{"id":5731,"date":"2012-06-24T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:20:28","slug":"i-refer-to-my-sandstone-drake-as-my-mid-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5731 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5732#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5733#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5734#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao3_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5735#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao4_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5736#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao5_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5737#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao6_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5738#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao7_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5739#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m63rkm8EbM1roeliao8_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I refer to my Sandstone Drake as my mid-life crisis dragon. It was stupidly expensive, I don&#8217;t like using it as my normal mount (why would Cynwise turn into a dragon?), and it feeds into all the disconnect issues I had with my main in 4.2.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s a hell of a lot of fun during holidays when you get to fly your friends&#8217;s lowbie alts around for holidays, which is the first part of what I did tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We had staged the worst raid on Crossroads ever, which ended in Cat&#8217;s pally running headlong into the giant stream of lava crossing the Barrens &#8211; oh, wait, this was after I said I needed a flying bus so Zable and Snack and I hijacked the zeppelin to Orgrimmar, only the lowbies couldn&#8217;t get onto it &#8211; so Cat had run her paladin into the lava and I&#8217;d been flying Maeli and Narci around when I landed on the roof of the world of Hyjal.<\/p>\n<p>Narci said something joking about my parachute failures. But then I realized, yes, <strong>I <em>was<\/em> going to jump off of the tallest mountain in the world, parachute or not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Repeatedly<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I hit my rocket boots, soared off, teleported back up, soared off again, hit the chute, and made it to Felwood.<\/p>\n<p>Then the chute timer ran out and I giggled as I crashed into Talonwood Glade. WARLOCK FASTBALL SPECIAL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second time, I got into Winterspring, but my corpse was on the rocks where I couldn&#8217;t recover it. At this point Narci decided that jumping off Hyjal indeed was a pretty fun thing to do, but she was smart. She got a priest.<\/p>\n<p>The third time, we levitated off of Hyjal and yelled jokes at each other all the way down (until we drifted too far apart.) I came crashing into Felwood again, this time in the Furbolg camp.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Furbolgs. They probably get these kind of antics all the time, random humans and dwarves dropping from the skies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refer to my Sandstone Drake as my mid-life crisis dragon. It was stupidly expensive, I don&#8217;t like using it as my normal mount (why would Cynwise turn into a dragon?), and it feeds into all the disconnect issues I had with my main in 4.2. That said, it&#8217;s a hell of a lot of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5731\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}