Loly

Are you like me? Do you like to read game message boards for entertainment and developing drama?

In the case of Warcraft, this is really all I can do with their perma-broken board system — rarely is the system operational for tasks such as SEARCH or POST or REPLY, which kind of is the point of a message board system. It’s not a freaking chat room, after all.

Anyways, a couple of good dramas have been playing out lately. First, we have the Chinese farmer invasion. The accused is Loly, et al, who has level 60 paladin characters on many of the servers. Or there is a huge coincidence with numerous non-English speaking Lolys that spend 24 hours a day in the same zones on multiple servers.

Maybe Loly means “Unshowered” in a foreign language, which would explain the name’s popularity. In any case, I have a Loly on my server, also. Level 60 paladin. Completely incoherent. We had a conversation once, as it were, when I was putting the beatdown on some pirates for fun and profit, and he said something like, “OK here when”, to which I replied, “huh? Dude, that made no sense.”

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I Can Violate Human Rights, Too

I had some leftover quests to finish up before I could leave this Warcrack zone that I’ve grown to hate. I’ve been here so long, I’m on a first-name basis with the graveyard spirit.

Anyhow, I meet up with a couple of e-friends to finish these and we trot over to the target hunting grounds and begin whacking on some elite ogres. These were kill quests — the elite mobs were just under our own levels — so shouldn’t take long and we can finally, blissfully, kick the dust of that town off our boots.

While we’re a-whacking, along comes a lower-level paladin to do his own whacking. He asks in /say which quests we’re working on, and as we were engaged in group conversation at the time, we didn’t respond immediately.

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