The Great Onyxia Race

[MongoJerry]

The really lucky SOB in all this was Brolly, who as the only warlock in the raid, got to pick up the Nemesis Skullcap by default. As you can see in the screenshot above, it looks like a big red turban. There were several possibly offensive and borderline racist jokes made, including calling him "Osama bin Brolly," but we were just having a good time with him.



In addition to the loot shown above, Sabik and Thyrfing got a chance to fulfill part of an epic warrior quest series that starts with a book in Dire Maul. (I understand that the book has a 0.1% drop rate and often sells for 1200g or more on the auction house. Looking at the stats on the reward for the series, I can see why). The main part of the quest series as I understand it is to take a special sword to Onyxia's lair, "fire" the sword under the flame of Onyxia, and then temper the sword in her blood after she dies. When you take the tempered sword back to the quest giver in Dire Maul, you get this:



Those are stats to make any cloth wearer on a PvP server cringe. Incidentally, looking back at my screenshots of the GV/Basin raid, I notice that Azul had done this quest the previous week.

We skinned Onyxia and got four Scales of Onyxia. I hadn't realized in my earlier writings that you could get more than one Scale per run. This makes the quest and leatheworking recipes that use those scales a little more reasonable.



We ported to Orgrimmar and held a big celebration when Onyxia's head was put on display.



When a Horde group turns in the Head of Onyxia, everyone in Orgrimmar is supposed to be blessed by Thrall with a Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer buff. On the previous day, I had been told by members in the GV/Basin group at what time they were turning in the head so I could at least get the Dragonslayer buff (and take the above screenshot). However, when The Offenders turned in their head on Friday, it didn't work. No buff ever came, and we couldn't figure out why. Oh, well.



It was still early in the evening when we finished celebrating in Orgrimmar, so we decided to head off to Molten Core to clear some of its early bosses. In one week, Onyxia had gone from being an epic encounter to being a pit stop on the way to other things. We killed Luciferon and Magmadar before calling it a night and then met the next day and cleared Molten Core all the way to Major Domo.

But that's a tale for another time.