The Perfect Gift

 I am horrible at buying things for people. Sometimes I wish Dags and my imps would help me figure these things out. I mean they protect me and help me kill stuff, but sometimes just, you know, normal stuff I wish I had some help. It might be because I'm very selfish, but let's not mention that mkay. We'll just chalk it up to that I don't have much friends and I'm a loner for the most part. yeah, that sounds better.
Anywhos, I was chillin in the bank when I remembered it was Truth's Birthday today, and NO, a pocket calendar would not have helped me. I'd write it down and completely forget to even look in there again unless it was to jot another date down that I wouldn't remember. Hopeless I tell ya.!

Alrightee off out of the bank I go...
I always see a bunch of people at a vendor dude selling that rocket balloon car thing. Goodness I hate crowds. I just waited until I saw a break in the madness.
"What the heck is this contraption? It's a zeppelin! oh no it's a car blimp!" I exclaimed.
The vendor heard me and walked over.
"Oh no no this is a Dirigible. The term is an Earthen word that means 'to direct'. This beauty right here has excellent fuel mileage for all your Isle sightseeing adventures. " 
"Ahhh ok, yeah, so a blimp, you can direct that"
"yes, but Dirigibles are powered and steerable"

"Ok so a zepp..." I was cut off by the clearly annoyed vendor. 
"FINE! it's all those things! you win, you wanna buy it or not!" yelled the vendor.
"ohh. sure, how much?" I asked quietly

"90 thousand gold! not including fuel!" he yelled but with a less annoyed tone.

"um, I don't know if I have that much on me..." I said reaching into my pockets and a couple silver fell to the ground. "... "Are you gonna be here long?, I'll go get more gold out of my bank and be back later."
"They all say that and never come back. I'll be here all day" the vendor scoffed and turned his attention to another possible buyer.

Dags and I walked off. "I'm not broke! I have gold!" I mumbled under my breath. Man, Truth would love that gift so much. You know what, Dornogal is pretty much a vendor's dream city. There's gotta be something I can buy for cheaper that Truth would like just as much as a mount. "Let's go Dags! 

First shop we came upon was selling brew steins. There were ones made of wood and others made with metal and pretty gems on them. Just as I was gonna ask the vendor for prices, an angry drunk orc came up and started shouting at him. The vendor seemed not too bothered by the belligerent customer. 

I normally don't let other people sway my decisions to buy something, I'd prefer to buy and decide for myself, but because this was for a friend and the orc was complaining about product quality I slowly back away from the table and moved on to the next shop..

OH Gems!

Truth likes pretty stuff!

"Oh! Shiny! how much for this one?" I asked and pointed to the big emerald.

"ten thousand gold for that one" replied the gem seller.

"oh boy, ok, well I'll come back to you if I don't find anything else."

As I walked away, I thought that was way overpriced, but what do I know about gem prices. ugh!

Next shop Dags and I went to was selling HUGE pearls. I've never seen Truth wear pearls but these were super pretty and even I was impressed by the size of them.

"Hi!, how much for one of these?"

"thirty thousand gold and they also come with this wonderful shell that they were found in" the vendor replied.

"is it cheaper if I don't want the shell?" I asked thinking of having to lug this thing around.
"oh no, you taking the shell is just so we don't have to throw it away". she sounded a tad bit annoyed when she said that.

"ohhh I get it, that makes perfect sense, well I'm gonna go purchase a wheelbarrow and I'll be right back." I told her... which might have been a lie, and Dags and I bolted outta that place so fast. I'm not gonna carry around a huge shell lady, you crazy, I thought.

This is not going good at all, I visited several other vendors all ended with no gift purchase. And no! it wasn't because they were all expensive and waaaay out of my price range, I just wasn't really feeling a lot of them. 

I looked at maces, potions and flasks, Inscription and herbing shops, Wood carving and even stopped at a vendor selling literal Junk. I'm serious, there was a Junk vendor here in Dornogal. I mean I know the saying is true, One man's junk is another man's treasure. Even I find thrown out stuff and end up keeping them. No one ever wants to look in my bags, and bank. I've got stuff in there that this vendor would love to have in that shop. no joke. 

As I sifted through all the junk I started to really think about buying junk as a gift so I stopped digging. That's not cool...

Weeeeeel, Next shop here I come.

I saw a shop that had a pet house and some pet toys outside of it. This would be so perfect. Truth and I have been going around Azeroth doing pet battles lately, this would be the perfect gift. Either a pet or something for a pet. 

I walked into the shop and I know my sense of smell is not all there, buuuut at that point I wished it was completely shot. This place smelt terrible. As I looked at the pet collars I couldn't take it anymore, I turned to see where the smell was coming from and on the opposite side of the shop was an empty pen with a couple of buckets of poop.

What the heck! so gross!! why in the world would you keep that? There was no pet in sight, who knows how long it's been sitting there. Gross! At this point Dags already walked back outside, I didn't blame him. A little old Earthen lady came slowly walking in and apologized for the smell. 

"I'm so sorry about the smell little lady, I lost my assistant last week and I just sold my last pet right before you walked in so I didn't have time to clean up it's mess" she said as she hobbled over to the pen to the smelly buckets. 

Oh geez I thought, now I feel terrible
"Oh no no, it's fine. Here let me help you throw those away, I might know who would take this" I said as I climbed in the pen and grabbed the buckets. "Ohhhh, bless you sweet child" the old lady said as I walked out the door with the poop buckets. I immediately walked past Dags and headed straight for the Herbalist shop.
Thankfully the vendor was glad to take the poop, err fertilizer.

I walked out of the shop and Dags and I continued our hunt. 

Ok so I'm not a girly girl by far but Truth kinda is. So a light bulb went off in my head when I saw a barber shop. BINGO! girls love makeovers right? I'll get her a friggen gift ticket for a makeover! my search is over!!!!

I went in, bought a gift ticket for 100 gold and went to find Truth. 

I started at the benches by the bank because she's usually over there people watching with Shifty and other guildies... nope, not there. 

Oh I got it. A public work order announcement just came in for an Enchanting crest order... yup she's trying to snipe that I'm sure of it... sure enough there she was. 

"Truth!" I shouted from across the courtyard. She saw me, waved and quickly went back to the table.
"NOOO!!!" she shouted "Skully! you made me miss my work order! they were giving a 7k gold tip!".

"Oh snap! I'm so sorry! I'll make it up to you, first off Happy Birthday!... and now you gotta come with me"
"You remembered my birthday?! Thank you! where are we going?"

I said nothing and just ran back to the barber shop.

"I know you never said you wanted a makeover, but always hinted at wanting to change things up about the way you dress. so here." I dragged her into the barbershop, gave the girl behind the counter the ticket and sat Truth in the chair.  "Makeover GO!" I shouted.

"what? I don't know what to do, what do I get?" 
"I don't know, whatever, however you wanna look, just tell that lady and she'll do it... Dags and I will be waiting outside" I said.

As I waited for Truth to be done with her makeover stuff, I thought about all the nice things Truth does for me over the years... I don't really get her anything, like I said before, I'm a horrible gift giver and I have trouble showing my appreciation for people, I've lost friends because the way I am and she seemed to stick around even when I'm distant and get into my moods. This can't be all I'm giving her I thought. OK, I got it. Back to the bank I went and got out 100 thousand gold, ran back to the barbershop just in time for her to be done. 

"Wow!!! Truth is that you? You look so different! I love it!" I said
" I love it too" she exclaimed. Gone were the blond locks and in its place dark brown almost black hair. A pink dress replaced her usual purple hood and robe. "I'm so glad you like it! but I have one more surprise for you"

I dragged her back out of the barbershop and we went back to the Dirigible vendor from earlier. 
"Why are we over here?" she asked
"You want a new mount?" I asked
"a Dirigible? Skully, that's waaay too expensive?"

I pulled out my bag of 100k gold, not saying a word more to her I walked to the vendor, felt her try to grab me, I looked at Dags and he stood in front of her.
The vendor saw me, didn't even let me speak and said "you again?..."

"yeah, I'll take it..." pointing to the Dirigible. I grabbed his hand and plopped the bag in it.

"... and that's 10k more then asking price so it better be fuel'd up and ready to go... and if it breaks down.... oh let's say before the end of the Kalimdor Cup next month I'm coming back and getting a replacement..." I demanded "... and if you try to give me a hard time, well you'll just have to deal with him." I looked back and pointed to Dags.

"...uhhhh, no problem, I'll get it ready in a jif" the once rude now very cooperative vendor replied.

I walked back to Truth and Dags and She immediately asked me what I was saying to him.
"oh well um, you know I'm cheap right?, sooo I was just telling him that, that little lady over there, well its her birthday sooo I was just trying to get a discount, and what do you know, by golly he gave me one" I'm a terrible liar and I really think she saw right through it buuuut no other questions were asked. phew. 

As the name implies, Truth hates it when I lie and I'm a terrible liar, but I think it was for the best...

My best friend gets a mount for her birthday she always wanted, every time we walk past it in Dornogal, I see her looking at it. how could I not try to get it for her. 

The vendor came to tell us it was ready. She jumps in the drivers seat, he explains to her the controls and I jump on. As we were riding away she seemed really excited to have this new present....

"Hey Skully! you know what would make this even cooler?!... if this was purple and looked like it came out of the void!!...

Oh for F**k sake! 

Love event adventures

I woke up this morning in the Roasted Ram Inn and looked out the window from the room upstairs I rented last night. What is all the commotion and heart shaped fireworks I see going off in the air outside?. Hearts everywhere! There was a calendar on the wall and I see why... Love is in the Air started.
Greaaaat... Why!!?!??! I've only gotten four hours of sleep, yeah you'd think because I'm Undead I don't need to sleep. Well this Undead does! Ugh, fine, I'll get this day started. I walked down to the fountain and ran into my friend Datruth.

"HEY TRUTH!" I yelled. "Skully! look at my new puppy!" she replied. "Whaaaat?!?! where did you get that? I want one now" I whined. "Trading Post in Orgrimmar you can buy one" she told me. Oh fricken sweet I thought. "Thanks!! I'ma go get it now!" 

I got on my Pink rocket and Truth said she'd come with me. "Aww sorry this doesn't have a friend seat." I had to tell her. "Oh it's ok, go get your puppy, but come find me later. I'll be around here, I have about 10 Tailoring orders people want me to complete by the end of the day" she said.
"Okies! I'll be back soon" and I was on my way.

I took the portal to Orgrimmar and mounted on my rocket. I'm not used to driving this thing and I accidently went the wrong way. I ended up going outside of Orgrimmar gates and just figured I'ma make a big U-turn back into the city. All of a sudden my rocket started to sputter... "oh crap!" what is going on. I looked at the gas meter and saw it was on 'E'

"No no no no no!!!!

My rocket started to take a nose dive towards the ground! Oh crap! I'm gonna die I thought then I remembered I had my emergency whelps on a string I was given the other day by a Dragonkin Therazal when I was petting stagbeetles by the Valdrakken fountain. He said to only use it in case of emergencies... Um, this seems like an emergency to me.
I'm going down to fast to try to soulstone myself and I really don't feel like dying today. I grabbed the pack and read it...
"Five Baby Whelps to the Rescue"
"Directions: Open top and hold on tight to box"

I panicked cuz I had no fricken idea how this was gonna work. But it's either do as it says or die... so I did what the box said.

I unbuckled the seatbelt, kicked myself away from the falling rocket and opened the pack. Five whelplings attached to a string attached to the box I opened came springing out flapping their little wings taking me slowly down to the ground... Holy Crap! it worked! I'm alive!

As I was making my way down I noticed a faire going on behind me. I guess I was so blinded by the thought of a painful death I didn't even notice this when I was on my rocket. Ohhh Friggen hearts, this is for the Love fest Holiday, great. 

I finally landed and undid all the string from the whelps and let them fly away. I really need to get more of those boxes. Literally a life saver. I saw where my rocket went, summoned Dags and we walked over to the area. A goblin and a dark iron dwarf were by my rocket. "Hey lil lass this be yours?" the dwarf asked me as I walked up... "yes it is, I..." I started to explain before the goblin cut me off.
"What is wrong with you! how could you crash this, do you not know how to keep exquisite goblin craftsmanship in top condition? Fuel! this is out of FUEL! Do you know how many people would kill for these Pink rockets goblins work so hard to build! for what? for you reckless young folk to just crash it like it was a siege demolisher!"

"Gazlowe, clam down, go easy on the lass" the dwarf cuts him off before he chewed my head off even more... I really think he noticed Dags was starting to get upset at the goblin. "Look lil lady, we can fix this for ya and get it workin in no time, Fuel it needs yes, but ya also crashed it into the ground, other things need ta be fixed so it might take us a good bit. The names Thaelin and this grumpy sod is Gazlowe"
"Thank you so much sir, Yes please can you fix it, I will pay of course. I really love this rocket and I will do my best in the future to keep it in the best condition" I told Thaelin

"I know ya will lass. Go enjoy the festivities and come back in a coupla hours"

"ok, thank you again" and dags and I walked towards the faire.

The first thing I saw when I walked into the faire was a pink Mana Ray. I need this so much! I thought and then looked around how I can get this. I saw a bunch of people gathered around a Blood Elf by the tent near by so I stood in line and waited my turn. Lythianne was a faire vendor and the right person to talk to about gettin me one of these.

She had soo much questions for me. I mean I get it, she wants to make sure it's going to a good home and not someone that's gonna abuse it by overworking it flying around farming for herbs and ore. Definetly NOT a mount you want to ride into battle I guess. To be fair, I don't go around herbing or mining sooo I was not lying when I told her I wasn't gonna do either of those things and stress this thing out. I was about to leave when something in her tent caught my eye. "What is that thing?" I asked. 

"This right here is a date simulation modifier. Let's say you go on a date but it's all rainy, gross right? well, set this down and you can choose from four different options to change the weather. I personally love the fireflies option. Who doesn't want lighted butt flies swarming around you while you're trying to enjoy your romantic night out."
I'm pretty sure she was being sarcastic, but I couldn't tell...
"What the hell, I'll take it! I have no boyfriend to take on a date, but I wanna play around with this" 

"Oh hun, great, take a look around the faire and I'll finish packing this up and getting your Mana ray ready for it's new owner" said Lythianne. "okies, see you in a bit!"

Dags and I walked over to a booth across the way that was selling boxes of candies. The vendor behind the counter, right when I walked up was really trying hard to sell me these chocolates. "you want ta buy dez candy box undead? ya buy four, I give you deal" says Zin'boja the candy vendor.  "oh I don't know, I don't think my friends like chocolates" I told her "move along if you no buy, otha people wanna be buying my chocolates ya know." she snapped. I turned around and didn't see anyone in line but I didn't argue, I said "mkay" and left. 

I figured my purchases would be ready by now and really didn't feel like walking around this place. Single person bitterness??? nah. As I was making my way back to Lythianne I was beginning to question my decision to buy that sky modifier thing. Is this thing even gonna work? did I just get ripped off? I need to ask her some stuff.

"Hey there, I'm here to pick up my mana ray and sky changing dohicky, but I have a question.. What if this thing doesn't work. You talked it up like its really cool, so good selling job there, but what if I use it and it doesn't work, or I find it is not super amazing, can I get my money back?" I asked
"Oh no worries, I have a 100% satisfaction guarantee return policy on all my items I sell. But just to put your mind at ease, I have never had anyone return a purchase. unless they were buying if for someone, but the person already had it." she replied
"Ohhh great! that's super good to know!"... she handed me my box and took me to my mana ray. I petted it first then climbed up. "Thank you Lythianne!"
"You're welcome warlock! enjoy them!" I waved and rode off towards Orgrimmar. I'm still a bit sketchy about this toy so I really need to use it myself. I went to the portal room and stood there for a minute trying to think of what place has a sky that never changes and always stays gloomy that I could use this thing to noticeably change the sky. I got it!!! Shadowmoon Valley! that place has a super depressing, end of the world looking sky. I ran down the stairs to the Shattrath portal and walked in. Mounted up on my new mount which I named Manny and off we flew to Shadowmoon valley.  

Went to the big mountain in the center of this place and dropped the thingy... Hmmm, I think I'll do a drastic change. Apocalypse sky! I turn you HAPPY!!! The green fell clouds started to dissolve revealing bright blue sky and fluffy white clouds. WHAT THE FFFFffff......?!?!?!?!?
This is AMAZING! I need to go other places to use this... think think think where else has crappy skies that needs to be turned sunny. I got it! Come on Dags! We're going to Netherstorm!

I didn't want to get Manny tired so I chose to take the flight master from Shadowmoon Village here to Area 52 in Netherstorm. We landed and I looked around, I'll just drop it right here by the flight master post. Peaceful day! LET'S GOOOOoooooo!!!!!!!! OMG! I love this thing!!!! I need to show my friends this! But wait, I need to see this thing in action somewhere that you can't see sky at all but it's all dark. I got it! Zaralek Caverns! One more place Dags, I promise!

My hearthstone was set to the Roasted Ram Inn so I hearthed there, and took the flight path down into the caverns. Went to find an open area. We landed on a rock pillar, I put the toy down and selected Peaceful day again, and sure enough the cavern lighted up so bright. I could see all through the cavern so far away. Geez, Dags! we need more people to see this. I need more people to HAVE this like yesterday! I dug in my bag and grabbed out my Wrap of Unity cloak, put it on, pressed the neck clasp to start my port back to Orgrimmar. 
Went back to Lythianne and bought 3 more of these things, I would have bought more but that was all the gold I had on me. I bought 3 to give to 3 of my friends that I know will NEVER come to this Love faire. Truth, Shify and Sawce. I know they'll get a kick out of it! "Thanks Lythianne! I yelled as I rode off. "You're welcome! I told you it was an amazing toy, Take Care!" she yelled back. 

Portal room and back to Valdrakken. Went straight to the bench to find Truth. "TRUTH! omg I have something to show you! you're gonna love it so much!, hang on tho, give me a sec" Took a bit for me to catch my breath as I ran straight from the Orgrimmar portal down the stairs to the benches.
"Skully what's going on? Do you need to drink something?" Truth asked concerned.
"Naw, I'm good, here, check this out!" I continued huffin and puffin, I set out the sky changing thing "OK, push the button and select one of the options that pops up on the screen" I explained. "hmm ok, I'll pick this one" Truth picked the rainstorm modifier I told her to watch the sky. The sunny sky turned gloomy and clouds rolled in and it started to rain. "SKULLY! WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS THING!?!?!?"

I laughed and reached in my bag for my umbrella. "Here, get under. It's so cool right?, I have one for you too" and I continued to tell her all about how this thing works.
"Alright I'm done with this rain, lets change it back to pretty skies" I said. 
... and then I remembered why I went to Orgrimmar in the first place

Cripes! I didn't even get the puppy from the traders post... and then I remembered something else...
"Um Truth, you know those orders you were trying to complete today, did you finish any?"
"yeah, why?"
"Could I borrow some gold, I kinda crashed my rocket and a goblin is fixing it for me and I think he's gonna rip me off"
"hmmm naw, we don't need gold, I'll come and help with him." she said.
"TRUTH what are you doing?!?!?" I cover my eyes when I see Truth taking off her dress leaving her only in her bra and panties.
"What?, no way he's gonna charge you now... let's go get your rocket back!" she said

"oh my goodness"... classic Truth, finds any excuse to be running around half naked.

I miss writing

I stopped writing these a long time ago. I never stopped playing WoW or taking screenshots. I love doing both those things just as much as I did back then. I think it's easier to write when you live by yourself and you don't really play with other people in game. I had a lot of time by myself and my imagination kept me company. Sounds sad I know, but it was how I liked it. I live with family now and I play with other people in game so time to just stop and get my creative juices flowing kinda falls at the wayside. 

When I opened this blog the other day, I saw I have about 8 draft entries with screenshots attached to them and no writing. My motivation to get them done is there, however I think I'm a but hesitant to write because I don't think It will be as good as they were (at least I thought they were good anyways). Over the years I did go back and read them and I still enjoyed them. I enjoyed the adventures I took my toons on the screenshots I took to complete these stories. Can I come up with good stories again? I know there's only one way to find out.

Coming back....

Coming back.... but not as hard core as I was before.
Since I stopped playing WoW it always felt like I was missing something. I know that sounds dumb but it really was a game that I spent most of my time playing. It played as a therapeutic outlet for me a lot of times. I used it as an outlet when I wanted to escape reality and shitty life and the things that were happening in it. When I got dumped, it was there for me. Friends I made ingame mattered more to me then they will ever know.
I have a boyfriend (Jeff) now that does not play video games and didn't really want me getting back into the game because he knew how much time I have spent playing it. I have tried to stay away from everything WoW. This includes buying Blizzcon live streams, watching trailers, reading my WoW Blogs, Reading a couple old WoW books that I bought but never read...
But what broke me.... a couple days ago I went on my kindle because I wanted to start reading, not necessarily WoW books but just my kindle books in general, and a recommended book popped up... "Before the Storm" I bought it, and I'm just a couple chapters in and that was it... That's all it took to open the flood gates. Everything came rushing back to me, ALL my toons, my guild with all my gold, the Horde cities I saw everyday and I could give directions to anywhere you asked (I cant even do that in my home town), My friends I left with no notice I was quitting, all my screenshots on my hard drive, all my WoW blogs which I took so much pride in... All the money I spent on Mounts and pets from the Blizzard store. Everything!
Seeing me miss it so much Jeff told me to start playing again....
When I left the game, my built PC died. This ultimately was the deciding factor. I was in need of a quick fix for a computer and didn't care what I was getting. My main goal was to get one that I could use to pay my bills, surf the interwebs, and stream my Hulu and Netflix. I knew I was spending way too much time on WoW and not really having a social life outside of it. Jeff knows how much this game consumed my life, I also don't want him to regret letting me play again. I have set ground rules, that include not gaming all night!, limiting myself to a certain amount of time to play a day, not getting into raiding, Not caring how shitty my gear is... oh geez those are painful rules already. But if I want to keep the boyfriend happy as well, I must do these things. Besides the most things I miss is just getting on my toons, farming, working the Auction house, getting my screenshots, making up stories, just having fun. I was never one that was interested in End game content. I liked to wait till things died down, get better gear and go in and crush it solo... WAIT! NO!!! Im not going to focus on gear now on. dammit RULES!!!!
Alright now to end this entry. In a couple of days I will be getting my prebuild gaming PC, I will just go out and buy a bigger, nicer monitor. I am super excited, the whole download time will be torture for me. But until then, I think I'll take a look at my old screen shots and see if I can make stories out of some of them for now.
I will also make a copy of this for my "Daily WoW blog" I plan on keeping up what that Blog as well.
Deadskully is coming back Bitches!!!

Frozen account

I think its been almost a year since I've played WoW. I miss it terribly, and I have debated on adding more time to it but ive always stopped myself. The game consumed almost 10 years of my life. Ive had the best times while playing it. It took me to a place where I could escape RL and just have fun in an imaginary world. I mean for petesake I made this blog for my imaginary stories for my toons. Ive had a couple friends ask me why I stopped writing these because they've enjoyed it.
So this is just saying thank you for reading these when I post it, but It'll be a long while until I do another if I ever play again.

Grumpus... What the heck is a Grumpus?

Great Father Winter arrived in Orgrimmar the other day and brought along tons of gifts for the good little Horde patrons of Azeroth.
Christene was putting some Hexweave Bags on the Auction house that Deadskully gave her to sell. She Saw the big tree and went to see the presents and saw Great Father Winter. He stopped her and asked if she could help
"Look Great Father, As much as I want to help, I can't. I just help my friends with light duty work and flipping Auction House goods.  But don't worry I do have some people in mind that can help you out. I'll send them your way."

"Thank you so much Blood elf mage, I will be here waiting"
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I was in my Garrison just pootin around that morning. After sending some followers on missions I went to check my mail box.
Hmmm Christene usually send me dust for enchanting or gold from the items that I send her but this time she actually wrote something. My first thought was that something happened to Medelys her sister, and my best friend, but nope.
After I read it, it looks like I'm on my way to Orgrimmar to see what she's volunteered me for. I wonder if it pays good or in the Spirit of Winter Veil, I should just be a good samaritan and do a good deed. Bah humbug.... We'll see what it is.
I roll up the letter and I turn around, "Zhar'gak, you ready to go on an adventure. This might be interesting"
 Zhar'gak let out a creepy snarl... "I'll take that as a yes... lets GO!!!!"
I take out my Orgrimmar teleport cloak and off we went to see Great Father Winter!
Do I bow?
Do I curtsy?
Do I kiss his hand?
Do I bring HIM a present to put under his tree?

"Hi Great Father, my name is Deadskully and my friend Christene tells me that you need help with something.
"Oh yes young Warlock, indeed I do"
"Take these bushels of hollies, they will disguise your riding mount to look like a reindeer. Grumpus can't resist the taste of reindeer. You ride to where he lives and he will smell the reindeer, and that is when he will be at his most vulnerable and then you attack it."
"Grumpus huh? alright, we'll do it."
"Thank You so much Deadskully, I will notify Pizzle and her sister right away and have them meet you at your Garrison in Frostfire Ridge. They will let you know what else they need help with and answer any question you have about the task."

As we left Orgrimmar I couldn't help but think to myself, Great Father Winter sounds like a douche. Why the heck did I just agree to go find this creature and kill it for no reason? lure it out with it's favorite meal only to say 'just kidding!' and throw a couple of Shadow bolts in his face until it dies. That's not right. There's gotta be a good reason to this and hopefully this Pizzle person will tell me a logical reason or I'm gonna bail on this rubbish task.
I arrived at my Garrison and found Pizzle.
"Deadskully! Great Father Winter just let us know that you are here to help us defeat Grumpus."
"Hello Pizzle, yeah but before I go, can you tell me what Grumpus is and why we have to stop him? I didn't ask Mr Winter why, but now I think I should have asked more questions before I said yes."
"Alright, sweetie... sit... The story tells of a mean-spirited brute that would come in the night, in the dead of winter, and kidnap children that misbehaved. Back at his lair, he would present them with awful toys, and use their tears to spawn his minions. So there is a little more you have to do then just defeating Grumpus. The children need to be rescued from cages they are kept in. The horrible presents need to be destroyed with these bombs I will give you, And finally the minions of Grumpus needs to be killed as well. They are the ones that do the dirty work for Grumpus. They are the ones going to the towns and villages and taking the children."
"Oh Cripes, that is terrible!!!! Yeah kids will be naughty but, there's no reason to snatch them from their homes... Of  course we'll help!"
"Go now hun, there will be others there helping as well."

I got on my White Raptor, grabbed out the bush of holly and waved it above her head. hmmm, nothing happened. I got off and whacked it on her head a couple of times... nothing. plucked off some berries, smushed it in my hand and rubbed it on her... still nothing. I got back on her and just as I was gonna give up, she snatches the bush out of my hand and eats it. Snowy sparkles swirl around her... and she turn into the reindeer!!!. SWEET!!!! we ride to the mountains where Pizzle says Grumpus lives.
"What the....?!?!?!" That's Grumpus!?!?!? He's fricken huge!!!"
Looks like others were trying to kill Grumpus before I got there but right as I rode up he turned his attention to us, I'm assuming when he smelt my reindeer.
Ohhh crap I got off and my raptor turned back into a raptor. Grumpus saw this and started to get even more aggressive, probably he realized that there was no actual reindeer. "Zhar'gak GO!!!"
I dotted him up with corruption and agony and I needed to look around at where the cages of children were so I just cast drain soul on him so I didn't need to keep my eyes on him.
I also saw others coming to help take Grumpus out. Oh geez not only did I have to fend off Grumpus, I might have to take out some Alliance as well. Nightelf hunter stood next to me while his corehound pup fought alongside Zhar'gak and in the back of us was a human mage tossing arcane missiles at Grumpus. What are the odds one comes flying my way as well. As I'm still casting drain soul I feel Grumpus getting weaker and as long as those Alliance are attacking him, I can summon my Infernal or my Doomguard to attack them even before they know it.

No I can't, they could attack me easily right now if they wanted to, but they're not. We're all here for the same reason, Save the Children and stop Grumpus and his minions. so I decided against my urge to summon help to kill Alliance.
Grumpus was finally defeated, we all cheered and I looked back at the two. The hunter put his bow to his side and nodded, and the mage waved. I waved back at both of them and we all scattered towards the cages.
There's the kids in the cages. So much cages. I come upon a cage with 2 Draenei children. I break the lock with my scythe and gesture for them to run. If I said "RUN!" I don't know if they would understand. They followed me and we stopped when we saw the bags of evil presents that I have to destroy as well. I let the kids have fun blowin' those up themselves. Just my luck one of them would blow off one of their digits.  "Alright kids that's enough, you see those Alliance right there (I point to the hunter and mage)... stay with them and they will take you all back home to your families" I guess they understood because they ran to them."
"Ok Zhar'gak lets blow this joint!"

We found a calm quiet path out of there, but we had to pass sleeping minions. I got out my raptor and was beginning to run when she turned back into the reindeer. I completely forgot she was still under the holly effects. The jingling of the bells on her saddle woke one of the minions. It chased us and I thought we were all clear when another jumps down from an over hanging cliff and knocks me off of my reindeer "Ahhh! Zhar'gak help!!"
Grumpus' minions were 10 times smaller then him and much easier to kill but they do get overwhelming with several are attacking you at the same time. luckily we only had to deal with 2.
"Let's get the heck out of here now!"
We made it back to Pizzle and let her know the good news.
"Oh thank you so much Deadskully, go back to Great Father and he will give you a gift."
"Alright, Thanks Pizzle." and back to Orgrimmar I went.
"Great Father!!! we did it!!! Grumpus is no more and the Children are free!!!"
"Good job Deadskully, for your brave efforts take some gifts from under the tree before you leave. and have a Merry Winter Veil!!!"
"Thanks Great Father" I say as I grab some gifts from under the tree.
I sit down and open my gifts.
Red Wooden Wagon, fun!
Green Winter hat, cute!

Crashin' Thrashin Flamer Controller, awesome!
Merry Munchkin costume, huh? for one of my pets? Perky the Pug? alright...
I got out perky and was about to put the costume on him when he starts to do his butt scootin' thing.
"PERKY, quit it that's gross!"
he stopped
"NO! don't sniff it!!!, oh geez you're so gross dog. This is why I like rats better *wink*.

Alright dog, stay still... you got a present this year."
OK I put it on him and I will have to admit he does look extremely cute.
Red Winter hat and a light-up red nose.
Happy Winter Veil everyone!

Saving my Rhino

My initial mission to Storm Peaks got sidetracked. I went there to hunt for the Timeless Proto Drake that flies the skies.  After about an hour of flying around, I figured to ask Grom'arsh Crash-Site patrons and see if they can give me better areas to search. When I land, I go in the broken zepplin now used as shelter for the camp,
Moteha Windborn was at the nose opening. He greeted me and asked what I needed, As I was about to speak I hear a horrible beastly cry coming from the gulch .
"What the heck was that!?!?" I asked extremely startled.
"Down in the valley behind us are Wooly rhino herds. In the mountains surrounding them are blue proto drake nests.." explains Moteha.
"Oh goodness, ok I get it, that's terrible! Why don't you stop them?"
"It's not our place to stop them, young one. That is life, that is what nature intended...."
"I guess" I say all mopey as I walk out of the Zepplin to the edge of the cliff.
More depressing cries echo throughout the valley. I let out a sigh. Dags grunts to get my attention. I look up at him and he motions to the valley like he wants to do something about it as well.
I'm gonna get so busted for this if anyone finds out, but oh weeeeeellll.
"Dags, lets go rhino saving!"
 I take another look back to make sure no one is out watching, and I mount up on Windy, my West Wind Drake and we head towards the cries. I really don't know what I expected to see. The last time I was around this area I wasn't really paying attention to the wildlife that lived here. But even if I did, I don't think I would remember caring if I did see rhinos getting eaten by proto drakes. I didn't care about much back then. My heart was freshly dead I guess. But anywhos....
"OMG RHINOS!!!! they are so cute!!! I want one! Dags get me a rhino!"
He looks at me like I'm insane. Maybe I am, but still, I'd love one to ride around. I'm not a hunter so I don't have the ability to tame one with ease. So I will have to work my charm, I can do it... maybe.
"Come on Dags, lets go run with the rhinos!"
As Dags and I ran towards the rhinos, they were startled and I almost got trampled, so I had to be careful, because if I got trampled and hurt, Dags would not hesitate to kill them and that would not be my intention.
Just as I was about to stop running with them a Drake swoops down and snatches the biggest bull rhino up. Dags and I stood there, stunned. The Rhino's cry snapped us out of it.
We tried to run after it, but it was to late and too high for any of my spells to reach. My heart broke for the rhino, still alive, still trying to struggle free, but the Proto Drake's claws were just to powerful.
"Geez... nature sucks!"
I know it's taking the rhino to feed it's babies, but still... it's sad.
I was about to leave and just let nature take it's course, but in the distance I saw another travesty happening, This time it was a smaller rhino.
"Come on Dags ruuuuuun! we gotta stop this one!"
The drake was putting frost breath on the rhino to incapacitate it for the snatching, and we ran as fast as we could.
"Noooo!!!!" I shouted as if it was actually gonna stop.
It got too high for Dags to reach so it was up to me. I didn't want to kill it, because it does have a family and all so I just tagged it with Corruption, maybe the painful ticks would make it drop the rhino.
Cripes!!! it didn't work... Shadow bolt, one shot and it dropped the stunned rhino and it falls back to the snowy floor. The drake was still alive, but sadly corruption was still on it and the next couple ticks were strong enough to kill it. Dags stood in front of me as the drake plummeted to the ground. 
*sigh*
As bad as I felt, I was glad I was able to save the young rhino. I got the rhino up and started to back away thinking it was gonna attack me and Dags. But for some reason it didn't. It came towards us and we turned to run away and it followed us. Ummm ok little guy you wanna come with us. And it let me pet it.
While that was going on I didn't notice a Proto that crept up on the rock behind us. The drake let out a sharp scream... "Holy Crap!!!" The rhino knelt down, Dags helped me up onto its back and we booked it out of there. The Proto gave chase for a bit and then gave up when sadly it's attention was caught by another poor rhino that became it's next meal.
We were able to find a trail through the mountains and make it down to K3 with no issues. The goblins there were shocked to see someone actually on a wooly rhino.
Shizzle Slickslide the flight master in K3 asked where I wanted to go. As I thought about it, I declined her flight offer and figured I'd take me Garrison hearth.
My rhino needs a home to recoup. What better place then the Stable in my Garrison.
"Tormak, can you please take care of my Wooly Rhino." 
"Deadskully, it's very rare to see an adolescent wooly rhino tame enough to be ridden. How did you get him?" Tormak asked.
So I had to explained what happened to him all over again. I might have exaggerated how big the Proto drake was, and some other minor details that made my rhino saving effort seem super heroic. But anyways.
"Alright Wooly, you'll be safe here. Tormak will take good care of you, and you can make friends with the rest of my mounts. I'll see you soon"
I petted Wooly and Dags and I left my stable.