Diym Red
07-20-2009, 08:30 AM
EXTRA! Rioting in Horde Capitals! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkriUVsH9Z8) (( <----------------- LINK TO VIDEO ))
by Diym Red
Ratchet (UM) -- In what experts are calling a "continuance of a clear pattern of instigated mob violence," portals opened all over the city of Orgrimmar Thursday night. Rioters poured out, some disguised as orcs or trolls, some not even bothering to hide their pink skin.
Well-armed and -organized gangs stormed the auction house, wyvern tower, and bank, killing and pillaging at will. Most of the bank staff on duty at the time were slaughtered by the as yet unkown assailants. Several minutes after the first portal appeared in the Valley of Strength, an explosion rocked the canyon, and smoke was seen over the busy auction house.
Horde adventurers swarmed the market square to repel the rioters, but behind them looters stampeded the unguarded bank and stalls of fallen merchants. Many hung back, expecting the Kor'kron to restore order within moments, unaware that Grommash Hold itself was under siege.
Similar attacks had occured in Silvermoon City and Thunder Bluff in the previous two days, but until the third and most successful gutting of a Horde city center, they had been dismissed as isolated incidents.
That same night saw the abrupt withdrawal of nearly three quarters of Horde armed forces stationed in the Barrens. In the north, dust clouds stretched across the horizon as orcs jogged in formation up the roads toward Orgrimmar, and the Thunder Bluff garrison at Camp Taurajo had already emptied into Mulgore by Friday morning. One might expect much the same thing to be happening in Quel'thalas and Tirisfal Glades; the Undercity is now the only Horde capital to have avoided devastating riots.
Local outlaws were quick to capitalize on the sudden power vacuum. Mr Gazlowe, kingpin of Ratchet, tripled the bruiser force on the ground in the bustling port town as reports surfaced of rampant banditry in the region. Already, ships have been turned back from its long pier out of fear of land-based attacks from the Southsea pirates.
The last report from inland of Ratchet has the centaur tribes riding in force toward the Crossroads.
Diym Red is a writer for United Media Holdings.
by Diym Red
Ratchet (UM) -- In what experts are calling a "continuance of a clear pattern of instigated mob violence," portals opened all over the city of Orgrimmar Thursday night. Rioters poured out, some disguised as orcs or trolls, some not even bothering to hide their pink skin.
Well-armed and -organized gangs stormed the auction house, wyvern tower, and bank, killing and pillaging at will. Most of the bank staff on duty at the time were slaughtered by the as yet unkown assailants. Several minutes after the first portal appeared in the Valley of Strength, an explosion rocked the canyon, and smoke was seen over the busy auction house.
Horde adventurers swarmed the market square to repel the rioters, but behind them looters stampeded the unguarded bank and stalls of fallen merchants. Many hung back, expecting the Kor'kron to restore order within moments, unaware that Grommash Hold itself was under siege.
Similar attacks had occured in Silvermoon City and Thunder Bluff in the previous two days, but until the third and most successful gutting of a Horde city center, they had been dismissed as isolated incidents.
That same night saw the abrupt withdrawal of nearly three quarters of Horde armed forces stationed in the Barrens. In the north, dust clouds stretched across the horizon as orcs jogged in formation up the roads toward Orgrimmar, and the Thunder Bluff garrison at Camp Taurajo had already emptied into Mulgore by Friday morning. One might expect much the same thing to be happening in Quel'thalas and Tirisfal Glades; the Undercity is now the only Horde capital to have avoided devastating riots.
Local outlaws were quick to capitalize on the sudden power vacuum. Mr Gazlowe, kingpin of Ratchet, tripled the bruiser force on the ground in the bustling port town as reports surfaced of rampant banditry in the region. Already, ships have been turned back from its long pier out of fear of land-based attacks from the Southsea pirates.
The last report from inland of Ratchet has the centaur tribes riding in force toward the Crossroads.
Diym Red is a writer for United Media Holdings.