A Rook and Two Knights

 I was excited when I got lucky on my first Ve'nari paragon chest with a mount and a pet, but then I mounted up and realized I actually got TWO mounts, because Rook mounts up on a little mawrat! It is so adorable, I was way more excited about the pet than the mount, which doesn't fly even through it has ghostly legs. Maybe they'll fix that, like they did on Blanchy. But I'm still pleased as punch about Rook, either way.

Parasoling

 FINALLY. And when I added it to my collection, I noticed I had a Stylish Black Parasol already that does the same exact thing. Oh, well, at least I have it in purple now.

It's Not Self-Effacing Day

Today's the day we race.

This is the song I have in my head all day every time this quest is available. From the first time I ran it, I hated this quest. Such a pain. But then I found out I couldn't buy the wheelbarrow toy until I won it ten times. I thought I could just run it ten times in a row, but once you do the world quest, you're done for the day. Then days would go by without any Racing in the Ramparts, but finally, FINALLY, I've got the toy. Now for that damned parasol.

Ostentatious

 That's what I would rename my new Sapphire Skyblazer mount, if I could rename mounts. I love its mount special animation, and the colors matched my current transmog so I made it my regular flying mount, until a couple days later when I finally got my Swift Gloomhoof. That one checks all the boxes, it's the right shade, it's a unicorn, it flies. If it had a mounting animation like Sinrunner Blanchy that would make it the perfect mount.

And this happened:

I don't think Draka really knew at first, I think she just figured it out because Rocksy kept looking at them both and crying the whole time. I wish goblins had a /silentlysob in addition to their regular /cry, so it could at least be a little bit more dignified when called for.

Shadows Gather

SQUAWK. I just thought this picture was cool. I noticed the chains are still there on Korthia, so I decided to see how far up them you can go. There's an invisible wall eventually, but it'll at least be a handy place for goblin glider jumps.

Fractured Scary Tales

 So, I don't know why I felt a little jumpy today running Fractured Halls. I though maybe it was because I got the "Stormkeeper every 15 seconds" power right off the bat, and I have a bad habit of frantically searching for an enemy to hit when a spell procs, so I spent a lot of the time playing whack-a-spell, especially since I have the boots that proc Lava Burst every time I hit Earth Shock, and Earth Shock procs super fast when I'm casting instant Chain Lightnings every 15 seconds. But then I also had to stop for pictures every time I noticed a creepy bit of decor, like this:

What even IS this? It's small, I probably should have gotten a picture of my Goblin beside it for scale, but she's definitely taller, I'd say it's companion pet sized. Is it a cell for some kind of pet that glows like it's exploding? I ignored a good many Stormkeeper procs to try to figure out what this was, and if there was anything I could rescue out of it or loot. So that was weird. Then there were the more typical skeletons lying around, but because everything seemed eerie I had to get pictures:

I saw another puddle of blood after this one that had something hanging above and dripping into it. Apparently I missed getting a picture of it, though, which made sense because when you stand around too long an enemy spawns on top of you; which actually worked well for me this time, since I always had a Stormkeeper proc ready to go.

Then there were the bodies/body parts hanging everywhere:

By the end of the run I was taking a closer look at everything, even this guy:

I had no idea Mawrats looked like this up close, but now I've looked it up and found out you can get Mawrat pets in various colors. So that will be a fun grind* for the next expansion(s). 

*Looking at you, Shadowclaw, Geomancer Flintdagger, Beastrider Kama, Skullripper, Knight Captain Aldrin, and Will of N'Zoth.

Who Knew?

 

If someone said three years from now
I'd be long gone,
I'd stand up and punch them out,
'Cause they're all wrong.
Thought I knew better
'Cause I said forever
And ever