The Cast

Delsea, Ocyr, Gathun, Emberia and Krytt each has a short entry in the works.

Garl “Oilcan” Flintlock, no “e”

Oilcan, 80 dwarf hunter, is my main and will be until he eventually retires to Winterspring, spending his days skinning Frostsabers for their leather and his evenings by the Everlook Inn’s hearth with his bear, Spout.

He leveled slowly in Vanilla WoW, just going where his quests took him, RPing from time to time. He joined Final Ascensions (which shortly became Forbearance) and hit the BGs at 20. By 30, with his raiding guild blowing up, he had joined The Fighting Kitten Corps and camped the BGs at 29, 39, and 49 with Aediwen and Paython and their alts. He was 450 xp shy of 50 when he passed a see-the-man quest turnin in Swamp of Sorrows. Having only gotten 250 his last turnin, he turned that one in…and promptly got 550 xp and prematurely dinged

Oh well…he added AV to his BG list, continued to RP, do LWing, and run 5 mans (especially BRD), and was mid-50ish when Burning Crusade came out. Over the next few months, new faction rep and 5 mans occupied his time. In the summer of 2007, he began some raiding for the first time, discovered that he liked it (despite initial 200 dps in Karazhan), and began serious research into being a raid hunter. The Kitten Liberation Army welcomed him in December 2007, where he still is this day.

His first pet was a bear, Spout. Spout’s an outdoorsy type and didn’t feel comfortable in Kara, so a raptor , Toofy, was added to the stables. Tito the wolf joined them in time for Naxx80 raiding, while Jupe, a gorilla, began to share questing and farming duties with Spout.

Since then, he has continued to hone his raiding skills and PvP in the BGs (a short foray into Arena was not to his liking – killing for killing’s sake), while crafting leather goods for guild and friends, with the odd RP thrown in.

He has tanked Prince down from 8% and saved a wipe in Heroic Old Durnholde with literally epic CC (both intentional). He has also pet-pulled Maiden and other bosses, and mobs-in-the-next-room, and raided in RP gear (both unintentional). And is perpetually the last one to accept summonses and misses the mage portal out because he’s poring over Recount data.

You can find him on Steamwheedle Cartel (like all my toons), usually in Ironforge.

Alpham, nee Alphaminor

Alpham is my pally, currently 78 and Protection/Holy specced. My son originally rolled him when he started playing; after a couple of years, my son moved on to other interests, leaving Alpham at level 48. I left him untouched for about a year, in case my son came back to the game. Prior to Lich King, I started playing him a little, as it was apparent my son wasn’t back into WoW, changing his professions from Mining/Engineering to Herbalism and Inscription as LK came out.

He was always a tank, so I played him as one until he was early-70ish. I had dual-specced him when LK was released, but never did anything with the Holy Spec until he hit Northrend, where he has healed a couple of below-level instances while beginning to amass a healing gear set comparable to his tanking set (at 78, he has 545 defense and high 30ish % Dodge+Parry).

He’s not RP, and I’ve not worried about accumulating Aps with him, but I look forward to raid tanking and healing with him, something obviously Oilcan has not done.