Posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A NORWEGIAN boy, 12, reportedly saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked up playing the online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
Hans Jørgen Olsen, 12, and his sister encountered a moose during a walk in the forest near their home in the central Norwegian town of Leksvik, said the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen.
It was then Olsen's WoW instincts reportedly kicked in. Firstly, he taunted the animal to get it away from his sister, the paper said.
In WoW, players use taunting to shoo monsters away from weaker team members, the newspaper said.
Then, when the moose came after him, he played dead.
"When you reach level 30, you learn a trick called the fake death. That's what I did - I pretended I was dead, and then the moose lost interest," he told the paper. "It went really well."
The moose reportedly lost interest in the boy and disappeared into the woods.
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Precisely!
Server firsts:
That’s hardcore. I barely played back then. Play a lot more now - it’s a great hobby for my husband and me in the evening after the baby goes to bed. You can be a lot more casual and still do top content these days.
My spec was way out of date, so was my gear, and it just wasn't the same. The same night I came back I got all the top level Mage gear that the raid had already been sharding for months.
I still think it's the best game I've ever played. The first few years were amazing. When Outland opened and it became a grind, I had already been losing interest.
The most fortunate thing that anyone playing WoW could ever do was the 'Shifting Sands' quest that could only be completed once. Only one other power guild over on the Horde side was even trying to get that quest chain completed and the whole server had it's eyes on our two guilds as we competed for the goal. Best experience ever.
The moose respawned.
Feign death out of a crappy pull so you don’t get your ass beat....gooo hunters!
See mom I told you VGs are educational.
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