World of Warcraft

I did the “Shizz Work” quest for the goblin outside of Thrallmar. It’s funny. The goblin has lost his keys, and he thinks one of his fel hounds has swallowed them. He wants you to take the fel hound out for a walk, kill some boars, let him eat them, then search his poop for his keys. After searching the poo, you get a debuff, “Stanky: you smell bad.” Hilarious.

A couple nights ago, I had been on only about 20 minutes when some level 70 dwarf hunter passed me on the road. I was killing fel orcs, but I noticed the dwarf eyeing me over. It’s interesting how you can tell someone’s attitude or “look” in this game, even though there is no real facial expressions, and even when they are too far away to see such anyway. But I ignored him after the first “meeting of the eyes.”

So while I’m fighting a fel orc, suddenly, from behind, I’m hit by something. I thought maybe a fel orc mage had aggroed on me and was zapping me with lightning. I figured to ignore him till I finished off the grunt.

Then I got hit again, and I noticed how bad the damage was. I panned my view around and found that it was the dwarf hunter shooting me. “What the hell?!” How’d he target me? I got hit again for big damage.

About the time the fel orc dropped, I died. Without ever returning fire on the dwarf. Son of a gun. (No pun intended.)

I was flabbergasted for a few minutes, wondering how in the world he was able to fire on me. I saw my PvP flag was on, but I never have it on. How did he turn on my flag?

Then I remembered that a couple days previous, I had captured the PvP towers. I figure I must have accidentally left on my PvP flag. Damn, that’s stupid.

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