Tales of Warcraft
Disease and Depravation stalk our land like, two giant stalking things!
Tale 4: Ascending into Legend
Chapter 2: Last day in Outland!
After reading the announcement, Luan decided to log on to the New World of Warcraft, however before she could play, she had to contend with, the opening introduction video!
The video started in a green swamp-like forest place, there are two people looking at each other. One is a Half-Elf with a sword and a shield, the video then says that this is a Spell Breaker. The other is an unarmed Quillboar, the video states this as a monk. A third jumps in, an undead male with a scarf and spiked up hair. The video states this is a mime. The video's attention then turns to a hooded figure, after a speech saying
"There is more the Dream, than a Nightmare..." the hood comes off, this figure is revealed to be Alkaid.
"Lousy cheapskate putting yourself in the video." Luan thought,
Alkaid does several flashy moves with two yellow coloured dagger-swords, these then turn into magnificent gold fans. The video says
"An Alkaid star approaches, the Legion's Hiding will end..." The video diverts it's attention to a snowy valley where a group of 16 Humans, 20 Orcs, the three new class-promoting characters and Alkaid are all seen fighting Arthas Menethil near a Throne encased in ice. Alkaid then opens the fans and swings diagonally so a cross shape is formed, she then pushes this towards Arthas and he dies, the video says
"But how long can the Legion be postponed?" Alkaid then clenches a black orb and her fans become green. The video says
"Let the dream...World of Warcraft: The Emerald Dream" as it says 'Warcraft' the Game's Logo appears on screen the word 'the' triggers the logo to become green, when 'emerald' is said this appears in one of Alkaid's green fans, when the final word is uttered Alkaid's face appears in the fan as a reflection.
"That was totally weird..." Luan said to herself
After this a message appeared saying:
Due to tweaking in the Game System there are 3 new features that we couldn't announce on the official announcement, they are...
Improved Party List – The Party List has been improved, it will not say the race, class or level but just the name, in exchange you can search for specific party members rather than mindlessly searching through lists. The Party Limit has been increased from 38 to 50, however, in order to accommodate this, every player's current party list will be wiped clean so you will have to build it up again, we apologise for the inconvenience.
Outland Flying Mount Racing Tournament – There will be a flying mount racing tournament in Outland, the requirements are:
You have an epic flying mount
You have 2 [Riding Crop trinkets (for the purpose of the tournament, the effects of the crop will stack)
You register a team (team name cannot be the same as one of the team members)
Matches will proceed as following:
Hellfire Peninsula
Terrokar Forest
Nagrand
Shattrath City
Zangarmarsh
Blade Edge Mountain
Shadowmoon Valley
Netherstorm
and a final Circuit through all Outland
Improved Guild HQ – You will receive an item like a hearthstone upon joining a guild, this allows you to teleport to guild HQ, also in order to prevent intrusion of players outside of the guild, you have to receive Attunement before you may enter the guild HQ, and upon leaving or being kicked out, you will lose the Attunement for that guild.
Upon reading the boring message, Senria decided to spend a few minutes in Outland before she went to explore the new Emerald Dream areas.
"My party list has been wiped..." Senria thought
"I'll need to find Ryumaga and Alkaid, especially with Frostbite disbanding all of a sudden..."
When she logged in, she was in Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh, this was her favourite place to be, for some strange reason, perhaps it was the Sporebats and Spore Walkers, or maybe because the zone was blue like her character. Then suddenly a loud voice shouted out...
"Senria!!!" as she turned to see who it was, she realised it was Alkaid, and she was holding hands with somebody much taller.
"Hi, who's your boyfriend?" Senria asked in an ecstatic voice
"Oh, this is Akoto, he prefers to be known by his avatar name of Sirius..." she replied
"Sirius? As in the dog star?" after saying this, Senria noticed Sirius' character, it was a 7'6 tanned man with a jackal's head, he was wearing very fine Egyptian-like garb and had large bloodied claws in the place of hands.
"Hi, oh and if your wondering about the avatar, I got the head from a limited edition event during 2009. Isn't that right Ouri?" Sirius calmly yet boldly stated
"I told you not to call me Ouri!" Alkaid replied fiercely
"Isn't that a bit of a...you know, boy's name...?" Senria asked obviously surprised, Alkaid began to blush looking worried for several seconds, before saying
"Let's change the topic..."
"Your guild was
disbanded right?" Sirius asked Senria
"Yeah?"
"Why not join a new one?"
"I don't know, I only didn't care too much about guilds, I only joined Frostbite because of Ryumaga..."
"Somebody has a boyfriend!" Alkaid yelled
"I do not, we're just friends, from other countries. Besides he has a girlfriend, he's probably with her now..."
"Oh didn't he tell you? Ryuacea's player is just a prostitute..." upon hearing this Senria began to think but then suddenly made a strange statement
"England has prostitutes?"
"Not surprising you'd say that...you're from Belgium after all..." a mysterious voice stated, just then a ninja-like female jumped down from a nearby mushroom and stated
"I have been asked to deliver a message to the player of Luan Fandof..."
"Uh...what is it?" Senria asked
"Here..." the ninja uttered handing Senria a note, she then disappeared
"Read it, it could be from your boyfriend..." Alkaid shouted at Senria, subtly mocking her.
Senria just raised her head in disdain, she then opened the letter and read it out...
"Dear Luan
the school is planning another tacky exchange trip in 1 week, sorry I didn't tell you before...
from Matthew
P.S. For once, I will be coming to you...
P.S.S. God save the Queen
P.S.S.S. Upon taking advice from you, I have decided not to have my hair cut, I will now no longer wair a stupid hat...
P.S.S.S.S. I spelt wear wrong...
P.S.S.S.S.S. For some reason I am finding you very very hot!
This message will now self destruct...only kidding :)"
After reading it Senria blushed quite a lot, then suddenly Sirius stated...
"You should form a guild...you seem like a good leader, I'd join and so would Ouri. And I'm an apprentice advertising executive in real life, so I can help you with the advertising..."
"OK, I'll contact you later, could you give me your Party Addresses..."
"Sure, so what about name..."
"I was thinking something along the lines of Corporis Renovo" she replied
"Doesn't that seem a bit long?" Alkaid replied
"We don't have time to be arguing about names! I need to find out more about Azeika and the current bugs!"
"OK, but the name..."
"Fine just abbreviate it to CR in the advert."
"And the HQ?"
"In Zangarmarsh..."
"Where?"
"Preferably a place with a lot of Spore Walkers nearby."
"Your obsessed with those things..."
"Just do it 'Ouri'!"
What will happen? Will Senria form her guild with it's strange name, and will more people come to help her? Find out in Chapter 3...
Senria's Party List
Alkaid
Sirius