Legacy of Oblivion

On the day of the scavenger hunt, spirits were high. And seeing as how it was January 1, it was a good time for reflection on the previous year.

What a fine year in LoO, indeed. I was even feeling amicable toward Zug.

Mark that on your calendars, folks, because you don’t see that every day. Ah yes, we were filled with the joy of life and the beauty of friendship. Everything was beautiful that day, and we all rejoiced in innocence and youth!

Thankfully, Rapine was there to ruin it.

The conversation actually worsened but I have decided to spare you. Just trust me on this one. You’ll thank me later.

At 6:45pm, LoOnies headed down to the Shimmering Flats. Daisy was looking pretty hot in her Daisy Dukes, but there were a bunch of alliance folks marring the scenery. There was only one thing for the LoOnies to do: Kick some alliance ass. So we did.

Har har!

During this time, DocSeuss made his appearance… finally, after waiting a bazillion years to get my character select screen because of all the new noobs that are clogging up our server. (Thanks, noobs!) Arcadi quickly separated everyone into their respective groups, and waited for them to think up team names for themselves. Some of them were not being very quick, and were in danger of a name being assigned to them by Arcadi – dangerous stuff. With that in mind, everyone quickly named themselves. Our distinguished groups were:

Greenballs, Inc.
Iraas
Rapine
Rhuinn

Grim’s Reapers
Grimvalt
Krushed
Thundrax
Raste

Zug’s Slugs
Zugzugdaman
Toetem
Autumnwolf

With the groups ready and waiting, DocSeuss gave his final words to send the groups off on the hunt.

And then they were off! In fact they were rocketing off so fast that they actually appeared to be standing still for the first 10 minutes. After they all gated to Orgrimmar, the judges hung out in Shimmering Flats to monitor the situation. According to the guys, the situation was fine, blonde, and wearing some really short shorts.

The scavenger hunt list was basically split into four different categories:
1. Item Gathering
2. Screenshot Gathering
3. Riddle Solving (which resulted in an item that needed to be gathered)
4. Write a haiku about how much Zug sucks.

The list of things to gather was all over the globe, so each team needed to locate items and decide quickly what their strategy was going to be. The judges sat back to watch how the teams were going to tackle their list.

Then this dude showed up.

He was very surprised to see our level 5 DocSeuss hanging out in such a dangerous place, but Arcadi was there to defend his honor. Somehow, this dude got the wrong idea about the Doc. As we all know, this isn’t the first time. I think the skirt throws everyone off.

Because we were monitoring the teams’ activities, we knew Rhuinn was in Orgrimmar.

I always had a feeling about Rhuinn. You know what they say about the quiet type.

When he was finally gone, we continued to monitor the groups as they were clearly picking their strategies and heading out to different places all over the globe. The judges had worked really hard on the list, but unfortunately there were a few things that there lootable by Alliance only.

Uh, I mean – we meant to do that! As Arcadi declared, they were Red Herrings! We totally planned that.

Our riddles were also a big fave of the game. Once Zug’s Slugs deciphered their meanings, Captain Zug sent the judges messages to tell us how he felt about them.

Other than that, things were going smoothly. Oh wait, no they weren’t.

You see, here’s what we did. On the scavenger hunt item list, we had listed ghosting into Stormwind, Ironforge and Darnassus and doing a group /rude to the city boss. Unfortunately, we had forgotten that in order to see foes in ghost form, you had to die somewhere near said foe. Zug’s Slugs, in a valiant attempt to catch the boss, suicided inside of Stormwind but couldn’t get close enough. To make matters worse, once you get into an enemy city, you are flagged for PvP, and that means all the alliance in the area are going to CC you. Upon hearing this the judges were incredibly distraught.

At this point we started giggling maniacally because we felt really bad. Along the same vein, sometime during the evening, Rapine’s karma caught up with him.

We actually thought that was hilarious.

On the other hand, let it be know that Greenballs, Inc. actually made it into Stormwind and got a picture of the King. They were the only ones to do it, too. I think we should have just called them “Balls, Inc.” instead because that’s impressive, my friends.

At this time, Caulbraen, riddled with guilt from the Stormwind debacle, ran back to Orgrimmar for booze.

Yes, let’s shee.

Other than that, the judges cannot take responsibility over any other issues that players may have experienced during the game.

Like that one.

After the 2.5 hours were up, the teams raced back to Shimmering Flats to turn in their items and screenshots.

Although all three groups had different strategies and were in different places all over the world, screenshots were surprisingly popular. In fact, most groups only turned in one or two items. Arcadi, our screenshot judge, had his hands full with all of the screenshots being emailed to him.

While we waited on our screenshot judge, we heard everyone’s haiku submissions.

From Greenballs, Inc.:

From Grim’s Reapers:

And from Zug’s Slugs:

Contrary to Zug’s statement, it was actually called “Untitled”. Because I am retarded, I didn’t get a screenshot of Autumnwolf performing the haiku.

Hark, there is Zuggles!
He sucks so much that God kills
a kitten for spite.

Poor Arcadi was still counting up the screenshots, so we played Dance Dance Revolution while we waited.

DocSeuss was taking screenshots of the event, rather than dancing. Rhuinn thought it was the prime opportunity to make her move on the Doc.

I’m sure you can imagine that Doc was pretty excited. I think he’s going to call her and ask her out to some dwarf killing on Friday. He’s so suave.

We were all having a good time until Zug’s flatulence problems started acting up again.

Luckily for us, Arcadi had the screenshot points added up, which Bara and I added to each team’s item and haiku points. If you read the title of this post, you’d already know who won. If you didn’t read it, and you need some help, then congrats Zug’s Slugs! Here’s a picture of our winners as they divided up the phat lewts.

The phat lewts were:
Arcanite Bar x3
The Silencer
Wirt’s Peener
Snowman Kit x2
Limited Invulnerability Potion x5
Swiftness Potion x5
Great Rage Potion x5
Major Healing Potion x5
Greater Arcane Potion x5
Rage Potion x5
Greater Rage Potion x5
Greater Fire Protection Potion x5
Major Healing Potion x5
Superior Healing Potion x5
Savory Deviate Delight x20
Stonescale Eel x20
Grilled Squid x20
Pattern: Felcloth Shoulders
And 255 gold.

The other participating groups received 10x Savory Deviate Delight and some chicken pets. Rapine and Krushed continued the dance fever with their new illusions, while Iraas stared at Daisy’s ass.

Not that I’m judging anyone.

All in all, a fantastic night for the LoOnies. Stay tuned for more fun and hilarity.