It is, perhaps, a sign that I’m not a nice person, when I read a story about someone else’s misery, and start laughing my big butt off.

This weekend, at the same time Sidhe Devils was in Karazhan, our friends in Blood for Blood were also in there.

Now, both guilds took about the same amount of time to clear it, and had the same success.

We had some confusion in our own run, two brand new members came in to have fun, and got taken out of the game by a thunderstorm rolling through their area. So we lost about an hour and a half, all things considered, finding a few more folks, getting them in and filling it out.

There might have been a ‘Jets vs Sharks’ dance fight in Curator’s Hall while we waited. And the gals might have won. Maybe. I’ll neither confirm nor deny. Damn it. We woulda had it except Morthog stayed in Dwarf form. Next time, do a /dance with the flaming Draenei statue, man! Just saying.

It turned out great for us, though, since one of the folks that we pounced on the second he logged in, and proceeded to drag kicking and screaming into Kara was Eustacius, co-creator of Road to BlizzCon, and as he mentioned on his own blog… for him, it was Christmas in July.

I love it when that happens. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, either.

So we had a slow down during the run, kept us up a lot later than we expected… but hey, when it ends up giving Wulfa a chance to get her Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix… well…. YAHOO! I’ll stay up. Yup! Not a problem. Truthfully, I’ve been rooting for her to get that bow for weeks now…. I think it’s very pretty.

Now, as I said, Blood for Blood also went in and had a successful run in Kara at the same time, and took about the same amount of time to do it.

However, the reason for their delay was a little bit different.

Graimerin wrote about it on his blog, and as I read about his pain and sorrow while tanking in there with this one really bad player… as I said at the start of this article, I was rolling with laughter.

Why?

Well, there was this one part that brought back the memories…

Grai said;

We were moving through upper ballroom pulling the non-elite trash near the doorway to maidens hallway. Again we had someone pull the elite group, so I run over to where the healers are grouped, consecrate, have all the nasties on me, and then ‘poof’ they leave me.

3B on my honor this is the truth, when the mobs suddenly depart from me I look up and see that I got DI’d; yeah one of our pally healers DI’d the tank. Needless to say we wiped again.

And as I read that, I remembered that feeling…

that feeling you get when everything goes to hell, with mobs running around smacking the people under your protection, and panic and terror runs wild through the squishies, and you hold your cool, stay calm and collected, run over to reclaim aggro and bring order out of chaos… and then watch it all fall apart with no clue what the hell just happened.

And you ask yourself, “Why can’t I do anything?”

And then look up and notice, sitting there grouped amidst the 10 other raid buff icons, that little symbol that says, “Hi, you done been protected by Divine Intervention… sucker.”

Yep, I read Grai’s rundown of the event, and all I could do was yell at the screen that blessed quote from the first Die Hard movie…

“Welcome to the party, pal!”

Doodle and Eustacious have been traveling, oh just everywhere trying to find their Blizzcon.

They meet some of the strangest people.

Of course, once they met the leader of the Dwarfs in AV, they had to show their respect…

before getting down to business.

As reported by Leafshine, our corporate nemesis has suffered the first retaliatory strike in our grass-Roots resistance efforts!

Be warned! This is only the beginning!

The Druidic Foshizzle Liberation Front (DeFeLF) has allowed you to regain access to your site… THIS time.

Next time we might not be so generous.

We are focused! We are determined! We are…..

Oooh, is that yarn!?!

/kittenplay

….::::::…. what? what are y’all lookin’ at?

When the first lawyer tripped the pullwire attached to the Claymores on the back approach, I knew something was up.

Since then, I have watched, not with a teeny tiny amount of minor amusement, but with outright glee as more and more Druids stand, unafraid, and shout FOSHIZZLE to the skies.

Let there be no confusion. This isn’t about me. This is far bigger than even my massive bear butt alone.

Let not fear stop your shouts of FOSHIZZLE! Whether you think the word to be meeaningless or silly is not the point, the point is, embrace your freedom to speak your mind and shout your own words to the heavens.

Let the blogoshere resound to your bearish growls, your catty meows, and to the sound of a Hurricane rustling the wind in your trees branches.

Nothing can stop the shifty power!

The rolling of glorious thunder;

• Lady Jess
• 4Haelz
• Need More Rage 
• Awlbiste’s Thicket
• Bringin’ The Wood
• A Little WoW For Me
• Hots and Dots
• DPS: We Deliver
• An Old Druids’ New Druid
• One Among Many
• For the Herd!
• KDots…
• Aspect of the Hare!
• /Hug
• Jacemora
• The Incompetant Warrior… wait, what?
• Leafshine! Woot!
• Secret Agent Cat
• What Heals?
• Trizophenie
• Resto4Life
• Dazed and Confused

Gives me shivers to see freedom in action!

Can I just say, while I’m here… I really like Lady Jess’ and Awlbistes’ banner redesigns? Very, very cool.

Oh, one other thing… please go gently on BRK. Entangling Root and Cyclone, sure, but no Moonfire spam. If I had commenters like the ‘Former Fan’ from that post of his, I’d go nuts too. Oh wait, I did.

Hey, gotta say… special grats to Pike for both post # the 200, and for showing off her secret love of Moonkins… Yay Pike!

As a Priest-alt-playing fan of /Hug, it’s awesome to see him put up a druidy Foshizzle, hee hee.

It saddens me that our once great adversary has lost the fire, the will to fight.

Instead of bringing the war home with his own two hands, and woefully inaccurate rifle, he has chosen instead to adopt the American way of war… litigation.

So be it.

Send in your lawyers. Send them in pairs, in teams, in unending waves upon our shores.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.

We shall fight in the forums, we shall fight on the blogs and in the screenshots, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the banner ads. We shall defend our website, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the posts, we shall fight on the Trade Channel, we shall fight in the podcasts and in the feedreader, we shall fight in your very own comments.

We shall never surrender!

 FOSHIZZLE TO THE END!

P.S. Thanks to Lady Jess (beautiful pic), Pali, Bell, Awl, and Softi for the support! It’s not about one Bear… it’s for all Druids. You can take away our internet access, but you can never take away our Foshizzle! 

A special thank you to Jive at Bringin’ the Wood, what an awesome Foshizzle pic!