Okay, Angie would you please introduce yourself to us and let us know why you're here. Yeah, let me get my screen up because you know how it goes we do the run through and we do all that to then be like what. Exactly. It went smoothly and now. Right, exactly. So, you know. Yeah, give me one second just so I can take your time. Okay, can you see my screen now. Is that. Yes, you see my screen in the second. Where's everybody coming from as we give Angie a moment. Are you new to graduate school I know shell has been here a while guided me through my time here. What about the rest of y'all. Okay. In the second year of master's program. Okay. Thanks for sharing. All right, is that good to go now. Yes, we're good to go. Thanks for sharing Kyle. Yeah. Yeah, I actually wanted to kind of see who's in the room too. But yeah, well, I guess I can do like a little short introduction first but we got intimate group here so I'm looking forward to, to seeing who came today but yeah good afternoon y'all good afternoon. Okay, I will say from the poll I was, I was expecting everybody to put super exciting I was like, yeah, you know, but you know it's Monday I'll give you, you know, I'll give you that I'll give you that because sometimes we just, we just not all the way there so it's all good hopefully I can spark some energy and y'all today and you know maybe that will kind of change throughout the time we have together so but yeah but thanks for choosing to learn more about the spectrum center. I'm here at University of Michigan and you know, to those who are in attendance with me live today, you know, I love seeing your faces and then those, you know who might be watching at a future time. Welcome. My name is Angie Freeman, I use they them pronouns and I'm the program manager for events and partnerships at the spectrum center. Yeah, I'm just, I'm, I'm happy to see that this affinity community resource week is happening I think it's just really important that we share with all of our students and specifically graduate students about what resources are available how to learn, you know, about what you all can get here at University of Michigan so, but yeah today I'll be I'll just be sharing a lot of information I'm just going to like, kind of go through it and, you know, refer you back, of course to our website a lot. You know, and coming into the center and talking with us to get more clarification on some things. But yeah, but yeah, can we I want to kind of see going off of what Sam was saying like who's in the room and you know I don't know if you're first year second year third year students.  Hi Angie. I'm a doctoral candidate all the dissertation in sociology and I really enjoy the spectrum centers fall graduate student mixer. Oh yeah you came to that yeah yeah I've attended in the past yeah. Did you come did you come to the one this this past I couldn't make it last week. Oh okay okay okay it's all good it's all good it was live in here I'm telling you it was live it was a good time it was a good time but we'll do it again. And you know some of our students actually mentioned having something more specific. In addition to the graduate student welcome for graduate students so I'm working on that. So yeah, thanks Shelly. Anyone else. Hi Angie and this is Charmaine and we're robotics graduate students. Robotics huh okay is that like the dance rope, not this kind of robotic. I mean, maybe, maybe in my future somewhere. I can aspire to that at least. Thanks for sharing anybody else. Who else is here. My name is Kyle Smith I use him pronouns. I am a transfer student to the University of Michigan. So I'm in the educational studies PhD program. So while it's my third year of doctoral studies, it's my first year of Michigan, I'm with the second year cohorts I will be at 123 year all around. Nice. Yeah, thanks like. My name is David. I'm a second year master student in performing arts technology in the school music theater and dance. All right, all right so you yeah okay you can vibe with the music. I love it I love it. Hi everybody let's see there's 12345 people here. I think you can see cool. Alright, so I will continue but thank you all for coming off audio like that and you know, just Bob and with me so I appreciate that. So yeah, let's go ahead and dive into this so. Some topics that I will share with you today. Include the following so our LGBTQIA to us plus what that means you know at University of Michigan, what the spectrum center is what we do like what our offices like you know just describe a little bit of the the vibe that you can expect when you come in and then what resources we offer the programs that we host we do a lot of events. So I'll kind of dive into that a little bit. Opportunities for graduate students and then I'll be sharing like broadly opportunities we have for all students but you know I am aware that our guests today are, you know, graduate students so I'll try to share with you all a little bit. Some other stuff that we do, you know how you can connect with us and then we'll have some time at the end for some questions. So, I'm going to, I'm going to start off a little bit of, I'm going to start off with some bragging a little bit about our center but if anyone's familiar with the campus pride index, which is a benchmarking tool for I feel like if you know how queer friendly campuses and colleges and universities are the spectrum center we receive the five out of five stars, which is you know we're very very proud of that and we work really did diligently to provide just the best for our students and our queer students on campus so so that was like a huge thing and then also the same campus pride index. We're also named as one of the the 40 best, best of the best colleges, you know by by campus pride index as well. Lastly, we were named number one for LGBTQIA to us plus friendly colleges and campuses in the state of Michigan, which was cool. And then also fit in the nation so it's like, you know you kind of scale it down you like oh, you know first in Michigan within five like what. You know it's really cool it excites us, but we also know that you know we all, we still have a lot of work to do and we're always growing and learning. And you know we can't stay stagnant, you know we can celebrate these moments but we, we know that we have to keep striving just to be better and you know the cohort changes the quote you know the students population the needs, they change every year so we're aware of that and we you know try to try to keep on our toes as much as possible but but yeah overall like we're just, we're really proud. You know, to be where we're at today. And continue a little bit more about the center where the oldest LGBT resource center in the country, which is really, really cool if you think about the progress that we've made on colleges and university campuses with having queer centers gender centers resource centers on campus like we're the first one, which is really cool. And there's just been, you know, so many that have been created ever since and so yeah so we just celebrated our 50th anniversary a couple years ago, which was an amazing honor. We had like a big old celebration in the center and you know we we did it up was really big so sadly though our founder Jim toy passed away, very very recently. And, you know, we just continue to work hard to upload the legacy that Jim created and you know the the inspiration that Jim wanted for you and then also our students on campus so. So, a little bit about our spectrum center so you know we are a resource center on campus. We're not a, we're not a student club a lot of students and you know just our peers and colleagues will misunderstand us to be like a student organization or a club but we're we're an actual department where office resource center, but we, you know, really serve and support the members of our LGBT QA to us plus communities. And we do this through, you know, different. We do this through three main things which is education advocacy and community building. And I'll touch on a little bit of these as we go along, but yeah we just we just really work hard to enhance the campus culture and increase student belonging like we know that students thrive better when they feel like they belong and so we try to create that space when you come into the center and you know come and just hang out and vibe and which I'll share with you a little bit about what that's about if you haven't been in the center before. So we're located in the Michigan Union on the third floor so when you are so folks when you come off the elevator, you make a right and you look for all the gay flags at the end of the hallway. We're down there or you could just listen out for like our loud and laughing voices because you know we're we're always having a good time we're just you know hanging out with students, our staff.  You know, just listen out for the voices or listen, you know, look for the flags but our office hours are listed here and after hours I wanted to note that we do invite student organizations to come in our center and just use the space so a lot of students will reserve our center and just come in and you know have group meetings or if they're doing something for their classrooms. So that is extended to you all as well like if you want to come in, especially like on the weekend or something like it's just quite. We also do after hours HIV and STI testing we do this weekly so we do it after hours. I think it's from five to seven on Tuesdays. And it's been, you know, we've gotten a lot of traffic, you know already this even this this fall semester which makes us very, very happy that, you know, we're taking care of ourselves and we're doing doing what we need to do. And then, yeah, we have events and programs and stuff after hours to which I'll go over. Drop in hours so we also have opportunity for you to just come in. Ask any questions with one of our staff like one on one. We've all dedicated dropping hours weekly for you to you can sign up for those online. And you can pick like who you want to meet with but yeah every week we're just kind of waiting for you to come in and, you know, come in and see us and, you know, if there's any meetings or, you know, whatever it is like we just are open arms and whatever you need and so we have that and in our family room this is like a little snapshot of our of our space. And yeah it's really cool vibe when you walk in like students are hanging out circled up around the round table doing homework, chatting, spilling tea like they be talking about a lot, a lot of different things. This cool is this is you know, it's it's a particular vibe and so students like you'll see students taking a nap or, you know, doing homework of course, you know, we have safe sex supplies like right when you walk in. There's a table with condoms, Lou dental dams, just information like all you know all of that like students just come in but I need two of these and then they walk out and like cool. So yeah, board games we have like a whole thing of board games you come in, and you can just play and play with those when we recently had the the internet outage on campus like, you know, we're like all right well, you know, we can't we can't get on the internet so let's just, you know, play it play a little game until it comes back on so it's always good to have that we have a library resource. As well so a huge library of books that you can rent out and you know borrow and all that kind of stuff so tons of things. Just come in if you haven't been in the space just come in and you know, and see us and see what it's about. It's pretty cool. Some resources that we have for LGBTQ plus students. So we have gender, gender and queer focused student organizations. I put graduate and undergrad because we, you know, we, we, we focus on on both and so I just want to let you all know that there's a ton of organizations student organizations on campus like as big as we are. When I came here I was like, Oh, we got that. Like, are they all active or what you know so. Yeah, a ton of undergraduate but we also have a lot of our graduate queer focused organizations to like, it's all the, the schools really like have their own so like, you know, out in business. The business school has one social work has a queer club public policy. Let's see stem, you know, we have I have a whole bunch of different graduate organizations so. So yeah, I just want to share that and then scholarships, we give out scholarships for our students we have project base grants to which I'll explain a little bit more later but basically if you have an idea for an event that you want to put on but you don't have the funding, you can submit to us a project based grant proposal, and we'll look at it and be like cool like this sounds great like we'll give you, you know $500 towards your event for you know it's up to $500 or so.  And then our gender affirming care and essential needs. So we do offer a lot of ton of information. I'll direct you a lot to our website for our gender, gender affirming care stuff but we, we have essential needs that we support students with when you come in and I'll, I'm going to get to this later but I'm excited to just share. But yeah, we have, for example, like binders that we give out to our trans individuals and then essential needs we have what he called, oh goodness. The name is escaping me right now, but I'll come back to I have another slide on that. And then lastly our gender inclusive learning environment which we call ghillie. So this is basically in housing, gender queer folks that want to live in a space that they really feel comfortable and supported. And I believe graduate housing has gender inclusive learning environments as well. So if you do live on campus, or want to definitely check that out too. So our trans community has a special place in our hearts. We like to just ensure that we focus some of our efforts on helping students navigate that particular part of their identities, including gender affirming healthcare, which Michigan, Michigan care or Michigan. Michigan University of Michigan hospital. I'm still a little bit new to to um so bear with me on that but our hospital provides a lot of that gender affirming care which is really great. And then students can also get coverage, you know they're also covered by their student insurance to get some of those services, which I think is really cool like how, you know, we work together in that sense. We're kind of resources for our trans students are chosen name and pronoun policy so you know our system that I've learned is really unique in the in the sense like if you want to change your your name that you want to go by it, it will what do you call sync it'll sync within all the different. Gosh, what am I trying to say it'll it'll sync within all the different like softwares that we use on campus. So that's pretty cool. It'll show up on. Between like Gmail and canvas and with your class with your professors in your email as a person.  Now my name is changed and everything now and I didn't expect that and so sometimes I'm like. I think I'm surprised at how fluid and how the sort of comprehensive my name change was for sort of an every facet of the university. There you go, thank you, thank you Sam I appreciate that yes, all of that, all of that, all of that is really is really cool so we do have that. We also offer pronouns one on one, which is free to faculty and staff which I'll talk about in a second as well. So our programs we do a lot of programming like we do big scale programming small scale programming we get down we get down y'all. And I'll go over some of these signature programs and signature events that we have so. But before, before I do that I just want to share the three areas or three functions of our center and how our services and programs are broken down so we have education and training events and partnerships support services and wellness so for education and training. We offer the LGBT QIA to us plus web course. So this is like a self paste or you know self guided web course that you can go through that gives you a ton of information on the LGBT community. And it's just it's very, it's very informative right like if you're kind of, you know just kind of want to know some of the basics or like entry level kind of stuff. It's a great it's it's very comprehensive as well like we put a lot, a lot of work into it, a lot of tunnel resources and stuff. So you can sign up for that it's on campus. This is our pronouns one on one, which, if any department or organization on campus wants us to present to them our pronouns one on one it's a two hour workshop. We don't do anything less than two hours because we know that it takes that amount of time to go through everything but will come to any organization and put on like a whole two hour workshop for the staff if they think like hey like I think our staff kind of can benefit from you know something on pronouns then we'll do that so we have a whole team that does that. And then towards solidarity is another. This one is a six hour so it's like a you know full day training workshop that we also put on for our campus community members, and this one is very comprehensive it's more so like so we don't do safe zone training anymore. We're, you know, we've gotten away from that I think a lot of LGBTQ educators are now getting away from safe zone with the whole sticker and you know placard and all that kind of stuff but more into like a solidarity, more action based kind of support for the community so this one is very comprehensive. But anyway so we do that. That's our training and education and then events and partnerships which is under my area. This is where we do like all the queer events on campus program and things like that, and also collaboration so our LGBT history month which is coming up in October which I'm really excited about. We put together a LGBT history month committee, and partners across campus are helping to put together this full calendar of events across um to just basically create like a centralized place where people can get what's going on in October for LGBT history month, whether you're you know doing something in Rackham the graduate, you know organizations or undergrad or, you know, gender housing whoever is doing anything like, you know, you can find what's going on which is cool. So, that's kind of like my current thing right now which I'm pumped about. And we also have a programming board which I would definitely encourage any of you all to be a part of but our programming board is a student organization. It's through our office so we, we have a really called SSO student sponsored organization, and it's consists of undergrads graduate doctoral students, any students if you identify as a student, you could be a part of this. So it's student led and the fact that we give the students free reigns on what kind of programs they want to see on campus and we just support we fund, and they come up with the idea. So if this is something that you know you want to get involved in, you know, we just started our, you know, new cohort this this semester and we're always adding people to the mix, but some of the adventure events that the programming board puts on is pride prom, which is a whole lot of fun. It's at the end of the year in April, where, you know, a lot of students didn't get to do prom, maybe in their high school or just at another time in life.  So that's program board and then we have lavender graduation which is our graduation ceremony for our LGBT QI to us plus community and this is also in April. And it's just a good time like it's just an opportunity for, you know, students to be recognized for their accomplishments and, you know, what they've done throughout their journey here in a more queer focused way so it's really cool. So that's events and partnerships there's a lot more but you know, I'm going to stop there. And then there's support services and wellness. So I really call this like the heart of our students. Like, I do all the programming and the fun kind of things you can come to build community but, you know, support services and wellness is like the heart of, you know, our queer community in the sense of like creating, you know, having mentors your programs where students can link up with a faculty or staff on campus that can just kind of guide them and you know help them through with whatever they need right. Fresh specters is a first year program specifically, but I'll still share about it but it's like a cohort based model where students come in just like commune together and build community around other students that are similar in the fact that they're first year and, you know, also queer. And then essential needs for this one. We have, we, we partner with Maison blue, which is the miss Maison blue cover but we partner with them to provide like to go bags with like groceries in them and like kind of pre package.  So we have that in our space so basically you know we provide all that for like just the human the human right like the human. Like I call the heart but it's just it's just different it's just like it's beautiful to me. All the other kind of like services and like identity development. You know, gender farming care and all that kind of stuff is under our support services. That's a lot. I know event center and trans students so again, I just want to kind of highlight some of the stuff that we do. So gender farming clothing closet, which we like to have this like kind of like close to the prior prom so folks have something to wear. If they want you know they didn't have anything but we're making it into like a permanent we're hopefully making into an a permanent clothing closet that can happen year round which is cool so people can just come in and kind of get any kind of clothing items that they need so. But that usually happens in the winter semester. And then our name change clinic students who are looking to, you know, change their name or their gender markers or you know anything like that like we put on a whole clinic for for them and you know helping them through that process because it's it's a lengthy process and it's a sometimes complicated process but it could be done and it has been done and you know we're here for it. Remembrance is a big one trans day of visibility.  And then our transit non binary passport clinic, which we're in the process of planning that for this semester to so if you have a passport or you know look into again change your dinner marker or, you know, update your name or your last name or whatever it is like we help with that too. All right, and then welcome program so this year we had our pride outside which was a lot of fun. This was a part of the like welcome to Michigan events and we have drag show, Kona ice like the little shades ice cones. That was that was a hit Michigan pride t shirts like it was it was a full thing. It was a really good time we do that yearly. And then our cutie by park welcome. This was a couple weeks ago now. And you know we just like to center our black and brown queer students and so we, you know, provided this opportunity for students to come and you know it's it's open to all students on campus whether you're undergrad grad whatever the case is but you know that's a it's a good time like we just we ate good we listen to music we you know build community we play games all the things so you know those are always a good time. Our graduate student welcome, which I know we talked about a little bit in the beginning but that happened last week was a really cool event and so I did want to say that this year. Some of the graduate students actually mentioned having like a fourth for the next one on the list which is our cutie by park kickback, having like a graduate focus kickback which I think is great, you know, so we're trying to get more graduate students in our center and trying to, you know, plan and program for our graduate students because we know that, you know, not a lot of times like, you know, the mixing and mingling together like you know graduate students want to have space and their thing and do their thing and build community amongst each other which you know we support that so. So yeah so like again, we're always trying to improve and do better so this is one area that we are focusing on to try to bring in and support more of our graduate students. Fresh Spectives cohort I say I was going to talk a little bit about this but this is our like in our first year cohort group that we have just for first year and transfer students. And yeah it's just a really good time for students to get together and you know build community amongst each other, based on the fact that they're first year students and queer and things like that but they get together they play games they go ice skating and bowling and do all these things and you know, we, we funded and we support it and they tell us what they want to do so. It's a good deal in my, my opinion. And then our mentorship opportunities so we have GPS and maps guidance perspective support so lgbtq, lgbtq a to s plus and similarly identify students they utilize this just for navigating understanding their own identities and like what that means and you know like just it's a lot it's it's there's a lot that goes into that but we just want to make sure we provide that support. And then our maps mentorship and professional personal support so this is the one that is connected with faculty and staff so we the GPS is like peer to peer, and then maps is peer to like staff or faculty. They're in the process of kind of revamping these programs and kind of, you know, enhancing them or revising them so they'll be more a little bit more active in the future. Alright, what else do we do there's more. Yes, there's more. The other things that we do we provide students support mentorship and advising. So student organ. We call student organization advising. Like I said mentioned before we have the student programming board that is sponsored through our office. So we advise them on events that they want to plan and kind of help them with that. We also have mentorship and professional development so we have every year we go to memble tech, which is stands for the Midwest, bisexual, lesbian gay transgender asexual college conference. So a handful, but meble tech is just a student conference, queer based conference that we take some of our students to so again if this is something that you're interested in it's open to undergrads and graduate students, and it's an opportunity to even present like we help students kind of put together a proposal if they want to present, which is really cool. And it just helps them with their professional development while you in school and it's, it's paid for so that's like the best part. So we, you know, on our website, we have like a really comprehensive list and kind of navigation of like where's our gender inclusive bathrooms on campus and, you know, where can you go to, you know, find support and stuff like that so we have that connecting students with other offices of course, and in academic scholarships and project grants which I talked a little bit about but we, if you have an idea for an event. Come tell us fill out the application for it. We, you know, we have a certain amount put aside for students to run their own events. So that's the project grants and then advocacy culture change.  Excuse me, our graduate research specialist recently conducted focus groups for our QT BIPOC student population in efforts to increase the support for our black and brown queer students so I think we got probably like 30 plus students or something like that involved in these focus groups but we got a lot of feedback with, you know, how our center can improve and like, you know, kind of what they feel in our spaces and, you know, how can we support them better right. And so this was specifically with undergrads and our next step is to do this with our QT BIPOC graduate students. So be on the lookout for that you know if you want to help us and be a, you know, a co researcher in that and provide us you know some information on like how you feel how you perceive the spectrum center and like what can we do and like what would make you come into the space and like I said, we're, we're, you know, we're not stagnant like we're always trying to try to improve so we need your help with that so. So yeah, so we advocate for students in that sense. A lot of our departments and organization. We reach out to us for best best practices and consultation guidance and you know event planning stuff like that so we do provide consultation, and then just, you know, serving as content experts on LGBTQI to us plus identities, you know, and I say this with like a sense of speaking from our own experiences and, and you know kind of our own identities like we don't speak for the entire community because one is too big is too, you know, yeah we can't speak on everybody but you know we're authentic and sharing that about ourselves so that's for advocacy and culture change and in other ways to just kind of engage with us. You can apply for academic scholarship. You can apply for the project based grant like which I said so come on with the ideas. We do have access to essential needs so like our food pantry like I said, partner with Mason Blues cover. We did, I think annually we do a cooking demonstration. So we do a cooking demo which is cool. We do it over and Mason Blues cover because they have this like full on like kitchen thing and you know you can see the, the chef going to town but like everything that they cook is in the oven and so, which is cool is like it's not we're not doing anything fancy or anything like that like it's all stuff you can get right here. And then we have the pre made pre made grocery bags as well. And programming board I talked a little bit about that so you can join that. You can also join our students staff team. We have graduate students that work with us we have graduate specialists for the education team that I talked about and then the support services and wellness which is cool. So, yeah, let's see, where we at, where we at. I think we write on kind of on time so this is right on time. I know right with no room for questions but yeah so this is our contact information. Our website y'all we just saw our communication specialist just revamped our whole website it is beautiful and I'm not just like I'm a little biased but it's really it's we made it in a sense that it's improved for like navigation, it's easy it's like user friendly, we tried to make as less clicks as possible like okay if you're looking for this, just give it to me right there and that's it so check out our website is what I'm trying to say it's beautiful. Or you can stay in contact with us on social media if that should if that should get to. So, yeah. Does anyone have any quick questions I know that will be putting Angie's contact information in the chat so that you can reach out directly. No. Okay y'all so I want to thank you for your time here today, Angie for your time, your expertise and your knowledge that you share and to our audience for being here with us with your cameras off or on your cameras on with us today I am I know that in the zoom land that that's a big ask and so I'm grateful for y'all to be present with us here today. Thank you.


Rath of the Lich King beta is finally here. I initially quit at the beginning of Rath, I came back at the very end and didn't get invited to anything because I had no achievements and I had no friends that were still playing. So I wanted to go and especially since we're in the middle of Boomer month, I think one of the most iconic things about Rath of the Lich King is them, is Blizzard, is wow, adding Death Knights as a hero class and doing that intro quest chain kind of telling you about how Death Knights are in the game now, whatever, and I think it's actually a good fit for Boomer month and it's Rath beta. People are excited for Rath and to be honest with you, even me, like I played a little bit of Rath beta, I did actually have more fun just playing Rath than I remember having. It felt mechanically a little bit worse, maybe it's just because I'm so like tuned to playing Burning Crusade at this point. Regardless, Rath is probably going to come out, I'm assuming sometime in October-ish. We're going to take that into Rath and it's going to be awesome. Playing on benediction now instead of Feralina. But yeah, it's going to be fantastic. There it is, dude. The Lich King. Okay. Clovers, put your clothes on. Frick, claim for free beta keys. Chat, there's no beta keys. I got mine. No, you didn't. Chat, who got a key? Nobody got a key. Stop lying, unbelievable. A blemish upon these playgrounds, they all must be shown the price of their defiance. You will become my force of retribution. Where you tread, doom will follow. Go now and claim your destiny, death knight. Okay, cool. We're looking good, chat. Things are looking good, things are looking good. Dude, it's crazy, like, so when this happened, back in the day, when Rath the Lich King initially came out, this thing was so unbelievably hyped up, like Rath the Lich King, Paladins, Death Knights. Like this was kind of like the culmination. The entire story of Warcraft that people thought about with Arthas and Uther and the Paladins, especially like going into Warcraft 3, Burning Crusade touched on it with Illidan and Kael'thas and Lady Vosh and that whole thing. We saw Kill Jaden too in Sunwell. But really in Rath, it was like, that's the climax. With Arthas and everything else and the Lich King, and there's references to it in Vanilla Wound, there's references to it in Burning Crusade, but it wasn't until Rath that it was like the focal point of the expansion and adding Death Knights in that was like insane. This was crazy. Instructor Rezuvious. This is something else that's cool, right? So if you did Naxx Rammus originally, these are all the guys, these are the bosses in Vanilla Naxx.  So the RP behind it is legit. Once bound, take the sword to a nearby rune forge and use it to create a rune blade. Okay, battle war and sword. Wait, the Death Knights of Arcarus. The heck? Name Jade, status alive, comment, bloodthirsty. Sixon, alive, chatty. Munch, alive, destructive. Cobalt, deceased. Fell to his death, not much upstairs, probably saved him a lifetime of suffering. Harmony, deceased. The name of this death knight was found in violation of common scourge decent to see struck down by the Lynch King. Melt, status alive, martyr. Wait, what? Status alive, comment, needs more cowbell. Is that a, is that random or does it just put your name in there? I've never, I never actually remember reading this book. I just randomly saw it. That is funny. Somebody else should go check this and see if it says your name. Forge is the battle worn sword into a rune blade if sword must be used near forge. So you're going through the entire RP of like becoming a death knight. The training is cool. Rune bladed sword, back to Resuvius. The rune blade is an extension of your being. A death knight cannot battle without a rune blade. You have successfully created your first rune bladed weapon. With it you will sew the seeds of chaos and destruction. And in your wake will be a blooded field of battle littered with the corpses of all that would dare oppose the scourge. The mark of war is etched indelibly upon your soul, death knight.  Preparations for battle must be made. Return to one of the rune forges here in the heart of Arcarus. Return to me when your blade glows with dark energy. Okay, so I have two runes to choose from. Rune of cinderglazer. A fixy rune weapon with a rune that has a chance to increase damage by 20% for the next two attacks that deal frost damage and or shadow damage. Modifying your rune weapon requires a rune forge and rune of razor ice. A fix is your weapon with a rune that causes 2% extra weapon damage to frost damage and increases enemies' vulnerability to frost attacks. I think this one sounds more fun. I agree. So we're gonna take our blade and we're gonna take our rune soul blade here. Cool. Dude, a blue weapon. Sick. Remember these words, death knight. The rune forge is a scourge instrument. It exists only in Arcarus, Naxranus, and the heart of Icecrown. You may only emblaze your weapon at a rune forge. Return often and emblaze all your weapons. A death knight must be prepared for all who would dare oppose him. The endless hunger will soon take hold of you, death knight. When it does, you will feel pain immeasurable. There is only one remedy for the suffering. The hunger must be sated and I give you the key to your salvation. Changed to the heart of Arcarus are those deemed unworthy of the Dark Brotherhood. Use the key to free an unworthy initiate and allow them to equip their gear and battle you for their freedom. Fail and suffer for eternity. Live or die, the choice is yours to make. Unworthy initiate dominated. Who do we want to dominate? I will win my freedom and leave this cursed place. It ends here! Oh damn, okay. So, boom.  Oh, this guy's owned. This is over, GG. Damn! Okay. Even the mighty Max Rammus could withstand a direct assault from the Ebon Hold. Looming above the face of the Necropolis is the ill-seeing Eye of Arcarus. From it, the Master is able to see great distances into the territories held by our enemies. What the Eye sees, the Lich King sees. And now the time has come for you to peer through the Eye. The Lich King has called for you, martyr. Go now and suffer well, brother. Report to the Lich King and Ebon Hold. All right. I thought it was voice acted. Hey. Ah, the time to smell the blood of our enemies approaches. You must first learn what it is that you seek to destroy before rushing headlong into battle. It is what separates a death knight from a mindless ghoul. I will grant you sight beyond sight to my champion. Towering above this platform is the Eye of Arcarus. From it, you will call for the probe that you will then use to analyze the Scarlet Crusade fortifications at New Avalon. The Eye has a host of powers that should make the acquisition of this data quite simple. Use the Eye Siphon to analyze the Forge, the Town Hall, Hold, and the Chapel. The Eye's control mechanisms are located on either side of the platform. Waste no time, martyr. The Sturge will have this place. The Lich King commands it. Cool. That was that noise. Death comes from on high. The Eye of Arcarus launches towards its destination. Siphon summons ghouls on Scarlet Crusade. Shroud. Shrouds the Arcarus from sight. Okay, so we want to analyze everything. The New Avalon Forge, New Avalon Town Hall, Scarlet Hold, and then Chapel of the Crimson Flame. This feels like sacrilege. I'm going to be honest. As a paladin, going through and doing this, it's just pure sacrilege, yeah. Pure sacrilege. They prepare for battle, as expected, but there is something else. I sense an old enemy. An enemy that I destroyed long ago. It matters not. We will send the full might of the Sturge against them before they have a chance to evacuate their homes and in place their defenses. Listen well, Death Knight. For I give to you the words that will start a war. My final judgment has been passed. Death to all. Death to all. Take my judgment to High Lord Mokraine at the command post of Arcarus. Found on the first floor. Tell him to begin the assault. And when the Crusade has been dealt with, we will finish off the Archedon. Oh frick. That's scary.  I loved every second of it, dude. Especially back then, like I didn't do vanilla knacks, right? Everything about like knacks and the Ashbringer, all that stuff was cool. So throughout the course of this question, they're going to give you like gear, because you start out with like initiate gear, which is like greens, and they give you like a set of like blue gear.  True. Dude, I remember coming here and seeing Baron Rivendair right next to Darien Mokraine, and I was like, oh there's the corrupted Ashbringer noises. I thought this was the coolest thing. So this is Mokraine's son. I thought this was the coolest thing, dude. So good, dude. So good. The horns of war will soon echo across this land, waiting the dead and calling forth the Scourge woman. Calling forth the Scourge war machine. Well, one of those that would stand in our way. You and your brethren will lead the charge, Martyr. When next I look upon the scarred lands, my sight will be obscured by the legions of Arkeras. The march upon new Avalon begins now. Sick. Valgras started? Scourge commander Thalador awaits your arrival at the overhang, located directly southeast of our current position. Report to Thalador and Rook position the Scourge griffin to deliver your death's breach. Prince Valanar will be waiting for you down below. Suffer well, brother. Cool. Okay, so finally for the first time we get the step outside. Prince Valanar. Do you smell it? Fresh meat. The scent of Scarlet Crusader wafts through the air. Apologies, death knight. I'm sure you're not interested in my choice of fine cuisine.  Yes, I know. The Lich King has told me all that I need to know about you, Martyr. The time for bloodshed is now. They make their stand now, outside of death's breach.  Push us back in hopes of saving their horses. Mine's lumber and citizens. This will be your first lesson in the Scourge warfare.  Leave their corpses so that we may utilize them for the death launch. But most importantly, kill the fleeing villagers. Soldiers dying are in affordance. But villagers, that is what will stretch fear into the hearts of man. A quest. Pepe run, quest time. So I have to do five duels. But I don't think we have five people to do duels with. They have NPCs to do, I remember this quest. Death knight initiate.  You don't stand a chance, Martyr. The duel will begin in three, two, one. Get over here. Huh? I guess if you death grip them too far away, then you go out of range of the duel. Here come the tears. Dude, are you serious?  Okay, horse successfully stolen. So we gotta steal a horse. But we steal it from, we steal it from the Scarlet Crusade. And then we also need 15 Sauronite arrows. If chaos drives, let's suffer and hold the reins. Oh, there's the arrows. Citizen of Havenshire. So they're just, they're shooting arrows from up top and just taking these guys out. And so, wait for it. We just have to go pick up the arrows. Wait, this guy's just killing, this guy's just killing the citizens.  Oh, my bad. I was like, wait, this guy's just murdering people. Classic TVZ Rids almost all have optimized man support with wisdom, constant B up, shadow priests and every raid. Yeah, like it's, it's much less of an issue. Specifically, honestly, what it really was an issue for back then was, uh, was rep paladins, right?  They're paladins who've fallen to the scourge or whatever, you know? Was this the case before where I could take a little tiny horse?   Deliver stolen horse. Um, where do I deliver this? Now for the true test. Can you show mastery over an unbound charger and brutally overtake the thing that you desire the most? The horse you stole has been taken to the realm of shadows. It is there that my dark rider will slay the beast and raise it as a death charger. Do you think yourself brave enough to enter the realm of shadows in pursuit of the death charger? If you accept, I will transport you to the shadow world. Once they have, seek out a dark rider in the open field south. Dark rider in the open field south of us while I walk away. Sound of the horseman at death's breach has challenged you to slay the dark rider of Alcarus and take his Alcarus death charger. Sick. You know what's funny? I forgot about this. I forgot that they have like the realm of shadows. Wait, what? What? Okay, this quest is definitely a little bit bugged. This other guy just randomly like said come strike me down and then he just jumped off and left his horse. So now I've got two horses. Return to the death chariot of death's breach and call forth Salon the horseman. Okay, let's head back. You have served us well death knight. Few of your brethren have survived your initial attack upon the scarlet interlopers. You remain as one of the strongest. East of us past the Havenshire mine is the coast called Lightspoint by the Scarlet Crusade. A thousand soldiers stand between us and their ships. Insurmountable? It's hardly the point. In their haste, the crusade will make one fatal error. You are to return to Havenshire mine east of here and locate the mine car that my minions have planted near the outhouse. Climb inside the mine car and the Scarlet miner will unwittingly see to it that you are placed safely behind enemy lines. Once aboard one of their ships, use the cannons against them. Slaughter them all. Call the scourge griffin from the cannon when you are ready to return. Scarlet of inner slave. With a sleigh a hundred scarlet defenders. Okay. Ah, inconspicuous mine car. Oh, where'd this come from? I better get this down to the ships before the foremen sees it. Job's done. My work. Oh, frick. Chat, we're behind enemy lines. Scarlet cannon. Yes. Chat, we have to slay them all. 48, 57, 58, 64, 81, 83, 99. Wait, what?  The entire Scarlet fleet wiped out in a matter of minutes. I will receive a commendation from the Lich King for this. All the remains of the Scarlet Crusade now are denizens of new Avalon. I'll set the Firestarters and Necromancers upon Havenshire immediately. You will carry my report to the High Lord. I have made sure to include your heroics in the report. Mograine will undoubtedly reward you greatly for this victory, martyr. Go now. Fallen Power and Abandoned Light embraces that of the Lich King champion. True. The entire Scarlet fleet? I have not seen such a display of domination in years since my father wielded it. It's not important. Yes, no commendation. Lest I forget. Sick. It is the will of the Lich King that drives us onward, martyr. None are more aware of this than the Death Knights. Our very existence is intrinsically tied to his consciousness. Surely, love heard him speak to you. You are to return to Death's Breach and report to Prince Valinar. The Lich King commands it. Engraved Sirenite Pants play the Sirenite Brace it so I'm starting to get some gear. Okay, let's go back down to return to Prince Valinar. Haven Shire's Ars. A thousand corpses litter the ground, patiently awaiting rebirth. We strike now at our enemy with the awakened strength of the Scourge. The ghouls have already begun their assault upon new Avalon and our forces have moved in behind them and taken the crypt of remembrance. The attacks upon the gates of the last Scarlet Bastion have begun. Our ghouls are wearing the Crusade's front lines. Down while we labor to fortify our new forward base, the crypt of remembrance. Venture south to the crypt, which borders new Avalon and report to my dear, dear brother, Prince Keleseth. He will be expecting. Prepare yourself, martyr, for you are about to witness the next stage of Scourge warfare. Right now, Death Knight. I don't remember the quest having voiceovers. Yeah, they added it for Wrath Classic. How do you get into beta? There's an opt-in. They're going to keep, apparently, put out another wave today. Nothing less than total annihilation will suffer, martyr, or suffice, martyr. To that end, a few hundred-mile mindless ghouls assaulting the front gate of new Avalon will not do. We must infiltrate the Yere Sanctum and dispose of their officials. They must be shown that no one can escape the Scourge's grasp. Make your way to the new Avalon Town Hall, southwest of here, and assassinate the mayor. Search the building for the new Avalon Registry and bring it to me. We need to find more citizens of new Avalon. Wait, I probably shouldn't do this. Okay, so I'm just gonna get rezed. Okay. So we killed Mayor Quimby, and then now we get the new Avalon Registry. Wait, how are you here? Okay. Uh, latitude, longitude. Ah, yes, two degrees. Ah, what? This is impossible. They sail to Northrend? Beside the coordinates of the words, crimson dawn. Hmm. This quest makes your brake speed runs. Wait, really? You know what's funny? So I wrote a post on the forums halfway through burning, er, no, no, no, was this halfway through burning crusade? I think it was. Dude, I was a forum poster in high school. I was like a 15-year-old forum poster, and I would always post about things that I think would be good for them to add to the game. It was like a big massive hammer that falls from the sky, and like after a certain amount of time does big damage, I was like, that'd be sick if they added that.  It ended up being Deathquip, Deathquip, Deathquip. They ended up adding that for, wait, I'll tell you everything, stop please.  The light speaks to the High General. It is the light, the light that guides us. This movement was set in stone emotion before you came. We just do as we told. It's what must be done. I know very little else. The High General chooses who may go and who must stay behind. There's nothing, you must believe me, lies. The pain you're about to endure will be talked about for years to come. No, please. There's one more thing that I forgot to mention, a courier comes soon from Hearth Glen. It, I remember whenever I did this back in the day, this wasn't bad either. So I quit, I quit at the beginning of the wrath, came back at the end of wrath, quit again, came back whenever Cataclysm launched. When I came back, I saw execution sentence and I was like, what the hell? This is exactly what I was thinking.  This was a horrible idea. I was like, man, that's crazy. I had the same idea.  Never mind. In awakening, what nonsense do you speak, boy? What kind of fool will deliver their people into the very heart of the frozen wastes? Perhaps, though, this courier holds the answer. They have set up a base of operations at the Scarlet Tavern located at the southern end of New Avalon. The tavern is tucked away behind, is tucked away behind the two origins adjacent to the chapel of the Crimson Flame. You ought to make your way to the tavern and report to Orba's Blambane. He will update you on their situation. I haven't done that starting quest being so good. It is really fun, Malin. The only thing is I feel like there's not as much combat as I thought there was. I don't kill as many things. We are the chosen ones, Martyr. Death Knights of the Scourge sent to sew the seeds of the Master's Destruction. Looks like we'll let anyone into the dark order these days. When I was given a gift, things were different. Much different. As to this courier, we haven't got a damned clue about when or where this courier is supposed to show up. None of these humans had to answer either. Inside Scarlet Hold, they keep a schedule of all patrol routes. I want you to break into the hold and steal the schedule. The hold is the largest building in New Avalon, northeast of here. Okay, Scarlet Hold and then uh... Okay, so Scarlet Hold. I do like how they how they tied Tear's Hand from the Eastern Plague Lands into this. Like there was this, like hypothetically there was this area that the Scarlet Crusade just had inhabited this whole time behind Tear's Hand. Is this Scarlet Hold? Why are you killing the good guys? Because I'm a bad guy. Uh... New Avalon patrol schedule? Easy clap. Thank you. Hmm. You were foolish coming after me. I failed. I should have been left for dead. Now two of us might be killed. We are Death Knights of the Scourge. This flies in the face of the Dark Brotherhood's Covenants.  The alarms have been sounded. The High Inquisitor and his acolytes will be here soon. I'm too badly injured to be of much use, but I'll do what I can to help. Slay the High Inquisitor and his cronies. Tear off his head and return it to the Sarion. Vengeance will soothe his savage soul. One more thing, martyr. If you do manage to survive and make it back to the Sarion, tell him that they're executing prisoners at the chapel. Perhaps he'll send you there to play the hero once more. This quest is 100% gonna be a problem if there's multiple people doing this quest at the same time. Dude, you can't even loot anything. Here, if we have this... Oh, your diseases, are you? Valorant's head. You need to get out of here at once. Go before more of them show up. I'll be fine on my own. Cool. All right, really. Okay, Warplate and Gloves next. See, I'm starting to get, like, the full suit. The Sarion. Quick. I'll feed this monster's head to the ghouls. The Sar... The Sarion tosses it back into the back. Toss me what? No, toss... The Sarion tosses it back. Did Koutaro make it out? I'm certain he did. Those walls can't hold him. Time for some payback. The cry for vengeance must be heard. Commander Bledfist and a company of death knights are on their way to raise the Chapel of the Crimson Flame. If there are any death knights imprisoned at the Chapel, Bledfist will get them out. You can still catch up to them if you hurry. The Chapel is due west of here. Tear the hold apart. The schedule is here.   Wait a minute. What's this? It looks like the Western patrol route. Coming out of Western Greatlands. This patrol will path through here today. I'm going to return to plan. We are farmers. Dude, I need to go like train. I haven't talked to a trainer yet. Chapel of the Crimson Flame. Is that it? Is this it? This has to be it. Have you played a death knight before? Not really. I did this quest chain like years and years and years ago, but I never really played a death knight. You gonna make a DK alt for wrath? I don't know. I've always been a one character type of guy. Maybe in wrath is different. I have an idea. We got here, tore the place apart, and headed toward the prison house. We weren't expecting what we found in there, mother. Seems the crusade has been real busy. That whole thing is full of Argentine prisoners. Most of them were already dead by the time we arrived, but a few were still breathing. I was about to go in there and execute the rest of them, but I think you should have the honors. In particular, there's a real feisty human in there that I think you'll take great pleasure. I said, I think you'll take great pleasure in executing. Ellen Stanbridge, Iggy Darktusk, Gobi Blastenheimer. Yes, Mina Okenthorn. Come to finish the job, have you? Martyr? Martyr, I'd recognize that face anywhere. You don't remember me, do you? Blasted scourge. They've tried to drain you of everything that made you a righteous force of reckoning. Every lance ounce of good and the text going too vast? Think, Martyr, think back. Try and remember the hills and the valleys of Elwyn where you were born. Remember the splendor of life, brother. You were a champion of the Alliance once. This isn't you. Listen to me, Martyr. You must fight against the Lich King's control. He's a monster that wants you to see this world. Our world, in ruin, don't let him to use you to accomplish his goals. You're once a hero and can be again.  There's no more time for me. I'm done for. Finish me off, Martyr.  Remember Elwyn, this world is worth saving. Do it, Martyr. Put me out of my misery. I feel good. Wait, hold on.   I want to see if it bugs it out because I feel like they should make it to where you should not be able to do that. Dude, the way they turned at me was so funny. Another scourge victory. These scarlet dogs have nowhere left to run and hide. It's only a matter of time now. While you are out burning churches and murdering Thurman, I've been busy formulating a plan. The Scarlet Courtyard is scheduled to pass by the Scarlet Overlook within the hour. The roads by the Everlook, by the Overlook, are wide open, swarming with crusaders. Use this makeshift cover to hide the Overlook and wait for the Scarlet Courtyard to pass. When he's close enough, strike with all your fury. Cut him down and take his belongings, including his clothes. The Overlook is 200 paces east of here. Scarlet Courtyard's belongings in the message. Okay, so we have to make a makeshift cover. 200 paces east. Frick, that's not east, that's west. Scarlet Overlook, makeshift cover. What the- Wait, did he just spawn on top of me? He spawned right on top of the fake tree. As soon as I put it down, pretty sure there's supposed to be some kind of R.P. Just to walk up to the tree? Yeah, I don't know, maybe it was like I just put it in the exact wrong spot or something to make it do that. I don't know. A maze of earth glen and terraced voles will be marching into a massacre. Now for the second part of the plan. You're going to deliver this message right into the hands of High General Abendis. That's what the close are for. This message of must reach Abendis. I do not want to draw their suspicion. They must continue under the assumption that everything is going as they planned. You will don the Scarlet Courtyard's clothes and help with the- When with the help of some dark magic, take on the form of the courier. Abendis is at the King's Harbor, southeast of the Scarlet Everlook. Drop off the message and get as much information out of her as you can. She will tell us what we need to know about the Crimson Dawn. Wait, what? Even my horse has- Okay.  Okay, Scarlet Champions. Ah, yes. Hello, Bishop Street and High Abend Landgren. How are you, gentlemen doing? Oh, Mrs. Abendis. Where have you been? You're two hours late. We were about to send a courier out to the High Commander. The armies of earth glen and terraced vol must not reach new Avalon. The Scourge will slaughter them all. Listen well, Courier. The Scarlet Lands are lost. New Avalon and Havenshire are overrun by Scourge. The Spectre of Death looms overhead and threatens to overtake us at any moment. Return to Galvar with this message. Turn your armies around and prepare your ships for travel to the frozen Wastes. When next we meet, it'll be in Northrend. Give this to Galvar. The Scarlet Crusade is no more. Long live the Scarlet Onslaught. Yes, ma'am. I will definitely do this. Thank you for the message. Why don't you Abendis nuts? Thank you. What rubbish! This is the Crescendon? They sailed to their deaths. Let us turn our focus to the encroaching armies. We must prepare for the encroaching armies, Mordor. You will take what you have discovered to High Lord Mowgrain at once. I will open a portal directly to Akeris. Step inside and it will transport you. Give High Lord Mowgrain a pen as his journal as well. Perhaps he'll find it useful. Make haste, Mordor. Use the portal. You're on back. The life we have before is meaningless. You did what? You have become an instrument of doom, Death Knight. We will ravage these approaching armies and raise the Dennis alone. The armies of Herthglund and Tirisfal have arrived. As we speak, they prepare to make one final stand. The Lich King awaits your return, Champion. He stands watch below us at Death's Breach. Seek out the Lich King at Death's Breach. And let him know where to put it. There he is. You have reaped death and destruction for as far as the eye can see and delivered to me the last of the Scarlet armies. You have slaughtered legions beyond number and still your dark heart craves more. Your hunger knows no end, Mordor. Before your king. The Scarlet armies make their final stand against us. For them, there is no escape. For this reason, they will fight with a ferocity that you have yet to witness. Use this horn to call forth one of my words. Climb upon its back and command it into battle. With it, you will end the Scarlet Crusade. Yes, my king. Wait, what am I shooting at? I'm shooting the wrong guys. Yeah! Dude, how far is the aggro range on these guys? I think I ran into the whole town and there, look. Is there something wrong with the logic here? Something? Dude, something? This doesn't feel right. Yeah, look, dude. This thing was, these things were following me forever. Wait, achievement earned? Wait, this guy's elite? Wait, what? What? These guys were still aggroing me from forever ago? What the? What? I'm getting camped as stream snipers, dude. I swear. Help. Hey, hey, ghoul. Help, help, help. Hey, hey, hey, hey, help. Why are they, dude? They're aggroing me from halfway across the planet. Neil, champion, and then speak.  Any that dare look upon your dark countenance will know that death comes. Let none stand so boldly against your king's source to face your merciless wrath, mother. There remains only one final task. The scorned enclave is no more. What remains of the crusade will be dealt with in Norwen, survivors. We now turn all of our efforts to light Hope Chapel. No longer will this affront to your master be allowed to exist. No northwest through the cave, into the Noxious Grave, and take the path leading out of the Glaive. Glade to the middle. Do not fail me, martyr. Sure thing, dude. I'm gonna go get my things turned in. I'm gonna go get my talents and stuff. The High Lord and other death knights are preparing to strike. The Argenton stands defiantly against us at Light's Hope Chapel. They dare oppose the Scourge, and for that reason alone, they must be destroyed. When you are ready for battle, report to High Lord Deryon Mograine. It is the High Lord who will issue the final march orders and command our armies at Light's Hope Chapel. Okay? Chatty, you comfy? So I wait right here? Frick, I didn't know it was not a timer like this, otherwise I would have rushed it instead of gotten my skills. Oh, here we go. Flesh behemoth? Is it time? Oh, it's time. Kul Tira death weaver? Orbad blood mane? Theserion and High Lord Deryon Mograine. Chat, it's almost time. I'm ready, High Lord. Let the siege of Light's Hope begin. Oh, here we go. Frick, here we go.  Man, I'm doing tons of dips. Forces of the Light remaining. So I'm trying to decide, like, I feel like... So what they do here is they're just giving... They basically make you just super strong. Dude, this feels so wrong. I'm killing my Paladin brothers. Oh, there he is. Paladin's dead. Bring them before the chapel. Wait, Theserion is kneeling? Wait, why is... Hey, Rez. I did this once on retail.  That's so funny. What the... Come on, man. Dude, this is... I love this, actually. This is so sick. I wish to join you in the war against the undead. I want to fight. I can sit idle no longer. I love this, dude. Darian Morgrain. You are barely of age to hold a sword, let alone battle the undead hordes of Lord of God.  I could not bear losing you. Even the thought... There. Stop! Come on! Please. Okay. No! What the game? What? I have to go. The Lich King. No! No, no, no, no, no. Come on. Dude, I need to get the credit for the quest.  Morgrain's becoming... He's coming back. He gives Therian Forgery the Ashbringer. The Ashbringer is cleansed. Not over. The Ashbringer has been cleansed, chat. There it is, dude. So that is how the Death Knights join the normal people of Azeroth. They turn their back on the Lich King, Morgrain's son's Death Knights. There will be no atonement for us, Marker. We are forever damned to walk the earth as monsters. While the Lich King may have loosed his grip upon us, the specters of our past will forever hunt our memories. We must make amends in the only way we know how. I ask you now to join me. Our Karris is a knight of the Heaven Blade. Together we will destroy the Lich King and end the Scourge. Damn, look at that sword. Yeah, sword, 100%. The Lich King has returned to Northmen, wounded by the Ashbringer, but the second floor still holds the last of his armies. Use the teleporter to get to the second floor and destroy the Scourge forces that remain. Do not engage Patchwork alone. You must fight the monstrosity with other Death Knights about Karris. Go, Martyr. You have my strength to carry you. Yeah, it's a Juggernaut. It's a Juggernaut. Hey, Patchwork.  No more play, no more play. Oh, God. Oh, God. How's that? I was jogging. Aw, frick. Sick. So, this is like one of the first times in a while where they just make you like ridiculous and strong. Right? Like they're like, oh, man, you're this epic thing. Is that right? One of the first times? Well done, Death Knight. The remaining Scourge will be dealt with in short order. The rebuilding process will begin anew. I have but one last task for you. This order must establish allies for itself if it is to survive, and you must represent the Knights of the Ebon Blade to the Alliance. On the platform southeast of me is the portal to Stormwind City. Take this letter. Give it to me on your behalf by Lord Forgering and deliver it to King Varian Wren using the portal. All right. I'm friendly. Hello. I'm a friendly guy. What? Get a rope? Oh, nice. I gotta talk to the king. Anybody here where the king is? Hello, gentlemen. I'm looking for the king. Okay, thank you. You have mere moments to live. Indeed, old friend. Blood and honor. Were it not for this letter from Tyrion, you would have been a stain upon my floor. Only an endorsement from one of the greatest paladins to ever live could have ensured your survival. We will work together against the Scourge and against the Lich King. Glory to the Alliance. People of Stormwind, citizens of the Alliance, your king speaks. Today marks the first of many defeats for the Scourge. Death Knights once in service of the Lich King have broken free of his grasp and formed a new alliance against his tyranny. You will welcome these former heroes of the Alliance and treat them with a respect that you would give to any ally of Stormwind. Glory to the Alliance. I beg. I King, you better have a good-ass day. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, keep the tomatoes to yourself.  Yeah, hey. Right back at you, buddy. Yeah. What? I did that. Wait, what? Did I always do that? Did I? Did I always do that? What did I do? Oh, all right, dude. Well, there it is. That is the intro question for being a death knight in a Rathalich King beta. We saw some bugs that's a pretty incredible question. It's really, really fun. It's really good. I think it explains how the death knight come to be a part of the rest of the world like really, really well. And yeah, I'm well 58 now and then basically you're set up to go straight into Outland and then level in Outland and then go to Northrend. 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In recent decades the nature of conflict has become more urban and more complex. By 2030 about two-thirds of the world's population is expected to live in cities and as the human population has urbanized so has warfare. Conflict is increasingly urbanized and new technologies are also playing a role. Cyber opens up a whole list of options that are not available through other normal kinetic means. You can access systems and capabilities through cyber technology that you can't get in other ways. So as you think about the future battlefield, cyber operations are absolutely going to play a key role in that. If an attacker wants to take the power away from a military facility in order to shut down their command and control, that power generation may also serve critical infrastructure, may also serve any number of civilian population requirements. It's a military objective and if the proportionality analysis is done it may be that an attacker would deem that as a legitimate attack and the civilians of course would pay a heavy price for that, losing their own power, losing power to hospitals, to factories, to whatever else that power plant might serve. And that's particularly true in built-up areas because of course the concentration of civilians means that those infrastructure are much more prevalent, much more required and that the civilian population rely relies on them much more often. Some of the nano-enhanced weapons that could be used in the future are very closely linked to our understanding of the brain and human biology, much of our function in the human body occurs at the nanoscale. So whether it's modifying human functions, particular organs or particular cells, or even down to being able to remotely control emotions, so there's a lot of work in brain science, identifying specific brain cells that have specific effects, so causing increased aggression, removing emotion, if you think of these in a sinister way you can imagine how a military might want to instrumentalise these abilities. The reality is that these materials will most likely be used in an urban context and it's really important that those existing laws which may not have foreseen that urban context are complied with. I would say the importance of complying with them is even greater given the density of population and the potential impacts, particularly when you think about the merging technologies, not just the nanomaterials on their own. Human enhancement refers to the practice of using some kind of biomedical interventions, whether it is some drug or some device, some implanted wearable device for example, to make the human body perform better than well. So medical practitioners might be called upon to actually administer human enhancements. That creates something of a professional ethical dilemma for them in terms of what is their humanitarian role in an armed conflict, but also a legal problem if military medical practitioners who are ordinarily protected by international law actually engage in acts that can be seen as improving the military capacity of one side of the conflict, should they still be protected as a matter of the law of armed conflict. It's quite common to look at new military technologies as simply creating problems and the question is how do we prevent them from being misused, but new technologies and new developments in science also have particular benefits. In an urban context, autonomous weapons help in that soldiers often get deeply involved in the heat of battle and therefore make unethical or illegal decisions whereas a robot not being human doesn't suffer from the same level of emotion or any emotion in fact. Another benefit of autonomous weapon systems would be having them evacuate injured personnel or civilians or possibly even provide cover for civilians trying to seek shelter. Well although cyber operations raise a lot of concerns with respect to war in cities, they also present a lot of opportunities as well. For example, you can use cyber means to more correctly identify where the civilians might be. You can use cyber means to warn civilians of attacks in certain areas or to help direct them to areas of safety. The use of these, of cyber technologies and other new technologies really present a defender with lots of options of ways to protect the civilian population and with an attacker of lots of ways to be more discriminating in their attacks. So cyber is not, it's both sides of the coin. It's not just bad and not just opening more risks to civilians but it also if used properly presents a lot of ways that we can help protect civilians and make war in cities much more sterile with respect to the impact on the civilian population.


in patrol we can never guarantee what's going to happen or what's going to play out. We're out here looking for fights. We're out here to prevent it. How's it going today? Hi, Luanda White, DC Gardening, age 22. We're out today conducting a foot patrol, getting to hold our community, making sure the streets are clean. We're 100% volunteer non-profit organization where we come out and volunteer our time from our busy lives to do this. This has been a group that's been together since 1979, 33 years. Have a good day, fellas. I'm always hearing great stories of what the Guarding Angel's done for the community. Is he rolling up weed? Out there we experienced a lot of crime as in pickpocking, fights, this drunk intoxication. As I trained as a Guarding Angel, we're taught to de-escalate situations. Oh no, we don't look for anybody. We just out here doing safety patrol. We conduct safety. As you know, there's a lot of activity in this area, so that's why we're here. So when we see anything, we're allowed to make citizen arrests. We don't carry weapons, but we are trained in martial arts, self-defense, and we also have partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department. So in the next five years, I see myself in the Police Department as a police officer. The only difference between now and then is I'll have on a police outfit. How's it going, fellas? I'll still have my leadership and my responsibility, and I will still be for the community keeping the crime out the community and patrolling the community as I do now as a Guarding Angel. We're in the communities that wear high crime and anything's going on. I want to make my family proud and show them that I have the courage what it takes to stand up and defeat crime in our community.


An offense you also believes underrated is this Jacksonville Jaguars team why do you believe a rookie quarterback is going to lead the way for Jacksonville yeah so Jacksonville my goodness they come in here with the rookie quarterback coming off of a season where they only one one game and Ryan how can you tell this offense well there they've invested in the offense we got urban Meyer coming at the helm here he's got a whole new regime to go off of they've invested their first. First round pick the first overall pick in a quarterback who many believe will be a generational talent and you're looking at the weapons around him and I still think they can succeed and the main thing about Jacksonville is this AFC south that they plan this division is absolutely going to be fantasy gold for anybody that's going against them all of these defenses outside of the Colts I feel like we'll struggle in Houston, Tennessee as well. There to and so when we're looking at this Jacksonville team I think they're going to be playing from behind in a lot of games now, you know from a football standpoint, we don't like the Jacksonville Jaguars I mean if you want to bet the under on wins I'm totally for that but from a fantasy standpoint we're looking at a guy like DJ chart by the down year last year was wide receiver 40 in that range. Before that in 2019 he had been a wide receiver to a top 24 wide receiver I think Trevor Lawrence definitely helps us with that and you're looking at the talent and explosive weapons that they have around them they drafted ETN in the backfield to go along with James Robinson Levisco Chanel is still there I think he's going to be explosive in low a dot form so you're looking at ETN and Levisco Chanel who are going, you know, I think ETN you're going to have to draft maybe in the fifth or six, six round, but Levisco you can get him later on these guys are going to be explosive weapons even if you want to draft Trevor Lawrence as a as your QB to on your roster maybe a QB three depending on where you're drafting. I think they can definitely pay off dividends when you're looking at James Robinson he was an RB seven last year I think he's still going to be well within well within a range that you could feel comfortable with having him as your RB two and then with the playoff schedule and things of that nature like I said they're going to get Houston they're going to get Tennessee both of those teams twice they're playing Cincinnati they're playing Atlanta they're playing Seattle all defenses that really struggled to contain the past and contain fantasy point so that's why I like the Jacksonville Jaguars outlook in 2021. You'd have to think the Jaguars can really only go up from where they were last year fifth least total yards average per game of just over 326 yards average per game for that Jacksonville Jaguars


HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by Tony Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. This fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by Caliban Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by David Bruno Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by David Bruno Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by Diana Meilinger in October 2009 Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintless with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by David Lawrence Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintless with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by Ernst Patinama Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintless with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times, Was seen a gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Red for LibriVox.org by Ellie Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Read for LibriVox.org by Elvira Shar Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. HISTORY OF A LIFE by Barry Cornwall Read for LibriVox.org by Iswa in Belgium in October 2009. Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. A curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox by Ken Sterry. Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Kim Stish. Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett. Day dawned, within a curtain room, Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean. Years fled, he wore a manly face, And struggled in the world's rough race, And won at last a lofty place. And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Rhonda Fetterman. Day dawned, within a curtain room Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean.  And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Ruth Golding. Day dawned, within a curtain room Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean.  And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Raven Notation. Day dawned, within a curtain room Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean.  And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. History of a Life by Barry Cornwall. Read for LibriVox.org by Secrets. Day dawned, within a curtain room Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean.  And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Day dawned, within a curtain room Filled to faintness with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed, a child had seen the light, But for the lady fair and bright, She rested in undreaming night. Spring rose, the lady's grave was green, And near it often times was seen, A gentle boy with thoughtful mean.  And then he died, behold before ye, Humanities' poor sum and story, Life, death, and all that is of glory. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.