The XPac-alypse

Sorry I haven't posted much over the last week. This is partly due to my being sick, partly due to the Ulduar guide I've been trying to work on. Mostly it's because I'm a zombie.


Yup.


As a matter of fact, most players I know have become zombies lately. They're all suffering from the same (possibly governmentally developed bioweapon) disease, which I shall hereby refer to as expansionitis.


Expansionitis occurs primarily in gamers. Gamers that are most at risk are devout WoW players. Those afflicted with expansionitis steadily become zombies - living corpses slowly shuffling about the planet with no real purpose or sentience of their own. In fact, the only thing that these E-zombies (Expansionitis Zombies) can accomplish is infecting others with the disease. So the infection spreads and thus begins the XPac-alypse.


Everyone feels the effects of the XPac-alypse. Raiders stop showing up, people are less enthusiastic about events or even playing in general. The E-zombies that haven't wandered away simply keep returning to finish their mindless daily chores.


Expansionitis tends to spread in the coming months before a new expansion. It's now hit us so hard that a state of emergency has been declared... or it would be had the authorities not already become E-zombies themselves. A cure, codenamed: Cataclysm, is being developed by a top-secret organisation (Blizzard), but there's little we can do while we wait for it to be deployed. 


Naturally, as with any zombie outbreak, there are also survivors - those who have not yet been infected and are slowly watching others fall around them. This is where our problem lies.


We started Harms Way shortly before the outbreak, and we cater specifically for those who are naturally "survivors". Many of the seasoned players (shamefully, myself included) have become less and less enthusiastic over time, leaving many of the survivor types to fend for themselves in the dark, cold, zombie-infested streets of Dalaran.


I have a suspicion (correct me if I'm wrong here) that many of the survivors are beginning to lose hope for Harms Way - that it's not the teaching guild that we promised it would be. They'd be right too, but only for now.


Slowly, things will become like they should be - we simply have to wait for the cure-a-clysm. Once we get that, everything will be shiny and better than ever. In the meantime, I'll be doing my best to give everyone a way to fight off expansionitis (Sadistic Sundays, Achievement Runs, Stormwind Pub Crawls, etc.). 


So grab a chainsaw, a cricket bat or a plastic, glow-in-the-dark pink sword, and start fighting... The cure will be here before you know it and we'll be restored to our former (and even greater) glory!


-Ahzae, Lord of The Trifl- braaaaiiinnnnss...