Thursday, June 21, 2007

State of the Voltron Force

I think it's time--mostly because I haven't posted here in nearly a month--to do what every leader does from time to time, give a "State of the X" speech. And I'm pleased to announce that the State of the Voltron Force is. . . (wait for it. . . wait for it. . .) EVIL!

Yes, evil! I'm so proud of you guys. You've come so far from the days when you wouldn't gank Sanura's alt in the Gurubashi Arena, even though you were 20 levels higher--then corpse camp her all night--to the minions of evil that you are now. It just brings tears to my eyes. Cold, evil tears of evilness. And it's not just you guys, but you're hanging out with evil friends too! This DnA group--they're great sidekicks in evil. If you're skeptical of this, I have photographic evidence and a great story to tell.

Last night, this guy named "Pallydone"--how evil is that, he's a Paladin that lets all those goody-goody Dranei and Human Paladins know that they're done--and our very own master of demonology Thanatas (one day you might even create a robeast as cool as my Shadowfiend, but not as evil) send me tells saying that they need help killing this big scary dragon of goodness and ask me to come heal the fight. I said okay, and the next thing I know, I'm standing on the top of this narrow mountain out on some god forsaken rock off the astral coast of Shadowmoon Valley. We're talking like a tall, narrow number two pencil sticking out of the ground mountain. Down below there are all these level 72 elites that are pretending to be evil, but clearly aren't evil enough to scale mountains like us, but still, it's pretty evil and awesome out there.

But anyways, they all talk like they're going to kill some dragon, and I'm like "dragon, I don't see no stinken dragon." Then they tell me that I need some special goggles to see into some "ghost world." And now I'm getting skeptical. Ghost world eh? That sounds cool--but it's obviously too cool and too evil for Blizzard to have come up with. Like they ever would do something as cool as make 5 people stand on top of this tiny mountain and fight a ghost dragon. Please. If you've been to Onyxia's Lair and dealt with the creative genius that is the "Deep Breath," you know why I'm skeptical. Ghost Dragon, right...

So, being pretty skeptical, they tell me that they've engaged this ghost dragon. I look for it, but don't see it. Then again, it could be that I'm a healer and was only looking at health bars for the whole fight. But all I see is Pallydone's health bar dropping, along with the shaman in the party. I figured they just brought me out to heal a duel, but not wanting to be too evil-sided, I healed both of them until they stopped losing health. I figure one ran to the other side of the tiny mountain and canceled the duel.

Then they all got on their flying mounts and flew away, leaving me all alone on top of this 2x4 rock with no flying mount and a hearthstone with a 40 minute cooldown. And there are all these like super badass elite beasts that are too dumb to bow before me below. See for yourself:



They lead me on a snipe hunt. Those, evil, awesome people summon me out to a rock in the middle of nowhere, "fight" an invisible mob, then fly away. It was so evil, I wish I had thought of it myself.

After we had a good laugh, they let me in on killing some real and visible dragons, and then we freed that evil Far Seer Thrall in Old Hillsbrad, and it was fun.

So, as you can see, the state of the Voltron Force is evil. And all is well.

(PS - I think that the snipe hunt is going to be the new Rag cut scene.)