Project Lore

In every guild I have been in there is always that one member who makes the rest of us scratch our heads.  The one players who does, says or claims off the wall shenanigans that blows everyone else's mind.  The one guildie that makes you wonder if the Internet's anonymous nature allowed the character to blossom, or unleashed him on the masses...Hmm, now that I have put this in words, there have been far more than one of these characters in each of my guild.  If you will, I would like to rephrase my previous assertion.  There is always at least one who is active at any given time. That is far more accurate. For many players, it is this kind of social enlightenment that brings them to the proverbial table every night.  Finding and hanging out with these odd beings, where the only thing in common may be trying to take down a crazed dragon, creates for some hilarious situations.  I have certainly meet my fair share of oddballs along the way:

• An incredibly shy member came to the guild party with an actual deepdive helm on his head - just like his toon. He didn't take it off for over an hour, going so far as to drink through the mask.
• At the following party the stereotypical emo, angst-filled nerd showed up in all black and wierded everyone out.
• We swore this one guildmate was practicing stand-up routines on the guild because he had a stupid amount of ridiculously improbaby stories to tell every night.
• Another told us personal stories.  Personal stories that often turned incredibly graphic and disgusting.  As well as disturbing.  We feared laws - of man and nature - may have been broken.
• My brother played a female toon that he modeled after his girlfriend.  He quickly learned the benefits of doing so.  He kept a list of all the characters he collected donations from to document the "sleeze" in WoW.
• One former member, and still close friend, has refused to speak on Ventrilo for years.  Someone swore he heard him speak once, but no one believes him.  There is also a rumor that the person in question is a female player in hiding.
• The most famous quirk of any player is a former Dark Age of Camelot subscriber who refused to purchase a mount for WoW.  The Gnome stated that the world was too small (relative to other title's he had played) to waste the gold on a stead.  To this day I still hear about the fabled mountless Gnome on the server.

I'm not gonna lie, after getting into Grandpa's medicine, I have been known to transform into one of these entities.  When I do, I tend to make ridiculous comments in an attempt to get laughs from the crowd.  And yes Pixie, I even pretended that my toon was a girl to see how my guild would react.  Apparently, I am a very poor RPer.  What kind of crazy personas have you come across in Azeroth?  Oh, if you don't know any players with erratic or unusual behavior, then you are one!

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