Children's Week!

Well, they revamped the Azeroth versions of Children's Week in World of Warcraft. The Outlands and Northrend versions of the quests have not changed. In Kalimdor for the Horde, they have taken over the zone of Azshara and the goblins built a sort of track that lets people go from one place to another in rockets. The Horde orphan quest involves taking your orphan for a ride in a rocket. He of course pushes all the buttons and makes the rocket go off the track, spinning wildly, and the last button he pushes ejected him from the vehicle. James Bond like, no?

The Alliance equivalent is riding in a chopper (motorcycle with a sidecar, which the orphan sits in). Unlike the orc orphan, the human orphan sits in the sidecar and doesn't hit any buttons. Since he's such a good boy, I have the vehicle wobble from side to side for fun, and the I jump over some of the cracks in the ground with it. A little mischievous, we go down into a chasm and he gets a slime creature on his head, but we knock it off with a whirlwind, which carries us way up into the air. Good thing we got seat belts. If it was the ejector seat, I'd have a parachute.

I had started doing the quests on my laptop, but then I thought about making a video of it and the horde version to see what they were like and post it online, so I did. Unfortunately the music I chose was copyright protected somehow, so I had to chose another track that the website had. After narrowing down the search results to match the video length, I settled on Sinclair C5.

"Go for a ride, in my Sinclair C5."

Seems to fit. So go grab and orphan and take him out on a ride, whether its a chopper or a rocket, you'll love it. Children's week lasts, well, a week, so it ends at 11:59pm this Saturday, May 7th, this year. If you take orphans out to see things and play and such, they give you rewards. See if you can get them all.

Children's Week in World of Warcraft is based on the Japanese holiday Children's Day. From Wikipedia:

Children's Day (こどもの日 Kodomo no hi^?) is a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5, the fifth day of the fifth month, and is part of the Golden Week. It is a day set aside to respect children's personalities and to celebrate their happiness. It was designated a national holiday by the Japanese government in 1948.

 

Koinobori : The black carp (Magoi) at the top represents the father, the red carp (Higoi) represents the mother, and the last carp represents the son, with an additional carp added for each subsequent son with color and position denoting their relative age.)

Oh yes. I love that. =)

-Owl