This story posted over at World of Matticus reminded me of an incident that happened to me about a year or so back and that miraculously I don’t think I ever posted about. Now because this did happen so long ago, I’m a little iffy on the details, but for the most part this is all true.
Let me set the stage… I’m in my guild (the big one, from back in the day, which I was an officer of and, for a very brief time, guild leader as well), a good many of us are online and I’m sitting around in Stormwind doing something or other. Suddenly I get a whisper from some random level 11 priest or something.
“can i join ur guild plz”
I whisper back the standard answer for requests like that. “Sorry, we aren’t recruiting right now.”
“prety plz i am a wow gm, wuldnt u like a wow gm in ur guild?”
*blink blink*
Guild chat time. “Hahaha, hey guys, I’m getting a whisper from some guy who claims to be a GM and he wants to join the guild.”
The response? An overwhelming “omg omg let him join let him join!”
And so, grinning like an idiot, I invited him. And we as a guild smothered him with over-the-top adoration.
“Wow a real GM! Joining our guild! Such an honor! This is the best thing that has ever happened to me in game!” and et cetera.
“ty ty”
We continued to make it a big deal but our newcomer was quiet for a bit. I found him in Stormwind and noticed he was standing in front of the guild bank.
“can i get promoted”
“Why?”
“can i just get promoted plz just for 2 secs”
“Sorry, you haven’t met the requirements for a promotion yet.”
“wut r the reqiuermants”
“Well… you have to be active in the guild, and you have to be reeeeeeeeally good at RP.” We exaggerated that last part out a lot.
“wut is rp”
“It’s when you make a story for your character and make your character act the way you think they would.”
“o”
Silence.
“ya i have a rly gud rp”
“Oh? Why don’t you tell us a little about your character?”
More silence.
“cant”
“Why not?”
“because I am a GM lol it has to be secret”
“Oh wow, Blizzard GMs have to have secret character backstories? That sounds hardcore. Your character must be really awesome!”
“ya it is rly awesome. so can i get promoted plz”
“Nope, sorry, we only do promotions once a week at our guild meetings.”
“prty plz just for 2 secs”
“Nope.”
“but i am a gm dont u want a gm officer”
“You have to wait until the guild meeting just like everyone else. As a GM, you should know all about rules.”
Finally the guy quit trying amidst most of us giggling up a storm in officer chat, and he logged out in front of the guild bank. We /gkicked him afterwards.
The moral of the story is… if any of you aspiring *cough* Blizz GMs out there want a guild promotion, you’d better not only have a RLY GUD RP, but be willing to wait until the guild meeting! =P
The End. /bow
L O L
we had one too. Ours claimed he knew a super good site for boss strats and great jokes. Some along the lines of http://www.wehavekeyloggers.com (cant remember the exact name). Worst is if he would not have used horrible grammar and just said he found a good joke on some site he would have bagged a lot of people.
MAI RP IS TEH BESTEST!
i r mighty warrior.
i slay orcs! many orc! because orcs killed my father and made me sad.
then i go to GM island and have picknic. the end.
Can I be an officer now? How about now? Is now good?
Reminds me of when I was guild leader of my old guild. (name withheld to protect the guilty)
My GL toon’s name was Brusaoiri and among other alts I had a private lvl 4 bank alt (originally setup as the guild’s bank before they built them) named brusbank.
Naturally a lvl 4 will not show up in armory scams, err i mean scans. One day I was logging in on one of my other alts (maybe even Katt, I don’t recall) and one of my occifers whispers me saying this guy (brusaoiribank) was claiming to be me, and wanted a promotion.
He was invited by one of our more gullible occifers in training. *(they could invite, but couldn’t promote)*
So, Being on my alt, I started chatting with my impostor, then told him that I would have to fetch my occifer alt to promote him. So I logged in as Brusaoiri and /gkicked his lying butt. That way he saw just who it was that put a steel toed chain mail boot where it hurts. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33805
Dang, that is hilarious! Sadly, I could see that happening in guilds I’m in, only through the fact of anyone can invite, and you get promoted as soon as you join, which I frown upon, yet even though I’ve been in the guild for almost a year now and am good friends with the GL and everyone in it basically, not an officer to enforce this kind of thing. :/
I really really hope this never happens to my guild. XD;;
Glad you shared that hilarious encounter with the oddly common race of noobs. <3
wut r u sayin my rp is gud.
im a gm man, my promo is gud
my identity is scret, my job is gud
my nitelife is ninja, it not so gud
Back when i was in my old guild we had a guy whisper me while we were in the middle of a Kara run. Back in those days i had a lowbie shaman alt named “Skord” (which is the name of my current DK bank alt), Now this guy asks to join up and asks to be promoted because “I’m Skords alt, i wanted to get some stuff for this character from the bank.” to which i replied “Hard to believe. What, with me being Skord and all”
Priceless.
All I can say is, “RAWR!”
😉
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Lol so friggin funny 😉
We have that happening alot, and as a general rule, people asking for promotions get a one time warning about how the ranking works. If they keep asking the get a /gkick 😉
No one is ninja’ing our vault 😉
Regards, Michel.
p.s. What i saw a few times too, when lowbie’s ask for buffs (wich i usually give anyway when i am in sw/if), they threaten you that they are gonna get your account suspended for not giving buffs or gold because they are/know a GM 😉
I usually /rasp them and ignore them 😉
That is the single best thing I have ever read. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I think Oriniwen deserves a promotion for her mad RP skillz 😉
Great story by you too, Pike 🙂
Awesome <3
“because I am a GM lol it has to be secret”
“Oh wow, Blizzard GMs have to have secret character backstories? That sounds hardcore. Your character must be really awesome!”
I lol’d so hard <3
Nicely handled. Nicely told.