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A few days ago, I went to Ironforge to say hello to the dwarves (the well-known tourist route from Stormwind > Tram > IF). Of course, as soon as I entered, they started attacking me.
That’s when I noticed an orange line on the channel with something like “player name: Watch out, they’re dangerous around here”. I looked around to see if another Horde tourist might be at IF at the same time… Nope. And then I realised it was a dwarf priest, mentally controlling me, who was talking!
Back in Kalimdor, I started to think… How did the dwarf do that? I thought messages in the third person (“/me”) were incomprehensible to the opposing faction? Could it be from the mind control?
A clumsy period of tests followed in the low-level Alliance zones. I started in Stranglethorn with a friend. I tried to calm down the noobs hanging around Booty Bay with /hello /follow /wait /no /sorry /love /kiss /no /no, to eventually control them without getting five of them on my back… Useless.
I finally changed locations. Then, near Southshore, I met two level 10 human huntresses. They quickly attacked me, which allowed me to use mind control. Once one of them was under the spell, her target became green for a few seconds, and I took the opportunity to type “/me waves, don’t hit me, I’m trying to communicate, if you understand this message, type /growl”! The human continued hitting me without flinching. I on tried the other one, same result.
At this point, I started to feel ridiculous when, five minutes later (standard reaction time, let’s say), I received a message: “What’s-her-name growls menacingly.” Wow!
I followed up with messages like “/me but why are you still hitting me, you little idiot”, “/me oops sorry about your pet, I mistook it for a monster”, or “/me how old are you? Jump in front of me as many times as your age.” Her reaction left no doubt that she understood what I was saying.
So it’s proven, a priest can communicate with the enemy faction. However, since the guinea pig couldn’t reply, I asked her to accompany me to Ironforge. There, we would find a priest who could control me and act as an interpreter.
Back in IF, after about ten deaths (despite my guardian’s pleas), we finally found a priest. He took a while to catch on, but then he managed to send me the huntress’ messages: “/me she says she’d like to know your MSN.” Ha ha!
Since that day, I’ve prepared all sorts of macros for the Alliance I’ll meet on my travels, for every situation.
PS: Before everyone becomes a priest, know that this trick should also work with the mind control helmet from engineers…
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