(Happy Birthday to the) Dust Devils - 4 whole years of action adventure!

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Oh, before I forget-!

As of tomorrow (or as of right now, depending if it’s the 6th of June yet in your timezone!), it’ll be 30 years of yours truly - and 3 years of the Dust Devils! It’s not quite the loving wife and kids my parents wanted me to have by 30, but it’s certainly something to call a legacy!

Happy birthday us: honestly, I didn’t even think we’d make it 3 minutes!

I’d like to thank everyone, signed up Dust Devil or otherwise, who’s been along with us for any of our wild rides across Azeroth since our founding way back in 2019: we couldn’t have saved the world without you, gamers!

Here’s to another 1095 days of action adventure, and to defeating another 1095 female forsaken supervillains!

Justice Forever!

(I say all this, only to realise I’m posting on Sckrink, who’s currently filling the IC role of a Loyalist Deathtrooper. Why am I celebrating the Dust Devil’s birthday? I hate you guys, you keep foiling my plans for world domination. I hope the only thing you get for your birthday is fleas).

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Congrats on the three years guys, you and your members always give us such a laugh when we bump into each other. Looking forward to another year!

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ATTENTION FILTHY MASSES OF ORGRIMMAR: We interrupt your regularly scheduled propaganda broadcast with this urgent news bulletin!
The notorious ner-do-wells known as the Dust Devils, along with the rest of their misplaced posse, have escaped the site of their public execution, and scurried into the streets of our great city!
These pestilent leeches are to be considered a menace and a burden on society - and if spotted, are to be shot on sight!
ALL HAIL THE DARK LADY!

THE DUST DEVILS - DEFEATED!

THE FUTURE - NIGHTMARISH!

THE LOYALISTS - SUPREME!

All the Dust Devils efforts to secure the invaluable fate stones before they fell into the clutches of evil proved in vain - for while our heroes dashed from one corner of Azeroth to the next in search of these mysterious trinkets, so the dastardly Banshee Loyalists of the Hillsbrad 13th simply cheated their way to victory!

Securing just one fate stone for themselves, rather than the six they’d need to alter the flow of time; the 13th constructed a titanic, smoke belching Fate-Bending machine to amplify the power of their faste stone a thousand, thousand fold - then instantly altered the flow of fate to have Kaitylinn killed, and her allies badly wounded during their long ago battle with the 13ths Supreme Leader!

With the Dust Devils down; and the Supreme Leader returned to life once more - so the flow of fate and time shuddered violently; shunting off into a rapidly expanding pocket dimension where the Loyalists were in complete control of the planet!

Waking up in chains inside the 13ths version of Orgrimmar - now a dictatorial police state! - the remaining Dust Devils realise they have just a hours to find and destroy the Fate-Bending machine, before the changes made to history become permanent, and the ‘normal’ timeline is swallowed and destroyed by this hellish alternative for good!

AND SO!

After a long and desperate battle through the streets of this downtrodden Orgrimmar (soon to be renamed “New Sylvania” by the Supreme Leader’s goons…), escaping public execution and finding refuge in the home of a humble mushroom seller, the Dust Devils finally overcame the many obstacles in their way - and found themselves right in front of the mountainous Fate-Bending machine!

https://i.imgur.com/U0dzelG.jpg

As they desperately raced to shut it down, so the resurrected Supreme Leader gave chase - only at the last possible moment, when the Fate Bending machine was just SECONDS away from merging the timelines, did the Dust Devils FINALLY manage to liberate the fate stone from within, causing the foul metal colossus to overload and collapse!

With the Loyalists dystopian dream collapsing around them, their new world cracking apart at the seams of its reality, and their Supreme Leader yet again erased - our heroes used the fate stone one last time to transport themselves back into the normal timeline - waking up, in a messy heap, in the Loyalist free Cleft of Shadows!

Thus ends the Dust Devils official 3rd year anniversary event- with an old enemy defeated once more, and the world saved yet again!

And bless you friend! We do our best to please - the sentiment is very much returned! Here’s to another 365 days at least! :smiley:

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tell me of this artifact

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Based Kump strikes again!

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Well first it’s called the “Fate stone”, but it’s too late to edit the spelling mistake now so I’ll just have to live with my shame!

Basically, it’s a plot MacGuffin for a campaign I’ve been running with my guild! A series of ancient stone relics, carved like circles with a small square cut in the middle, able to be worn around a necklace that, when enough are collected, can be used to alter the fate of the wearer somehow. Perhaps they erase a certain embarrassing moment of their lives, or take up an opportunity they missed in the past* - that sort of thing!

When you get enough of them together, the string you put through them will basically become the ‘thread’ of your fate- which alters depending on how you pull the string, if that makes sense!

(*Or they do what my badguys did and use them to take over the world. Because of course they’d do that)

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THE DUST DEVILS GONE BAD!
From launching devastating assaults on the free world, to building dastardly doomsday devices of their very own - have our heroes finally given up the fight for the forces of good, and turned to the dark side?!
And without the Dust Devils to fight the good fight on the frontlines of JUSTICE, will anyone be able to stand against the encroaching tide of EVIL?!
You’ll just have to find out -

Right now!

Not to worry gamers, the Dust Devils haven’t given up their do-gooder day job; far from it!

Instead, I’ve been running a bit of a side project here and there, where we roll villainous alts, and RP as the badguys for an event!

Thus far, we’ve only done some basic training within the ranks of our sinister Loyalist faction, but sooner or later we’ll go onto fully fledged assaults on freedom - so if it’s a taste of unlimited power you’re after, nows the time to join, as once on the second Tuesday of every month, we’ll be ditching our main characters, and playing some contemptable class trials!

Don’t worry though, the rest of the time we’ll be on our usual routine of saving the world - especially so in a months time, where we head off for our FIRST EVER full-scale sandbox campaign! :smiley:

There’s still plenty of events, both fighting for good AND evil to go between now and then, so be sure to tag along if you’re up for it!

In the meantime, please enjoy this LIVE footage of the Dust Devils villain RP experience!

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Though the REAL reason you should come join us is we are the coolest, most attractive people on AD :sunglasses:

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A push up for great people

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Bless you gamer! <3

We can only try our best, and we’re always glad when we seem to (somehow?!) succeed! :’ )

And speaking of (somehow?!) succeeding (sort of!), did the average forum dweller know?!:

  • That the Dust Devils and their allies have just saved the whole of Azeroth from being brainwashed by the mind control waves of an evil wild god, in our first ever server wide multifaction campaign?!

  • That even though the campaign had its fare share of technical hiccups (the fault for all of which lies entirely with me <3), I’m still really proud of what the DM team who volunteered to help out managed to pull off, and am eternally grateful for everyone who attended?!

  • And that plans are already underway for our SECOND sever wide campaign, taking in mind all the feedback I recieved from the first one, in order to make it bigger and better than ever before?!

That’s right gamers; even as the remains of the beastie below float slowly to the surface of the sea, its purple goop munching masters scattered to the four winds, something evil stirs in a hidden laboratory nestled in the swamps towards the south…

BUT; that’s not for another year yet, and there’s PLENTY of badguys between us and then still need a beatdown! Who can say for sure what the rest of our rogue’s gallery have been up to while we’ve been fixated on defeating the Joy Division and their diabolical demigod, but I bet it’ll keep us busier than ever for the next 12 months!

Want to come along and find out what we’re up against?!

I’m always happy to take anyone on adventure, signed up to the guild or not - you’ll probably hear me in Orgrimmar well before you see me, so pop along if you like, we’d be more than happy to have you along for the ride!

In the meantime, why not check out our latest guild trailer, made as ever with 100% in game assets!

(If you’re wondering why it’s always Power Rangers, it’s because that show is spirit animal of a true Dust Devils event- giant robots, recurring card-carrying supervillains, explosions galore, and it all comes at you at a million miles an hour leaving you dazed and confused, yet strangely excited)

(seriously if you’re tired of Blizzard’s “morally grey” storytelling then boy do I have a deal for you - the ner-do-wells of the Dust Devils might as well have “IM THE BADDIE” printed on t-shirts; they sure ain’t subtle about their affinity for evil, but then the best bad guys were always big hams)

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Bump for probably the most iconic Guild on the server.
If you want action, this is top tier performance.

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Aha bless you gamer, you’re far too kind! :smiley:

Personally I’m not sure if we’re “iconic” so much as “infamous”, but I’m more than happy to take your word for it! Either way, it’s certainly something to celebrate - time to call my mum and tell her I’ve finally made it to the big leagues…

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Mad as a box of frogs. :frog: :exploding_head:

Love it. Keep up the good work Kait.

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Wow, did someone say “The Dust Devils need more villains?!”

No?! In fact you said we already have more than enough, absolutely none of which have any presence in established canon lore? And that maybe we should try permanently defeating some of the villains we already have before adding more?!

Well boy do I have bad news for you - because the Dust Devils officially have two entirely new villainous factions added to the roster, bringing the total up to 20!

First up in our newfangled gruesome twosome, the fanatical “Chapel Repentia” - a maddened sect of hardcore Light cultists, complete with legions of ferocious zealots, and an entire floating city from which to drown in flame the cursed sodom below!

And in a close second, the rogue military of the self appointed Generalissimo Mu’gutu! A former personal secretary to the overseer of some top secret Horde science experiment hidden away on distant troll islands, the pen pusher turned traitor has now turned dictator! With the research firmly in the hands of his cronies, who knows to what terrible ends it might be deployed?!

With more badguys than ever before, do the Dust Devils even stand a chance at holding back the tides of evil- or will the free world finally fall, for real this time?!

You’ll just have to find out, on each upcoming roleplay adventure- coming soon to a server near you!

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Also, since nobody asked for it, and now it’s here they’ll want it even less - well, the Dust Devils are perhaps most famous for our villains, so here’s an A to G of almost all of them, described in one sentence or more for your reading annoyance!

Stay tuned, because I know you’re all thrilled to see the second part of our rogue’s gallery, taking us from J through to Z whenever I yet again happen to have far too much time on my hands!

(*Look, I know none of these guys make any appearance in the official lore - but honestly, given the state of it right now, surely I can’t be doing as a bad of a job of it as Blizzard themselves, right!? Let a man colour outside the lines a little!)

Azero-Dex Incorporated: The meanest, greediest mega-corporation on Azeroth. With one hell of a profit motive, these boys make Gallywix look like a beacon of morality. Looming in their towering corporate HQ, with his features shrouded in a seemingly endless puff of cigar smoke, Azero-Dex’s CEO faxes his orders out from his sealed office on the thousandth floor; and whenever a new business venture opens, his blue armoured corporate thugs quickly move in, determined to drive out the competition by any means necessary…

Carnevil: Something wicked this way comes. Born from the losing side of a spat among the staff of the Darkmoon Faire, these exiled carnies roll across the land in their glittering caravans - trundling into a town near you, bringing terror in their wake!

Chapel Repentia: Holier than thou, these fanatics fled the befouled nations of Azeroth to seek a purer existence among the clouds, closer to the good Light above. Their floating fortress lingers in the heavens still; occasionally dispatching armies back to the surface, to save the souls of those they deem worthy, and condemn to fire any and all who fall into sin…

Dreamgrifters: Nobody knows from where they came, but these gurgling parasites have proven themselves a pest from the planet’s top to tip. Snatching onto their victims, they force them into slumber, while helping themselves to the unfortunate individuals motor functions. Turned into giant meat puppets, those taken by the grifters are soon pressed into service for their brain eating master’s twisted ends!

Fang: Throwing off the shackles of the Horde, these minions of the one time pencil pusher turned aspiring dictator Generalissimo Mu’gutu scour the land, snatching up any scientific research they can get their hands on, all in the service of finally completing the terrible project undertaken in secret on Mu’gutu’s personal island lair…

Golden Remnant: All that remains of the once glorious legions of a forgotten ruler of old, these highly decorated stygian soldiers stalk out from their crypts, determined to sweep away the puny civilisations that have built themselves atop their lost dominion, and carve out their old empire anew!

Grey Choir: Having seized a tankard of the Joy Division’s mind bending purple goop, the Banshee Loyalists of the Hillsbrad 13th began their experiments, determined to develop a similarly brainwashing chemical they might deploy for their own twisted ends. Alas, mistakes were made; the project ended violently, as the goop turned out to have quite the mind of its own! Bursting out of the Loyalist laboratory, now devoid of its lurid purple sheen, this altered grey goo spreads out across the land, infecting everyone it encounters, transforming them into the softly singing harbingers of its will…

And that’s not even half way through our rogue’s gallary; I wasn’t joking when I said the Dust Devils had more badguys than I’ve had hot meals!

If you’re bored of fighting off the same old quillboars while you wait for Blizzard to up and give us something to do outside the Shadowlands, why not come along and help us take down the unofficial B-List badguys of the Warcraft universe?! There’s certainly enough of them to keep us going through the next patch and beyond (assuming they don’t shut the servers down beforehand) !

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Woah hey gamers; looks like I’ve finally got that “Too much time on my hands” I was worried about earlier, here’s Part 2 of the long list of Dust Devils villains - you wont find them on the WowWiki page, but you’ll sure as heck find them wreaking havoc on an Argent Dawn roleplayer server near you!:

Jack of the Green: <Wouldn’t you like to know. And don’t you have anything better to do than to read the forums of a 15 year old videogame? >

Joy Division: Boasting the most tragic backstory of all the badguys of the Dust Devils universe, these cackling cultists began as one woman’s desperate attempt to come to terms with her ressurection into the ranks of the undead! Awakening after a ferocious battle with the forsaken, only to find out she’d joined them against her will, the bright young apothecary Violet Spilsbury concocted a chemical to ease her angst at the sight of her slowly rotting form - yet alas, her mind soothing potion turned out to be far stronger than she’d intended! Rather than cheering her up a little, it drove her mad with hysterical glee; and the best thing to do with a good time is to share it far and wide! Convinced she’d found the cure for the misery of undeath, Violet soon set out to use her wonder drug to put a smile on the face of every forsaken she could find - and after that, to carve a grin onto every last man woman and child on Azeroth!

Lucy Lockjaw: The OTHER cowgirl zombie too stubborn to stay dead, Lucy more than earned her reputation as the cruellest thing to come crawling out of Westfall! Vicious, capricious, and utterly corrupt, upon ressurection this ‘anti-Kaitylinn’ instantly turned to resurrecting the vast criminal empire they’d buried alongside her - determined to put a bullet right through the eyes of the woman who’d put it down in the first place, namely miss McKenzie herself!

Hillsbrad 13th: Alternatively known as the “Sludge Guard”, the “New Order” or, much to their frustration, “The mean greens”, these fanatical Banshee Loyalists fled their base at the Sludge Fields upon news of the Dark Lady’s downfall, taking all manner of forbidden research with them! Initially thought to have disappeared along with their Queen, they soon made their devastating return: their flying Dreadnoughts spitting death from the skies; their seemingly limitless numbers of Doomtroopers devastating the earth - and their unethical apothecaries harnessing some of the foulest sciences known to the forsaken to crush all who stand before them! The brains behind some of the deadliest superweapons ever constructed on Azeroth, from Project Perdition to the Realm-Grinder, even without the leadership of their now deceased Supreme Leader, these loyalists remain among the deadliest villains the Dust Devils have ever faced!

And with that, I’ve once again found a less than valuable sink for my spare time! But if you thought we were done; not even close - there’s still SEVEN sets of villains left to get through, so stay tuned for more of this indepth look at the B-List Badguys you’ve never heard of!

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Hey, it’s just gone midnight and I had to be in bed nearly two hours ago - what better time to upload the third and (maybe, because I literally cannot stop creating villains) final chapter in the book of Dust Devils villains?!

Serenity Falls: Clad in perfect white, masked and gloved, this surgical scourge stalks forth under the guise of wandering healers, offering comfort and revival to the weary and wounded. But heed not their talk of salvation, for the moment you are in their grasp the charitable care turns to carnage; leaving a trail of broken bodies, each with their soul violently extracted! Are the agents of the falls some kind of vampire; or do their soul snatching antics point to agents of the Ebon Blade gone rouge? Perhaps the truth will never be known; for no one ever lives long enough to tell it!

Springheeled Jack: What do you call an innocent bystander who had their home destroyed by one of the many explosions that seems to erupt as if on que at the end of each Dust Devils adventure?! A whole lot of trouble, that’s what! With the burning remains of some superweapon she’d never heard of suddenly crashing through her ceiling, Jack could only watch in horror as everything she’d ever built and loved was reduced to collateral damage by a roaming gang of so called heroes who never even stopped to take stock of the wanton destruction they left behind! Watching the Devils vanish through a portal, congratulating them on a job well done, Jack swore her revenge - thwy took everything she had without even knowing about it, but she’s going to make sure they learn in excruciating detail!

Swarm: Skittering their way across the face of Azeroth, the insectoid legions of the Swarm seek to consume all in their path! The results of yet another dastardly Hillsbrad 13th science experiment gone terribly wrong, their attempts to weaponise the brain bugs lurking beneath the sands of Silithus instead created a vast, pulsating hive mind creature - which instantly assimilated the minds of its creators, transforming them into the first of the hideously mutated bug men bent to serve its will! Though still buried beneath the slowly shifting dunes, the hive mind has been far from dormant - its soldier drones working tirelessly and without error to push their terrible dream of a world devoured ever closer to fruition!

Velvet Glove: An exclusive secret society, for Azeroth’s filthy, stinking rich. Riff through the phonebook of Kalimdor’s fortune 500, and you’ll find them all here; from aristocrats to investment bankers, politicians to zoo tycoons, if they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and bought it with daddy’s money, you bet they’re on the Glove’s guest list. Our blue blooded social betters, they’re convinced they know what’s best for the unwashed rabble who lurk beneath them, and they’ll stop at nothing to adjust the course of history to fit their vision of a better world - be it through bribery, or otherwise…

X: The blurry faces lurking in the background of grainy photos, the shadowy figures, briefly glimpsed on grassy knolls. Some say they started out as an arm of the Horde military set up to investigate the paranormal; most believe they’re just a conspiracy theory. A few local eccentrics did claim to have solid proof of their existence; but they’ve all long since disappeared.

Wandering village: Many a weary traveller has come upon this foggy little town, nestled between the trees, the warm lights of its tavern forming a welcome beacon of hospitality to those lost along the road. Perhaps they’ve never noticed it along their road before, but now it’s there - which exhausted merchant or warband could resist the temptation of comfortable beds, hot food and good company? And so they enter, never to leave!

And on that note, my free time has finally ran out for good; but the list goes on!

I didn’t even manage to get into our list of one-shot villains; from the body snatching Family to the tounge twisting Jack of the Green, to the demonic deeds of Dr Weir, who’s portal experiments lead her to Hell and back - but frankly we’ve faced more ‘one time’ bad guys the forums have the sever power to process! Who knows however, perhaps one day they’ll make a return, and enter the hallowed halls of our recurring enemies…

But until then, the best place to encounter them is in a Dust Devils adventure, coming soon to a roleplay server near YOU!

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Oh - and now I’ve got all our villains out of the way, how about the Dust Devils themselves?!

Suffice to say, we’re still active and recruiting! Sure, we might currently be trapped in an alternate hell dimension populated by evil shadow people in cahoots with our old enemies Azero-Dex Incorporated (a pretty normal weekday for us); but once we’ve bust our way back into the Azeroth we all know and love we’ll be straight back to saving the streets from the next set of B-list badguys you’ve never heard of!

And rest assured, I’m absolutely confident nobody from a parallel dimension will ever threaten the free world again; after all, it’s not like there’s alternate versions of all the deadliest villains the Dust Devils have ever faced just waiting to burst forth into our reality and wreak havoc, right?!

…R-right…?

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Decided to give these guys a try, and it was a great decision! They’re utterly bonkers, but the right kinda bonkers.

Come have a look at their events, join in on the fun!

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Bless you gamer; it’s been a pleasure having you on board!

Also, here’s my top ten list of FIVE reasons you should join the Dust Devils!

1: See zones you never thought you’d get to see! Desperate to delve into Deepholm? Giddy about getting your hands on the Grimrail?! Steamed up by sightseeing in Silithus?! With the Dust Devils, they’re all no more than a portal trip away!

2: Do things you never thought you’d get to do! Battle an evil circus ringmaster atop a burning airship; surf a meatwagon down a mountainside pursued by machine gun toting helicopters; bribe a possessed tikki mask with a copy of Miss Durotar magazine - it’s all possible!

3: Face down threats you never even knew existed! From mutant bug men to megacorporations; if you’re tired of the same old gnolls, boy do we have a variety of villains for you!

4: Be my friend! Please, I’m so lonely!

5: Something to do every night except Wednesay! Tired of staring at the same old dent in the duelling tree at the Valley of Honour?! Join the Dust Devils for more rip roaring trips around the world than you could shake a stick at!

Why let strict interpretations of the lore stand in your way of a good time?! Blizzard gave us a world of portals and space ships, and by golly I intend to use them to the fullest!

Join today, and prepare for the future-!

(The Dust Devils accept no liability for any supervillain related dismemberment you may encounter on your adventures with us)