Tag: watchdog

Who watches the Watchdog?

by Tharius

Woof!  Woof woof woof! *pant pant pant pant* You hear someone’s death cry!

These words can only mean Gorog’s Watchdog is out … or in this case a Watchpuppy!  What’s the difference you ask?  The number of avatars required to kill the critter is the main thing and correspondingly the rewards are not as large.  For those who aren’t familiar with the rewards there is a reason the word “goroggles” enters into every conversation about top of the line characters.  The “doggy ear” is a nice devout piece and an ok all around piece with aff fly being maybe the most interesting thing about it.  Somewhere along the lines the “dewclaw” got added, a nicely statted ankle piece and finally making a debut not too long ago was the muzzle, a statted face piece which is decent but gives thieves an interesting dilemma.

Now, no one is saying you can’t get goggles off the puppy but no one has seen a pair off a puppy yet.  There have only been a handful of puppy kills so there’s no way to even really speculate about possibilities … oh and since they could be changed at any time without warning, it’s pointless to bother.

Aleq did a great job of being the cheerleader, with others like Mephie contributing to help get mass established.  For my part Arca and Ravith came and got a hold of me and I almost didn’t bother.  These things can drag on for hours and hours before we get mass and even when we have mass it can be a mess 20 different ways to Sunday.  Still, I figure if you don’t log in and help out you have no reason to bitch when you want other people’s help getting mass.

We made a few kicks at it and wiped a few times.  Mass came and went.  Someone commented that if we didn’t get a few more people that it would take a little imm pity (downing the doggie) to get a kill in.  Around midnight we said “one more try”.

Whether the stars aligned or whether we got some pity or a bit of both we managed to get a dead puppy.  I had joked earlier in the night that it was a nice birthday gift and when I saw that I had a kill blow it sure felt like a gift wrapped present.  Prior to this the closest I’ve been was 2 spirals from the kb.

I almost didn’t log in.  Instead I logged out with a dewclaw.

Goes to show that you have to keep in touch and just keep trying even if you think you have no chance.

Who let the dogs out?

by Tharius

Duh, Kinux or Ceirana or Petrograd or Belkira or someone else!  Who care who let it out!  Let’s kill it!

So of course Gorog’s Watchdog made it’s reappearance last Friday as part of a player appreciation drive following the RoDpocalypse.  We saw two kills last week but it took until Saturday afternoon to get enough people together.  Tonight everyone was ready and rearing to go, the first dog kill went as clean as any I’ve seen.  The second dog kill went a little rough for me personally, don’t know if the tank died or something else happened, but I ended up tanking and it doesn’t take long for 2k hp to disappear.

CR’d and ran back, quaffing manas and heals enough to get sanc cast and jump back into the fight before I get locked out of it, in plenty of time to see Orvald pop a pair of Goroggles!  Way to go and congrats, you luck so-and-so!  Lucky?  No I guess that honour goes to Jealle who popped her second pair of Goroggles in a week.  In a twisted, bitter, totally fake rage I hope you enjoy them you rasafrasasuchandsuch.  Kidding of course, if I had that kind of luck I’d tapdance all the way to recall :>

Kudos also go out to Eisengrim and his dog biscuit quest earlier in the day, I added a few new areas to my automapped zones running out to find biscuits but I wonder if the eat zombie backpack; scan all strategy isn’t a bad way to do these sorts of quests.  Word is, 800 zombie candies did the trick.  Just remember to keep sanc and fly on at all times and be prepared to recall if you get attacked 🙂