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A while ago I was reading one of my favorite blogs: afkgamer. His last of 5 tips on starting an alt(#5 - "Don't tell your guild") reminded me of the time when I gave myself away just by my punctuation.

You see, I was suckered into logging into one of my super-secret-alts to help a friend (Friend-A). We grouped up and went about leveling him in tailoring or some such. (I know help leveling a profession probably sounds absurd in WoW, but we come from SWG -- it's what we know.)

One of our other friends (Friend-B) logged on and, as was our habit, Friend-A immediately (forgetting my super-secret-alt was grouped) invited Friend-B into our group. Crraaaap.

I tried to exit stage right asap without engaging and having to reveal who I was. I simply said:

Gotta go. Bye.

And logged. Yet somehow, Friend-B knew it was me. How?

Later when he asked, nay, told me that was me, (and not wanting to lie to this particular friend I fessed up), I asked him how he knew.

"The period," he said. "You're the only one that uses it."

Apparently, it's not just that I'm a careful typer. You see, I have this thing about not wanting to emote. (Seriously, it just looks dorky.) So whenever someone says something funny, I say:

lol.

Not:

lol

An important difference to an emote-o-phobe. Because with "lol" you emote the laugh. With "lol." you don't. And thus I was known for using a period, a super-secret-alt's identity was blown and the term "emote-o-phobe" may now humbly make its way back into gaming obscurity.

PVP Ranking

So I was playing around on the official site and found the PVP rankings page on the official Blizzard World of Warcraft site. Just input your server and your faction and you get a list of PVP rankings.

Well guess who I found and about fell off my chair:

Standing	Rank	Name
47th	Lieutenant Commander	Braku

Look at you, you old dog. Congrats, Brak!

If you want to see more re: PVP here's Blizzard's flash page (I guess to market how wonderful their PVP system is): PVP.

And here's the raid calendar where they show the reset times.



(p.s. if you were posting in here Brak you could yell at me for using such an old picture, but since you aren't, you can't! :P)

Picture: Taking a breather

Durn, Marielle & Emp taking a break on the water's edge.