STUPID dreams...

Oh, this one was a riot.

I was dreaming I was my WoW Shaman. I was seeing the game world as he does, in full 3D, with all the things I as the player see in the game as well -- things like quest markers, chat channels and their associated inanity, etc.

I got this quest to visit a high-powered shaman in a remote area of the world. I went there, fighting my way through a gauntlet of monsters. This shammy guru wanted me to hand in my four elemental keystone totems. These totems are prerequisites for casting just about all of my spells (A WoW shaman is an elementally - aligned warrior / mage who can lay down totemic spells aligned to the elements, like a Fire totem that tosses a fireball, Earth totems that grant strength or resistance to damage, Water totems that heal / restore mana / remove poison, and Air totems that absorb magic or grant agility . . .)

OK, why hand in my totes? Apparently this quest was for a future game patch that released itself as WoW itself became sentient with delusions of godhood. The game was playing ME.

"This is fscking STUPD!" -- I disconnected and logged back in. Same idiocy.

I hit my hearthstone -- basically a teleport back to a home location I set that every class gets at 1st level -- Fizzle. "Ability requires Totem of Recall." Attacking this Level 73 Elite clown was out of the question. I laid down a totem just to see what would happen: "Ability requires Idol of Ascendancy."

OK, time to tell the GMs what's up. GM avatar shows up, slapped the guru down and told me that this patch got installed on my server as a joke.

"This is STUPID!" -- alarm clock