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The Hallows End festival was in full swing, people were running around trick or treating, cramming candy until they were sick, when the arrival of the Argent Dawn echoed the coming doom (which I guess is why the patch was called Echoes of Doom, whodathunkit) that was lurking.

Across Azeroth a plague spread, those who succumbed and fell to it found themselves risen up again and starting to hunger for human flesh.

Yes, last night during one of the World of Warcraft holidays, a world event kicked off in preperation for the coming expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

Down in the port town of Booty Bay players can find corrupted cargo which when opened infects the player with a plague. They have 10 minutes to seek out an Argent Dawn Healer, or another player who can cure (Priests, Paladins etc). Failure to do so results in the player dying and returning as a zombie, all of the old spells and attacks are replaced with special zombie attacks like being able to cause yourself to explode and infect anyone near you, or lay down a cloud of plague fog which again infects others.

As it stands if you are infected you can infect others by dueling them if you are still alive, if you are dead you can attack them, kill them and they then turn, or you can lay down plague fog or make yourself explode. When you become a zombie you are an enemy with all non zombies, even your own faction, all other zombies are friendly regardless of whether they are Horde or Alliance, the zombies will also have their own language which can be understood by Horde and Alliance zombies.

Last night at the start it was easy for other players to cure those who were infected, but it is getting harder and harder and at some point containing it will not be easy resulting in a huge increase in zombies.

Last night I spent a lot of time in Westfall, or Lichrise as I decided to rename it after we washed over it like a giant undead wave. People ran to us, to fight us and were in turn taken into our fold, Inn keepers and workers cried out for guards as they feel into undeath and joined the ranks, the guards themselves fell to our army.

Alas as quick as we were to rise the Alliance arrived with healers and the zombie army was quashed, Lichrise returned to being Westfall and the war was over.

Or was it?

The odd zombie still roamed, infecting others, and slowly the ranks grew again and Westfall was stormed once again.

Definitely one of the best world events I have taken place in, it is going to be interesting when the ranks swell as the plague is harder to fight. However I can see it annoying people as NPC ’s fall to the onslaught of the war.

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