Zol'khan / Foreman Gridcog (Commissions OPEN)

It was... Inevitable.

Gotta be the "Ineffective Mechanical Privacy Screen" for me.

This thing just has so much potential. I can make metal walkways above my factory floor out of these, or use these on the exterior of the Orc hut to transform it into a Goblin dwelling. Just BRIMMING with potential.

Tonight in RP: THEY FORGOT JUG-JUG

BOOMTEC Inc has found themselves in Pandaria to finish old business and find NEW business.

They ALSO were accosted by Jug-Jug, a Hozen pirate-turned-mercenary who they forgot in Pandaria a YEAR AGO. Jug-Jug was very angry with them, but... He was bored.

1/4

Yeeeah. I hate it when they write groups like that off, like in the Exploring Azeroth books where these kinds of groups (Blood Trolls, Faithless, etc) are just GONE. It's a huge waste.

It was fun to get into Hozen RP for a change once again. It's tough to play dumb sometimes, you know. But I most loved having the chance to explore Jug-Jug's fear of the "Ikk" meaning the Sha. It'll be fun to explore that some more I think.

4/4

After a fight with an enchanted mech, the mission was a success. Won Sul retrieved the stone. A shiny, grey gemstone named "The Breath of Y'shraaj"

Jug-Jug, remembering tales from his elders, was immediately on EDGE. But, jobs... A job. Jug-Jug was suddenly reminded of the stories of his youth

3/4

The employer, Won Sul, required BOOMTEC's assistance in retrieving a stone. A precious gemstone. However, the village the stone was to be located in had been raided by a mysterious Goblin company who seem to specialize in magic artifacts. It was time to rumble as BOOMTEC kicked all sorts of ass

2/4

Jug-Jug decided to put his anger aside. Working with BOOMTEC was fun and he had found that the Hozen of his home village did not welcome him anymore. He had grown to be STRANGE to them in the years he was gone. A wikket

So when a servant of Madam Goya came to offer BOOMTEC work, he joined them

Tonight in RP: THEY FORGOT JUG-JUG

BOOMTEC Inc has found themselves in Pandaria to finish old business and find NEW business.

They ALSO were accosted by Jug-Jug, a Hozen pirate-turned-mercenary who they forgot in Pandaria a YEAR AGO. Jug-Jug was very angry with them, but... He was bored.

1/4

Screw vanilla Gadgetzan. My homies and I hate vanilla gadgetzan.

Like, it's gotten to the point that most of us just, like... use undermine as a proxy now. We were spoiled by the Hearthstone version.

Yeah! Way more of a hive of scum and villainy than Undermine, which feels much more industrial, with very little outright organized crime presence. Gadgetzan could be split into distinct territories with the Goblin stuff binding it all together like Hearthstone (+ an actual beach resort to the side)

At least they've got all those fresh Undermine assets to use if they decide to give us an updated Gadgetzan. No one could even cry about Goblin fatigue if they DID decide to do it. Undermine just left me hungry for more.

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Elite comedy

I can SENSE someone who fancies themself very funny adding two hands to that image and thinking they've cracked the joke of the century.

(all of this is actually very unlikely as the Foreman has his own wood source in the Overgrowth of the Barrens, employing Quilboar Thornweavers to produce lumber from the super fertile land)

I feel like it would be a "Be defeated by" followed by "Defeat" with Foreman Gridcog. I imagine he'd lose an Ashenvale lumber caravan to an ambush, be pissed and come back with actual heavy equipment that would make another ambush very costly.

I try to have good faith, but I can't see this going any other way than him getting beat and then bowing his head. It's the most boring outcome, which makes it very likely in my head. I HOPE I am wrong

I do like the idea of him losing an arm like Zul'jin for that symbolism that I've seen brought up

I hope so, though I can't say I'm very excited for this interesting character to "See the light" and fix his wicked ways. These sorts of conflicting characters are always at their best when they're high on their own delusions and way of thinking. I never really like the "fixed" version. Sylvanas...

I'm SO scared for the guy. The dynamic of having two leader figures that represent two different ways of doing things is so good, but they're painting Zul'jan SO HEAVILY with obvious villain flags. Goddammit, I just want a hostile character to FOR ONCE live so bad.

The one thing keeping me sane at work is listening to a complied 12 hour youtube retrospective of the Archie Sonic comic by the youtuber Lowart.

I dunno what it is. I've watched and/or listened to that video probably 30+ times at work in the last year and a bit

Any of you have something like this?

I'm praying they give us this new emote they have on the Midnight beta build. Arms crossed in stern disappointment is the Foreman's most common pose.

I wish they'd give us other NPC animations and stuff like being able to do casting animations that just loop with spell effects.

The devs have been very good to RPers the last couple expansions. It has been lovely to get more tools for our little adventures. Even the /lean emote. Hot damn.

I was there as Foreman Gridcog and he is a hardened (some would say dead inside) bastard. But Zol'khan, the PLAYER, oh yeah. The initial hounding by the Worgen was terrifying.

Its not often that one gets a chance to dip their character in a situation that's completely different from the norm, but having my run of the mill engineer going dream diving was definitely an adventure to remember.

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This one is actually one of my favorites, because of the horror movie atmosphere where we realized we were completely surrounded and harried from all sides by crazed, ancient Worgen. It had some genuine moments of panic mixed in.

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We've also had some involvement with Kaldorei themed forest spirits. Most recently was this multi part campaign where a sub-contracted Venture Co lumber yard in Ashenvale was suddenly beset by Worgen. The OLD kind.

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We do veer off into psychological horror more often than one would think, so I can totally agree with you on that.

I think this is what I love most about WoW RP. The way we can have a whole slew of different GENRES. Every event I see you involved with have a high fantasy LOTR energy to them. Meanwhile BOOMTEC just embodies that tongue-in-cheek Goblin energy that shifts between crime drama and slapstick comedy.

P.S
This specific event took place late at night, so the theme was for everyone to show up in their sleep wear. The Foreman is a workaholic, so he would obviously be working late and show up in his usual overalls. DEEP LORE.