Usually on Sundays, I take it easy, both in Real Life (that you’ve heard so much about) and in Game Life. I do check the World of Warcraft Auction House a couple of times to make sure some ne’er-do-wells aren’t trying to lowball my corners of the market, maybe I’ll check combat supplies for the next week and empty the mailbox of Saturday’s sales.
Yesterday, however, I happened to glance at the clock and realized, sonuvabitch, it’s almost time for that fishin’ contest in Stranglethorn Vale! Hot damn! Not too late and not too hungover!
I hightailed it down south, checked on the position of the quest NPCs so I’d know exactly which boards to jump down for the fast turnin and headed for the coast to pick out a choice stretch of abandoned beach.
That abandoned beach part is what proved to be the most challenging. I’d find a spot with no players in sight and few minutes later, along comes an interloper. Then another, and another, until I gave up on abandoned and settled for relatively uncrowded.
The public conversation turned to the recent account hacking problems and the resultant rumors, the fishing contests in weeks prior, buying gold off ebay (really IGE and its many knockoffs, but everyone still calls it ebay) and all the level 60 hunters that spend their game lives in Maraudon doing whatever it is that hunters do in Maraudon all day. heh. I think we all know what they do.