Yeah yeah, lolRP, but even though I'd never seriously do an emote with my character (though I do enjoy /coughing at inappropriate times), I do kind of enjoy thinking of what my characters did before I started playing them in the game. As I've said before, my Orc Shaman was actually a prisoner in Durnholde Keep along with Thrall (and though I've tried to find him among the Orcs down there, I don't look too hard -- wouldn't want to cause a paradox).But for my Undead Rogue, I've never thought about this questions: What did he die of? Whether it was choking on a gnome, one too many enchantments (never knew those could kill you), or the old standby of, y'know, cancer, every Undead character out there used to have a life (and now they just play WoW, ha!). So how'd your Undead lose theirs?
I'd like to think mine was something poetic, like his family was murdered by roving noblemen, and he arose from the afterlife and became a backstabbing rogue to avenge his lost ones. But it's probably more pathetic: like most of the Forsaken, he probably just got trampled underneath the onset of the Scourge. Of course, that'll make an appointment with Arthas more interesting...
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3-10-2008 @ 5:10PM
Tereth said...
Sorry to tell you this, but to become a forsaken you needed to be undead, and you pretty much needed to be infected with the plague for that to happen.
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3-10-2008 @ 5:16PM
darian said...
Disease can work its way into already dead corpses. Especially those that don't wash themselves regularly!
3-10-2008 @ 5:46PM
Hellskreamer said...
Ya, if you play WCIII, you see that all undead Scourge (and by extension Forsaken) died of the plague. This plague then rose their bodies in service of the Lich King after they died.
3-10-2008 @ 5:48PM
Sean Riley said...
Read the thread. It specifically mentions that they're doing this for fun, not paying attention to the lore.
FWIW, my undead sidesteps this, believing he died in a 'tragic motor mishap' in his tinkering. He regrets that he never finished his ham sandwich ... made with Andorhal grain.
Mama Cass? What? No, of course I'd never reference that particular urban legend.
3-10-2008 @ 5:12PM
Theserene said...
Considering my character's amazing ability to fall off...well..anything, the running guild joke is that she fell off the zepplin in Tirisfal
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3-10-2008 @ 5:14PM
darian said...
I was originally a human warrior. My misfortune was meeting a ravishingly beautiful high elf maiden. I lingered too long in my gaze upon her, and her High Elf spouse (also ravishingly beautiful) took offense to the attraction to his beloved.
I was beaten to death with my own jaw.
Now they're both blood elves, and I'm their undead lackey. He kept my jaw as a souvenir, and uses it as a back scratcher.
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3-10-2008 @ 6:03PM
Irian said...
This, sir, is bloody brilliant. Especially compared to all the drama most of undeads make of their death.
3-10-2008 @ 5:19PM
Balasan said...
Non-serious RPer here. I'll just take "trampled underneath the onset of the Scourge". I can blame Arthas easily then.
But I love theserene's cause of death.
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3-10-2008 @ 5:40PM
Criustel said...
Shaving accident. thats why my jaw hangs to the side
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3-10-2008 @ 5:43PM
Elder said...
Died of the plague after escaping Stratholme when Arthas got his cleanse on.
Worst bit, He would have lived (was not infected) but before getting out of town he grabbed some fresh bread from the bakers shop to survive on the road.
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3-10-2008 @ 5:47PM
Skuling said...
HA! Im not a rp'er but yet I got it all figured out:
My UD is and was a priest, and his brother (my alt :P) was a thief, he kinda hang out with the wrong crowd.. But when the Plague came Peak(my alt) Fougth the scourge valutly, but alas he died, devestated, Skuling (my main) Caried him to a abandoned house and buried his brother in the garden, not to long after, say a week or so. The scourge found him, and skuling died and became a slave of the scourge. But in a moment of strengh (thanks Illidan) he borke free. Loosley joining the forsaken he grew bitter, the loss of his brother was to much and guilt consumed him. But one day he meet his borther again, even tho skuling was happier than Peak was, (or showed) his bitterness never left. And hate is what is keeping him alive these days... Sad yet awsome; the story of Skuling (in the end he kills arthas ^^)
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3-10-2008 @ 5:55PM
Cynra said...
Mariska Stormborne caught the plague while traveling a ship bound for Westfall from Menethil Harbor. The unlucky crewman who was carrying it died during the voyage and was ceremoniously buried at sea - with no one knowing why he had actually died. Mariska, who - despite her family's heritage - had never been at sea, suffered from seasickness the entire trip and so her increasing illness was blamed on that and then the side effects of having suffered from a shipwreck. In a series of misadventures, over the next couple of days she ended up being captured, tortured, and having her spine broken, leaving her a broken shell of a woman. She begged the man she had one day hoped to be her paramour (before finding out that he was Forsaken himself and under the effects of a magical amulet possessing qualities similar to the Orb of Deception) to burn her body when she died, having seen the effects of the plague in the aftermath of the Third War and fearing that one day she, too, would join the living dead. Mariska did die, but the Forsaken was unable to burn her body, due to the intervention of a dwarven Paladin who saw the practice as a heathenish one done by the primitive orc cultures.
Needless to say, when Mariska Stormborne awoke some time later - her sockets empty from when the rats had ravaged and then eaten her eyes - she should have been angry. Fortunately, she had little to no memory of her past and was named Cili (Hungarian for Cecilia, meaning "blind").
The story comes from a tabletop roleplaying session that was GMed by the friend who got me into the game. /salute, Whiteleaf!
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3-10-2008 @ 5:58PM
Cynra said...
By the by, there's nothing like the undead to bring out the rampant Mary Sue in a person. Or some of the most depressing backgrounds ever conceived of. Some of those starting quests Tirisfal Glades are some of the most depressing, heartrending ones I've seen any where in the entire game.
3-10-2008 @ 5:55PM
WP said...
sitting in a BG que
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3-10-2008 @ 5:56PM
Tracey said...
My poor Undead alt, while still in her living human form, tripped over a Gnome and fell into a forge.
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3-10-2008 @ 6:10PM
Butnick said...
Auto erotic asphyxiation, ftw
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3-10-2008 @ 6:12PM
Zeplar said...
You do not need to die of the plague to become undead. Look at Sylvanas. High-ranking Scourge generals are able to convert corpses into undead.
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3-10-2008 @ 6:32PM
Ichigo said...
And how far into Mary Sue-ism do you want to go to believe that a Scourge General singled out your character to resurrect into a foot soldier? ;-)
I keeed. I keeeed.
3-10-2008 @ 6:26PM
Adi said...
My undead character actually committed suicide whilst being infected with the plague. He didn't actually know that. The ironic thing is that after dying he then came back to life as a Scourge minion and within a few months came back to life yet again as a Forsaken. It's ironic, and now he just lives with the question - should he go on as a Forsaken or just snuff it?
He actually already tried to drown himself only to be brought back to life by a priest in the area. Interesting stuff there.
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3-10-2008 @ 6:46PM
Psychosis said...
Jaina Proudmoore set me on fire
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