October 29, 2008 — Bye bye TBC! Bring on the WotLK!

September 21, 2008 — Fucker be dead

Congratulations to yours truly (Ishock) on a super duper pointy Glimmering Naaru Sliver, to Bbpoodle <Rated G> (a.k.a. Bbhealer) on his very bright and shiny Heroic Judicator's Chestguard, to Gutric on his cute and glowy Aegis of Angelic Fortune, and to Cryingleaf on his perfectly sized Sin'dorei Band of Triumph.

More congratulations still to everyone on finally killing the big bastard.

What? Kil'who-din?

June 4, 2008 — Double your pleasure, double your fun

Hoping to stick to the precedent set by our first kill of Felmyst on a Wednesday night, Explicit hit up Sunwell this evening in full force, and we knew from the get-go that it was our evening.

After plowing through the first three bosses of Sunwell, including breezy one-shots of Brutallus and Felmyst, we raced up the gauntlet to Eredar Twins with about two hours left on our first raid night of the week.

Our previous few nights worth of attempts had taught us most of what we needed to know, and we were confident that all that we required was a bit more practice to push through the first phase and bring the fight home.

A quick series of attempts reiterated the point, and in no time at all Explicit witnessed phase 2 once and then twice. With our level of comfort in phase 1 steadily growing, we chose to stick it out for one last attempt at the close of the night with trash soon to respawn — and to great effect.

As it turned out, not even a phase 1 hunter death and a shadow priest disconnect could stand in the way of a good old fashioned twin spanking. Explicit downed Lady Sacrolash with little to-do before leaping from the balcony of accidental wipage to race the enrage timer. With mere seconds to go but almost the entire raid still standing, Grand Warlock Alythess fell at last, marking the two-thirds point of Explicit's trip through Sunwell.

Congratulations to Kjoldar on his Pauldrons of Perseverance and to Aikos on his Pauldrons of Perseverance=Pauldrons of Berserking. Still more congratulations to Assaberan on his Stanchion of Primal Instinct and to Dispute on his Book of Highborne Hymns. The random tier 6 token, Bracers of the Forgotten Protector, went to the lucky duck Kontomble (the third offspec protector bracers of the night), and Lintu took home our first PVP neck, Sin'dorei Pendant of Conquest.

Great work, everyone, on perfect execution for a truly challenging fight!

May 7, 2008 — And the T6 booties did abound

Following this evening's picture-perfect Brutallus kill (featuring 29.6K raid DPS and several seconds left on the enrage timer), Explicit turned its attention back to Felmyst, ready to continue last week's steady progress.

After one overhaul of group positioning proved interesting but less than ideal given everyone's tepid degree of comfort with the fight, a few last-minute switch-ups yielded the kind of results we were looking for, and all that remained was to practice, practice, and practice a bit more.

As the night wound down, the raid grew impatient but increasingly confident, culminating at last in an extremely solid attempt that found Felmyst entering the last flying phase with 8% health and landing after the buzzer with 5% to go.

 

Explicit raced the dragon's blistering post-enrage tirade, reaching 3% before we reengaged and finishing the job at long last with half the raid standing. (Sorry, Assaberan, you'll still be alive post-kill one of these days.)

Congratulations to Thorran on his Boots of the Forgotten Conqueror, to Assaberan on his Boots of the Forgotten Vanquisher, to Toeknee on his Boots of the Forgotten Protector, and to Bbpoodle <Rated G> (a.k.a. Bbhealer) on his Sword Breaker's Bulwark.

And congratulations to everyone for sticking it out for a truly memorable kill!

Those keeping score may or may not have noticed that this leaves two more nights this week on our three-night raiding schedule for a bit of Eredar Twins action. Bone up!

April 14, 2008 — The legions of mediocrity strike again

A night's worth of attempts last week against the big baddie Brutallus proved inconclusive, although Explicit became well-versed and built confidence in the fight.

Our return this evening capitalized on our previous experience, and then some. Almost immediately we discovered that we had brought enough DPS (complete lack of warglaives not withstanding) to get the job done.

 

By the end of the night, things had shaped up admirably. A somewhat shaky attempt culminating in a 4% wipe proved that a bit of solid execution was all that stood between us and another Sunwell victory, and the raid stepped up to the challenge.

Explicit's first kill of Brutallus took us a good several seconds into the enrage timer, but still with time enough to send the big guy packing after littering the ground with some fresh and delightful parting gifts.

Congratulations to Thorran and Bbhealer on a Belt of the Forgotten Conqueror apiece, to Cryingleaf on his Belt of the Forgotten Vanquisher, and to Toeknee on his Clutch of Demise.

Looking forward to more fun on Felmyst next week!

March 31, 2008 — Blue dragonflight what?

More than three months after rounding out the previous end-game content in Black Temple, Explicit tackled Blizzard's newest offerings this week in the form of the blue dragon Kalecgos, our first encounter in Sunwell Plateau.

Two hours of attempts on Wednesday proved fruitful but not decisive. Explicit departed to give the fight all due consideration until our return on Monday, with the intent of getting the job done.

 

As it turned out, a few good nights' sleep, a fresh perspective, a couple new tactics, and an experimental boomkin in the raid were all it took to clinch the deal.

Explicit polished off a total of about four hours of attempts on Kalecgos this week with a solid (if not perfectly spotless) kill on our very first visit to the blue beastie's post-10% tank-demolishing frenzy.

And the loots did abound! Congratulations to Paiyn on his Breeches of Natural Aggression, to Thorran on his Bracers of the Forgotten Conqueror, to Cryingleaf on his Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher, to Kjoldar on his Bracers of the Forgotten Protector, and to everyone on their 2x[Badge of Justice] and the first victory of many in our conquest of Sunwell!

And we must not forget the obligatory screenshots of Corpse of Waynn, the true hero of tonight's events:

December 10, 2007 — The End!

...for now.

For the first time since forming with a three-days-per-week raiding schedule a year and a half ago, Explicit has caught up with PvE content, demonstrating that excellent leadership, determination, and efficiency is a more-than-adequate substitute for bashing your head against content 24/7.

Back in SSC, Illidan seemed a long way off. Taking things one encounter at a time seems to have paid off, and we never looked back.

Somewhere along the way, TK passed in a blur, and when we downed Rage and earned our first round of BT attunements, Hyjal was already almost an afterthought.

Though we stopped just long enough to pick up some Archimonde-style party favors, the real reward was still to come: defeating our server's namesake while in-game LARPing with Akama and Maiev.

The encounter brought about a few headaches. There was a main tank switch. There was a 100-badges-in-three-days farmfest. There was a lot of screaming "GRRRAH!" at pesky blue eyebeams.

In the end, all it took was several hours of steady progression, not to mention a few final-phase wipes to drive home the fact that all we needed to do was follow through and kill the bastard.

And it happened. Consistent, solid execution was all it took, and Explicit successfully put a wrap on new PvE content until the release of Sunwell in the unforeseeablely near feature.

And the loots were nice! Our fearless leader Kjoldar picked up his first raid-instance shield upgrade since BWL: Bulwark of Azzinoth. Meanwhile, Paiyn conned the officer channel into giving him a brand-spanking new Memento of Tyrande. And then the DKP-sodden purples and whites took home the big fluff: Sbh and Thorran collected our first tier 6 chest pieces with a Chestguard of the Forgotten Conqueror each.

As the raid lined up and took up their victory poses, Illidan really didn't look so big after all.

Heroisms were blown to speed up the picture-taking process.

Everyone, it seemed, was less eager to gallivant around Illidan than they were to ogle our other honorary corpse.

<3 Waynn

P.S. Moonrae video inc! Stay tuned!

December 3, 2007 — Uno mas!

After a shortened raid week to mimic our turkey-eating forefathers, Explicit tackled The Black Temple in full force this week and continued the drive towards Illidan.

Long story short: There was a new encounter on the schedule this week, and there will be another new encounter on the schedule next week. Explicit set about learning the rather interesting ups and downs of Illidari Council, and after discovering the secretly secretive secret of how not to die to avoidable damage, successfully ridded Illidan of the avaricious city councilmembers living in his downstairs basement.

Congratulations to Paiyn and Lulucronia on our first two pairs of tier 6 leggings with a Leggings of the Forgotten Vanquisher apiece, and felicitaciones as well to Assaberan on his Madness of the Betrayer.

At the end of the night, however, all that mattered was the guild's first gander at the man of the house.

Next week, bucko. Next week.

November 12, 2007 — T6 shoulders before S3 shoulders! Victory!

After finishing up all previously cleared content, Explicit found themselves faced with the challenge of Mother Shahraz and her oodles of shadow damage.

Undeterred, the guild embarked on a marathon shadow resist crafting session and set off to Black Temple to engage the ambidextrous broad for the first time.

A couple of strong attempts was all it took to teach most of the team the intricacies of geddindafuggaway during Fatal Attraction, and after that the cat was in the bag, as apparently Explicit required more love than Shahraz could provide.

Congratulations to Excitablejoe on his thank-god-it-wasn't-a-libram Leggings of Devastation, and even more so to the recipients of our first two pairs of T6 shoulders, Iginignot with his Skyshatter Mantle, and Moonrae with his Slayer's Shoulderpads.

Now if only we'd had a bit more time tonight... Just two encounters left!

November 5, 2007 — Anger, Suffering, Desire... who would've thought they had loots?

With Archimonde beaten down for the second time earlier in the week and naught but the Black Temple left to frollick and play in, Explicit set off after the next fuglymutha on the list and found the Reliquary of Souls with little to-do.

After reminiscing about all of WoW's raiding gauntlets, from Heigan to Fankriss to Broodlord (good times?), the raid had only enough time to relish the shortness of it all before visiting the Essences up close and personal.

While the fight was definitely a unique one, we found each of the many novel and fun ways to wipe all in due course, and by the end of the night added another notch to the ongoing Black Temple talley.

Missed the loot shot this week in all the excitement (OK, I was just in a hurry to put on my new glowy shoulders), but many congratulations all the same to your resident DKP-destitute loot whores, Vorax with his Grips of Damnation as well as, yes, yours truly with The Wavemender's Mantle. Shiny!

Up next: The promiscuous Mother Shahraz and her six dexterous hands. Resist gear ftl.

November 4, 2007 — Explicit's first official bosskill video!

Thanks to Moonrae for all the hard work putting together this kill video for Kael'thas.

Two versions for your visual and auditory pleasure:

• Download the high-quality version (recommended)
• Download/stream a lower-quality version:

October 29, 2007 — Gorefiend + Archimonde = BAI!

<Video of the week: Craters on Mount Hyjal>

Apparently the bedtime story from last time gave many people nightmares, so we'll have a more subdued story this evening.

Explicit once again returned to The Black Temple yesterday to pay Teron Gorefiend a more personal visit after taking several potshots at him last week. After the overly enjoyable trash clear, the raid hunkered down and began scribbling a series of essays entitled "How to Kill Your Ghosts in 200 Words Or Less."

With several sheafs of chicken scratch and just as many blank papers handed in, we went for a half-potted, blow-no-timers trial run ... and promptly slew the monkey on the first attempt of the night.

Congratulations to Snackins on his dastardly Insidious Bands and to Aikos on his almost-shinigami-style Soul Cleaver.

Explicit quickly beat a retreat from the temple and headed instead to the slopes of Mount Hyjal to finally give big bad Archimonde a few serious attempts.

After spending a few delightful minutes discovering the nuances of how not to crater with a free slow-fall at your disposal, we went after Archimonde himself and in an hour of attempts saw his health as low as 64% - but more work was needed!

Explicit returned this evening to finish the job. After several more L2P lessons and operating on a healthy dose of Fantasy Football excitement, we at last saw a perfect attempt and hammered Archimonde down to the crucial 10% mark with zero deaths.

As the band struck up the loot pi?ata song, everyone gathered around to partake in the final few seconds of boss-thumping and celebrate our completion of Mount Hyjal.

Many happy joyous felicitaciones to the winners of our first pair of Tier 6 helms, Thorran and his Hood of Absolution as well as Sbh and his Hood of the Malefic. Congratulations as well to Quietdeath on his zomg-ret-pally-dps Cataclysm's Edge and to Vilna on his how-the-hell-is-that-a-caster- sword Tempest of Chaos. And of course congratulations to everyone on the pattern for the best epic gem in the game, +13 spell penetration! Ohzyea!

October 15, 2007 — Favorite bedtime story

Apparently I'm supposed to tell stories in these news posts. Here goes.

A long time ago, in a cavern far, far away, there lived some demons. Some of them were pretty big. Most of them were even mean. But on one cold and otherwise uneventful night, twenty-five would-be Time Cops donned their fuzzy hats and flashed their plastic badges like a bunch of gap-toothed pre-pubescents in an elementary school pageant.

Two such demons, a pair of bosom buddies most often referred to by the aliases given them by their street gang, the most infamous among all the Burning Legion — the Lollipop Jumpers (or LJs) — these two demons, Kaz-"Short Fuse"-rogal and "Prejac" Azgalor, revered among their kind, were on their way to a private pic-a-nic in the densely wooded hills of Mount Hyjal when, without warning, the aforesaid Time Cops appeared with a pop smack dab in the middle of the Horde encampment where the demons were planning to spread their warm woolen picnic blanket.

Unbeknownst to Short Fuse and Prejac, their spunky pet terriers, cockatiels, and sacrificial devotees had gone ahead to frollick and play, only to be slaughtered forthwith by the juvenile gate-crashers who awaited them. Oblivious, the demons continued on their way, bantering about the soon-to-be-served cherry cobbler and boxed wine.

It had long been rumored amongst their fellow LJs that Short Fuse and Prejac had a "special relationship," and in the aftermath of that fateful night on which this story unfolded it has oft been said that this was the evening on which the pair would have consummated, albeit briefly, their joyous relationship, and two or three survivors even put forward the notion that Short Fuse had confessed his undying affection for his longtime companion. Before Prejac could requite his erogenous love, however, the gap-toothed Time Cops unsheathed their fluorescent plastic gats with one great flourish and riddled Short Fuse with so many point-blank rubber-dart bruises that he suddenly hemorrhaged and died.

Spurred into a furious rage, Prejac descended upon the Time Cops, brandishing his favorite butter knife and spewing insults of the "your mother was asexual" and "kiss my undulating left lobe" variety. Unfazed, the Time Cops flipped their plastic guns around in clubbed the great demon to death in a hideous display of gore and bloody giblets.

And thus passed Kaz'rogal and Azgalor, beaten, broken, humiliated, and surreptitiously violated, for the sole crime of picnicking in someone else's backyard.

The End

Belated apologies.

Moonrae -> Black Featherlight Boots.
Paiyn -> Belt of the Crescent Moon.

Vorax -> Shady Dealer's Pantaloons.
Abercrombiee -> Gloves of the Forgotten Protector.
Cryingleaf -> Gloves of the Forgotten Vanquisher.

First tier 6! Woot!

October 8, 2007 — And that makes four in two

Explicit ventured back into The Black Temple tonight, where we took our first gander at the next two bosses on our kill list — and promptly slew both.

Shade of Akama fell after a few warm-up attempts culminated in a deathless breeze of a kill with Akama still flaunting a hefty chunk of green on his health bar. Eager to earn some more Ashtongue rep to speed our acquisition of shadow resist patterns, the raid set off clearing trash, and before long happened upon a quaint little hiding hole populated by one Gurtogg Bloodboil. Working on the fly, Explicit decided to give the feisty bugger a try. A quick first attempt proved that victory was within reach, and a short while later Explicit tallied their fourth Black Temple kill in two nights.

Once again, the story in pictures...

Congratulations to Toeknee on his overly watchful Shoulders of the Hidden Predator and to Garlin on his dot-dot-dot The Seeker's Wristguards!

Congratulations to Lollermitten on his Messenger of Fate and to Beens on his Wand of Prismatic Focus!

October 7, 2007 — BT, BTW. BRT!

Having scored our fourth Kael'thas kill on Wednesday, Explicit downed Rage Winterchill and Anetheron this evening for the second time each before heading into The Black Temple to set up shop.

The night's first attempt on High Warlord Naj'entus resulted in a solid kill that took more than a few by surprise. A quick jaunt up out of the sewers introduced the raid to Supremus as well, and another one-shot netted Explicit's second new boss kill of the night.

The story in pictures...

Congratulations to Kjoldar on his Eternium Shell Bracers and to Gutric on his Pearl Inlaid Boots!

Congratulations to Waynn on his Waistrap of Infinity and to Gutric on his Felstone Bulwark!

September 30, 2007 — You mean that was the boss?

After strolling into The Eye this evening and solidifying our Kael'Thas farm status with a third kill on a breezy second attempt, Explicit elected to return to Caverns of Time and tackle the next big beastie on the slopes of Mount Hyjal.

A solid first showing introduced the team to Anetheron and his oodles of green snot. It soon became apparent that some small adjustments in positioning were in order, and a technicolor flare session ensued.

In no time at all, Explicit found themselves barreling through Anetheron's health bar, and not even raining meteors and cranky infernals could stand in the way of 25 raiders' desire for the promised purple party favors.

Thus the merry nutters chalked up their second new boss kill of the week and left Anetheron's stinking corpse sitting on the roadside as they ran off in search of perty purple glittering things conveniently embedded in shiny piles of gem-shaped goodness ... right after someone went to get a mining pick.

Congratulations to Kjoldar on his oh-em-gee it's-an-upgrade The Unbreakable Will, and to yours truly on my where'd-my-dkp-go Golden Links of Restoration. Party favors, indeed.

September 26, 2007 — First Serious Attempt?!

Rage Winterchill = Srs Bzns?

Not so much.

Congratulations to Aikos on his undeniably pre-owned Blood-stained Pauldrons, to yours truly on my loot-default-ftw Howling Wind Bracers, and to everyone on their Time-Phased Phylactery.

You know what that means!

September 17, 2007 — Bockclock unclocked

Update 2007-09-24: A great follow-up kill this week yields six more Hyjal attunements! BT inc!

Although it was a few weeks in the making, Explicit's ongoing efforts in The Eye culminated in a thorough trouncing of the Big Guy himself.

In learning what was easily the longest and most likely the hardest fight that Explicit has faced so far in TBC, we attacked each of the encounter's five phases with steadily mounting expertise.

By the time this evening's visit to Tempest Keep rolled around, the game was all but in the bag. With all of Kael'thas's weapons down by the start of phase three and only two advisors up at the entrance to phase four, we knew it was time to take the final step. Picture-perfect execution found only one dead at the start of phase five, clearing the way to a big win.

As Kael'thas began to fumble around like a frightened circus monkey at the controls of an experimental NASA anti-grav sim, the Explicit crew had only enough time to blink before forced to wonder where Kael'thas' health had gone.

Lickety split, Explicit polished off a near-flawless first kill and put an end to weeks of hard work and unflinching determination.

Congratulations to Lulucronia on his most royally heinie Royal Cloak of the Sunstriders and to Kjoldara on her no less regal Royal Gauntlets of Silvermoon. A hearty hey-oh to the winners of our first two tier 5 chestpieces, Beens and Valkyrio with a Chestguard of the Vanquished Hero apiece, as well as to Sbh on his inexplicably green Verdant Sphere.

Best of all, congratulations to everyone on their phat-loot deliverer extraordinaire: [Kael's Vial Remnant].

Great job, everyone! You know what's next...

August 13, 2007 — Astromwhat? Just kill it.

After our picture-perfect full clear of Serpentshrine Cavern on Wednesday and our polishing off of Tempest Keep farm content on Sunday, Explicit returned to The Eye this evening to pay le bimbo Solarian a surprise visit.

A few quick attempts proved to everyone that we were just a hop, skip, and a jump away from repainting the floor with bloody void gizzard. An hour after our first attempt, we hammered her down to the 20% mark after the second AOE phase, and with 20 still standing all that separated us from the cash and prizes was a quick rendition of the Loot Pi?ata Song.

Congratulations to Waynn on his super star-catcher 9000 Wand of the Forgotten Star, and to Cryingleaf on his ambiguously precluding Vambraces of Ending.

Just think, it could've been a fugly blue staff or a slightly-recolored dagger model posing as a surgical instrument. Phew!

And, at long last, with the last of Kael'thas' baddies having snuffed it, Explicit paid the Big Guy himself a visit. After playing with him and his four pals for a few minutes, the crew gave a hearty huzzah! and departed, ready to really test their mettle before long.

August 6, 2007 — It even comes pre-cooked

Following Explicit's slaying of Lady Vashj on Sunday, we returned to The Eye to pay an intimate visit to last night's KFC run horribly amuck.

After visiting all of the sites and taking in all of the scenery, the team gave Al'ar a few feisty jabs with their forks, but found his flaky golden-brown lightly-breaded exterior a bit tougher to penetrate than your average turkey.

With a little extra butter and a dash of the right seasoning, however, the table was set and dinner was served.

Congratulations to Deathpriest on his shiny, e-z-grip pliars a.k.a. Talisman of the Sun King, and to Moonrae on his M&M-melting Gloves of the Searing Grip.

And many commiserations to those who missed out on the Ashtongue dance party. Work on your quest line and bring your cowls, you lazy bums.

Solarian? Pah!

August 5, 2007 — Vashj has shuffled off her mortal coil

This is an ex-naga!

It's been a few weeks in the making, but Lady Vashj's bad temper finally caught up with her this evening as Explicit made short work of her and her horde of beastly cronies.

Having polished off SSC farm content and finding ourselves with two hours at our disposal, the raid paid ol' Sea-Bitch a visit. Things came together almost at once with a confident entrance into phase 3, where we took a healthy gander at Vashj's stinking sludge. While all was not yet peachy, a quick dance into bat bomb enrage proved that, with just a little more boning up, phat loots would abound.

A subsequent attempt found only 23 alive at the start of phase 2, and although skepticism ran rampant, Explicit remained focused on the job at hand. With two DPS down from the start of the phase, the rest picked up the slack and kept the ball rolling. With perfect execution on tainted cores and the sort of damage dealing that would make a mother proud, we hit phase 3 with 22 alive and a healthy chunk of time left on the clock.

Although Vashj's health dwindled fast, the enrage timer struck again with 6% to go. Twenty were still standing, however, and DPS remained solid. In no time at all, Vashj kicked the bucket, ran down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible, with a paltry 10 down and not an unhappy face to be seen.

Congratulations to Sbh on his wonder-fit Vestments of the Sea-Witch, to Kjoldara on her I-swear-I-can-DPS Krakken-Heart Breastplate, to Gutric on his pink-and-sparkly Crystalforge Greathelm (Helm of the Vanquished Champion), and to Deathpriest on his KKK-induction Cowl of the Avatar (Helm of the Vanquished Defender).

Al'ar time!

July 9, 2007 — Blind Dudes and Demons and Whirlwinds, Oh My!

Explicit sought out their second-to-last boss in Serpentshrine Cavern this week and found Leotheras the Blind cowering in a corner, apparently subdued by a few simple-minded miscreants who had nothing better to do than stand around all day impaling him with snot beams.

We began the encounter wary of what we expected would be the most difficult fight yet faced on our way to Lady Vashj, snot rockets be damned. Explicit ogled the blood elf for a few minutes and then went to town.

It soon became apparent that Leotheras had probably been in his prime back when Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was but a gleam in a programmer's eye, and we were in fact squaring off with an old, blind cripple whose sole means of defense was to flail about madly with his cane. Needless to say, after a few interesting attempts and having sent a few people back to the bank to pick up their demon-slaying a.k.a. learn-to-DPS gear, Leotheras collapsed in a gnarled, arthritic heap of bloody giblets.

Turns out the handicapped drop good loots, too.

Many a hearty congratulations to Aikos on his Tsunami Talisman, as well as to the winners of our first two pairs of T5 gloves, Skeered (Gloves of the Corruptor) and somebody else!

We couldn't stop there, however, so in no time at all Explicit was walking the walk and see the sights as Lady Vashj's bridge sprang from the abyss to help us on our way. One quick attempt before the night was out proved that Serpentshrine had one fun fight left to offer, but that the end was near.

July 8, 2007 — Thumpin' Ol' Sparky

<begin with our belated entrance into The Eye on Monday, July 2>

<pay careful attention to the delightful trash time>

<insert long-winded explanatory speech about raid preparation and L2P lessons>

<add ego-boosting self-congratulations regarding simplistic triumph>

<conclude with a first-T5-shoulders happy dance>

</congrats Kjoldara Wristguards of Determination>

</congrats Deathpriest Pauldrons of the Vanquished Defender>

</congrats Elfenrir Pauldrons of the Vanquished Defender>

<leave off with a casual reference to our second Void Reaver kill on Sunday, July 8>

June 24, 2007 — Karathress adds another tick to the tally

With an open road to Fathom-Lord Karathress this evening, Explicit made its first great assault on the big naga and his three evil henchmen. A few quick pokes revealed that Karathress would be far from a push-over, and the raid immediately went to work testing various orientations, finding entirely new and altogether ingenious ways of getting burnt, frozen, bombarded, or mercilessly bludgeoned, before at last managing a great attempt in which all three adds fell and Karathress himself was dragged down to 20% by the enrage timer.

Confident at last in our execution, Explicit pulled it together for a big finish, and in no time at all we found ourselves delivering a near-perfect thumping square on the oversized fish's scaly noggin.

With 24 still standing (and the raid lamenting the fact that the 25th would be standing as well if not for the cursed rez bug), not to mention plenty of time left on the clock, the sham-pan-yuh was broken out early, the dwarves did cavort, the gnomes did gambol, and not a soul did not cackle gleefully as Fathom-Lord Karathress met his timely demise.

And so the intrepid band did caper and gawk as the many delightful cash and prizes were pried from Big Fishy's cold dead fingers. Congratulations to Kjoldara on her none-too-small and altogether spiky World Breaker, and extra-special felicitaciones to the two who took home the guild's very first tier 5 set pieces: Gutric with his Crystalforge Leggings, and Deathpriest with his Breeches of the Avatar. (About time those DKP grubbers spent something!)

With one more day left on the raid timer and nought before us but Void Reaver and Leotheras the Blind, the crew departed in high spirits, anticipating even more goodies before long.

June 18, 2007 — Explicit and the Gender Ambiguous Duke

Despite losing a raid day somewhere between the combined bedlam of Father's Day and the Darkmoon Faire, Explicit repeated all farm content this week before doubling back to pay a visit to the big and bubbly Hydross. With resist gear sets finished and a strategy firmly in mind, Explicit set about teaching the oversized spittle monster a thing or two about table manners.

A few warm-up runs permitted the team to hammer our the nuances of each transition. In no time at all, Explicit was confident of a swift victory, and all that remained was to let the fight play out.

Having spent scarcely more than an hour squared off with the mage pet suffering delusions of grandeur, Explicit stomped its way to a solid third Serpentshrine boss kill. Congratulations to Toeknee on his D?nedain-style Ranger-General's Chestguard, and to moi on my wtf-more-shammy-gear Blackfathom Warbands. Sorry, but somebody likes me.

With nothing ahead of us but an open road to the next big beastie, Explicit dashed across SSC to catch a glimpse and take a crack at the next boss on the kill list: Fathom-lord Karathress. Although time only permitted a couple of attempts, the team departed eager for more.

(And if he drops the shaman trinket on our first kill ... I promise I'll shed a tear.)

June 11, 2007 & June 13, 2007 — It ain't easy being blue

Explicit went murloc-hunting this week, trying to make a new friend as our exploration of Serpentshrine Cavern continued. Soon enough, we happened upon a rather large sea fairy wearing an oversized diaper to complement his Truly-a-Miracle Brassiere.

Needless to say, it was love at first sight, and Explicit spent Monday evening perfecting a little m?nage ? trente (that's thirty, for the linguistically impaired).

Like any good lover, Explicit experimented with numerous positions, many of which turned out to be too intimate for Morogrim's taste. In the heat of the moment, several people even seemed to forget the use of various organs and their respective bodily functions, and Kjoldar was forced to sketch some crude and altogether embarrassing anatomical diagrams to steer our collective libido in the right direction.

Explicit's stamina was unwavering, however, and all in good time Morogrim relented to the raid's ceaseless attempts at foreplay.

As everyone rolled over for a smoke, Vilna collected his soon-to-be-spiky Illidari Shoulderpads and Quietdeath nabbed his cutting-board-sculpture Pauldrons of the Argent Sentinel.

Although Morogrim was clearly exhausted, Explicit was eager to assure the big teddy bear that our little engagement had not been a one-night stand. With renewed vigor and some extra petroleum jelly, the crew returned Wednesday night to deliver a second forceful spanking, then promptly scavenged some of Morogrim's prized possessions before beating a retreat from his apartment as he slept.

Congratulations to Eurica on his melted-face-facilitating Pendant of the Lost Ages, to Kjoldara on her reason for the existence of the 1-800-SOUL-ABUSE hotline Ring of Sundered Souls, and to Elfenrir on his get-in-line vortex-requiring Pattern: Belt of the Long Road.

June 4, 2006 — Krakken steaks all around

Many a tummy was rumbling this evening as Explicit returned to the now-infamous fishing hole deep in the bowels of Serpentshrine Cavern, but scarcely a one could stomach the cruel and unusual punishments that had Lady Vashj laughing all the way down to her solar plexus. [Anatomy references now spent.]

A few strong attempts lead to a solid showing in which the dastardly Lurker Below found his health dwindling down, down, down to 6%, when all of a sudden Lady Vashj switched off the holographic projector and the giant squidopotamus vanished into thin air. Next time, Gadget. Next time.

After channeling our anger into a few more trash pulls, Explicit hit the big bully again. Soon enough, the lurker found his health dwindling down, down, and down some more, but at 10% and fading fast the wretched perma-spout bug struck and Spongebob's evil twin took a super soaker to the raid.

The third time was truly the charm, however, and Explicit proved that not even a gleefully cackling naga lovingly fondling the remote control to her Raid-Wiper 9000 could thwart twenty-five people's longing for some krakken chow mein.

And so there was much feasting and merrymaking all around as Belly claimed his uber-feral-lol-jk Grove-Bands of Remulos, yours truly took home his actually-wanted Tempest-Strider Boots, and everyone rested assured that Explicit's premier foray into Serpentshrine Cavern was the first of many to come.

Oh, and Aikos's third and fourth Nether Vortexes. And my Totem of the Maelstrom on the second pull was nice, too.

Hazzoozah!

May 27, 2007 — Free at last!

With a trouncing of the big pit lord long overdue and a quiet Sunday evening available to the task, Explicit tip-toed deep into the super-skurry halls of Magtheridon's Lair to pay Big Meanie a surprise visit.

Turns out he was expecting us, however, and after dispatching all five channelers with several seconds to spare, Magtheridon got his quakey, fiery, big-ouchy hurt on and ended the first attempt in short order — as much from our surprise at having blown through the channelers so fast (and having too little mental preparation for the ensuing clickfest) as anything else.

Explicit marched back in with ample confidence and let 'er rip. With four tanks and six healers, phase 1 proved tight — too tight, in fact, as one healer and one DPS fell without a druid in sight. With five healers left to drag Magtheridon down from 100%, Explicit boned up for a long slugfest.

The click teams learned fast and rose to the challenge admirably. By the 30% mark, no additional deaths had been tallied, and all that remained was to survive the big cave-in.

The huge tumble came and went, and everyone remained standing. The pace picked up a bit as Explicit took its first gander at the post-30% cave-in effects, and two would-be clickers saw fit to go dancing in the dust before promptly meeting their demise, but the backup team was on the ball and kept the superb click-train going.

At long last, after taking only a single tick of the blast nova during the whole course of the fight, Magtheridon went *poof* in one big flash and left naught but some ugly bits and pieces for us to cavort around.

Congratulations to Garlin on his shriveled Magtheridon's Head, to Moonrae on his one-of-a-kind Chestguard of the Fallen Champion (Netherblade Chestpiece), to Deoxy on her oh-so delightful Chestguard of the Fallen Hero (Vestments of the Aldor), to Lulucronia on his buffet-style Soul-Eater's Handwraps, and to Aikos on his el-oh-el 6.9 dkp Glaive of the Pit.

Hip hip huzzah!

Eager to try out something new, Explicit sallied forth into the wet-and-steamy underground chambers of Serpentshrine Cavern, where we looked around for a bit, murdered some innocent merpeople, and collected our very first Nether Vortex before happening upon a quaint little fishing hole where several members busted out their fishing rods and attempted to reel us in some dinner.

The Lurker Below had other plans for us, however, and despite our being made into fish-chow a few times, Explicit left confident that, with a little more practice, we'd be grilling up some krakken steaks in no time.

April 2, 2007 — Nighty night, Nightbane

After storming through Gruul's Lair this afternoon, having breezed past Maulgar and downed Gruul himself in a single attempt, all eyes turned to Serpentshrine attunement: namely, downing Nightbane in Karazhan.

Prior to the evening's Prince kill, the first Explicit team made their way to Nightbane's balcony, determined to collect their Blazing Signets before the night was out. Previous weeks' practice paid off, and a few well-played attempts culminated in a solid first Nightbane kill.

The second Explicit team in Karazhan, however, had just finished killing Prince. Not to be outdone, the intrepid band marched downstairs and out onto Nightbane's ledge. Still sporting the potion buffs used to slay Malchezaar, they summoned the dragon down and on their first attempt gave him the kind of beatdown not seen since Medivh sent his ass packing in a former life.

And so Explicit earned its second Nightbane kill that evening, and the Blazing Signets did abound.

Many hearty congratulations to the winners of the snazzy cash and prizes:

March 25, 2007 — Grilling Gruul

Following our third kill of Maulgar this week, Explicit decided to go spelunking. A few minutes and several nasty ogres later (including an ingenious accidental power pull), we found ourselves face to face ? or rather face to foot ? with a somewhat large and altogether mean sumbitch sitting happily in the middle of a large empty room, where he had apparently been busy digesting the fifteen tons of Neapolitan ice cream and ham and pineapple pizza necessary to sustain him during these chilly spring evenings.

Angry that the large beasty hadn't thought to share, several raid members charged forth ...heedless of the cries of the fifteen raid members trapped behind the gate, who hastily beat a retreat.

A few minutes later, the Explicit gang made a more discrete entrance. After a quick pep talk of the "kill him before you die" variety, the battle commenced. In our first solid attempt without potions, Gruul dropped to 38% health, but the pizza and ice cream were still out of reach.

Deciding it was time to give it our all, Explicit broke out the munchies and sipped from their diamond decanters, and let 'er rip.

The would-be ice cream thieves made a strong showing.

...and continued to do so well into the fight...

...but Gruul, stuffing his gob with great handfuls of greasy pineapple, managed to distract his adversaries just long enough for him to cleave a tank or two in twain. Yet his health continued to fall! 10%... 5%... 2%... 1%...

Alas! 1% is still 33,000 hp, and Gruul lived to fight another round.

One can only withstand a horde of hungry raiders for so long, however, and after a few quick el-to-pee lessons, the Explicit crew clocked the big brute up-side the head and snatched the last few scoops of Neapolitan from his grubby hands.

After the cheers had died away, however, it was soon discovered that Gruul had in fact been guarding some of that sugar-free Lite crap, and the raid let out a collective sigh.

Many congratulations to...

March 7, 2007 — See Maulgar.

See Explicit.

Die, Maulgar, die.

Dance, Explicit, dance.

Congratulations to Moonrae on his Malefic Mask of the Shadows and to Kjoldar on his Warbringer Shouldergards.

February 26, 2007 — Prince, meet Explicit

Explicit, meet Prince.

After our first kill of Prince Malchezaar last week, Explicit returned Sunday and Monday evening to pay him another visit.

This week, two teams attempted the Big Guy, resulting in two great kills. Many 'grats to the winners of our second and third T4 helms.

Next week let's make it three!

January 8, 2007 — "Wuff," thaid Gluff.

Explicit staged a bloody assault on the New Year this week with a one-shot of AQ40 on Wednesday and the swift destruction of Naxx farm on Sunday.

Enticed by the prospect of New Content™, the jolly crusaders tip-toed around Loatheb's room just long enough to deem it a silly place, then spent the evening ogling the Second Coming of Clifford.

A shortage of tranq shots made for a slow start, but once the calvary arrived attempts began in earnest.

Having perfected our game of Ring Around the Rosie (which, incidentally, has nothing to do with the Bubonic Plague), and having learned to take the fight one Decimate at a time, Explicit stepped it up with a single potted attempt and let events unfold.

As Gluth's health dwindled, some members suddenly felt photogenic.

Fine, Waynn! Fine!

Others were prone to sudden, strange outbursts.

And at long last, on our first night of honest attempts, Gluth starved to death from a distinct lack of Chow. Aikos' prancing was undoubtedly the key.

The much enthused raiders bade many heartfelt congratulations to the winners of the fabulous cash and prizes: Kjoldara and her new choke chain (Gluth's Missing Collar), Trudeath and his noxious booties (Plagueheart Sandals), as well as Amberyl and her Splinter of Atiesh.

But not even phat loot could stymy the excitement of some.

The undaunted masses hurried forth. Fifteen minutes later, Thaddius was vanquished.

Almost.

December 20, 2006 — R-E-S-T-A-R-T Spells Success!

Explicit slogged its way through Naxxramas this evening in search of Good Things ...and found them!

It is with bated breath that this news poster can finally announce to the world the completion of that final Naxx hurdle which has been barring us from unparalleled success.

Crying-"What am I going to
do with this thing?"-leaf
struts his stuff

SERVO ARM DOWN!

Yes, it's true. On the same night that we picked up our 39th Splinter of Atiesh, our very first Misplaced Servo Arm nearly rotted on the body as we tried to figure out who would actually pick it up.

After much deliberation, Cryingleaf simply ninjaed and hearthed and was neither seen nor heard from ever again.

In other exciting news, all 8 of Explicit's Naxx farm bosses were felled in a single night, making this our most productive night yet — our 4-man kill of Patchwerk notwithstanding.

Oh, and Velias needs to L2P, IMO.

December 18, 2006 — Dancing days

WARNING: SEVERAL BATS WERE ACTUALLY KILLED IN THE MAKING
OF THIS NEWS POST. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Having recuperated from a bout of PPTPOSS (Post Patch Two Point Oh Stress Syndrome), and having worked the twists (and several knots) out of the new silver lining of our collective britches, Explicit poked, prodded, and smashed through farm content this week in search of Fresh Meat™.

Although vast amounts of Lucky Charms were consumed throughout, many raid members decided that sipping booze was precedent as the evening started to glow. But our fearless leader Kjoldar said it was all right, and we knew it was all right (because it was all in his heart).

But soon enough, our dancing days were here again, and the still-fearless Kjoldar sounded the final charge.

We saw a lion...

...with a tadpole
in a jar.

'Twas the Bad Guy! And lo and behold — he was standing alone. Although he did have some fearsome beasties at his disposal.

But our steadfast raiders pressed on, right into the infamous Fast Dance Phase, where speed was of the essence. Unfortunately, many didn't know they had no car, and promptly bit the dust. Still, when all was said and done, a few hardy souls leapt forth from the platform to cavort about the Bad Guy's dead body.

And (sure as sin) that was the way it should start. Loss got his flower (Redemption Girdle), Icaruus got his power (Legplates of Carnage), and Grahm got his ...er, woman who knows (Splinter of Atiesh). (I give up.)

Kjoldar had told our mothers he'd get us home, and home we went. And, yes, our crazy ways were evident by the way we were wearing our clothes.

Thus it was, at the end of the night, that we all bade a tearful farewell to our one-of-a-kind Papa Grahm, whose illimitable goodness had simply grown too great for WOW to contain. You are my only, Grahm. My one and only.

(P.S. Let's see you write a news post to the tune of Led Zeppelin.)

November 13, 2006 — Explicit and the Abominable Fleshmen

After rolling through AQ40 on Wednesday (clear to another near-to-flawless C'Thun kill) and downing farm bosses on Sunday, Explicit turned to relatively unfamiliar territory this evening: The Abomination Wing.

After a quick dance through slime, ooze, and cackling scientists, we found ourselves face-to-face with Patchwerk - and eager to test ourselves against the big meat puppet.

Forty-five minutes later, a perfect attempt culminated in the fall of Patchwerk with the entire raid still standing. The victors pranced merrily around the squishy loot pi?ata as we took a gander at our first tier 3 shoulders.

Our sincerest congratulations to Kjoldara on her spooooooky Dreadnaught Pauldrons, as well as to Spartanite on his Agility Booster 9000 (a.k.a. Band of Reanimation), and of course to Grahm on yet another piece of old wood - er, his Splinter of Atiesh. Almost there!

With time left on the clock, Explicit played a quick game of frogger in pursuit of the next abo-flabbo, and found him just a hop, skip, and a jump down the way.

After spending a short while uncovering the fact that mutagen explosions are bad and proper placement of stink clouds is good, the team popped Grobbulus one in the nose in true Explicit fashion and polished off the evening with our second new boss kill of the night, as well as our second pair of tier 3 shoulders.

Still more congratulations to Cormick on his fanTASTIC Shoulderpads of Faith and to Spartanite (loot whore?) on his super-cool Icy Scale Spaulders. Much fun had by all!

P.S. We won't speak of this...

November 6, 2006 — Explicit vs. C'Thun

C'THUN DOWN

Pictures say it all this evening.

In our second week of honest attempts on C'Thun, Explicit upped the ante, and we set our sights on a really big night.

Electing to try an all-north strategy, Explicit made steady progress with each attempt, building confidence in leaps and bounds as we awaited The Perfect Pull.

Nearing the end of the night, we knew it was time.

With a solid pull at last and a strong entrance into phase 2, we pulled off our gloves and went to town on the Big Eye and his pesky minions.

Scoring a perfect first weaken, Explicit dropped C'Thun to 40% before the 45 seconds were up.

With all of our cards still on the table and a second perfect weaken lain at our feet, all bets were off.

Explicit raced the clock and rounded off the evening with an almost flawless kill, bringing a fitting end to a fantastic night.

With Pezmerga and yours truly both on the spot, vying for recognition as our first C'Thun kill's honorary "loot seed," we took a peek behind Door Number One:

A tremendous congratulations to Icaruus on his frizeaky Dark Edge of Insanity, to ME (Ishquail) on my fancy-schmancy Eyestalk Waist Cord, to Snackins on his slick-and-shiny Carapace of the Old God (Deathdealer's Vest), to Necrophagist on his warm-and-fuzzy Husk of the Old God (Enigma Robes), to Spartanite on his 1000000 DKP Eye of C'Thun (Cloak of the Fallen God), and, last but not least, to Mojins on his long, wet, and utterly bulbous Vanquished Tentacle of C'Thun.

October 16, 2006 — And its hero the Conqueror Worm

Irritated by the Naxxramas denizens' incessant spamming in /yell, the Explicit team turned its attention to AQ40, eager for an Ouro rematch following our 9% attempt the previous week.

After dragging the big worm down to 5% on an unpotted attempt, we decided it was time and stuck it to the slug in a big way. Ranged DPS pulled through and left us confident in repeated wins in weeks to come.

The victors gathered 'round the spoils, and three deserving members walked away with some lovely parting gifts:

Congratulations to Aesthea on an intimidating pair of Avenger's Legguards, to Moonrae on his skurry Deathdealer's Leggings, and to Loss on his mucus-laden Wormscale Blocker.

With 45 minutes left on the ticker, the merry band of hardy adventurers set forth to do battle with the great Eye of C'Thun. Charging blithely into battle, Explicit felled the Old God in a world record-setting 1 minute 27 seconds.

We then realized that the vicious beastie portrayed at right is not, in fact, C'Thun, and we refocused our efforts on a large glutinous object in the middle of the room.

When all was said and done, C'Thun still leered at us puny mortals, as we had jabbed him in the eyesocket only enough times to tickle him to 78% following several minutes of mindless reverie.

The team slinked away in high spirits, eager to really test their mettle in the weeks to come.

October 4, 2006 — Noth the Hatchetbringer

On our first raid night since Monday's attempts on Noth, the Explicit team made its way to the Eastern Plaguelands with one purpose in mind: to see what belts Naxxramas has to offer.

After a quick warm-up to work any mid-week sleepiness out of our systems, and after realizing that we'd brought enough DPS to make Monday night's attempts look like child's play, Explicit gave Noth the old one-two and found itself standing on the Plaguebringer's corpse wondering if perhaps we'd accidentally skipped a phase.

Congratulations to Grahm on our first tier 3 waist, his Belt of Faith, as well as to Nithius on a spankin' new Hatchet of Sundered Bone.

Shiny!

October 2, 2006 — Spider Wing Clear

After three nights of attempts Maexxna fell to Explicit. A few line of sight issues made early attempts fail by just a few percentage points. The final attempt only one raid member died the entire duration of the attempt despite LOS issues persisting. Maexxna was no slouch on loot either. She dropped a Wrath Blade that promptly went into the deserving hands out our mage class leader Ishquail.

After our victory over the spider wing we continued on to Noth for more new boss attempts. We quickly managed to drop him down to 7% after 3 attempts. Our raid time ran out however and we were forced to retire for the evening. Noth is sure to fall this week as we have removed BWL from our regular weekly raiding schedule, and now have extensive time to devote to content in Naxx.

September 11, 2006 — Twice as Nice

For the second time this raid week Explicit has downed a new boss. This time it was the Grand Widow from Naxxramus. The fight was intense and took quite a bit of stratgy adjustments to complete. We managed to down her after only three attempts, the last of which we potted up for. This also marked a major step for us as we looted our first Widow's Embrace. This was the first item to replace Benediction on a raiding priest. A big congrats goes out to Grahm and his new mace.

September 11, 2006 — The Emperors' New Loot

Another week of lag free raiding proved a success for Explicit. The boss on tap for death this week were the Twin Emperors of Ahn Quiraj.A moderate attempt the previous week set the stage for this week's attempt. The practice and fine tuning paid off as Explicit took them Twin Emps down in a single, glorious attempt. In true guild fashion we also had zero deaths for our winning attempt.

DPS was in large supply for our kill as well. Rogues carried the team on our way to victory. Most notible of this was our seasoned senior rogues: Cryingleaf and Snackins leading the way with record breaking DPS. This further sets the stage for our guild's progression in Naxx as Patchwerk in on our plate for today's boss attempts.

Who will be the next to succumb to Explicit? Noth, Grand Widow, Patchwerk...we're looking at you.

August 28th — Extermination

After a week of bad lag and bad luck with Anub attempts, Explicit finally brought him down. It was a refreshing sight to see such a well balanced raid defeat Anub in an attempt with zero deaths. Tier 3 bracers were won by Amberyl and the Gem of Nerubis is now happily in Armageddun's off-hand.

A few of the night's highlights included:
- Massive Mage DPS and swiftness in killing scarab packs.
- No one being hit by impale that shouldn't have been.
- The invention of the Necro-Pull

We now shift our focus toward getting attempts weekly for Twin Emps and Noth. Be ready because we're coming for you.

August 15, 2006 — Arachnafoob...ie..I can't spell it right.

Explicit continued their venture into Naxxramus with a full day of attempts at Anub'. Much progress was made as the tanks figured out the proper way to tank, and the off tanks found the best taunt order. Furthermore the scarabs AOE and the proper way to dodge impale were discovered by the rest of the raid.

We caught some rough breaks with lag and stupid deaths on a few of our smoothest attempts that quickly derailed them. This is illustrated with the following picture of Kjoldar dying to Locust Swarm.

To make matter worse we lost raiders periodically through the night, and at the end had only 36 raiders participating in attempts. A few hours and repair bots later we stepped away confindent in our strategy and ready to execute on all levels on our next set of attempts on Anub'.

August, 2 2006 — Teaching Mr Razuvious

It started out like any other night for Explicit. The raid night began with a world dragon kill that everyone else had left behind. It seemed he had been left alone for good measure when all he dropped was two pairs of Ancient Corroded Leggings, but that is neither here nor there.

The real action was later in the evening at Naxxramus. Explicit made their way through the Death Knight wing towards their third night of attempting Razuvious. At first it seemed that luck was not on our side as we succumbed to a few broken Mind Controls and unlucky breaks with positioning. it seemed we were slipping back into earlier attempts as we took his health down less and less each time.

Then something clicked, and it clicked with force.

Razuvious fell to our efforts with a flawless attempt. This marks Explicit's first advancement in content since reforming, and our first step into Tier 3 armor. The night could not get any better could it? Oh but it could.

A splinter of Medivh's staff fell to our first boss kill of Naxxramus. This puts the enormous task ahead of us to reform the staff for one of our guild's most dedicated priests, Grahm. Satisfied with the night's booty we portalled home to Ironforge, and prepared for the rest of the week's raids...and for a new boss in Naxxramus next week.

July, 25 2006 — Right back where we left off

Explicit has done it again. Entering the Temple of Ahn Quiraj for the first time since becoming a guild, Explicit once again proved themselves among Illidan's top guilds.

Having our fill of waiting we proceeded to one shot every boss up to and including Huhuran.

Having accomplished this Explicit now stands in the exact spot we stood before reforming.

And thus begins our journey into new content. The very next day we ventured into Naxxramus seeking the thrill of new loot pinatas to break. The evening yielded no kills, but a key strategy was created for Instructor Razuvious and he was knocked down to 75% health. Not bad at all for a first attempt.

July 19, 2006 — Explicit Does BWL

Venturing further into dungeons <Explicit> entered Blackwing Lair for the first time today. We had a mission: Prove that Explict is a force to be reckoned with. We gathered our regular members and a few very promising apps and headed out to Blackrock Mountain.

After entering BWL we stomped our way past Razorgore to Vael. The raid took a small amount of time here for a few attempts to knock off some "Raiding Rust". From that point on the raiders proceeded to make a mockery of BWL's "fierce" black dragons, one shotting every boss until...

We found ourselves approaching Lord Victor Nefarius. This was the real test. Could Explicit truly take down Nefarian after all the work we had done to rebuild?

The answer was a resounding yes! Not only did Explicit succeed in defeating him, we also did it in one attempt, blind to what color his Drakonids would be.

Not to be outdone by a superb killing feat, Explicit also successfully implemented a DKP system in the same night. A truly fitting end to a night full of killing Dragons.

The next true test will come this Sunday when Explicit ventures into the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj to give some "Tea and Scones" out to all the nasty insects within. Will we be able to reclaim our former position in the instance? Only one thing is sure, one of the best ways to kill a bug is to use some Raid...ers...

July 12, 2006 — Explicit goes dragon hunting

Rallying under the brand-new <Explicit> guild tag, our thirty-some founding members and a handful of friends responded to a familiar call: "There be dargons here!"

Sallying forth first into the gloomy reaches of Duskwood, then into the slime-infested fields of the Hinterlands, and finally to a lake deep in the wilderness of Feralas, Explicit took off their shoes and socks in order to count One, Two, Three as Lethon, Taerar, and Ysondre met their ends in quick succession. Eager for more, the hardy adventurers set off for Ashenvale — but lo! The horde had arrived there first. The struggle waxed and waned, friends and foes alike fell on the field of battle, and repair bills soared without mercy, but in the end there could be only one victor: Illidan, which tucked its tail and plunged to a fiery death, sending Emeriss howling back into the twisting nether and leaving both sides weary and defeated, but one at least with a heap of spoils.

Congratulations to everyone, especially those who came away with lovely parting gifts!

Icaruus - Acid Inscribed Greaves
Aelin - Staff of Rampant Growth
Pamor - Trance Stone
Inganeer, Snackins - Unnatural Leather Spaulders
Mojins, Snackins, Spartanite - Nightmare Engulfed Object
<Reign> - Nexus Crystal