World of Weirdos

Recently, my mate in work told me that in the World of Warcraft game, one of the top players in the world had died in real life (or 'RL' as the WoW players call it).

Now that is not amusing for anyone, but it did lead to a hilarious story which made me wonder what kind of absolute weirdos spend their entire lives in this game.

Apparently (this all happened a while ago), the news of this player's death went out on a forum which is used by thousands of World of Warcraft players, and they arranged to down their weapons and hold an in game funeral at a 'contested' location set by one of the deceased player's friends. Some of the best players of the game had agreed to attend, and they declared a tentative ceasefire so that nobody would attack other 'griefers' during the online event.

But of course, you can't trust anyone on the Internet. The forum was being watched by a bunch of newbie players led by someone called 'azshira' who were looking to make a quick points bonus by killing the players who attended the 'funeral service'.

They arrived on Lions and caused chaos, 'ganking' people indiscriminately. Here's the video. It's quite long but hilarious - if you get bored the action starts at 4:37.

To quote one of the 'lowbie' players who got 'ganked': "I hope azshira's Dad dies of a heart attack, then at the funeral some guy runs in naked and pushes the coffin over and runs around slapping people screaming 'LOL OWNED' and releases a video of it on the Internet."

For me this almost, but not quite, beats Leeroy Jenkins. 'God Damn it, Leeroy!'