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"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent." - Steve Jobs
Life happens. Every moment, every motion. We're born. We breathe, eat, grow. We live.
Along the way, surrounded by family, we branch out. We go to and through school. We find friends. We find love. We extend our family. We work.
We - if we're lucky- battle through the minutae of daily travails on a consistent basis. We work.
We work and work and work. And along the way, we may forget what it means to live.
Life is, you see, a journey- with only given, assured destination. The songs we sing; the laughs we share; the loves we have, build or lose; the people with whom we interact- these are the merits of the day. Pushing beyond our norms, and our comfort zones. Making the hard choices, the correct choices. This is what and where we head.
And yet, at the end of the journey, on this road, it's this assessment, and effort, that builds into the memories that live on. For passed grandparents, parents, loved ones. Friends.
When the moment arrives, and it will, and it does, time stops. That brief catch of breath. That natural numbness we call shock. The dulling anesthetic of importance. One that - when it lifts- allows the cold wash of reality to resume.
We lost a WoW family member this past week. I, personally, lost a friend.
We, in Armored Justice, did our best to honor Dizfigure last evening. In guild since 2005, we faced Heroic Morchok(25) without him.
As is our want, as is our charter, we did him proud. We continued our journey in the process.
We are Armored Justice. Be the Hero.
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It's a Holiday week, and so we've had most of the week 'off'. We'll resume our normal activities on January 4th.
But with that said, an intrepid group of explorers set forth on Tuesday to square off against Morchok, in heroic fashion. We were short staffed, and oddly situated- our 2 main tanks were out (being the holidays), and so we focused on doing the best we could as we could.
And so it was, that we wound up with Menolikeu and myself- on Snuggies... who hadn't even finished the 4.3 5mans completely yet, or set foot in Dragonsoul as Snuggies- tanking Morchok.
Initially, based on Al Qaeda level intelligence, I'd hoped to go to 2 healers... but that went nowhere... FAST. Eventually, we settled on 4. So we had a tank, a healer, a rogue, and 2 other dps per side. With this line up, the enrage timer was sure to be tight...
And the result? Well, we have 2 different perspectives of it:
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Thanks again to Menolikeu, Pasa, Warenpeace, Raykey, Lastchance, Bankscraper, Wulf, Surrealist, Magron (and Marci/Ksatria) for the great, great effort. 25m version coming early January.
We are Armored Justice. Be the Hero... even on the Holidays!
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One week to the day. Same play, different day.
Define the moments that you remember- perhaps isolate them to football:
Biggest catch in the history of the superbowl? David Tyree's in Super Bowl XLII. 3rd and 5. Down by 4 against the undefeated Patriots. The last catch, as it would be of his career. Off his helmet. OFF HIS Helmet.
Don't believe me?
Why is this relevant? What if he could've returned- and done it again? As awesome as it was, what if he'd had 1 more in him?
We'll never know- but we know that he did what was required when it mattered. On the line. On his head. Unbroken, unbowed. And, for the Patriots, no longer undefeated.
Yesterday, one week to the day of our 10man clear- we pulled out the 25man variant. It was a great night- and left no doubt of the excellence we have. And, just like last week, when it was on the line- when our tanks (Bones and Grombrindal) dropped. When we'd had DPS down. With no battle resses. With Deathwing's aura permeating. Raykey stepped up and was bathed in heals while evasion was active...
And as for the rest of AJ? Just like the NY Giants, after David Tyree's catch- we took Deathwing down, 25 man style.
We are Armored Justice. Be the Hero.
