Scripts I Have Loved

My favorite script, currently, is the Warcraft Scarlet Monastery script in the Cathedral with Mograine and Whitemane. Look …

Mograine

The actions aren’t the big deal, it’s the audio files that play along with it, exactly as the screenshot text appears. For you WoW noobs, the group attacks Mograine, he calls everyone infidels. Whatever. He’ll die just the same, no need to namecall.

The group kills his ass, then his bitch, Whitemane, runs from the back room — the group starts nailing her evil ass until she does an AOE stun/sleep exploit — she rezzes Mograine (Arise, my champion!).

The group starts laying down some smack on Whitemane, Mograine shakes off the heebie-jeebies from being recently rezzed (At your side, milady!) … ahhh, so we have a roleplayer here. This should be cake.

Group kills Whitemane, group turns on Mograine … script over. Loot, stone out of that hellhole, what’s next?

Now hold up a second, because I can just feel the diametric opinions already. Hear me out.

The script’s not complicated — but the accompanying audio, the first startling discovery that the bitch has AOE stunned (mezzed) the group and then rezzes the very target of the instance so the group has to kill both their asses now … it’s well done. The loot isn’t bad either. (Ok, the POTENTIAL loot isn’t bad, because we’ve been rerunning this ass of an instance looking for the, reportedly, common drop until I wanted to put the proverbial bullet in my head.)

Still, it qualifies as A Script I Have Loved.

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Warcraft Servers Crash, 2 People are Surprised

In recent weeks, a good portion of the Warcrap servers have been going down just about every night — instead of like in the “old days” when it required the weekend crush to bring those bad boys to their knees.

I wonder if it’s gotten to the point yet where the suits walk downstairs to where all the khakis are and just stand there and sigh. Once a suit has moved past screaming to sighing, it’s getting serious. That’s the “I really want to murder you all” sigh.

Goddamn, can’t they just make a few phone calls and steal some IT people from SOE with the lure of piles of cash and be done with it? At least SOE’s servers are up most of the time — last time I played a SOE game, about a month out from launch, they at least had most of the shit cleared up and were ready to do some serious nerfing.

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