L90etc groupies (pt 2)

So after the band's set, before their bodyguards snatched them from crazy fans, Christene had gotten to trade pleasantries with Mai'kyl. She ran back and pulled us far enough away from earshot of others.

"So get this, they stay at Silvermoon City between concerts, usually on the balcony of their loft in the Walk of Elders.  He told us to go there and he'll give us a message somehow, on when and where their next venue will be."
"How long do we have to wait to go there? put up a Mage portal and lets go there now and wait for them! Come oooooooon" Spammusubi whines.
"Calm yourself woman!" Medelys snaps back. She was almost gonna smack her she was getting all hysterical.
"Lets just go and enjoy the rest of the Faire and meet back here in an hour and Christene can port us then." Hellgurl says.
"Alright lets go" says Medelys
I had to do some stuff anyways, and whatever I didn't get done I can finish after we're done with our mission. Played all the games I wanted to for the day. Time seemed like it was dragging.
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Alright that was an hour time to head back to the bleachers where I left them. "Where is my sister?... typical, she's always late. Well I'm not gonna hold this portal open for her if she doesn't get here. We're gonna do this without her" says Christene "She's coming, she won't miss this opportunity, I know it." I say defending my first friend I ever made. "There she is, don't close it!"

Her portal puts us all the way opposite where we have to go. Sadly Silvermoon City rules does not allow flying so we have to abide by the City laws and ground mount-up. I get out my Tundra Mammoth with 2 extra seats and Medelys gets on her Mechano-Hog with a sidecar. Christene and Spammusubi jump on my mammoth and Hellgurl jumps in Medelys' sidecar.
We rode all the way down to the Walk of Elders and stop a good distance away from the balcony.
"OMG! there they are!" squeals Spam
We all dismount and walk casualy down the lane not to draw too much attention.
On the bottom of the balcony, their manager  is there talking to 3 other people.
"I wonder if we can sneak by him undetected" says Christene. Then we all look at Spam and smile "Fine ya jerks! I'll hang back here, just hurry up"
"Wait!, I think I might have to stay back here too, Michael saw me at the Faire. He'll know I'm not just a lost tourist. This is your guys' city. He wouldn't question Blood Elves around here" I say to Med and Chris.
"Alright I'll go, Mai'kyl is expecting me anyways" says Christene. She walks around like she was going to leave the City, then glances over her shoulder and when they weren't looking she used her Blink ability and it put her right where she needed to be at the bottom of the balcony. Chief Thunder-Skins sees her down there. "Hey Mai'kyl, isn't that the chick you were talking to at Darkmoon?" Mai'kyl comes over and looks down, "Oh ya mon, she and her frens be wantin ta know where da next show be at. I made dis, toss it down." Mai'kyl hands Chief a Happy Fun Rock wrapped with a note. "Make sure you don't knock her out big guy" says Sig.
Yeah that would suck really bad if he had knocked her out, funny, but bad. Not only will I feel bad for my friend just getting beaned in the head with a rock, but we wouldn't find out where they would play next, haha. Happy fun rock made it down to Christene with no injuries.
Christene and Medelys made their way back to us and we all walked to the Bazzar to read the note wrapped around the rock. Trying not to draw attention to ourselves, we walked arm in arm to help the other contain our excitement. "open it, open it!", "Calm down cow!" Medelys snaps at Spam. Christene reaches in her pack for the rock and unwraps the note and reads it:
She wanted to see us.

Had a ticket, but lost it.

A land no one wants to visit anymore.

There she will find what she is looking for.

Travel by serpent gate.

Red land is all you see for miles

A time just before the sun goes down.

Try to appreciate the land while you are Out and about.

Here you will be when the World Ends

"What the heck does that mean? It's a bunch of cryptic jumble! we'll never figure this out! What are we gonna do?!" *Smack* Medelys' hand red from almost slapping the fur from Spam's face. "Ow!" cries Spam. "I told you to calm down, we can figure this out. Hellgurl take look at it, see if you can figure it out" Medelys hands the note to Hellgurl. "Hmmm, blah blah blah, Serpent gate, blah blah blah, Out and about, blah blah blah, Worlds End... the sounds kinda creepy, do they know when the world will end? Well Im guessing it's somewhere in the Outlands, a place no one wants to go anymore, red land is Hellfire, and there is a serpent at the top of the Death Gate." Hellgurl passes the note to me, and I look it over. "Shatt! look at the first letter of every line, SHATTRATH." Everyone crowds around me to look. "Medelys, isn't there a pub there called Worlds End Tavern?" Ah yeah, I had a couple of ales in there before, Holy cripes!, you guys figured it out! Lets go!" Christene puts up a port to Shattrath. We all go through and head for the Tavern.
As we're running down the ramps we can hear music playing already. "Omg! this is so awesome!" We stop at the entrance and look in to see if it's real and not just their music playing on the speakers. Nope! it was really them! No one is there. They'll be playing for just us and the tavern regulars. No crazy fans pushing and shoving us to get closer. Just a drunk ogre laying on the floor that we have to make sure we don't step on if we decide to get a 5man mosh pit going. I don't know if they gave the same cryptic note to other fans, but I feel special that even if we weren't the only ones, we were the first ones to figure it out. This Night will be epic, hanging out with my friends, and rocking out to a live concert of the best band in Azeroth... Level90EliteTaurenChieftain

L90etc groupies (pt 1)

Level90EliteTaurenChieftain



This weekend was Amazing!
I had so much fun with 4 of my best friends (Medelys, Christene, Hellgurl, Spammusubi) Because we are always busy with our own lives, we hardly get to hang out. So one day last month we promised each other that we would go to Darkmoon Faire when they come back into town, which is the first full week at the beginning of the month. The girls wanted me to plan it all because in their words, I was the Oldest!. Gee thanks! I knew they were just kidding, but they're not wrong... sadly.

The rest of the faire was awesome, don't get me wrong, but what made this week Epic was the last day of the Faire. Level90EliteTaurenChieftain Concert during the Fireworks closing ceremony was crazy fun. Everyone is waiting around for the band to come on and watching the fireworks. We were all sitting on the bleachers when the ground starts to shake, "holy crap! it's a trap were all gonna die!". "Spam! calm down before I crack you on the head with my mace, It's all part of their show". says Medelys. "Ohhhhh"
They started freaking out like screaming little girls. It was hilarious, partially because they looked ridiculous, and the other part because that's how I felt inside, but was too embarrassed to show it, I'm old after all, whatever. I watched the show while sitting down completely mesmerized by the one and only Sig Nicious. *swoon* He is so handsome, I felt color flush back into my cheeks.

Little did I know the girls were huddled in a circle whispering and plotting something that would forever change the way I thought of my social ineptitude. Medelys walks up to me and says "Skully! we have a dare for you... We dare you to go around back and ask to get backstage."... "Are you serious?, they wont let me in" I snapped back. "Ok, If well they refuse to let you back there then climb on stage and dance next to Sig,,, Unless you're too chicken... or Old, you pick"... "You guys are jerks you know that... Fine!" I can't believe I just agreed to it. I think I was still in shock or something while I walked back behind the stage.

Standing at the end of the ramp is the Band's Manager Michael Schweitzer. Of course he declined my request, which I knew he would. Now I have to get on that stage somehow. I went around to the front and started dancing in front of where Sig was playing. Trying to get his attention, I even found myself jumping up and down like an idiot just so he would look my way.

The next thing that happened almost made me faint right where I stood. Sig stuck out his hand and pulled me onstage. OMG! OMG! OMG! is all I could think of... I danced by him for what felt like slow motion eternity, until the bouncer jerks took me off stage. I didn't go kicking and screaming like I always pictured myself doing while getting drug offstage against my will, and getting ripped away from my celebrity crush. Whatever! I begged them to let me go back on and pointed out that it was Sig who brought me onstage, I didn't jump on myself. Argh!!!  FINE!

So I went back in front and watched the show with my girls and we rocked out like no ones business. I looked over to Christene and she had one of her devious looks on her face like she had a brainstorm that was ready to explode, all while her gaze was focused on Mai'kyl the Bassist. When she wants something, she will get it. And that was the look of a Frost Mage that wants something and in the end, will end up getting it. (to be continued...)

Old Ironjaw

 I've heard so much about this elusive fish named Ironjaw that swims in the Forlorn Cavern in Ironforge. Um Yeah, Alliance City Ironforge, you heard me right.
I need to catch him! I really didn't feel like dying so I decided to try to see what Vdara was up to. I had a plan to sneak into Ironforge, and I knew I could get to the fishing spot undetected but as I'm there fishing, I need help from her to ask the Alliance that see me, not to kill me.  Thank goodness she said she could come, so I told her to meet me there.
I Couldn't just walk through the front door. I had to go through the back, and by the "back" I mean by tram from Stormwind. I just have to keep my fingers crossed that Deeprun Tram is vacant at the time I happen to fly in. When I fly in, I can't stop or the Guards will spot me and come after me, and yes kill me. They do not detain, or torture, or give you a slap on the wrist and let you go on your merry way... they just flat out will kill you! Which is why I needed Vdara.
So I made it to Ironforge via the Tram, mounted up and just ran. Tinkertown was empty but I did catch the attention of one guard that was a little pudgy and after about 10 yards he gave up and I saw him walking back to his post.

Hall of Explorers was the next area I had to make it through. I wasn't about to slow down, the Cavern was just on the other side. I was able to make it across undetected but just to be on the safe side, I dismissed my horse, jumped in the water and stayed at the bottom for a good 10 minutes. While I was down there I decided to take off my clothes and put it in my bag. If I need to run, my clothes will weigh me down.

There was no ledge to stand on so I had to fish in the water. got about 10 casts in when I saw an Alliance stop, turn and came towards me. Crap! I cant take out my Scythe fast enough if I need to fight, and I'm gonna be fighting in my underwear, great! "Skully! it's me!" Holy shit!, I was so relieved.
"Alright, what do you need me to do?", "Just stand by me and talk to any Alliance that comes by wanting to kill me. Just tell them that I'm a friend that just wants to fish up Old Ironjaw. If they refuse
I will pay them to keep quiet."

So we stand there and chit chat about what's been going on with us since the last time we seen eachother. Which was A LOT to catch up on. During the time fishing Vdara had to talk to about 3 Alliance that were so kind to just let me be and fish for my fish. they even all told her to tell me "good luck"... how nice!.

About 80 casts in I feel a very strong tug on my line. I figured I just caught some rubbish again or a junk fish. but this one was not lettin' up. I fought with it for about 5 minutes, which felt like an eternity and my hands were hurting. OMG! arrrggggghhhh. pull this fatty up! AHHHH!!!!! Ironjaw!!!!! "Holy crap! I got him, I got him!"  Vdara cheers while I was in shock and when it hit me I cheered myself.

"Thank you so much for helping me with this", "No problem!, I'm glad I got to see you catch him. I was starting to wonder if he was even real. I can't believe you caught him!"
She had to go, we said our byes, and I ported back to Orgrimmar. I took out Ironjaw to look at him in the light and several people came over and asked a bunch of questions and congratulated me on my find. It was awesome!