If any of you on the US Nesingwary server spent any time in Stormwind
yesterday afternoon/evening, you may have noticed some dead bodies
laying around in the street between the bank and the auction house.
Quite a few dead bodies... In fact I would go so far as to say, a
****-load of dead bodies. Now, that in and of itself is not all that
unusual. Perhaps, you might say to yourself, perhaps the horde staged a
raid and the last line of defense was right here.
But (and this
is a BIG but) the bodies all appeared to be level ones, all with names
apparently typed by someone running their finger randomly over the
keyboard. For example, Ikjhgghddhjhjh. That could very well have been the name of one of the bodies.
Perhaps,
you might say again, perhaps there just happened to be a whole lot of
level ones standing around at the point the horde raid hit that
particular area of Stormwind. Level ones who happened to have PVP enabled.
But (and this is an even BIGGER but) these level one bodies with the unpronouncable
names, who may or may not have been standing in the wrong area at the
wrong time, and who happened to (rather unwisely, for a level one) have
PVP
enabled, were arranged in a very, VERY odd manner. They were perfectly
arranged to spell out the name of a website. As in,
VOODOODAD.BLOGGER.COM. That's not what it said, of course. That is the
address of the blog you are currently (hopefully with unflagging
interest) reading. I highly doubt that I have enough friends on line
that would lay down their virtual lives in order to promote my somewhat
mediocer blog spot.
I just used my address as an example, because the website therein
advertised by these hundred or more dead bodies turned out to be (not
surprisingly) a gold selling site.
Now, as much as I hate gold
farmers and the websites they inhabit, I have to admit this was a
pretty clever piece of advertising. I found I just HAD to log out of
the game in order to check and see what the website advertised was. I
pretty much knew when I saw it (the bodies spelling the name), but I
still had to see it (the website itself) to make sure it was real.
The thing that's nagging at my oh so curious brain now is, how the HELL did they do it?
First
of all, I personally do not know of any way to just spontaneously drop
dead in the game of WoW. Well short of a hunter's feign death, but
that's like a level 40 spell, and these guys were nowhere near that. It
couldn't have been the rampaging horde that killed all of them, as
there would've been a lot bigger mess than there was. I'm stumped as to
how they all died.
Secondly, how did they get their bodies to
fall in exactly the correct positions to neatly spell out the name of
the website? I mean, these guys were not sprawled all over the
pavement, they were extremely neatly laid out. It looked like graffiti
painted with dead people for God's sake!
I guess I'll just have
to accept the fact that I'll never know for sure how it happened, but
if anyone has even the slightest clue, let me know. I'm dyin' here!
