So, over a week ago I was on my 69 Priest and am just short of my monetary goals for hitting 70 with, so since I had a full level to go through yet and that’ll take a few dungeon runs, I opened up /lfm and poked through the three instances I’d like to go into:

Auchindoun - Shadow Labyrinths
Hellfire Citadel - Shattered Halls
Coilfang Reserve - Steam Vaults

There’s no partial-groups listed, unfortunately… just a handful of DPS and at least one other healer listed.

So, I go to the Looking for Group tab at the bottom, and fill in my 3 dungeon choices as above, then put in a comment: “healer, whisper first, please have a tank already :)”

Yes, this is optimistic, but as Momma said, and someone said to her… “If it ain’t worth askin’ for it ain’t worth gettin’!”… so, continuing on…

This, of course, subscribes me to the LookingForGroup channel, which is readily active this evening as people are looking to fill out final spots in their Karazhan raids and daily Heroic parties and RFK runs… but nothing really in my range.

Until someone advertises that they’re looking for healers for a raid on Blackwing Lair.

Hmm.

Never been there. And beyond “somewhere near Lower Blackrock Spire”, I don’t even know where it is!

So, I whisper the guy, and after a bit of a confusing conversation about whether or not there was an Attunement process required for entering the instance (there isn’t), I’m extended an invite and I make my way through to Undercity, and then hop on the Bat to fly to Kargath in the Badlands.

There are a few others of us who are added around the same time, and we all start to make our way to the instance. There are no Warlocks in the group to leech off of, and the Summoning Stone doesn’t summon people so close to, or at, level 70, so nobody said a boo, just made their way there.

I arrived at the door to Lower Blackrock Spire, and was told to go in and wait for an escort who would be coming through. A Rogue soon joins me and we await the escort.

I started recording video just outside the portal to Lower Blackrock Spire, and was pleased that the recording process didn’t cut out as it sometimes chooses to do… and I actually was able to record the entire route through the dungeon and to the portal for entering Blackwing Lair.

There was some chaos in the video, of course… this raid had been formed 2 hours earlier and we had to deal with respawns as our escort brought us through to the primary group… but I think if I needed to, I could use the footage to find the instance door again.

I might also publish it for the heck of it… bored people want anything for entertainment, right? ;)

Unfortunately, as is regular in PUGs attempting old-world content, there weren’t enough people to make an actual attempt by the time we got there - the 2 hours of the raid already existing before I got there, and attempts done when the new-joiners (including 2 healers) weren’t yet around to raid heal… wore enough people out that folks dropped out before I got there.

Darnit, I was kind of looking forward to seeing more than the first room, but I now at least know the route through Lower Blackrock Spire to get to the instance portal for Blackwing Lair…

More near-useless knowledge on the level of knowing all the words to the story of “Little Bunny Foo-Foo”.

And speaking of which, in that Rhyme where you came from, did Bunny Foo Foo “bop” the field mice on the head, or was it something different for you?

And, was it little RABBIT Foo Foo where you came from?

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