Epic Loot

So as soon as Kornum reappears, Sten is still looking at me funnily. He's still yapping about me giving his posse some first aid. You'd think someone else would have gotten to it by now. Nevertheless, I use his bandages on the wounded soldiers which rejoin the fight, all the while completely ignoring the troggs fighting other dwarves. Hey I got my orders, alright? But this bunny is following me...hmm...why is that bunny rabbit jumping around close to me? I have a Monty Python flashback and Crusader Strike the hell out of it. So much for the fabled beast. I report back to Sten with the satisfaction of a job well (albeit late) done, carefully not reporting about slaying the fabled beast, being humble and shit. Joren wants to talk to me now. What do you want? I'm with Sten now. You had your chance and you blew it. Oh, you want me to go talk to some girl in the inn? Ok, sure. Whatever gets me away from you, you lousy person. I walk up the path to Anvilmar. Oh, cozy place they ...

'Lo and behold, the newest champion of the light is here. His name is Kornum, and he'll try levelling as a tank MS/healer OS. Now, Earthen Ring is an RP realm, so let's give him some backstory. He is very conscious about his height, but in fact thinking he's normal and everyone else is gigantic. He's a bit slow, considering gnomes to be, in fact, human children. He's pathologically afraid of booze. He's a little bit paranoid, as you can see from his bug eyes. He's also superstitious, and mumbles to himself a lot. He never showers. As soon as Kornum appears, he's piled on top of a dwarf warrior called Swenson who's AFK. Kornum pokes him a bit, but Swenson never bats an eyelid. Hmmm. Maybe he's out to get me. I cautiously click on Joren Ironstock who's in front of me. He wants me to kill 6 Ironjaw Invaders, trogg mobs of which there's a huge pile of corpses around him. I suspect he wants to test my mettle, not actually help, since he...

So, this idea came to me all of a sudden. I've been trying to convince myself to level a character in World of Warcraft on the Earthen Ring server, purely to be able to play with my RL buddies, such as Pete from Pete's RPG Tips and Sam from Nibble & Byte . I mean, I tried transferring some of my characters on there, but it didn't work. I even tried transferring heirlooms from my main realm, but that didn't work either . I even tried levelling a Death Knight with heirlooms, but levelling a class you already have a level 85 character in is not fun. Not fun at all. So, here's what's going to happen. After some creative dice rolling (and a healthy dose of re-rolls), I decided to roll a random character (which ended up being, of all things, a Dwarf Paladin ). The goal of this blog? To track this character's progression from level 1 to the almighty level 85, hopefully getting him raid-worthy gear by the end. As far as professions go, he's going to a h...