WoW: Shaquille O’Neal explains Hellfire Ramparts to me
Things were different last night. We’ve been working Hellfire Ramparts for months. These mobs are well known to us. Strategy was a moments discussion of sequence. We talked computers, we sang songs, we paid little attention to the fights - little was needed, everybody did what was required. Soon we were clearing the area around, then fighting, the first boss Watchkeeper Garglomar. This was our first boss kill in Ramparts. He dropped Leather of course. We don’t use leather. We engaged and failed with both Omor the Unscarred, and Vazruden, but we killed everybody else, and we now know what to expect. With only three of us, this is our lot in WoW-life. We often can’t take the end bosses until the rest of the instance is trivial. Still, we take pleasures as they come. Last night was a pleasure enjoyed. We are level 61.
I had a dream last night as well. We had lost the big game, coach was pissed. I never played basketball in high school, so I have no idea where this came from. Coach had a young Shaq, who mysteriously was on my dream basketball team, explain life’s truth. Shaq turned it over to his little friend. I couldn’t understand a word Shaq or his little friend said, but I think the truth is - heroic greatness and failure lies in all of us, we choose which to live. I’m sure I could explain it better if I had understood what they were saying. Later, I started thinking, it would be easier to be a hero in basketball if you were seven foot rather than four. Shaq, could you call me. I’m not sure I got the message right.