World of Warcraft

I made level 70! Wahoo! Now I just need a few hundred more gold to pay for a flying mount and training.

One of my last quests was turning in the totems for capturing some of each elemental type (earth, fire, water, air). A funny thing happened when I turned in the last of that quest chain.

The quest giver is at a place in Shadowmoon Valley (Outland) called the Altar of Damnation. When I rode up to the Altar area, there was a giant, green rock/fire elemental guy standing nearby. Apparently, an Alliance group had just summoned him from the Altar. I watched just long enough to see the Alliance group engage the elite elemental lord in a fight. I then turned to my quest giver and turned in my quest.

There was a cool scene played out for turning in the quest. The quest giver summoned one of each of the elementals to stand before us, and he questioned them about how to turn the land and elements away from the evil taint that had cursed the land. The quest giver was talking, the elementals were responding, and I was watching. It was an interesting story, conversation, and scene.

The conversation explained that the elementals were under the taint of an elemental lord. The next series of quests would be to find a way to summon the elemental lord to destroy him. Ironically, that elemental lord was currently behind me, fighting an Alliance group.

I panned around to see him, knowing the Alliance group was finishing the quest line I was about to start. The Alliance team was breaking up—some were dead, the others were scattering. The elemental lord chased one Alliance character back to the Altar of Damnation. The elemental lord (sorry, I can’t remember his name) killed the Alliance character, and then aggroed on me and my pet.

I tried just backing off after getting hit pretty hard one time, and my pet counter attacked. The elemental lord hit my pet and killed it. I immediately used Feign Death to escape the fight.

Funnily, the quest giver and the four elementals continued their scene without so much as acknowlegding the elemental lord was upon them, and attacking me. Eventually, the elemental lord turned and went away.

Hilarious. My quest was telling me that I needed to find a way to summon this guy to kill him, and here he was already, stomping on me.

Bullgrit
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