Encounters of the Alliance Kind, Festive edition

I foretold of a second encounter in my previous post, but I was having too much fun playing the game to write about it, but now *deep sigh* it is Tuesday -dah dah dahn! (or "dramatic music"). With WoW being updated I might as well finish the second promised installment of the series *deep space voice* "Encounters of the Alliance Kind".

Festive Edition:

Hello Gentle Readers, our tale begins at the end of December...
Trees bearing chains, skulls and broken glass ornaments adorn tress in most major Horde cities (the gorram belfs have to be different - all of their ornaments match and none are broken....but that is perhaps for another time). With the season of Winter Veil comes recipes (and quests) for gingerbread cookies and eggnog. Ah! The scrumptious treats for our virtual friends! I am looking forward to sending tasty treats to fellow guildies in the mail with cookies and 'nog and maybe a present or two, but before I can do holiday care packages I need eggs - and not just any eggs! Why raptor eggs and giant eggs cannot be used to make huge batches of cookies and 'nog is beyond me. I check with www.wowhead.com for a good place to farm the small eggs and I am given two viable choices: Westfall or Mulgore. Sure, there are other places to find critters that will drop the eggs but these two places are not above my level and provided a large number of critters in a small(ish) space. Mulgore quickly turns out to be inefficient for farming eggs so it';s of to Westfall - Alliance starting area extradionaire!

The mobs are excellent and there are buzzards as far as the eye can see! I am dressed festively as a gnome to blend in with the locals (my main toon, and the egg farmer in this adventure, is an undead 'lock) The first half hour goes rather smoothly, I an in disguise and the drop rate on the eggs is good, plus I can farm a little ways away from the Alliance patrolled areas - it would be a shame to get flagged by an npc and have a gang ride out of Stormguard to investigate. I decided to stay until I have about 100 eggs, I did ride a long way so I might as well make it worth while.

On my genocidic killing spree see a human warrior swarmed by buzzards, and the carrion are winning the fight, so I dismount and kill the birds ( I think I am around level 50 , so a wand blast or two and there's nothin left but feathers and loot). The human runs over and begins to talk to me.(>.<) So I respond, hoping he will get the hit that our factions can't communicate verbally. He laughs. I shrug, wave and ride off to the next gathering of buzzards. As I am collecting the loot from my next kill I see the human warrior come bounding up beside me. He waves, I wave and I ride off again. After each kill the warrior is back at my side, apparently it takes me just as long to locate a buzzard, kill it and loot it's body as it does for the warrior to catch up with me. No matter how far I ride, or how quickly I kill, loot and move on, the human warrior can always be seen bounding over the hills and through the valleys towards me. I say "bounding" because that is the best way I can describe it - it was as if he were channeling the spirit of Pepe Le Peu. I sort of felt like I was in a bugs and tweety cartoon and this warrior was the amorous skunk, determined to be with me. He faithfully followed me for twenty minutes, apparently ignorant the danger, as I would search out buzzards in all areas of the map, even those that contained creature higher in level than "Pepe" - he would laugh gaily at my destruction and I would kill the critter he aggro'ed by being in the vinicity with me. After the creep-factor wore off I came to enjoy the company of the strange, bounding, laughing human. I was sad to leave the Alliance area, but I had to go. I used my hearthstone to return to UC, afraid that he might try to follow me if I rode out of Westfall.

I have no idea what motivated him to follow me - if he were just watching to be sure I didn't flag and attack the tower, then he didn't need to be at my side. Was it love at first sight? Was it a figment of my imaginations?

Who knows? For now this story will be filled under "E" for "Encounters of the Alliance Kind".


P.S. after this adventure I was in the belf starting area with an alt when, to my great surprise, the dragonwing thingys also drop eggs. Doh! >.<
I rode all that way for nothing...well not for "nothing" I did get a good story out of the deal :)