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3 78 Epilogue Growing Apart

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3 78 Epilogue Growing Apart "Leaked" warrior talents from The Burning Crusade Friends & Family alpha (Source: Fires of Heaven Forums) A Christmas Present The weeks before Christmas typically experience a lull in traffic. On this particular year, present opening would fall squarely on one of the two raid days; I cancelled both. Youd still get the stragglers, bachelors, college kids, and of course, the die-hards. The ones that played every . single . day . I made my regular rounds, even during these holidays, doing dailies or wrapping up achievements. Typical upkeep. It was during one of these vacation evenings, while I re-arranged some items in Kerulaks bank, that a stranger appeared in game and whispered me. I had to re-read the source a couple of times, and when the name came into a focus, you could have knocked me over with a feather. [W To: Ater] Ater!! Jesus Herbert Christ, how the hell are you?!? [W From: Ater] Hey. :) Whats going on? [W To: Ater] Not a whole hell of...

4 76 Epilogue Onward and Upward

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4 76 Epilogue Onward and Upward Mature arrives in Pandaria, The Jade Forest At Least I Got Chicken Two years passed. By the spring of 2014, thered been a lot of change. Jul was back to being a full-time stay-at-home Mom. I didnt have kids...I had teenagers . In games, Flappy Bird was dominating much of the mainstream muggle news, while the majority of us glanced over with a troubled, concerned look. It would be a few months before Destiny released to mixed reviews, revisiting the hotly contested topic of addiction-by-design. Streamers were the new normal, with Felix Kjellberg leading the pack in what many of us still consider a profoundly bizarre turn of cultural events. The hotly anticipated Diablo III finally launched, complete with its real money auction house. Gamers around the world converged on the infamous franchise, only to walk away a short time later with a very bad taste in their collective mouthes. Something was missing from the carpal-tunnel inducing game that Blizzard was...