09-05-2004, 08:11 AM
What do PvP players do when their server is down? Why go to the regular beta server and hold a ho-down, of course!
![[Image: cowdance.jpg]](http://www.gmonsen.com/wow/cowdance.jpg)
I love the fishing skill so much that all of my characters have spent countless hours fishing. People ask me why I do it, because other than firefin snapper and oily blackmouth that can be made into fire oil and blackmouth oil, there doesn't seem to be any practical use for fishing. Well, besides being a good source of food and alchemy ingredients, fishing is also a place where Blizzard stuck a lot of humorous things, such as the Teamster Skull ("You can tell that somebody didn't like this guy.") and the 23-pound catfish that you can carry around in your off-hand. Deviate scale fish when eaten can have random strange effects, too. But mostly, I like getting "Message in the Bottle"'s. These contain scrolls or messages of some sort. Some are simple "+10 to int for 30 minutes" type scrolls and others are certain midlevel recipes that can be actually useful. But the best ones (and the reason for bringing all of this up) are the messages from a poor castaway. For example, this diary entry explains why there are so many messages in bottles that contain scrolls and recipes:
![[Image: DiaryDay4.jpg]](http://www.gmonsen.com/wow/DiaryDay4.jpg)
In the above diary entry, our castaway still has hope of rescue. We learn in a later diary entry that was also fished up, however, that not all has gone well for our poor protagonist:
![[Image: DiaryDay87.jpg]](http://www.gmonsen.com/wow/DiaryDay87.jpg)
I love the fishing skill so much that all of my characters have spent countless hours fishing. People ask me why I do it, because other than firefin snapper and oily blackmouth that can be made into fire oil and blackmouth oil, there doesn't seem to be any practical use for fishing. Well, besides being a good source of food and alchemy ingredients, fishing is also a place where Blizzard stuck a lot of humorous things, such as the Teamster Skull ("You can tell that somebody didn't like this guy.") and the 23-pound catfish that you can carry around in your off-hand. Deviate scale fish when eaten can have random strange effects, too. But mostly, I like getting "Message in the Bottle"'s. These contain scrolls or messages of some sort. Some are simple "+10 to int for 30 minutes" type scrolls and others are certain midlevel recipes that can be actually useful. But the best ones (and the reason for bringing all of this up) are the messages from a poor castaway. For example, this diary entry explains why there are so many messages in bottles that contain scrolls and recipes:
In the above diary entry, our castaway still has hope of rescue. We learn in a later diary entry that was also fished up, however, that not all has gone well for our poor protagonist: