Warlock Madness

Warlock Madness

Tiphaine is frustrated and annoyed. Keya and Sista are at work on achieving Flying in Legion. It requires a huge effort of time and commitment. Now, after long months of idleness, the horde guild has suddenly decided to interfere. Even more damning is that dimwitted Wild sent Tiphaine's own daughter, Plumrosefist ("Fist") to do his dirty work.

Wild was cagier than Tiphaine figured him to be, for someone who has let his guild slip badly to Tiphaine's eyes. She couldn't refuse Fist, though, who asked only that her mother talk to Wild about the resurgence of interest in the horde guild.

Wildshard had spent a long winter brooding in Orgrimmar, unsure of the guild's course. The unusual cooperation of horde and alliance guilds was intended to help both, but once Tiphaine was given a leg up, all support from the alliance came to an end. Wild was determined to get his guild back on track.
Giving his blessing to Fist to begin leveling again was the first step. Tiphaine's relationship with her daughter was fraught with emotional entangles that could blow up at any time. Wild knew, though, that Tiphaine would not interfere with Fist.

The talks between the two did not go well.

"Just because we've stayed quiet doesn't mean that we have retired or plan to." Wild glared at Tiphaine and banged his staff, Kihrawr's Scratching Post, for emphasis. He was tired of fruitless arguing.

Tiphaine didn't hide her flash of contempt. "You don't even have an artifact weapon, and you think your guild is ready for Legion?"

Wild rounded on her. "We have an agreement! We helped you transition to a new guild, worked with you to get it set up, gave you GOLD to help Chaitee get on her feet!"

"Come on, Wild, why rouse yourself from your cosy hibernation?" Tiphaine showed her death knight smile. "You as much as gave up your guild a long time ago."

"No we haven't." Jezzibael ("JB") pressed into the argument. "We are following the agreement. I have a right to improve my skills as the melee shaman representative of both guilds. Don't forget that."

"You know where you can shove that pitiful pair of shaman axes." Demon hunter Keya snorted, flashing her pair of Aldrachi Warblades. "You're still mucking about in Draenor!"

"This is going nowhere," Wild growled.

"You got that right, at least," Tiphaine shot back.

Wild and Tiphaine glared at each other. Wild finally spoke. "The agreement is broken." The two sides parted warily.

Later that day Wild set out his own orders. JB was granted time to level. He wanted to know if a melee shaman could keep up with the tanking classes. He mulled over several other ideas intended to help the guild - and that would piss off  Tiphaine.

Phillypurdue ("Philly") came to Wild with her own request. She once lived on another realm in a guild called The Grunt Foundation. The group broke up years ago, but she has never forgotten them. Wild listened and granted Philly her wish. She would travel the realms in the hope of learning what became of them.

His next action was sure to create even greater friction among the guilds. With Philly on her quest to find her friends, a spot became open. Wild has a diabolical idea. He wants something completely out of Tiphaine's comfort zone. Wild's plan is to bring in a young Warlock to eat up hours and hours of leveling time learning the skills. And then Wild will offer the warlock a Boost to level 100.

Wild dropped into bear form, stretched mightily, muscles showing his formidable strength, and roared. The hibernation was over. Wild is back.

[Note to readers - With all 12 character spots taken, a number of ideas were tossed about how to get around that and advance the story. One idea involved killing off Happyface. Another required opening the second account again and retiring a character. Yet another idea would have required a class change - until I learned that Warcraft does not not allow characters to change classes. I wanted the horde to have a period of growth for awhile, too. So, I came up with this idea - send Philly off to another realm. Simple, I hope. Just a fee to change realms is all that is needed. That makes a spot open - and we'll see if a warlock can hang with the tanking classes.]