Ever since Patric told me about this blog I’ve been wondering, what can I write? Sure there have been many things I’ve seen that made me laugh, cry, or wonder about the fate of the humanity, during the years I have been playing WoW, but I never kept book or wrote down anything. Because new stuff comes up each day, so I thought, but suddenly things do look a little different. Many people are busy with hollidays-related activities and even more are bored to death waiting for the new expansion.

With this in mind I wasn’t very optimistic in regards of my writing, so I decided to take a look at the WoW realm forums, who knows, maybe I can dig up something. I didn’t even need to search more than the first page, and there it comes, a post from a player named, let’s say, Quaffle.

Title: Help Quaffle with his problems! Episode 1

Dear <server name>

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE I WAS SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

so last nite i came home from a nite out and i ordered some indian from the local (THE FOOD NOT THE NATIONALITY LOL). i ate most of it and fell asleep. the next day i got back from a day out with the boys, was a little drunk, sat down in front of the tv and proceeded to wolf down the rest of the curry that had been sitting there for 20 hours.

ANYWAY IM NOT FEELING SICK RITE NOW but will i get sick????? i cant believe i did this its so stupid lol. what if sum flies touched it????? what if they laid eggs on the food???? will i get infested with maggots/???? GROSS!!!!!! what if the fly picked up a flea containing a secondary parasitic cyst from a dog infected with tapeworm, landed on my food, laid eggs, dropped off the flea and then i ate the curry and the flea and the eggs and got food poisoning and maggots and tapeworm??????????

PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS HELP

urs gratefully,

Quaffle

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I was at first tempted to leave it as it is with a “no comment” tag, but I can’t help quoting a few responses.

Some of them decissive:

“You will die.Try to speed up the process.”

Some of them mild and craving for more:

“…./soothe

you will be ok - the alcohol in your system will kill any bugs :o) x

… so this is episode 1 - when do we get episode 2 ”

Others, very technical:

“Iceblock and you’ll lose the debuff”.

And finally, some of them standing up for the weak:

“Well tbh honest I am more concerned about the poor fly/flea!

There it was looking for a nice and safe home to set up its fleafly family and it ends up on some below-par, alcohol imbued, sub-continent takeaway that you had be dribbling over just the night before!

I mean, thats no place to try and bring up flea kids is it?

I suggest someone set up a charity immediately in order to provide much needed medical aid and healthcare facilities for the poor insects that have found themselves in this terrible, hostile environment.

Members of their family will ofc be kept informed as the real cost of this tragedy becomes clear to the wider fly/flea community

With sympathy x ”

Now I must admit my sympathy is tempted to go with the flies as well - they might be annoying in the summer but they’re certainly easier to get rid of… Stay tuned for futher adventure from WoW planet, until then I’ll keep an eye on our hero, in case he survives.