Showing posts with label WoW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WoW. Show all posts

Saturday, December 10, 2011

why the boys love me

so i was on WoW just a few minuets ago.   one of my friends came on, who happens to be a guy, and the following ensued:

me: poke

him: bg?

me: i'm sucking like hard core at pvp right now lol

me: i'm having problems focusing today

him: lol all good

him: we've all been there

me: i tried to take a shower to wake me up, but my shower failed me and ran out of hot water when i was only halfway done shaving my legs

him: O.O

him: omfg that would suck

me: yeah and i had shampoo in my hair

him: bet your nipples could cut glass

me: they can do that anyway if i have the right jewelry in

him: lmao!  true

me: i feel like this convo should be posted somewhere

him: XD

him: same

me: that's it, it's going on my blog

pretty sure this is why all the boys love me.  rather than get offended by shit that's not worth getting offended over in my opinion, i just go with it and make it funny.  oh and also because the jewelry line is a totally true statement.  just put some diamond cutting tips on my spikes and i'll be good to go. 

for the non-WoW readers, bg= battle ground and pvp=player vs player

Monday, October 24, 2011

more on the way

what up all you non-blizzcon going people?  miss me while i was out having an awesome time?  yeah, i know you did.  but rest assured, i'm back bitches!  with amazing stories and fascinating pictures.  well, at least they are to me, and since it's my blog, that's all that matters.  short recap: i got in the costume contests, didn't place but had a lot of fun.  used the stage name "camma" if you want to see it.  the new expansion is not going to be that bad, so stop freaking out.  the monk is actually fun.  blizzard most definitely loves WoW players more than any other group of gamers because we get way more cool stuff when, like diablo 3 for free.  the foo fighters put on the best show that i have ever seen.  and my costume was beyond kick ass looking.  don't believe me?  see for yourself:


sooooo happy with how it looked.  and that is like my new favorite pic.  more awesomeness is on the way, but it's going to take me a bit to sort it all out and such, so just hang tight.  trust me, it's worth it. 

Saturday, October 15, 2011

becoming tyrande

to anyone who came here because of reddit:  yes i am aware of the mean image that sent you here.  i really don't need to be reminded of it in the comments on my own blog.  please be kind enough to keep hurtful comments to yourself.  it's bad enough that there is already a thread on your own website about it, i don't need that here on mine.

i haven't update you all on my costume in a little while, so i'm fixing that today.  i have all of my make up and prosthetics now, and i'm probably eighty five percent done with the dress.  when i got the dress, it was a spaghetti strap with an open chest.  i converted it to a halter tops, and used this see through like fabric to cover the neck and chest.  as for my overall transformation, here's a step-by-step of the process i need to go through.  the whole thing takes a little over an hour to finish.

so here's me, all make up free and such and still looking like a normal person.  when ever you are doing any kind of stage make up, start with a clean face.


in case you are wondering why it takes me an hour to get ready, remember i'm doing full body paint.  oh and all this stuff, is just for my face.


first i'm using scar wax to cover my eyebrows.  after that has dried, like really, really dried, use your normal foundation to blend it in.  don't put the foundation on before it sets or it will smudge all weird.


now comes the body paint.  my scar wax and both shades of paint are by ben nye.  the shade i'm using all over is amethyst, and is a powder that can be applied either wet or dry.  i applied it dry with a make up sponge.  the face markings are from the fx line and the color is grey purple.  it's a cream that i applied with an eye shadow brush.


next comes the contacts.  ideally, it is better to put contacts in before any make up is applied, but considering i can't see as well with them in and i kinda want me face makings even, i just (carefully) put them in after.  for my lips i used the same paint as i did for the markings. 


now is when i would put my wig cap on, but i couldn't find it so i'm temporarily making due without one.  because of how my ears attach, i'm putting those on before my wig.  also note that i have my hair pinned up so it lays flat under the wig. 


next comes the dress.  before i put that on, i sprayed a sealant over the body paint to minimize paint transfer onto my dress.  i'm putting this on before my wig also, since it's a halter top and easier to tie up and attach the neck piece without long blue hair in the way. 


finally, i put my wig on.  after the wig is positioned where i want it, i apply my fake eyelashes and my eyebrows.  i'm putting these one after the wig so the hairs don't snag on them while i'm adjusting it.  oh and i'm using hair extension feathers for my eyebrows, attached with a little spirit gum.


and that's how i'm becoming tyrande whisperwind.  i'm still going to be adding a few extra details, like a moon circlet, and some extras to the dress, but at least now you're caught up on my progress.  feel free to contact me if you want any tips for your own costumes.  aside from blizzcon, halloween is just around the corner :)


Friday, September 9, 2011

wtf was i thinking

so for who-the-hell-knows why, i decided to level up my archeology skill in WoW tonight.  all it is is the nerd version of the little kid game "hot or cold."  i'm going to go ahead and blame this on the fact that i've been nauseous like all fucking week and i've been having headaches that make me feel almost dizzy today.  because honestly, that is the only logical way i can explain why i'm doing this.  it's like the worst skill to level up.  EVER.  it's even worse than fishing.  while fishing in WoW is boring as hell, at least i can stand in one spot to do it, and don't have to fly all over the fucking map to work on it.  seriously, only three digs per site?  and i don't even get skill points for digging up parts anymore, i have to actually build the whole damn object.  which means for a piece of shit trash item that i'm just going to vendor off, i have to go to a minimum of like five different dig sites to get enough pieces to build it.  for a rarer (wow that word looks weird) item, i'm going to have to go to at least sixteen fucking dig sites.  and i'm not exaggerating, i did the math.  usually on opposite ends of the map, sometimes in an entirely different continent.  all to get some damn wind chimes, where the only thing they do is make a little tingly sound.  i swear if it wasn't for the badass raptor mount, this would be the stupidest profession ever.  and i already have that, so why the fuck am i doing this?  if i /wrist later tonight, you all know why.  



Friday, August 26, 2011

why the phrase "i just bought my eyes" is not weird for me

so it's that time of year again.  now you might ask, what time is that?  it's blizzcon costume time!  which means lots of geeking out for me, but also lots of costume tips and updates for you.  so far i have my wig, which i got on sale for $5, and my ears which cost about $15 after shipping.  and yes, i did buy them this year and not make them.  part of that was because i had time to buy them this year.  also i spent about the same amount making them last year, so i figured i would save myself the hassle.   and today i bought my eyes.  well, sort of.  i bought white out contacts.  i'm a little worried because they are shipping from out of the country, but i got them at a good enough price where i won't be totally fucked over if i need to buy different ones.  i also picked out what kind of body paint i'm going to use.  thanks again to costume capers for being awesome.  i went in today to buy a $2 wig cap, and the lady gave me a whole demo on body paint types and applications even though she knew i wasn't buying it today.  so now i have something to look forward to next month.

now imagine me with purple skin and white eyes aww yeah

oh and i sorta have my dress picked out.  there are a few wedding dresses that i'm watching on ebay that would be pretty perfect for what i need.  basically i wouldn't have to do a lot of altering, just some embellishing.  part of me kinda feels bad, because i'm pretty sure i'm bidding against women who actually want to get married in these dresses and not turn them into a convention costume.  and then the other part of me is like fuck it, i want to win the damn costume contest.

Monday, May 23, 2011

prelude

anyone know what tomorrow is?  if you don't know, you're not a WoW nerd.  good for you.  but unless you are extremely new to this blog, it's pretty common knowledge that i am one.  just look back and see how many fucking posts i have about WoW.  in fact, i'm actually trying to be queen of the WoW nerds.  still can't figure out what tomorrow is?  sucks for you then, because i'm not telling.  until then, enjoy what is probably my favorite parody video ever.  and yes, i do know all the words.  and yes, i do sing this while i'm in the shower, at work, or dancing around in my undies while my cat looks at me all terrified.  don't judge me.





honestly, i had no idea how many wow post i had done before i wrote that sentence.  it just worked out really well that way that i had more than enough to cover every word.

Monday, April 25, 2011

it's been a while...

somehow, i just don't look as scary with bunny ears
... since i've gone and fucked things up, the way i always do.  it's been a while... damn it now that song is stuck in my head.  but for reals now, it's been a while since i've done a WoW post.  so guess what's going to change.  it's an ab (arathi basin) weekend, which just so happens to be my favorite battle ground.  which makes me happy in ways that it probably shouldn't.  this is the only battle ground that i truly enjoy, and that fact the i get bonus points for doing it is just awesome.  so yeah, lots of killing of things going on right now.  and it also happens to be the noble garden celebration right now.  which is pretty much the WoW way of having easter themed events without being sued.  anywho, there is this wonderful little achievement called "shake your bunny maker."  in order to earn said achievement, you must take what is basically an easter basket and throw it at one female from each race in the game.  this results in a pair of bunny ears appearing on that particular female.  and believe it or not, i can tie these two things together.  you see, finding willing females of the opposite faction can be a little on the difficult side, considering most of them want to kill you dead.  and even if they themselves don't want to kill you, the guards in their towns most certainly do.  but there is a bit of a way around this.  since as a hunter, i tend to fight things from afar, i don't have much use for a melee weapon other than a boost to my stats.  this allows to me keep my little easter basket in my hands when i go to wage battle.  why would i do this you ask?  one, it looks adorable.  two, when some undead bitch thinks she is going to get all up in my business and kill me, i can laugh, throw bunny ears at her, and then shoot her in the face.  so i now get credit for both the bunny ears and her untimely death.  overall, i'd say that's pretty win/win for me.  

p.s. hi corzair.  surprised i'm a girl? 


Thursday, February 10, 2011

omg i felt so n00b

at least i look bad ass
so i've been mildly WoW zombie again.  i finally got geared enough to do heroics*.  last night i ran three of them with some guys i know in game.  all i have to say is thank God they ran blackrock caverns and throne of tides with me before we got to the vortex pinnacle.  i had never done any of those before.  taking that into consideration, i think i did pretty well in the first two.  the times i died weren't really because of anything i did wrong.  my dps** wasn't too bad considering my gear.  and the guys i was grouped with weren't trying to come up with excuses to kick me out.  i was starting to get a false sense of confidence.  and then we did the vertex pinnacle.  honestly, i'm surprised they are still speaking with me after that.  i did ok on the first two bosses.***  i died, but it's debatable if i caused it or not.  and aside from missing the teleport to the next level, i didn't do anything too n00bish**** and then we got to the final boss.  first i died because i took a wrong step and was stuck down by a lightning bolt and killed instantly.  i didn't feel too bad yet because i wasn't the only one in the party who did that.  one of the guys in the group resurrected me, and we tried again.  sadly, the same thing happened again.  but this time i died on the wrong side of the boss and i was too far away for anyone to be able to resurrect me with getting themselves killed in the process.  so i had to release my ghost to the graveyard, and this is where i started looking really n00b.  because i had never done this dungeon before, i had no idea where the fuck the entrance to it was.  one of the guys was trying to type out to me how to find it, but it just was't happening.  i literally was running around as a ghost for over five minutes because i was lost as all hell and couldn't not find the damn front door.  the druid in the group is one of the guys who i knew, so he was being cool about it and said he would just battle resurrect me once they started fighting.  only problem with this is that when he did, the boss decided to call down another lightning storm, so as soon as i was alive again, i got hit by another fucking lightning bolt.  the death knight in the group tried to turn me into a reanimated zombie (for lack of a better term) but i clicked the wrong button and instead of fighting the boss i blew up my corpse.  so now i was dead again.  for the fourth time on the same boss due to me being a n00b about it.  that has never happen to me before.  i have honestly never failed that hard in all six years of playing this game.  i think a little part of my gamer soul died last night.  thank God  i'm a girl or i would never be able to talk them into doing heroics with me again.

*clarification for non gamers: heroics = high level dungeons that usually drop better armor and weapons and/or give you points that you can use to buy better armor and weapons.  it's a bit of a repetitive cycle.  you do normal dungeons to get gear to do heroic dungeons.  you do heroic  dungeons to get gear to to raid dungeons.  you do raid dungeons to show off how big you epenis is to random people on line who you have never met, and probably never will.

** dps = damage per second.  the higher your dps number, the better you are doing.

*** boss = bad guy in the dungeon that you loot the good gear from when you kill them

**** n00b = a really inexperienced and/or really bad player who doesn't know what the fuck they are doing.  you don't want to be called this ever.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

what i've become

so as alex pointed out, it's been a few days since i made any new posts.  sadly, there is a reason for this.  remember how there was a bit of foreshadowing in my last post?  well, it happened.  i have become a bit of a WoW zombie this week.   when i uploaded that pic of my new toon, she was level 18.  she is now level 40 and has some pretty kick ass gear because i've been doing a ton of random dungeons.  i also pvp like crazy.  so yeah, had a slight lapse into the dark zone that the friends and family of WoW players fear.  the zone where real life social skills are replaced by the ability to carry out a conversation in vent, guild chat and whisper, all while being #1 dps in your dungeon group.*  the place where there only reason you make yourself go to work is so that you can pay your next subscription fee.  the place where you start to question how important things like sleep and hygiene are because they cut into your play time.  but don't fear my friends and random internet peoples.  i have seen the light.  i promise to be less zombie like this upcoming week.  i have plans to write out a few posts this weekend, and they won't all be gamer related.  oh, and as a slight aside here, if you see alex, remember to be nice to him.  he holds weird grudges and plots out revenge like no other person i know.


*there is a slight upside to this for me.  remember the post about being a female gamer?  yeah, that one again.  well i have about three guys who i lovingly refer to as my "minions" who i can get to do pretty much anything i want.  yeah.  i'm that good.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

rain, rain, go away

so i really hate the rain.  it has a tendency to turn me into an extreme hermit in the winter because most of this things i like to do (other than WoW) require things like sunlight and dry ground.  especially riding.  even if it's not raining tomorrow, i still can't ride because the arena needs about a day to dry out.  and even though my horse is blanketed, he will still have rolled, caking mud all over his face and neck, probably his legs, and there's a good chance of mud in the tail as well.  at least i like to believe it's all mud.  anyway, whatever it is, it will take me at least 30 minutes to get it off of him.  and by that time i'm too worn out from grooming to be able to ride anyway.  and i will probably need to hose off his blanket because i'm sure it's just as gross as him.  le sigh.

so getting back on track now.  since i have been stuck inside my apartment due to weather, i decided that in place of doing something useful like vacuuming or washing the dishes, i would play WoW all day.  and since the shattering already happened, there is something in game now that i have been wanting ever since i started playing.  the once class/race combo that has taken blizzard 6 years to give us.  probably the reason you will all start missing me in real life, and i will start to develop muscle problems from being in a computer chair for so long.  what might this be, you ask?  only the most amazing combo ever.  it's........


THE HUMAN HUNTER!!!!!!!
my particular hunter is named camma, after the welsh goddess of the hunt.  and with new beasts as a part of the new zones in the expansion, i have a hound dog as my pet.  and just for good measure, i added my cute little white kitten companion pet to the screen shot.  and in case anyone is wonder, i'm standing in front of the newly redone stormwind keep.  now, if you will kindly excuse me, i have forgotten the entire reason for this post and can only think about that fact that i'm 2 bars from leveling.  i'll try really hard to write a non WoW post tomorrow, but no promises. 

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

and you thought i was over this stuff

so the shattering happened yesterday in WoW.  pretty much changed the whole of azeroth as we know it.  which reminded me, i have more pics from blizzcon that were never discussed here.  so, since i figure those will be easier to describe to non-gamers than the shattering is, here we go.

this round: the blizzcon models

so these girl are employed by blizzard to walk around, wear cool costumes, and take lots of pictures with nerdy guys.  here are some of the few that i, a mere female gamer trying to muscle my way through a crowd of male gamers who were trying really hard to keep it in their pants, was able to capture.


the only thing these girls had going for them was that they were hot.  honestly, if i had hired them, i would have been pissed.  they had no presence about them.  they looked like they were bored and didn't want to be there.  they didn't pose for pictures, they just stood there.  if they hadn't been half naked, i'm pretty sure they would have disappointed a lot of the guys there.  and the girl on the right kept covering up the only thing she had going for her.





now this girl was awesome.  she's sarah kerrigan from starcraft, but in her human form.  she was way better than the above two.  you could tell she was having a ton of fun.  if she saw you trying to take a picture, she would make sure to look at you and pose.  and she was doing all of this in front of the "sarah-karrigan-as-the-queen-of-blades" statue, so it was really appropriate.





this last girl is the new playable class in the upcoming (maybe, if they ever put out a release date) diablo III.  she is the deamon hunter.  she had on really cool costume contacts, which you can kind of see here.  they were using her to do interview for the direct tv cover of the convention, so it was hard to get a good picture of her since she was being followed everywhere by a cameraman and a boom operator, not to mention having people in front of her that she was interviewing.  so sorry for the crappy pic, but she really looked amazing.  and she dual wields crossbows.








so those were the only good pictures i got of blizzcon models.  i have some more pictures of the art that was there, but i don't want to overload the non gamers that read this, so i think i'll hold off on those until next week.  and to all my readers in the states, have a happy turkey day tomorrow!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

omg i joined a guild

so the other alex will be proud of me.  i finally joined a guild in WoW.  i've been in guilds before, but it's probably been about a year since the last one i was in fell apart.  i never bothered to find a new one because i mostly do solo play anyway.  considering there are about 11 million people who play WoW, and that i never group because i had no interest in raiding, the other alex said i was an anomaly.  i play one of the most social games out there, and he said i do so in the most unsocial of ways.  but that changed this week.  wanting to trying something different, i made an alt.  to earn gold, i was signing guild charters for money, then leaving as soon as the guild was formed.  a lot of people do this on their alts, and it's a fast way to make some gold.  but anyway, i signed one charter and the name didn't suck (trust me, there are a lot of them that do).  so i figured i would stick it out for a bit and see where it goes.  and i'm actually talking with the other guild members, and not just sitting there silently observing, like i tended to do in the past.  and i do have plans to actually try raiding with this toon.  so we'll see how it goes.  and the guild leader is a guy in his twenties.  maybe i should warn him. 

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

epic loot


the loot

guess what?  another post about blizzcon!  this time about the swag. i was going to try and write about something unrelated to blizzcon so that the non gamers could have something to enjoy, but i got writer's block when i tried that.  and since it's my blog, y'all just have to deal with it. (yes, i know that was redneck.  whatever)  anyway, i'm going to talk about the blizzcon goodie bag, the stuff i bought, and how this caused me to totally rearrange my apartment.

deathy
first off, the swag bag that every one gets when you pick up your badge.  the less exciting items included some coupons for different vendors at the convention, and a trial version of starcraft II.  since i don't play and have no intention of starting, just let me know if you want this and i'll see what i can do.  now for the things that peaked my interest: deathy and dethling.  deathy is the in-game pet murloc made to look like deathwing from cataclysm.  if you want to make a super pissed off dragon look adorable, this is the way to do it.  also, i'm a pretty avid vanity pet collector in-game, so this is right up my ally.  dethling, on the other hand, is a tangible item.   he's a miniature version of deathwing.  and this may just be because i'm a little weird, but i think he's adorable as well.  he's hand cast in polystone, hand painted, and only available to people who attended blizzcon this year.  and he is awesome.  he is currently guarding my jewelry boxes.  nothing is going to steal my fake precious gemstones and crazy cool earrings while he's on watch.  the one thing that worries me is the cat.
dethling
while he may look menacing, he's defenseless against her and her stupid need to try and eat everything that i don't want her to.  and considering that he will never be available for retail sale, i wouldn't have an easy time replacing him.  she tried to chew on one of his wings last night when i was moving things around, and i swear she almost lost one of her nine lives over it.


official shirt
which brings me to the part about rearranging my apartment.  part of it was because i wanted dethling to be on a taller bookshelf so that said cat couldn't eat him.  but the bigger part was because i needed somewhere to hang my blizzcon poster.  i decided that it would look really awesome over my bed, with my convention pass hanging next to it.  and it really does.  only problem was that there was already stuff hanging above my bed.  no problem, i'll just move it to the other side of the room.  well, there's a picture there.  ok, i'll just move it to the kitchen and move the white board over a little.  well now the bookshelf at the top of the stairs is blocking the pictures there, so i'll move it next to my desk.  now it looks really blank in that spot.  i'll put the bookshelf from downstairs there since it's shorter.  and i'll move all my breyer horses there since it will match the pictures on the wall behind it.  well now all the black and white pictures on the wall going up the stairs don't match all the color at the top of the stairs, so i'll switch them with the color prints in the living room.  and the egypt picture doesn't match the black and white ones, so it can go upstairs.  and since i moved the bookshelf from downstairs to upstairs, i need to pull out the folding bookshelf again so i have something to put movies and you know, books, on to.  so yeah, one poster caused a whole night of moving things.  but it was totally worth it.  i also got the official t-shirt, but it was slightly easier to find a place to put that.

Monday, October 25, 2010

blizzcon, the costume edition

so as promised, i have my costume and dance contest post.  the dance contest might be something else i enter next time.  you pretty much need to emulate the dance of one of the races in game.  the winner did the dwarf male dance.  this guy did not look like he was going to be able to bust this out at all.  you can see the video below.  during the contest, one guy did injure his leg.  he was doing the undead male dance, and landed weird from a jump.  it looked like he rolled his ankle.  the host said the leg was broken (not too sure since he could still move it some) and blizzcon workers needed to carry him off stage.



the costume contest was really cool, with some amazing costumes that you will sadly need to look up here (select the costume contest gallery) because the main hall was far too dark for me to get any good pictures, and we had to sit so far back that we had to watch most of it on the big screens.  i was lucky enough to get pictures of some of the contestants on the convention floor, but seeing as how some of them could hardly walk in their costumes, not all of them were on the main floor.  at least i have a better idea of what i need to pull off next year if i want to enter the contest.  better start working on it now. sadly not all the pictures i took were the best quality.  below are some of the better pictures that i was able to take, as well as a little explanation about them.  also, i am not including any of the blizzard models in the post.  i'll show them in a later post, but i want to showcase the non pros first.

these are witch doctors from diablo.  from a distance i thought they were trolls, but could tell they were something else once i got closer.  both are in full body paint.
 the grayish one is a spirit healer from WoW.  when you die in game, you go to a graveyard.  you have the option of running back to your body, or asking the spirit healer to resurrect you, which brings you to life instantly but cause damage to your armor and temporarily lowers your stats.  the person next to her is a blood elf warlock in the dreadmist armor set.
 this is a female version of illidan.  illidan is a big, bad, pissed off demon and is the main bad guy in the WoW expansion "the burning crusade."  along with his legion of demons, he pretty much wants everyone dead.
 the girl on the left is lady sylvanas windrunner.  she is the leader of the forsaken (or undead).  she used to be a high elf, was killed by the lich king, broke free from his control, refound her body, and came back in this form.  the girl on the right is jaina proudmoore, leader of the human city of theramore isle.  when we were walking by these girls, brian's remark was "it doesn't get much better than this."
 i saw her while i was in line for the blizzard store.  she's a really cute version of a succubus.  she's much more colorful and girly than the in game version, but she also paid a lot of attention to details.  i couldn't get a picture that included her feet because of where i was, but she had made shoe covers that looked like hooves and her legs were painted as well.
 the other alex tells me that this girl is a female version of a ghost from starcraft.  as he put it "not a scary ghost, that's just a class you can play."  she was being very patient with the guy who was taking pictures of her at the same time.  i think he took about 5 different shots and got really close to her face.  she was nice about it and just kept posing.
 this is a night elf druid.  i wish that a still picture could have captured her shoulder armor better.  it had working lights and everything to make it look like the in game armor.
 a tauren in casual clothing.  another cute costume, but i don't think it was intentional this time.  not sure if this was a guy or a girl, but s/he just reminded me of a giant stuffed animal that you just really want to hug.
 this costume is hilarious to anyone who plays WoW.  she is a mage.  mages have a spell called polymorph, but players just refer to it as sheeping someone, because that's basically what the spell does.  it's considered a crowd control spell, since who ever you turn into a sheep can't do anything for 30 seconds, giving you time to kill something else, or run away.  she introduced her sheep as her pet troll.
 warrior in one of the armor sets.  i don't remember which tier they said it was.  the helmet had glowing lights on it.  the shoulders were really big, and a guy had to walk out in front of him to make sure there was room for him to get by.
 pandaren monk.  melanie says it looks like kung fu panda.  pretty much the same concept, except that this one brews alcohol.
 the girl in front is a troll shaman.  behind her is the thunder bluff (one of the capitol cities in WoW) version of a mail box.
 i'm pretty sure that this guy is a priest.  there's an off chance he's a mage, but i'm like 90% sure he's a priest.
 blood elf paladin.  i almost knocked over a display stand trying to get to her to take a picture.  the book she's holding lights up as well.
 another blood elf paladin, but with awesome eyes.  i wish i had noticed them sooner so i could have asked her what kind of contacts she used for it.  i really wanted the same effect for my eyes, but in blue.
 there are a few different things that this guy could be, so i'm not 100 % on this, but i think he's a warrior.  either way, he had an awesome costume.  the entire thing was made out of leather.
 the only couple that i saw dressed up together.  they're both night elves, you just can't see his ears from this angle.  and speaking of couples, i saw three marriage proposals this weekend.  one was during the actual costume contest up on stage, the other two happened on the frozen throne photo op, one on friday, one on saturday.  i'm pretty sure that if i had a guy propose to me while at blizzcon, my inner geek wouldn't be able to contain herself.
 moonkin.  kinda hard to explain this one if you don't play.  the short version is that certain druids can learn an ability that allows them to take this form.  the green orb she was holding also lit up.
 two female trolls.  these girls were adorable.  they were really nice and posed with a ton of the guys there who kept asking for pics.  they would also do a cute little dance if you were taking video.  they had really cool eyes as well.
 female orc.  this costume made me laugh also.  it's kind of hard to tell, but she's holding a fishing pole.  she has a severed arm attached to her bag.  this is because one of the quests in game asks you to find the fish that ate this guys' arm.
 simple version of a rogue, but i love how into his character he was.
 the other alex also told me that this is the male version of the ghost class from starcraft.  this guy was super patient with me.  my camera was messing up and it took me a while to get the picture, but he just posed until i got it working again.
 the girl on the left was the winner of the costume contest.  she's a female monk from diablo.  there was a lot of leather on her costume, and it was all hand tooled.  the girl on the right is a blood elf mage.
 blood elf death night.  pretty much the milf version of my costume.  this lady was really nice, and was talking to me for a while after the picture.  she said it took her about a year to finish her costume.
 i know this is from starcraft, and the other alex told me what is was, but i can't remember.  all i know is that it looked really cool, and the guy could barley see because of his awesome mask.
 kind of a more earthy, natural version of a night elf.  sort of reminded me of an elf version of pocahontas.  as you can see by the look on the guy's face behind here, this is why guys love conventions.
 i sadly have no idea what this girl is.  neither does the other alex.  because of that, we conclude that she must be from diablo.  but her costume was just too pretty to not post.