If any of you on the US Nesingwary server spent any time in Stormwind yesterday afternoon/evening, you may have noticed some dead bodies laying around in the street between the bank and the auction house. Quite a few dead bodies... In fact I would go so far as to say, a shit-load of dead bodies. Now, that in and of itself is not all that unusual. Perhaps, you might say to yourself, perhaps the horde staged a raid and the last line of defense was right here.

But (and this is a BIG but) the bodies all appeared to be level ones, all with names apparently typed by someone running their finger randomly over the keyboard. For example, Ikjhgghddhjhjh. That could very well have been the name of one of the bodies.

Perhaps, you might say again, perhaps there just happened to be a whole lot of level ones standing around at the point the horde raid hit that particular area of Stormwind. Level ones who happened to have PVP enabled.

But (and this is an even BIGGER but) these level one bodies with the unpronouncable names, who may or may not have been standing in the wrong area at the wrong time, and who happened to (rather unwisely, for a level one) have PVP enabled, were arranged in a very, VERY odd manner. They were perfectly arranged to spell out the name of a website. As in, VOODOODAD.BLOGGER.COM. That's not what it said, of course. That is the address of the blog you are currently (hopefully with unflagging interest) reading. I highly doubt that I have enough friends on line that would lay down their virtual lives in order to promote my somewhat mediocer blog spot. I just used my address as an example, because the website therein advertised by these hundred or more dead bodies turned out to be (not surprisingly) a gold selling site.

Now, as much as I hate gold farmers and the websites they inhabit, I have to admit this was a pretty clever piece of advertising. I found I just HAD to log out of the game in order to check and see what the website advertised was. I pretty much knew when I saw it (the bodies spelling the name), but I still had to see it (the website itself) to make sure it was real.

The thing that's nagging at my oh so curious brain now is, how the HELL did they do it?

First of all, I personally do not know of any way to just spontaneously drop dead in the game of WoW. Well short of a hunter's feign death, but that's like a level 40 spell, and these guys were nowhere near that. It couldn't have been the rampaging horde that killed all of them, as there would've been a lot bigger mess than there was. I'm stumped as to how they all died.

Secondly, how did they get their bodies to fall in exactly the correct positions to neatly spell out the name of the website? I mean, these guys were not sprawled all over the pavement, they were extremely neatly laid out. It looked like graffiti painted with dead people for God's sake!

I guess I'll just have to accept the fact that I'll never know for sure how it happened, but if anyone has even the slightest clue, let me know. I'm dyin' here!