post-work.”
TJ: “I’m taxing your readers for my services.”
BRK: “With all the t-shirt orders I’m fending off, I think my readers have some extra cash lying around to accommodate your appetite.”
TJ: “You need a t-shirt dedicated to my awesomeness in business-hours posting.”
BRK: “OK. ‘TJ. All your diet soda belong to us.’ ”
TJ: “That’s, ‘All your diet soda are belong to us.’ “
BRK: “I’ll see what I can do.”
TJ: “It was a joke. I am not a name_of_pet.”
BRK: “Too late. Request has been put in. It’s going to be a great shirt.”
TJ: “My mom will buy them all.”
Well, TJ’s Mom… here’s your shirt. OverWin accomplished.
Of course, this much OverWin could never be priced, so the shirt will neither be produced nor sold. Don’t ask; we’re in enough trouble as it is.
Pre-WOTLK Thoughts
The Running of da Bulls for Ezra is going to stay on Argent Dawn US, that’s final. We’ve talked with the leadership of Bloodmoon Chosen, the friendly horde guild who has helped us in the past, and they report that a 6pm weekend starting time should not encounter a heavy server-queue. Thank you to everybody who offered to assist us, we really do appreciate it. Really, we do.
BRK’s Running of da Bulls for Ezra: The Sacking of Stormwind. Saturday, November 8th, 6:00pm EST, 11:00pm GMT.
Tauren starting area, Ratchet, STV, have a light snack of Goldshire, then burn Stormwind to the ground. If you’re on Argent Dawn already, level your toon and spread the word about our plans. If you’ve got a 70 on Argent Dawn, we need you and your guild! Heck, if Stormwind proves to be a cakewalk, we could go after Ironforge, Darnassus, and Exodar and get everybody Black War Bears!
Just remember to visit the Make a Wish foundation and give a little something in memory of Erza.
We will be offering more Gorilladin shirts. We will be offering Europe and Canada shipping options. Please, we need more time to get this done. Mrs. BRK, who has done loads of t-shirt sales in her previous jobs, has volunteered to take over this part of the operation.
BRK’s Top Ten Reasons for Starting Out in Borean Tundra (Alliance-biased)
10. Baby Rhino! He’s right there, waiting for you. You want a Rhino, this is where you’ve got to go.
9. Flat landscape means you can run in any direction and find stuff to do. You’re not channeled or funneled in a specific direction, so you can do what you want and not feel like you’re skipping stuff.
8. Stupid humans and their farms. “The tunnel is cursed!” Yeah, the tunnel is always cursed, isn’t it. Lots of quick quests just outside the Alliance keep.
7. Speaking of the Alliance keep, it’s pretty sweet. It’s big, there’s upstairs and downstairs, it’s basically a mini Stormwind.
6. The existence of the Gnome airstrip means plenty of Horde trying to wipe that place out. It’s not an official world PvP event, but the Destruction of the Airport will be high on every hordie’s list of fun things to do. While we were there, the place was under attack almost constantly.
5. Speaking of the Horde, they get a massive, just huge town. It dominates the landscape, looking down on the Alliance keep.
4. The “There’s broken pieces of stuff out there, go pick it up!” quests. Aren’t those always a blast with 20,000 people all trying to pick up the same gear and piece of wood?
3. Murlocs. Say no more.
2. Mammoths! Not the mounts, but roving herds of mammoths are a skinner’s dream come true.
1. Those animal-loving druids accomplish the exact opposite of what their charter says. You’ll want to slaughter the mammoths just to p!ss these guys off.
BRK’s Top Ten Reasons for Starting Out in Howling Fjord (Alliance-biased)
10. The longest d@mn boatride ever.
9. A to B to C progression. If you like a bit of order to your questing, this is your starting area. Follow the roads, everything is clearly marked, it’s obvious when you’re going in the wrong direction, or headed somewhere you shouldn’t be.
8. The buring boat. That’s a “Welcome to Northrend” sign from the locals.
7. The Alliance starting town is basically a disaster in-progress. If you like chaos, start here.
6. The first instance is right, frickin’ there. No flying, no searching, no uppity talking dragons, just walk up and do it.
5. Dwarf explorers. The carpet. The costume. Best Alliance quest line in Northrend. You’ll love it.
4. Horde starting area is like the landing on Normandy. Get on the beach and kill everything!
3. Frickin’ vertical as all get-out. Mountains and cliffs and huge trees! And the Trams and elevators rock.
2. Blue Chimaeras. You don’t have to hunt for Nuramoc anymore if you love this pet but hate them in green.
1. The elite orca and the penguins. That’d be a great band-name, too.
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