The Queue

In case you were unaware that I am as ancient and hoary as a sinister black sword that drinks souls, let me introduce y’all to White Plume Mountain, the module that contains throwaway references to stuff that ended up becoming iconic Dungeons and Dragons villains and items. I mean, it’s heavily implied by the art in this module that Elric’s famous black sword Stormbringer ended up in this mountain under the name Blackrazor.

When I was a wee sprog of around 10, my fighter got his hands on that thing, and let me tell you, it was as bad an idea to let me have a sentient evil soul devouring greatsword as it would be for, say, the Prince of Lordaeron. But man, I can still remember the chant we all came up with for places we wanted to go after we were done inside the volcano of weird giant crabs and evil Efreets. Dragotha Dragotha Dragotha.

This is the Queue. We never actually did get to fight Dragotha.

“Why won’t she stop dancing?” wonders A. F. Kay amidst her studies, before taking a bite of her sandwich and a sip of her coffee. A study-appropriate version of Daughter of the Sea begins to play on her [Gnomish Ear-Covering Ensmallened Soundblasters 7000-X]. “Why?”

I don’t usually have a lot of issues with allergies, but tree pollen counts in my area have been slowly pushing up and over the 10k mark, when the benchmark for “extremely high” is just over 1500. It’s a real dilemma: do I want to be lethargic and feel terrible because of allergies, or do I want to be lethargic and feel terrible because I went ahead and took a zyrtec?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we– I’m not really sure. Something something. It’ll come to me. You don’t mind if I crack open this Cadbury Creme Egg do you? Yes, I did settle on taking that zyrtec, why? That’s 2 questions down, so we’re off to a great start.

Oh wait, was I supposed to set up a joke first and then say I fooled you? Dang, I’m not good at April Fool’s Day I guess.

While I try and figure this out, it’s time for — The Queue!

Welcome to Friday, everyone! We made it through another week of challenges, confusion, and exhaustion. It’s only midday and I’m already ready for a nap.

So let’s get this show on the road. Let’s Queue.

No, you’re working on your own tabletop RPG with crazy time travelers going back in time and catching prehistoric animals and releasing them in, say, Greece in BCE 1200 just because they think it’s funny.

Tabletop RPG design is wild and I’m winging it, guys.

Anyway, it’s the Queue. Let’s goooooooooooooooo.

Look, it had been a long day of running Mythic dungeons to complete the Taivan meta and I was tired. I was about to hit the final one I needed and decided to take a break while we recruited people. The fact I could summon via the summoning stone without getting up was a surprise but a welcome one and I took full advantage of it.

Speaking of Taivan it appears that RNG is against me and a couple of the quests I need to complete it won’t be up until next reset at the earliest. Since he’s a good boy, though, I’m sure he’ll patiently wait for me.

While I figure out how to attach rockets to Taivan to make him a flying mount too, let’s answer some questions!

You are all on punishment for not notifying me that Easter is this Sunday. Add on one more thing to my to-do list.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you answers just as soon as we finish stuffing all these dang plastic eggs.

That’s not me in the picture… yet! I’ll get there for sure, any day now…

In other news I’m digging my time in the Plunderstorm and am glad that Blizzard took the chance on this fun new thing. I never in a million years would’ve guessed that it was what was going to be in the 10.2.6 patch, but here we are!

While I wait for my parrot to divebomb me back into the world, it’s time for — The Queue!

Friday is a time of eternal flux, eternal complexity. Let us question it.