What did you do with your orphans?Follow

My main, having already completed the meta achievement as well as securing all six NC pets, was rather annoyed to discover that there were no new pets this year (guess Blizz figured why give them away when they could sell them for cash instead).

That said though, he had no real need nor desire to haul a pair of kids all over heck’s half acre but that didn’t mean that he was a heartless grinch who didn’t care. As such, he set about teaching the two valuable life lessons and skills to help them in their futures – he put them to work.

As a main and a raider, Rus doesn’t have much time for domestic duties, so the little BE girl showed up just in time – she’s currently catching up on a backlog of laundry and cleaning. Once she’s done with that he’s got about a ton and a half of fish feasts that need cooking (he will let her wear his chef hat as he’s not a complete meany). As for the orc boy, seeing as how Rus has over 50 mounts and 115 NC pets, those stables and animal cages need a major cleaning – think of it as resume material for becoming an Argent Crusade squire. ;-)

My alts have had a variety of reactions towards the kids.

My mage kept forgetting that she had the orphans with her, thus resulting in quite a few close calls, usually featuring her finishing something up and self porting instead of opening up a portal (leaving a very terrified kid in an area in which even the rabbits are level ?? to them). The mage got the achievement towards the meta though so obviously the two orphans survived (mostly intact).

The pally was probably the nicest of the crew, albeit, she’d just upgraded her prot spec weapon and had a very bad tanking experience as a result of not enough skill with it (always used swords and got a mace), so she was feeling kinda vulnerable. She made a real connection with the little BE girl and has been taking her everywhere, showing her how to mine ore, kill allies in the various BGs, run instances and call healadins tank/dps school washouts, etc. All said, with the exception of the incident involving the kids mistaking the exploding sheep and walking bombs for toys (Dalaran only had a small chunk blown out of it), the pally did a pretty good job. ;-)

I’m still trying to figure out why they entrusted two innocent children to my Forsaken warlock as personally, I wouldn’t even trust him with a pet rock, much less a living humanoid child. Fortunately, the lock is more oblivious then maliciously evil, so with the exception of some deep psychological scarring (...remember kids, if you eat all your dwarf guts and NE liver there’s fresh gnome brains for desert!), they should be fine.

I’ve got no idea why my hunter was so anti-social towards the kids considering that they were better behaved then her pet, but she ultimately came off as that aunt whose idea of babysitting you as a kid was “sit there, don’t move and stay quiet.”

My BG toon really did want to be friendly to the kids as, after all, that toon is still pretty young too, but after having the kids spoil the umpteenth ambush, they were finally dumped on the walrus man that runs the daycare facility over behind the graveyard in WSG (real nice facility too – has a playground and everything).

That’s the report on my orphans so far this week – how’s everyone else handling the responsibility of kids?

I sold mine to an Arakkoa. He promised he'd take really good care of them.

I have Speedy, Willy and a Gorloc. Why would I want to ferry those damn orphans around again?

I made mine run around behind my bike, even though there's a sidecar. Too cruel, Blizzard...

I had her get in my ice cream truck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5haJwcO5gk

Boomkins in EoS introduced several of my toons and their orphans to that sport. >_<

I put him in a sack and gave him to some walruses to take care of, like I do with all orphans. They promise they're good with kids. He even had a carpenter with him to help out with the task. Last I saw them they were going for a walk by the sea. The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all its might, though this was odd, because it was the middle of the night.

The problem with orphans, is that they're like potato chips.


You can't eat just one >:P