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Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth is a webcomic posted every Monday through Friday on GameSpy and has been published since December 9 2004 . It is created using mainly the graphics of '' World Of Warcraft '' with embellishments. It originally started as a PlanetFargo column written by Dave "Fargo" Kosak in the form of a ficticious interview between Fargo and Flintlocke, a self-styled master hunter who took Fargo along for a bear hunt with disastrous results. He then lowered his objectives, instead taking Fargo along to hunt "a monstrous beast" that was no more than a tiny squirrel, with an equally tragic end.[http://www.gamespy.com/articles/572/572326p4.html The first few installments of Flintlocke's adventures followed the PlanetFargo style, namely a written column with a few , the characters all being perfectly aware of being players of the MMORPG World Of Warcraft , interacting in a virtual environment. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} MAIN CHARACTERS Flintlocke: The main character of the comic, a is less than stellar, his experimentation with the "exploding chicken" having severely damaged his standing with the dwarves (as well as most of Ironforge's Hall of Heroes).[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/597/597369p1.html Has a running obsession with powerful weapons, having once added an aiming scope to a mace [http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/578/578625p1.html and purchased six copies of an experimental spinning head mace created by a less than reputable gnome engineer. Flintlocke is clearly not the shrewdest shopper in Azeroth.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/640/640107p1.html Kathrena: . Has a pet spider named Itsy Bitsy who tried eating Flintlocke's face on their first meeting.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/580/580933p1.html Schweitzer: The , {Link without Title} convincing the Doc that he will go straight to hell when he dies. Bloodrose: A female who "plays this game to win". She once gained a level just by talking endlessly about battle strategy While the group split up for a short time, she took advantage of this break to gain experience up to level 60 in just under 4 hours,[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/624/624465p1.html obtaining enough power and resources to actually discard an epic mace rather than sell it at the auction house. She is not above looting dead bodies herself, having no shame in going through the pockets of corpses long buried at the Scarlet Monastery.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/686/686819p1.html Lowping: A gnome "I lewt teh hat" and "Ebay! Ebay!" SECONDARY CHARACTERS PSI Investigators: A duo of yet unnamed detectives part of the PSI " Pween scene investigation" group. They are both Undead and follow the trail of dead cameo characters left behind by Flintlocke and his crew. While one of them always seems to pin down the exact cause of death and deduce Flintlocke's unorthodox methods, his leader will inevitably dismiss his conclusion offhand and instead claim that the victim instead died by some bizarre suicide ritual or other farfetched method.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/607/607958p1.html When questionned by his assistant why someone would choose to die by throwing a small rodent through their chest using black powder, he will usually reply that whatever sick things they do is their own business. As time goes by and Flintlocke's gang leaves more and more corpses, their theories get stranger and stranger. [http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/660/660169p1.html For all their unusual working methods, they are quite devoted to their duties and will run in-depth tests to arrive at their ultimate conclusions.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/671/671780p1.html] Bayne: The ordinance officer who holds the secret to the Ultimate Goblin Engineered Weapon which Flintlocke seeks ever since he found an "ancient map drawn in ancient crayon." He has been dead for quite some time, resting in the Scarlet Monastery graveyard until he was dug up and his body looted by Flintlocke and Bloodrose. This prompted him to return as an undead, though this was not such a bright idea as the Scarlet Crusade rs proceeded to kill him 12 more times before he could crawl back out of the monastery with a renewed hatred of all living things.[http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/692/692927p1.html He now seeks revenge, planning to use the ultimate weapon to achieve this goal. Schweitzer's father: A drunken man, legally blind from Syphilis , whose only bright spot in life is thinking that his son is upstanding, honorable, devout and pious. {Link without Title} Clearly, the syphillis has affected a lot more than just his eyesight. Has an unusually deep outlook on life and seems to be the only character seen so far to be able to grasp the concept that the world is not black and white, but multiple shades of grey. The Wuuf: The most reknowned player there is, his skill is legendary, even Bloodrose considers that he is hardcore and that he makes her look like Doc. He terrorizes game designers who fear what he may post negatively on their forums about their new games, and has been a level 60 priest since the very first day that the World of Warcraft servers went up. His reputation is such that he always shows up saying "BEHOLD!" and gets away with making up new words that everyone else start using right away. He only made a four word comment during the beta test: "too easy, nerf everything." The Wuuf helped Schweitzer re-allocate his priest talents following the 1.10 patch as a favor in return for an undisclosed service Bloodrose did for him, though he hinted it somehow involved his love of gnome feet. Moomoo, the Random Tell Guy: This guy's sole purpose seems to be to send whispers to other players filled with acronyms, abbreviations, non-sequiturs and general nonsense. Examples of this include " Wii Wtf " and "roast beef tag?1" EXTERNAL LINKS |
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