Welcome once more to another chapter. Today, it’s time I tell you a story occurred in World of Warcraft, and I must say this one is one of my favorites. Follow me after the jump, to see what happened to me and my team mates in the Sunken Temple.
By January 2005, I was happy playing Everquest 2, despite some performance problems with the game, but a friend of mine bought me a copy of, perhaps the most awaited game ever, World of Warcraft. It was a present, so even when I was happy playing another MMO, of course I tried it. Comparing EQ2 and WOW was a hard work for me. I liked both a lot but, finally, WOW won due to the outstanding performance the game showed in my computer and the incredible world design, that got me astonished. My WOW days begun after two weeks of intense fighting against EQ2.
I was totally thrilled by WOW. The game was absolutely great in every aspect, even when it had no housing or guild hall systems, so I started to tell all of my friends to try WOW with me and, after two months, we ended up forming our own guild. So there I was, a noob on a new MMO trying to figure out how to get the maximum from a new gaming experience.
After some time playing, some of us were around level 40 and decided to give The Temple of Attal’ Hakkar (Sunken Temple) a try, to start learning how the dungeon was and start figuring out how to beat it, mostly. With much excitement, we prepared ourselves and entered the temple. I remember we were laughing and joking all the time, that day we were so happy, playing together, that was hard to stay focused on beating the dungeon.
Like in every other dungeon you enter for the first time (without reading on the Internet everything you need to do) we failed in some combats. We didn’t know what were the skills and powers used by all the mobs in front of us, trying to defeat us. Slowly, though, we managed to find out that we needed to kill some guards, protecting several levers in the form of stone-carved statues, so after we could activate a magic altar that triggered a light sequence over the levers, revealing the order those levers should be pulled to open a blocked path, leading us further into the dungeon.
-“OK, everyone. We’ve found out how to solve this. Now I’ll activate the magic altar and write down the light sequence. After that, we all go and activate the levers in the right order and, yay! we’ll continue exploring the temple.”
All the group gathered around the magic altar and I activated it, immediately turning my head back to the terraces holding the levers. The lights started to appear over the terraces, revealing a sequence. I started writing it down on my note book.
-“South… north… south-west… south-east… north-west… north-east… north-west… north… south… What the… north-east… But… south-west… This is weird, I don’t know what… north… south-west… Guys I’m lost, I don’t understand… south… north-east…”
I was totally lost, writing down like a mad man the order of every appearing light till I started to sweat and my face went red, ashamed by the situation, as I told everyone I knew how to resolve the puzzle. I turned my head back to the group.
-“Sorry guys, I thought I knew how to… WHAT THE &%Xf# ARE YOU DOING!!??”
The tauren Shaman and the tauren Druid of my group were all happy, laughing and pushing the magic altar repeatedly while saying:
-“Hahahaha, look, funny lights when you push this!”
-“THAT IS THE LIGHT SEQUENCE TRIGGER, YOU FOOLS!! MY BRAIN WAS BIOLING, TRYING TO WRITE DOWN ALL THE SEQUENCE FOR NOTHING!!”
-“Errrr, oopsie?”
We all started to laugh so hard, so loud and so good. That was one of the funniest moments in my gaming life. Even nowadays, we all remember that moment and start laughing. In fact, when I told some of them MMOries of Gamer: World of Warcraft was to feature this story, we ended up relating it again and laughed till we ended up coughing.
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See you all next week, on MMOries of a Gamer: Lord of the Rings Online.
Now that Cataclysm is approaching, I have been going back and replaying some of the old zones. My first character was a Tauren Shaman, so I went back and played through Mulgore a couple more times. Mulgore for me will always be connected with my earliest memories in World of Warcraft. My love of Mulgore is also what made Nagrand my favorite zones in The Burning Crusade.
Nope, I’ve never played World of Warcraft but I’ve always wanted to. Unfortunately, I just can’t spend money on a game just now. Maybe it will switch to Free-To-Play in the future.
That was awesome. I can’t stop laughing each time I read it. Curious thing is, I can’t remember any good story from WoW even I played it for over three years. I’ve had good RP sessions, and very good raiding but for me WoW died with Burning Crusade release.
Keep the stories coming!!