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by Aiden James Kosciesza 
Mar 18th 2011 at 8:00AM
Way back in the days of yore, before Cataclysm, before Wrath, before even TBC, I was a hunter striving for my Beaststalker pants, and my family had just brought home a new kitten. This was a kitten we'd waited for for over a year, the first purebred Siamese cat we'd owned. She had been welcomed with love into a house full of new toys and kitty beds and expensive cat food, but this kitten had a bad attitude. She yowled. She hissed. She hid under furniture and scratched. Finally, when night fell, we had to shut her up in her special kitten room and hope that the next day proved more encouraging. Dejected, I sat down for an evening of Baron runs to soothe my cat owner's ego.
We had just finished Baroness Anastari when I heard a noise from downstairs, a long, mournful yowl. I immediately feared that the new cat had somehow come to harm. With a quick "brb cat's crying," I rushed down to see what was wrong.
Nothing. The kitten was fine. In fact, she hissed when she saw me. Figures, I thought, and turned away, but when I reached the door, she meowed pitifully again. Experimentally, I opened the door and gathered her up, and she didn't murder me. I carried the kitten upstairs and plopped her on my bed in front of my laptop, where she was immediately entranced by the night elf on the screen. As soon as I announced my return, she pounced on the keys, delighted that she could make the elf move and jump. We finished the dungeon without incident, and I will always remember that run as the night I bonded with that lovely, cantankerous kitten.
What's the most memorable raid or dungeon interruption you've experienced? Do you still talk about it to this day?
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 9)
Pam Mar 18th 2011 9:15AM
If you were the one that was in our raid, playing on battery backup till it died...we totally freaked out when we didn't hear from you for days...just fyi...
Ryrdyn Mar 18th 2011 8:35AM
Hunter in my guild afked during our first night attempting Lich King, his reason, "brb guys im cooking myself a meatloaf and need to run to the store for ketchup" he was gone for over 30 mins just to come back and and say "damn it guys i was at the store and started talking to a friend and forgot the ketchup so ill brb again" and disapeared for another 30 mins. Need less to say no lich king the first night.
Fossless Mar 18th 2011 8:35AM
Afk pizza, didn't see the guy till 3 months later and "my cat got hit by a cat, gotta go" was the greatest ninja log I've ever seen
Jalamenos Mar 18th 2011 8:36AM
One time we were doing Ulduar and discussing tactics before Razorscale our main tank yelled in the mic "my neighbour's house is on fire!"
spartan_e58 Mar 18th 2011 12:46PM
I had a similar incident with the neighbor interupting the raid, unfortunately it was because a coworker of his shot him on his driveway :O
Luna Mar 18th 2011 8:37AM
Not a raid, but a 5-man pug, one of the DPS stops right in the middle and states "Gotta go, the pool's on fire." We replaced him and had a good laugh the rest of the run.
Ruta Mar 18th 2011 8:37AM
"Sorry, brb, my chair just broke on me."
- Happened to me back in Wrath, we had just finished a Kel'Thuzad kill. And I mean just finished: As soon as his HP reached zero, my chair went "CRACK" and I went flying sideways. I ended up having to kill Malygos and Sarth 3D by repositioning my monitor and keyboard... and sitting on my bed, at 90 degrees from the PC.
Jormund Fenris Mar 18th 2011 8:45AM
When our raids are interrupted by our swedish members, usually the excuse is somewhere along the lines of "*sigh* polar bears got inside again, one moment and i'll swat them out." or "Sorry, but the ice has cracked up the entire left wall of my house, need to switch pc place brb".
And before you say anything, yes, we know there aren't polar bears in Sweden. There's also not THAT many mob bosses in Italy, but that doesn't keep our italian members from needing to "go to a family meeting"...
Grza Mar 18th 2011 8:47AM
I enjoy the occasional tip of the glass during raid - I happened to knock over a glass of red wine into my keyboard in between fights one night. When everyone got done laughing we took a 15 minute break so that I could run out of my apartment (maybe a little drunk), hop a cab to the office (it was 10:30 at night - no stores open). I ran in and snagged a keyboard from an empty work station and ran out of the building and caught a cab back home. I finished the night on the stolen keyboard and then had to bring it back to the office the next day with some stupid story about working late at home and spilling a cup of coffee - sort of the truth I guess.
To this day - almost 2 years later - I still get a number of comments about that night.
Lotice Mar 18th 2011 8:49AM
The raid leader went afk without notice during a break, then when he came back he explained that his cat had just had kittens.
Neyssa Mar 18th 2011 8:49AM
A guild member and RL friend of mine made my favorite excuse during a Naxxramas raid:
"Sorry guys, my dog ate my neighbours ferret, gtg my neighbour is furiously shouting at me". True story the dog really killed that poor thing that was stupid enough to cross the fence.
mazca13 Mar 18th 2011 8:50AM
I've had several dungeons interrupted by my cat, generally because he catches something small and furry - he's a real killing machine. If he feels that I'm not paying enough attention to him due to, say, trying to play WoW, then he'll go outside and get me a gift. This is often a dead sparrow or a mouse, but if he's feeling vindictive it can be worse. The two memorable ones were a completely intact and very angry medium-sized rat, and the front half of a mouse, very neatly separated from its back half in the manner of a surgeon.
If you're running a dungeon with me and I say "brb, cat's yowling" it's likely that it's something worse than him just wanting to be fed.
aggrazel Mar 18th 2011 8:50AM
In the middle of TOC25
Healing Team Captain "Oh crap! I have to go! I have to pick up my son at soccer practice."
He leaves. Later we find out he was supposed to pick up his 7 year old son at soccer practice 3 hours ago, before the raid even started. He left his poor kid there for 3 hours while he raided.
Aticus Mar 18th 2011 8:50AM
I remember one night we were in the middle of Ragnaros and one guildie said "OMG house on fire!" And another said right after "Jesus I'm his roommate!" Luckily it was just a kitchen fire and they put it out.
Knob Mar 18th 2011 9:07AM
Ragnaros can be mean with fire.
Aticus Mar 18th 2011 9:57AM
Hahaha yea, Ragnaros burning things became a huge guild joke for a long time.
rip_wv32 Mar 18th 2011 8:52AM
"BRB Guys, someone is shooting at someone outside my front lawn"
True story, I lived across the street from a seedy local bar... So I grab my rifle and open the front door and wait for the Police to show up... about 7 minutes end to end...
Cuts Mar 18th 2011 8:55AM
It was a 5 man low level dungeon...
We were in the beggining of the dungeon and it droped a greenie BoE weapon that both shammy and hunter could use. Both rolled need and Shammy won. Then, all of a sudden, a priest (same guild as hunter) starts freaking out, yellling at the shammy. I was like "ok, let's calm down, it was a normal need roll". And both hunter and priest started a crazy talk about nonsense that lasted a good 5 mins. In the end both left the dungeon and I was like "thanks god they left" just to read the shammy's following message "you guys are stupid" and leaving. Note that at this point both the hunter and the priest had already left. The other dps then said "wow.. that was random" and we finished it with a new group.
Saeadame Mar 18th 2011 8:58AM
I think the most hilarious, but also /facepalm one was, after we had finished downing a boss in ICC this guy speaks up on vent "Hey guys, I think I gotta go soon, my daughter broke her arm." The RL's like "SOON? You should go now! Why are you even still on vent, you should have just dropped group and explained later, GO!"
After he left we were all like... who the hell would continue raiding when his daughter's arm is broken and he should be taking her to the hospital?
rip Mar 18th 2011 11:31AM
Actually, My daughter has had the misfortune of breaking her arm twice. The first time was a panic ridden event. She fell wrong, broke just above the wrist - we rushed her to the ER just to wait 30 minutes before being seen by a doctor and was then told to go home because they couldn't do anything until the swelling went down.
The second time she broke it we just put an ace bandage around the swollen spot and threw it in a sling. Went to the doc the next day and had it wrapped up. No biggie.