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#52 May 29 2011 at 1:44 PM Rating: Good
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Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
DerpLord wrote:
Alot of the themes in warcraft and things that happen in it make it impossible to not be a serious story. So many kids die in warcraft :O. As soon as warcraft gets a doctor evil type expansion villian, I'll agree that warcraft is not a serious story :)
A Dr Evil type villain was already added in a patch during vanilla as part of a large, epic quest chain.


Who was that?
Dr Weavil

http://www.wowpedia.org/Doctor_Weavil wrote:
Weavil is an old acquaintance of Narain Soothfancy, both of them formerly being students at the "Gnomeregan Institute of Tinkering". Apparently, Narain caused Weavil to fail out of school by destroying the curves on Weavil's exams. For this, Weavil has a grudge against him.

During the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, the player is asked to recover the [Blue Scepter Shard] in order to reforge the scepter which grants access to Ahn'Qiraj. He/she is sent by Anachronos to Azuregos in Aszhara who is supposed to hold the shard. Azuregos has however hidden the shard away on a "very special minnow", but explains that the player has to make an [Arcanite Buoy] in order to catch it. He supplies the player with his [Magical Ledger] which describes how to make the buoy, and sends the player to Narain (an old acquaintance of him as well) to "make sense of it all". Unfortunately, the book is written in draconic.

In order to read it, Narain requires his own book [Draconic For Dummies: Volume II] which is hidden away on Land's End Beach where Narain crashed his gyrocopter. Weavil somehow discovered and stole the book, demanding a sum of money as ransom. Unknowing that Weavil is the thief, Narain sends the player to Winterspring (where the money is to be handed over) to trick and defeat the "booknappers". When Weavil shows up, he goes in a rage after discovering the setup and orders Combat Number Two to kill the player before Weavil makes his escape in his flying machine. Tearing the book apart, he drops its pages all over Azeroth. He eventually returns to Alcaz Island, which Narain uses his soothsaying abilities to discover. The player engages Weavil there, killing him, and loots one of the pages along with Weavil's diary which conveniently lists the location of the other pages.
#53 May 29 2011 at 1:49 PM Rating: Good
DerpLord wrote:
Anyone else think that pop culture references in wow are silly and break immersion?

Short answer: no.
Long answer: noooooooooooooooooooo.
Large Ham answer: here
#54 May 29 2011 at 5:39 PM Rating: Good
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DerpLord wrote:
This reminds me of when I saw Thor. It had several hilarious bits, but overall was a serious film. Not a comedy film, a serious action film with several bits of humour, but not to the extent that it was a comedy. Maybe that's what warcraft is akin to?


Nope, you still don't get it.
#55 May 30 2011 at 10:49 AM Rating: Good
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Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
DerpLord wrote:
Alot of the themes in warcraft and things that happen in it make it impossible to not be a serious story. So many kids die in warcraft :O. As soon as warcraft gets a doctor evil type expansion villian, I'll agree that warcraft is not a serious story :)
A Dr Evil type villain was already added in a patch during vanilla as part of a large, epic quest chain.


Who was that?

I believe that it was Dr Weavil http://www.wowhead.com/npc=15552/doctor-weavil

<edit - sorry - serves me right for not realizing there was another page to the thread already>


Edited, May 30th 2011 9:50am by morghast
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