At some point Banakin misspelled the word "mob" as "maob". Given the fact that the letter 'A' is nowhere near the letters required for 'mob', he's created a sort of typo enigma. Add that to us being a pack of jerks who take pleasure in tormenting others, and we've been rubbing it in ever since. Such is the humble beginnings of the Maob Awards.
We use these awards for recognising particularly memorable moments from Harms Way and immortalise them here, so that we can show future generations of the wayward some of our most epic or hilarious moments. Anyone can be nominated for an award in any given month, and for any reason. In essence, a Maob Award is whatever we want it to be.
Nominees for the monthly award will be announced seven days prior to the end of the month. We then vote on our favourite Maob moment, and whoever has the most votes by the end of the month gets the prize. In order to nominate a moment, make sure you announce that we have a nominee (so we know something awesome has happened :3) and send the details through to Ahzae either in-game or via email.
August Nominees:
We have four contenders for August. In order of occurrence:
Banakin - 10man Irony
Banakin was set to tank Onyxia earlier this month. All the way through the trash, he loudly exclaimed his hatred for paladins. Once Banakin starts ranting about paladins he's difficult to stop.
Unless he disconnects, which he did during the first attempt at Ony. When he didn't come back, the raid replaced him rather quickly... with a paladin.
Thalkorn - Epic VoA Wipe
A VoA10 group had been scheduled, planning to take down all four bosses. Unfortunately, getting the raid together took longer than expected (probably Ahzae's fault) and by the time they were ready to go we only had twenty minutes left to down them all.
Instead of waiting for the next Wintergrasp battle to finish, this group heroically decided to race the clock. Toravon, Archavon and Koralon all fell in a single attempt. They stood before Emalon with 5 minutes left on the clock. Every raider was feeling the rush of taking on the clock and winning as they prepared to take down the final boss.
However, the group wiped on Emalon due to the adds. Two minutes remained on the clock though, enough time to engage Emalon and finish him in the overtime. With the adrenaline still pumping, the raid regrouped at Emalon's room and waited for him to respawn.
Thalkorn, thinking that Emalon was missing because they had run out of time, began bouncing around the room and let loose his army of the dead... This was quickly followed with an "Oh shi-" as Emalon and his adds respawned on top of them. Emalon immediately tore through half of the raid; the survivors were too busy laughing and cheering to fight back and were wiped out seconds later.
Though Thalkorn felt bad about it at the time, everyone assured him that a truly epic ending like that was more than they could have hoped for - certainly worth more than the piddling loot Emalon had to offer.
Banakin (again) - Treetank FAIL
Banakin was tanking in Ruby Sanctum during a Sadistic Sunday event. After wiping to the first boss a few times, Banakin went exploring to see if he could get any sort of advantage from the terrain. He then got stuck in the tree where the boss was keeping it's prisoner and couldn't get out.
Figuring that this was as good of a sign as anything, the raid left Banakin stuck in the tree prison and moved on to their next raid. (Now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen him since, hahaha - Ahz)
Saravix - Getting out of Harm's Way
During the same Sadistic Sunday event, several Harms Way members came across Saravix (former Harms Way member, recently transferred to the alliance) and, somewhat accidentally, killed her in spectacular fashion in the middle of Darnassus. Quoted from this post:
From Saravix's point of view, it must have seemed as though her former guildmates had tracked her down to pay her back for her departure. This was (and is) definitely not the case; Harms Way bears no ill will toward Saravix and we wish her luck in her future endeavours.We started in Darnassus (Sporran had a hankering to hear a few night elf death cries). After we'd slaughtered a few, Ruck stopped us. He was staring at the body of one particular night-elf, completely aghast.
"That... That's Saravix!"
Saravix was a blood-elf hunter that Ruck had recruited to Harms Way a few weeks ago. It seemed as if she had defected to the alliance, right from under our noses. In the most obscene coincidence of the decade, her former guildmates accidentally stumbled across her in a town they weren't planning to go to and killed her before realising who she was because she also happened to be flagged for pvp.
In the meantime, it makes for a particularly Moabie worthy moment.
Voting:
Vote for your favourite moment below. The person whose moment has the highest number of votes wins the Maob Award for this month.
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