Reflections From The Pond

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Ah, yes, it seems I need help finding you, Master Glowergold.

Perhaps I need new glasses?

Or are you in stealth?

Oh wait, there you are!

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It is about time the gnome community is given due recognition! To facilitate this, the Gnome Rights Party – represented here by the guild Single Abstract Gnoun – gathered up for a Gnome Pride march to Ironforge to present King Magni Bronzebeard with a Gnome Rights Charter!

To proceed through the wintry landscape of Dun Morogh with dignity we practised forming an orderly line,

but as orderly lines were not in the charter we soon abandoned that line of though, thus we could proceed any which way we wanted.

Ironforge is huge and there are muchos interesting things to see, to examine, to avoid falling into,

to be aghast at (stepladders to be provided free of charge is a demand in the charter).

Other areas if research included how many gnomes can fit into the skeleton jaws of an old beast.

But fear not, these interesting old fossils did not deter the Gnome Pride Party from accomplishing our mission! We had an audience with the king,

and although he did not say either aye nor neigh to our demands, he accepted the Scroll of Gnomes Rights Charter (sorta) gracefully and we went on about our other businesses!

Like, what to do when you hit the Big City? Take a refreshing dip in a public ablutionary facility of course!

And when we were all clean and fresh again, what was the question everyone asked? Well. where’s the booze, of course!

And luckily the nearest boozer was not very far away!

After downing a few refreshing beverages of your choice it was time for us to go our separate ways once again, but before that we were gonna show the world gnomes are not to be taken lightly anymore by demonstrating on the steps of the IF bank!

Sadly, a lot of the world seem to think gnome punting still is acceptable behaviour, and that parking your big fat elekk on top of us was a hilarious move.

But us gnomes are small resourceful to say the least, and cunningly we snuck into the bank where the big beasts could not follow!

Turns out the big people still can find ways to be rude and try to obstruct the gnomes’ fight for equal heights rights and lower doorknobs, though, like popping a fire elemental in the midst of our formation…

Anyway, the Gnomes Right Party will undoubtedly prevail and soon we will have our own beloved city back again!

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Added: For more coverage on the Gnome Rights March check out

- There ain’t no Gnome like a blogger Gnome at Blueberry Totem.

- The SAN campaign for Gnome Rights part 1 and part 2 at Stories of WoW.

- The Events which shape us at I can do alts, me.

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…you’re staying here.

Jones, cat, survivor of the Nostromo, last seen on the Weyland-Yutani space station.

Location nowadays: unknown.

Or is it?

Look what I found in the Legerdemain Lounge in Dalaran:

I just hope the aliens won’t be lurking somewhere too…

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Gnomes are rather small, you know, and for some weird reason they have the largest mounts in all of WoW. Maybe they feel a subconscious need to compensate for something, but the fact remains, all gnomes manage to choose the largest of the flocks for their mounts so they can look down on the lesser races from their high saddle perches.

And the largest of all mounts is the mammoth. So a gnome on a mammoth must be pure win, right?

Paynne, the fearsome gnome warlock, recently found to her pleasant surprise that amongst her ambling meandering dungeon runs she had actually managed to scrape together a total of 317 Stone Keeper Shards.

And of course you all know what you can buy for a mere 300 such shards? That’s right, the Wintergrasp people sell a Black War Mammoth for that measly sum.

If you look closely you can see the blue-clad black-haired gnome in the saddle, and for those who can’t I will handily provide a close-up:

…and yet another one:

Who are you calling small?!?

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Cuddling, the Draenei hunter with the most beautiful pet in the world, is growing and recently she finished off a quest in Borean Tundra which awarded her a Gun!

Now, Cuddling is not a fan of guns really because of the loud sound they make, scaring every prey within a kilometer off once she presses that trigger. No, much to the annoyance of the resident hunters of her guild, she’ll take a silent deadly bow or possibly crossbow over a gun any day.

But this was a blue gun, and she was toting an old green crossbow which she had found lying in a ditch somewhere in Outland, so she set her doubts aside and woved to get a silencer asap, donned a pair of ear protectors, grabbed the gun from Thassarian’s clutches and threw her old crossbow out.

Only to find out that her Gun skill was the amazing 1/360.

So what’s a girl to do?

Well, she travelled to Ironforge, entered the Deeprun Tram and set about to single-handedly exterminate the entire rat population there.

Armed with her gun and cheap bullets she made a macro to speed up her shoot-out:

/target Deeprun Rat
/cast Autoattack

And the shooting started. As the rat kills numbered in tens and then hundreds, passengers arriving or leaving on the Tram had to detour around the rat corpses piling up, and some even stopped to admire her dedication to keep the rat infestation of the Deeprun Tram at bay, or possibly question her sanity.

“You really have a problem with rats, don’t you?”

It didn’t take her long to kill the 400+ rats needed to max her gun skill, and get a few Sword skillups as well from a ferocious rat or two coming to close.

But it is a bit too noisy for her liking, and she will keep her eyes out for a new bow or crossbow.

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You see the reddish-black flower to the left of Cuddling the hunter?

That is a Black Lotus!

Why is that little flower significant enough to warrant an exclamation mark, you wonder?

Well, Cuddling is my third herbalist, Joaquime the druid and Larue the shammy have been picking herbs all over the world of Azeroth as they were levelling, and this is the first time (that I can remember) I’ve actually seen a Black Lotus in the wild!

The herb is very very rare, allegedly it only spawns in one (random) location per zone with an hour before respawn. It was very sought after back in the days because it was an ingredient for all flasks as well as the Gurubashi Mojo Madness, needed to summon a boss in Zul’Gurub.

Due to its rarity it cost about 40-50 gold on the AH, which was a looot of gold back then. It was half a horse in a time when many people struggled to raise enough gold for that first lvl 40 mount!

Paynne the warlock is a tailor and had managed to scrounge up enough reputation with the Cenarion Circle to buy the pattern for the Satchel of Cenarion, so I bought the Black Lotus off the AH, made the herb bags XL and sold them for about 150 gold, quite a nice profit (although the Mooncloth cost a fair bit to make too).

They are not used for anything from TBC or WotLK, they cannot even be milled for Inscriptions. I picked it anyway, maybe it will net me a few gold still on the AH :-)

This here is my guild!

Well, almost half of it anyways, about 35 of the 85-ish unique members of Ascendo Tuum joined up this night for a guild photo shoot at the top of the stairs to the Dark Portal to mark the momentous occasion of the upcoming expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

Quite a few of us were there on time and I, being a good warlock, had brought 2 huge bags full of Soul Shards, so as people logged in we invited them to the raid and summoned them to us.

(I am the small one on the left in front in the pretty purple dress.)

This was not my first guild photo session actually, I took screenshots on another momentous occasion some time ago too: The drunken Silvermoon City Raid!

We started out with a picnic in Blade’s Edge Mountains.

(Note Jools’ pretty summer dress that sparkles and flames when she dances.)

A guildie had been rising in the ogre ranks and was now hailed as King of the Ogres! He invited us all to join the party and we all took to quaffing a lot of Ogre Brew.

Quaffing has a side effect though, it makes the surroundings blurry!

We were gonna have us some fun in this highly inebriated state! We hearthed to Shatt, took the portal to the isle and flew off to Zul’Aman!

Ogre Brew stays in your system for a loong time! And no, we were not going to ZA, we had a slightly higher aim than that – we we’re going for the Belf boss!

And the Belf Bashing was a great success! Their leader was going dooooown!

But the Belfs were calling in the reinforcements and suddenly we were the ones going down instead…

And this was my very first Ascendo Tuum guild photo ;P

So, Hallow’s End has ended and we are all a bit more well-endowed in the epix department, some of us has completed the achievements for that Hallowed title, some has a new pet, a funny hat or a hat that laughs. Some lucky bastidds may even ride around on a flaming horse.

But the best thing this Hallow’s End brought imo was the chance to use a pretty fun variety of a classic Mae West line…

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