So and I participated in a big World of Warcraft event on Saturday.

It was held by BRK and Ratshag on the Cenarion Circle server, in memory of a fellow player who passed away, Sharvan. The plan was to create as many level one taurens as possible (more than 500 attended), any class or gender, and race from the Tauren starting area to Hammerfall in the Arathi Highlands. It took about forty minutes.

The race's homepage, complete with the route we followed: [link]


I also put together a quick video with footage I took, I'll have the link to that up as soon as I have it on youtube. Unfortunately I only found out about Fraps today so I was stuck with a sub-par trial of GameCam.



Screenshots for your viewing pleasure. My mediocre video card forces me to run WoW on minimal settings, so don't expect anything fancy.

[link] The first four were taken 20+ minutes before the race.
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[link] The starting line. It was then that it occurred to me that I left one of my video settings high. Turning it back down doubled my frames from two to four.

[link] There were just as many people behind me.

[link] Passing through Crossroads. It was unusually deserted when we stampeded through.

[link] Approaching the bridge to Durotar.

[link] Funneling into the zeppelin tower.

[link] I was lucky enough to make it onto the first zeppelin.

[link] Silverpine forest. I only wish I could retrace the route to see all the casualties.

[link] The raptors and tarantulas in Arathi thinned out the first herd by quite a lot. I wasn't concerned with getting in first, so I stayed safely in the center of the group.

[link] Inside Hammerfall, after the rest of the stragglers made it.

[link] One high-level alliance paladin was no match for hundreds of level 1-3 tauren. He did take out quite a few of us in the process, though.



I am known as both Zevnen and Kumika on the Proudmoore server. (Alliance)



In non-World of Warcraft-related news, I've been watching some new anime in addition to picking D.Gray-Man back up. But now that I think of it, I'm always watching something new. Not necessarily newly made anime, just something I haven't seen before.

I had been getting my D.Gray fix from Black Order, but they fell off the face of the earth after releasing episode 60 and I hadn't gotten to finding another fansub group since then. Shinsen Subs ended up picking up the pace, and are keeping the series current.

I started and finished Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, and I'll finish Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann after I catch up with D.Gray-Man.

About a week ago told me about Aarinfantasy picking up Junjou Romantica, so I've been watching that as well. It's yaoi at a leisurely pace, and I'm really enjoying it so far.