Day 217
"Morning lover." I stated as Jake's eyes opened. "Did you sleep good."
"Mmm, yes I did." he replied while he stretched. "Are you going to let me talk today?" I giggled and kissed him for a while.
"I guess so, but are you going to listen to reason about Gram?" I questioned. "He really is a bit of an air head."
"How was he riding you? If it wasn't in the wrong way?" Jake asked.
"You know I have a ton of different mounts right?" I asked. Jake nodded. "One turns me into a dragon so another player can ride along. That is what he was talking about."
"So why haven't we done this before?" Jake asked.
"Because there was no need to, and it feels really strange being a dragon." I explained. "I almost didn't want to change back when we landed."
"Okay, fair enough." Jake replied. "But we have a problem with opening AQ40 as the rest of the guild still has to run BWL to finish getting their gear. That is where most are camping out."
"I know, but the ones who have are heading to Silithus. We can use warlocks to get them there once they run through." I stated.
"You still have to run as well." Jake replied.
"I don't my gear is twice as good as anything we will find in there." I stated. "Plus I have a feeling once I do it will lock for good. Not every guild have run BWL."
"Okay so we switch you out for the last boss like we always do." Jake countered.
"I don't think it is going to work that way now." I replied. "What we did on Kul Tiras has changed things. I can feel it. They were ten years ahead of us in time and that gap would have gotten bigger. Now we are moving in time again, but that was just part of the problem. I just hope I will find the other things preventing this world from working normally."
"If you think you will lock it the first time then why not tell the guilds to run through. Once they get their gear they can head out to Silithus." Jake suggested.
"Once I ring the gong we will have five days before they come out, but I want everyone there in case they come out right away." I explained. "This will be a war event and one that will not be just a game." Jake's arguments were not just his alone as guild after guild stated they were not going. Others didn't believe that I had the staff even after showing them. We did find out that only half of the guilds had gone into BWL and completed it. Others were working on their runs and a few haven't gotten past the first boss. I was one of the few who had not gone through so I didn't realize how difficult the run was. I knew it would be hard, but I thought it would be easier since we were in game and tanks could taunt the bosses and other minor things happened here then in the vanilla game.
This was really the problem as everyone needed to do their job and know their abilities. That was the biggest hurtle that these guilds faced. You went in as a raid group, but the fight was up to the individual groups within the raid. I saw the need for them to run through BWL for the fight in Silithus the longer I looked over the evidence. The rest needed this raid to be able to fight Ahn'Qiraj.
"It has been a long time since you have faced this council. What brings the mighty Kit here today?" Darius asked.
"What is with the mighty title?" I asked. "And for a paladin I didn't know you were that bitter sounding."
"You are pushing the guilds to do things they are not ready to do, and for your god like abilities you may not realize that we have been dying in those raids more than most can handle." Darius explained. "For one who has yet to die cause you seem to have always a way out, don't you think it is a bit unfair on us normals?"
"I have died. I fell to my first death. I am not an iron man character as most think I am. The need for everyone to complete BWL is very important, but I have been listening to the guilds that are struggling and that is why I am here. The guilds that have successfully run BWL need to join up with the other guilds who have not and teach them the fights. To the point even of running their dps through with a fifty fifty mix. Once they know the fights they can better assist their tanks and healers."
"We could make that ruling, but how many guilds would be willing to do so?" Karen asked. "Not many like the though of dying and if these players can't learn, why should they risk it?"
"Whatever you decide I am sure most will agree as my guild has just started eight mixed runs." I explained. "Their success will push the others off the fence. Regardless of what happens in two days I will open Ahn'Qiraj."
"You don't have the..." Darius started to say as I pulled out the staff and slammed it on the table. I didn't believe your guild hasn't fought the world bosses to get the staff pieces, so how do you have the staff?" The rest of the council murmured the same question. "Is this another of your special abilities we don't know about?"
"Anachronos gave me the staff. I did all the quests years ago. I did get to ring the gong as Ahn'Qiraj was open on my server. I don't have any special abilities I am just farther along in the game then everyone else." I explained. "Can I get your support on this?"
"Since your guild is doing the test run for these other guilds I move for a vote to highly encourage the other guilds to do the same." Karen proposed. "As long as your training runs work."
"That is all I can ask." I replied. I picked up the staff and left them to their debates. Six out of eight of our runs came back successful and Nefarian's head was hanging outside of Stormwind by the time they put up the decree that other guilds should do the same. They started out slowly and as more raid groups had success more guilds made their runs through. We were not limited to only once a week, only one complete run a day. This restriction was more time based and endurance based than set by the game part of this world. On the third day of the decree I finally entered BWL for the first and last time I thought. I will not bore you with the details of each fight as it felt like a farm run than an actual challenge. Though I will talk of the last boss, Nefarian.
"Do you expect me to cower before the mighty guild of the Closers?" Nefarian asked. "You are nothing to me. Less than nothing. Had I desired all your heads, they would have been presented to me on a pike."
"You have fail to act Nefarian and today you die for the last time." I replied.
"You have made the mistake that all mortals make." Nefarian sighs. "Time does strange things to those that use it as a form of currency."
"I've made no mistakes." I stated. "It is you who have made the biggest of mistakes."
"In your rush to glory, you assumed that the pace of this game revolved around your actions. Can you even fathom how preposterous that sounds to a being like me?" Nefarian questioned. "A being that if so inclined could cause your own insignificant thoughts to crush the peanut sized mass of gray matter floating within your skull?"
"You have lost your mind. You speak in riddles." I replied.
"It's simple really!" Nefarian stated. "Allow me to summarize…"
"Please do." I replied as the script insisted. "But let me tell you what you will say. In this world where time is your enemy, it is my greatest ally. This grand game of life that you think you play, in fact plays you. To that I say, you have never faced Kit, Savior of Azeroth, Blackwing's Bane, The Immortal, and the one who will destroy you like I have your sister and your father!"
"You... you... you little rogue show your true self to me, you smell like a dragon!" Nefarian demanded. I felt the irresistible urge to turn into a sand dragon so I used my vial. "As I thought the pawn of Bronze Dragonflight this fight shall not go well for you." He changed into his dragon form and attacked me. Nothing was normal about this fight at all. The adds still came out and the raid did their
best to deal with them, but with two dragons fighting each other it became difficult. My dragon form should have turned me back into a gnome or I shouldn't have been able to turn into the mount in this raid. The fact that I was holding my own against another dragon was unthinkable. Half way through the fight he threw me against the far wall.
"You will not kill me today, whelp!" he yelled as flew off the edge and into the air. I righted myself and launched after him, but stopped at the edge as he vanished. I nearly fell off the edge as I reverted to my gnomish self.
"Now did we beat the fight?" Jake asked. "And what did he mean by pawn?"
"Are you really one of the dragon aspects?" Ginny asked.
"No I am not, but after today I wonder this myself." I replied.
"I for one don't really care how he is beaten." Bron stated. "He is gone and this vault has all the loot we need and then some."
"We didn't kill him. He will be back or worse he could be attacking the world at large." Elisa countered.
"He will not be a threat until his father returns." I replied. "Until then we have a few old gods to kill."
