{"id":9124,"date":"2010-08-30T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2010-08-30T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:22:42","slug":"postcards-from-wow-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9124","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from WoW, Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has finally happened. After more than nine days(!!!) of accumulated playing time, nearly sixty levels, a couple dozen dungeon runs, and countless hours of wiki-reading, I am at long last sick and tired of this damn game and all its crap.<\/p>\n

wow_explore_kalimdor.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

This is actually a good thing. I needed to reach this point. As with Champions Online and Lord of the Rings Online, I find the writing flows better once I push through the initial obsession stage. As the charm wears away I’m more and more able to see the mechanics and the lore and find humor in them. <\/p>\n

When I write a Let’s Play I do so by running through the same content again and again, so now that I’ve lost interest in my main character I’m mucking about leveling alts through the early game. Which leads to…<\/p>\n

wow_bowhaver.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

My new hunter Bowhaver and his faithful tiger Eisenhower. Bowhaver is named after mister gun-possessor himself<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Shadowless, my recently-shelved main character, has pets with Old Testament names. (Aside from Eddie<\/a>.) This one will have presidential pets. I really, really wanted to name my pet Nixon, but that name is verboten for some reason. Garfield would be better for a cat, but I’m sure that one will be forbidden for other reasons<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Of course if I get a bear I’ll name him Roosevelt. <\/p>\n

Note to self: Get bear.<\/p>\n

wow_crystal_cave.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

A crystal cave, which is located in Un’Goro crater. I love this place. I wonder how many people even get this reference. It borrows from Land of the Lost<\/a> – the original Saturday-morning show from the 70’s, not the recent Will Ferrell remake<\/a> – which was part of the Krofft Super Show, which I wrote about<\/a> back in 2007. In both the show and the World of Warcraft zone, you’ve got this valley filled with dinosaurs, and a series of mysterious pylons that are controlled with colored crystals. In the show, the Marshal family gets stuck in the Land of the Lost. In WoW, the base camp is called Marshal’s refuge.<\/p>\n

wow_smoke.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

I logged in last weekend to find the Goldshire<\/a> inn filled with plumes of colored smoke. This place is usually filled with dueling nutters and people trying to roleplay. (Lots of overlap in those two groups.) But this time it was just smoke. I have no idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has finally happened. After more than nine days(!!!) of accumulated playing time, nearly sixty levels, a couple dozen dungeon runs, and countless hours of wiki-reading, I am at long last sick and tired of this damn game and all its crap. This is actually a good thing. I needed to reach this point. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}