– Cataclysm Zone Change Spoiler Information Follows –
WE KNOW THAT multiple zones will be destroyed, remade, or otherwise rendered differently once Cataclysm drops on our delicate little noggins. So far as we know, those zones are:
- Darkshore
- Azshara
- Darkwhisper Gorge
- The Barrens (South)
- Stonetalon Mountains
- Thousand Needles
- Stranglethorn Vale
- Blasted Lands
- Felwood
- Ashenvale
- Durotar
- The Barrens (North)
- Desolace
- Feralas
- Eastern Plaguelands
- Wetlands
- Westfall
- Swamp of Sorrows
We’ll miss these areas when they’re gone, and sit around the Inn in Ironforge talking about how newbs these days don’t appreciate the lushness of Thousand Needles and wouldn’t know Auberdine if it fell on their heads.
With that in mind, I’d like to issue an open challenge out there for all bloggers to visit a randomly assigned area and run with it… with a catch. Your character’s mission, should you chose to accept it, will be complicated by a randomly assigned obstacle, tribulation, and/or dilemma facing you in your exploration.
The List of Adversities is is already created, but I’m keeping it under wraps so that everyone’s approach to their tribulation can be a surprise.
THE CHALLENGE: Visit, on your main or a beloved alt, your given zone. Record your thoughts in a visual, verbal, aural, or any other way while referencing your given obstacle (and any successes or failures with which you meet).
THE LOGISTICS: Email me at disciplinaryaction@yahoo.com or post a comment here to get your Zone & Tribulation. Post your results on your blog!
Aaaaand… go!
Disciplinary Action 
Lured by the idea of tribulations and danger whilst exploring, I’d love one please.
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Sure, I’m game! Any zone would work well for me except the Alliance ones.
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Done and done! And I’ve only just thought of this, but perhaps you’ll force your readers to figure out what the Adversity was… 🙂 Some of them are quite bizarre!
All right, for the logistics: I numbered all the areas and numbered all the adversities, then pulled two numbers out of a hat (okay, it’s a coffee mug) for each person- one for the area, one for the adversity. That’s as fair as I could get!
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Oh oh me me me 🙂
But please, nothing that will get me flagged *puppy dog eyes* as no-one fails quite as badly as PvP as I do…
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You’re at the mercy of the Coffee Cup, sistah!! And thy Coffee Cup has been merciful- check the old email.
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Ooohhh… shiny! Me want! I’m a really, really, newbie blogger, though. I hope that isn’t a hindrance.
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Not in the least- check your email!
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I’d like to join! Sounds like fun – and because I am a dwarf, not a Naga and never properly expored Azshara, I’d like to pick that one. If it’s still available, that is.
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Sadly Azshara had already been given away, but I actually am quite envious of the zone you got! Check your email.
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Took me much longer than I expected, but it’s up now: http://ramblingdwarf.blogspot.com/2010/05/twilight-hammer-really-is-in-for-it-now.html
And I had no idea how much there was still left to explore in there.
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Pant, pant, pant – mine is up, and can be found here: http://moar-alts.blogspot.com/2010/05/eleventh-hour-challenge-azshara.html
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[…] Posted on May 2, 2010 by harpysnest This is my response to Disciplinary Action’s Eleventh Hour […]
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Ah…. mazing. More comments on the blog post itself!!! But man, are you guys clever.
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Mine, which was great fun to write, is up at:
http://harpysnest.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/eleventh-hour-dirty-dealings-in-durotar/
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This was one of my favorite challenges, and I was so sad when I didn’t draw it! But now… not so much. I could never have written about it this well! Too funny, and so clever!!
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ooh pick me pick me — I’ve already started collecting screenshots of places that I know are going to change, and I would love the challenge of writing an IC story about one of them — it might take me awhile to come up with a good story and make my post, though
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Done and done! Check your email for more details!
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If there’s a zone still looking for someone to love it I am available and very keen 🙂
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Er email would help wouldn’t it… Safrocentric AT gmail
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Very helpful, thanks! 🙂 All set- check your email!
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[…] They’ve gone faster than I could imagine, but there are still eight Eleventh Hour Challenges left, open to bloggers of any kind. Please see the original post for details; as soon as […]
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I’d be interested… Westfall, if possible…
slikrx at gmail
🙂
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Thanks!
And done…
http://bang-n-blame.blogspot.com/2010/05/poetry-in-motion-in-westfall.html
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[…] 8, 2010 by tapelia This post is a response to the Eleventh Hour Challenge laid down by Liala over at Disciplinary Action. Â It features my (now) draenei hunter Minona and […]
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[…] list – Jaedia’s Explorer Task Windsoar’s Cities and Towns Topic Liala’s Eleventh Hour Challenge – as reminders to me of things I’d like to post about someday. My idea for the Explorer […]
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Done! The story got kind of long, and I hope it fits my Tribulation prompt well enough 😉
http://kamaliaetalia.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/eleventh-hour-challenge/#more-109
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I’ll do one if there are any left.
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There are, and done!
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[…] about the time I signed up for the Eleventh Hour Challenge, Kaelinda had been pushing for some action. She’d been sulking about the loss of the ability […]
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Hi, I know I’m reeeeally late to this but it sounds awesome and I’d love to take whatever you have left 😉
If not, I’ll just go through and read everyone else’s!
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Yes! Yes! I can’t wait to wrap this up 🙂 I’ll send it to you asap. Can’t wait to read it!
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Alrighty, here you go 🙂 http://reviveandrejuvenate.blogspot.com/2010/05/eleventh-hour-thousand-needles.html
Hope you like it! I realised after I wrote it that it isn’t really about exploring, but I didn’t want to add anythign so… there you have it 🙂
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Go on then – give me one of the last ones – make it a nice one 🙂
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Bless you, bless you! 🙂 And I’m sending it off now.
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[…] a Celestial Steed, however, continued to tickle at the back of my brain. After I responded to Liala’s Eleventh Hour Challenge, I realized that the Book of the Ancients might be a perfect plot hook to explain how Kaelinda […]
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