All the Horrible Girliness

Ever since I first rode my horse bones into Silithus, way back in beta, when it was populated only with enormous bones and distant, elite, buzzing hives many stories high, I wanted to find out what was behind the huge closed gates in the South. I heard rumors: that the gates could only be opened by multiple, high-level raids far in the future.

Then, over a year, two moves and one kid later, I heard tell that the time was coming. I made it a priority to be there yesterday when Sean banged the gong on Hyjal.

So, apparently, did a whole hell of a lot of other people.



It took seven server crashes before things really got underway. A lot of big Anubis things and their big bug pets stalked all over the place, and three gigantor bugs took up residence in the three big Silithus hives. I first went to check out a gigantor bug. Before I had ridden in close enough to even see the bug, I saw random alliance flying toward me. Literally. Dropped from the sky, to die at my feet. So I felt a natural affinity for the bug; obviously, he knew what to do with filthy alliances, right?

I got in close enough to see him, then, and he was a beaut.



If I look alone here, it's because I was. Everyone else had been thrown into the air. I knew that killing him would mean a big bag of loots for me, though, so I went ahead and threw a little DOT his way.

"Et tu, Samus?" he cried, and threw me away like so much stinky alliance. However, because he truly did love me, he gave me a chance: I landed, safe and sound, atop one of those creepy hive leg things.



All of Silithus laid out before me, I paused to take some photos, tucked my digicam back into my robe, hit levitate, and jumped.

Did I forget to mention the lag? At that time, there was about a sixteen-second lag on casts. I forgot to wait for it. Several seconds after reaching the ground, the server discovered that I was just broken, crunchy dead bones on the sand, and told me so.

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After dinner, I joined FoH to kill some big Anubis fellows. I was no good at anything, but it didn't matter because other people were. Once everyone seemed to be sufficiently healed up, I just went shadow and DPSed the shit out of things. We all died, we all got yelled at, Sean flirted, and Behe told me he'd broken Slansin's eye during a loving, brotherly wrestling match.



I went to bed at 3:15. The Bug woke at 3:30. I slept in the rocking chair, fitfully, and took a nap today to make up for it.

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All in all, it was disappointing. I first made my way to Silithus when no one was there, alone on my horse. I love the sense of discovery you get in WoW. When you're first playing, you turn a corner and there's a whole other place, with all new colors and hidden caves and things. The fact that the gates of Silithus open to another set of swirly instance doors makes me sad. I thought I'd be able to wander in, look around, meet another flight guy. It makes me wonder if the land beyond the dark portal will be the same: just another place I won't have time to see.

But, at least I can say I was there.

posted by Samus @ 6:28 PM