March, 23, 2004

“How did Thermaplugg wipe out 80% of the Gnomes?Bad city design”

If the Gnomes had built their city above ground, Thermaplugg couldn’t have used the underground ventilation system to poison the Gnomes.

But did they? NO!

This is what I call the “Gnome Problem”, I ask a Gnome for a fire, they give me a flame thrower…I ask them to boil the kettle, they plug in a Nuclear reactor.

They are too busy over-engineering a problem that they soon cause more damage than they were trying to fix in the first place.

With Gnome refugees flooding into Ironforge like a tidal wave, we have to ask ourselves…will Ironforge become Gnomeregan 2.0?

Will the “Gnome Problem” soon become “Our Problem”?

Already the Gnomes have busied themselves with making “Improvements” and “Slight alterations” to the city of Ironforge…but now Ladies and Gentlemen, please look below and tell me what is wrong with this picture?

Now, I am an open-minded individual, but HOLY MOLY IS THAT A BOMB!??

Why have the Gnomes built a BOMB in Ironforge? Have we been such terrible hosts?

And this is the crux of the argument, I am part of a growing number of voices who are concerned, to say the least, that our Great city is becoming some absurd Gnomish laboratory!

There is a reason why Ironforge is a stone fortress, to protect us from invaders, but we’ll all be damned if some Gnomish gadget explodes causing the ceiling to collapse in on us!

NEVER I say!

Apart from blowing us up, or irradiating us, or whatever other fate awaits us at the hands of these intelligent folk, there is a more evident matter to consider.

Notice how Tinkertown is filled with Gnomish Tinkers?

Where are the Dwarf Tinkers?

The Gnomes took our Jobs!

The Dwarven District in Stormwind is filled with Dwarven tradesmen because they have been driven out by our small friends.

Excuse me if I appear insensitive, however last time I checked, Ironforge is a DWARVEN city!

And yet the Dwarves are not welcome in their own homes!

King Magni must re-evaluate which people are his priority or soon it shall be Mekkatorque who sits on the Throne of Ironforge!

Now let us make it clear, I have no quarrel with the Gnomes, and I greatly respect their contributions to our society…and I have on many occasions helped Gnome refugees; hiring them to fix my stove and so on.

However, I am a proud Dwarf Patriot who volunteered in the Mountaineers to protect our lands from whatever Dark Iron or Trogg menace.

Dwarven lands are not in the disorganized state that the Human lands are, where Defias bandits run freely in Elwynn and Westfall, while the Orcs own half of Redridge.

Nor are the Dwarves as impotent as the Elves, who spend more time worshiping trees than protecting Ashenvale from the Horde.

And yet for all our strength, we seem ever so eager to allow others to waltz into our city, and turn it into their own.

I do not want Dwarven children to one day be irradiated by some Gnomish Mistake!

I will finish this article by saying this: No matter what problem the Elves, Gnomes, or Humans face, the Dwarves will uphold our Alliance.

Yet we should not be expected to fix everyone else’s problems for them!

Ironforge First!