Okay no idea where that title came from, other than me thinking of missing time, and memories of The Muppet Show. >.>

I managed to go poof for a while. Blame it on trying to not get sick, the weather, allergies, and plain ol’ blahs. I started thinking about everything that I “needed” to do to prep for Wrath and, well, came to a screeching halt. Granted, I still went on Friday’s Kara run with the other guild on my mage and had a blast.

Saturday’s guild ZA didn’t happen, as 4 of the 10 people weren’t able to make it at the last minute. Two had their power go out as they were prepping and the other two were dealing with a injury from laying a wood floor that involved bleeding and nausea. We all made mutters about our ZA runs getting cursed lately, as we’ve had more trouble with them in the past few weeks than anything else. Phone calls were made and we rescheduled the run for Sunday.

Sunday rolled around and I was tired and admittedly grumpy. I had a lovely headache that wouldn’t die (see allergy comments above) and jsut wanted to sleep. The other hunter was in a similar state. Apparently, so was most of the raid. What happened? Pure carnage. We actually got 3 timers for the first time. Another 6 minutes and we would have made the last timer. The last two bosses were cake after that and we sailed right on through them. Okay, we wiped on Eagle phase of Zul’jin, but we were all so giddy still from the timers we didn’t mind that much.

I’ve played around more in beta, but my heart’s just not in it this time for whatever reason. Granted, Northrend is stunning, what I’ve seen of it. They’ve pulled out all the stops in their art department, cos the landscapes are are some of the prettiest environments I’ve seen in a long while. The detail that’s in some of the models is impressive as all hell. And Sylvanus? Damn… Siana covets her gear and wants to look that badass when she grows up. >.>

But the actual quests? Not so much this time. I don’t know why. I guess with Outland, there was this storyline that took you up to it. There was the quest that happened right before the gate opening, with tons of mobs pouring out of the gate and people questing to kill them to get a special tabard. It was fun insane chaos and on a PvE realm, there were a bunch of people that accidentally flagged PvP from shooting/attacking/nuking an opposing faction player who stepped in the wrong spot at the wrong time. I know I got killed a couple of times and leapt right back into the fray giggling the whole time as a Tauren kept apologizing to me through emotes. And I did the same to the Undead that I shot by accident. Good times, good times.

This time, I guess I missed any quest that was the impetus to go to Northrend. I’ve not seen anything that looked like a call to arms for people to go. It’s just been boom there’s the boat, have fun kids. So it leads me to this: WHY?! Seriously, from a story line, my character’s sitting nice and happy in Shattrath in Outlands, farming away at dailies. Suddenly, there’s no one in Shatt anymore. She asks where everyone went to and they all say “Northrend! Wooo!” She asks why and they all say “No clue! Northrend! Woooo!” Yes there’s leveling, new areas, and new things to kill. But WHY? Is there a quest or going to be a quest where Arthas sends a memo to all the major cities saying “Nyahhhhh! You can’t get meeeee! Mwahahhaha! /fart” that gets everyone riled up to build ports to go visit Northrend? Maybe the Red Dragonflight landing in the middle of Stormwind and knocking on the castle gates? “Excuse me, we have a neighbor up north that’s making life difficult for us. Seems to be a relation of yours. Can you come take care of him pls kthxbai.” On the Horde side, did Sylvanus get a postcard from Arthas saying “Hai! Wish u were here! Mmmmmmwah! ::kissyface::” and got ticked he was trying to take liberties with her undead self again?

Inquiring minds want to know!

To Doom List:
1. Farm $$ on hunter and mage to be 1k gold on each. (GD dailies… /mutter)
2. Level Lockette to 70
3. Get Lockette into at least 1 Kara run before expansion
4. Try to not go (any more) insane FAIL EPIC FAIL

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