Lynxr's adventures in Northrend

Just a few of my favorite moments from Lynxr's early questing in Northrend. She's mostly focused on Howling Fjord (it's beautiful!), though she did some of the Borean quests as well. She's been questing daily for the Kalu'ak to get enough rep for Pengu, the baby demon penguin. I've found most of the Northrend quests to be delightful--compared to classic WoW and BC, the quests tend to be a lot more creative and interesting, and often involve something beyond a simple "kill X number of mobs" or "collect X number of drops off the mobs." Wotlk is fun! Lynxr dinged to level 76 yesterday.

Baby Blizzard Bear

Cuteness attack! Lynxr has the "WoW's 4th Anniversary" achievement, and the adorable polar bear cub. Now if only they would let me has Polar Dire Bear Form...

We happy few...

The Lightservants defended Stormwind Harbor during the Lich King's attack. The top screenshot, from left to right: Eleiswan, Phasers, Lianwen, Romex.

My friends and I went to the midnight release of WotLK. We had a good time waiting in line and nerding out together. I got the Collector's Edition--baby frost wyrm ftw!

Snarly

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!@!@#!!! I got Snarly from the Crocolisks in the City fishing quest today! Now Lynxr has Snarly and Chuck, and Jag has Toothy... so all I need for my collection is Muckbreath, though eventually I'd like Lynxr to have all four. Happy, happy, happy! Joy, and joyness!

BRK's Running of da Bulls for Ezra

Today I had the chance to participate in a truly epic WoW event -- a "running of the bulls" in memory of Ezra Chatterton, a child who recently died of cancer. Blizzard and the Make A Wish foundation made it possible for him to participate in WoW as a game designer--he created the quest in Mulgore where Ahab needs help finding his lost dog, Kyle; he designed an epic crossbow; he was given the first Phoenix mount in the game.

In memory of Ezra, BRK organized a massive event where players from all across WoW created level 1 Tauren on Argent Dawn to sack Stormwind. Participants were encouraged to make a donation to the Make a Wish foundation.

I made a Tauren Hunter named Ezerah, and Thulgasta made a Tauren Hunter named Makeapwn. We got them to level 10 and tamed coyotees, which we both named Kyle. We joined the newly formed "Run for Ezra" guild, and donned our generously donated starry tabards. Then we joined the great stampede... but alas, the when the herd arrived in Ratchet, the servers began to crash beneath the weight of thousands of baby Tauren. Hard. Before long, the Blizzard GMs told us to cease and desist our attempt to reach Stormwind because the server was so unstable. It's possible that we crashed more than just Argent Dawn, because Authentication servers went down WoW-wide.

The stream of Tauren stretching all the way from Mulgore to Ratchet, and into Strangletorn Vale, was a sight to behold. In Ezra's memory, and for all children living with severe illness and their families, I'm making a donation to Make a Wish. My thanks go out to BRK and everyone who helped to organize this event, and to all who came to show their support!

Related Links:

Blizard Makes WoW Wish Virtual Reality (article about Ezra)

BigRedKitty: For Ezra and Make a Wish (event announcement)

BigRedKitty: An open apology to everybody (for crashing the servers)

BigRedKitty: Smackdown (event screenshots)

Quest: Survey the Land

Jagwyr the Hallowed

Jag has earned the Hallowed Be Thy Name achievement, and the title "the Hallowed."