Dumb Luck That

A few of us in the e-thug guild came from the same EverQuest server and the same guild — eventually that is, after brief vacations in other virtual worlds. We are quite the melting pot of online gaming if you were to examine the myriad relationships and histories that brought us altogether into World of Warcraft. The current clique works and that’s all that matters at this point.

But the few of us, we came from EverQuest, same guild. And on our former EQ server, we had arch enemies, as was natural for anyone that played EQ for longer than six months — after about six months, more or less, we all had a list of players that had fucked us over repeatedly, and we, them, in turn.

It was a tight community … like a noose.

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Who Wants Pie?

There’s this NPC in Ironforge that wanders around all day muttering about pie, so I attempted to converse with him. What is this strange obsession he has with pie? Does he have a similar fascination with other tasty treats? On his rare days off (I think only Tuesday mornings during weekly maintenance), does he have pie then also or is pie the last thing he wants?

Pie Dude

He was oddly uncommunicative about his other interests — probably one of those Type A gnome workaholics.
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