A Few Dear Gnomes

[warsock]

Dear RPers:

I have problems with the Theramore scenario, but they stem from personal reasons, not because the storyline sucks, or because I think Blizzard's going the wrong way with how they're working their game. (Except that Jaina's reaction in Tides of War was far more realistic than her reaction in the Alliance version. But that's another rant

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[laudre]

Sometime in the past couple of weeks, I got it into my head to maybe race-change my orc shaman main into a panda, more or less in strict conjunction with the consideration of going elemental instead of enhancement.

Since then, the details of Garrosh's stupid? Yeah, not only can I totally see her telling Garrosh to fuck off, she's not fighting his war so he can prove his dick is bigger than his daddy's, I'm actually working on writing out an epilogue for her. After seeing the end of Deathwing, as one of a long string of serious existential threats, the idea of pursuing a war of aggression because he's gotten it into his head that REAL ORCS KILL PUNY HUMANS RAARGH is beyond the pale. Fuck him, she's just going to pack off to Nagrand and build a home on one of those floating islands, spend her days communing with the elements, fishing, and tinkering with her flying machine.

[rantinan]

Sounds good lass! Ah hope ye dona mind the occasional drunken dwarf dropping by with a cask, eh?

Cause as intox as i play him, every time Thudur pokes through nagrand looking for adamantium I end up crashing into islands big time.

[laudre]

She has mixed feelings about dwarves. On the one hand, she's a Frostwolf, and the Stormpike's campaign against her clan in Alterac was very long, hard-fought, and costly to her, personally. On the other hand, she's met many dwarves who were perfectly stand-up people -- she got along famously with Mylra and the other dwarves of the Earthen Ring, the conflict between the Dragonmaw and the Wildhammer notwithstanding. (Not that she was terribly sympathetic to the Dragonmaw. Killing Mor'ghor good; getting into fights with dwarves when there's Twilight Hammer cultists right the fuck over there not so good. (Not that the Wildhammer are blameless, but still.)

As long as he doesn't have an issue with Frostwolves defending their home against imperialistic archaeologists, then she'd be perfectly happy to knock back a few. Dwarves make some good brew. (In many important ways, in her view, dwarves are very much like short, pink orcs.)

[rantinan]

ahh sounds good
.Thudur's Bio begins: When a wildhammer dwarf loves a beer keg, Its nay suprising. When a wildhammer loves another dwarf's keg however, it's probably a good time ta see the world.
To further quote him yammering at one of my toons who hates ye old frostwolves
"Why ye go n do that for lass? All this time ye ben tellin meh bout glory n honor n killin, n not one mention of drink. Nay even ONE. ye expect me to gie evn a small rats tonker over a fight where none o the participants are even an itty bit drunk? "

[lightandwinged]

she's not fighting his war so he can prove his dick is bigger than his daddy's

Man, I hope this is the reason Garrosh ends up going full bad. I'd heard rumors all over that he's been "corrupted" and that's so bleh to me. Why can't he just have a severe inferiority complex that causes him to go insane instead of being corrupted? Why must they always be corrupted? ;_;

[phoenix_singing]

So much of this.

Just once, JUST ONCE, I'd like a motivation beyond corruption or madness. Give me a big bad who got that way because they had an axe to grind or something to prove or - gasp - they're just a bad guy. That can be incredibly compelling - more so than madness or corruption, IMO, because then you have motivations and a person's actual reasoning to explore!