Moneybaggins and Sylly’s Holiday Gift List 2009
- Mr. Moneybaggins. Ironforge, 09.
Forward:
In the last 24 hours I have emptied completely the personal bank, guild bank tab, knapsacks, duffels, backpack and wallet of one Mr. Moneybaggins, Gnome Banker, Khadgar-Alliance. I depleted in one moton his carefully laid aside stores, built up since just about 10 days before Hallow’s End.
There’s some irony in the fact that he is, by way of class, a rogue. The fingers plundering his bank vault were mine alone. My Great Grandpa stood on the street in Coffeyville, Kansas while Jesse and Frank James rolled into town on their way to lighten the coffers at the Coffeyville bank. This isn’t quite that kind of story, though. We’re in cahoots, Moneybaggins and I, having conspired together for months in regard to our own bank caper.
Indulge me here by defining “caper” as a light-hearted frolic which, in the instance at hand, was motivated exclusively by good will and overflowing holiday spirit.
In truth, he’s probably relieved to see nothing but packing peanuts and scraps of ribbon on the floor of the banking organization he maintains. I’m sure after his morning coffee and a look through the financial section, he’ll start to tidy the place up a bit. Dust. Lots of dust. For months the little banker toon has been stacking, storing, and categorizing whimsicalities and wonders from the far ends of the globe (and others, besides!). He has been most busy in his capacity as my Winter’s Veil warehouse manager while preparations for holiday gift giving in Azeroth have gone forward. Moneybaggins, you should know, is an affable sort of fellow who, in faith, has been tickled from his cufflinks to his toes to be minding the store.
While I’ve sent him large quantities of items I have gathered on my own, he has proven to be a great help in keeping a lensed and astute eye on the daily offerings in The Auction House. Further, I have been blessed tremendously to have the help of guildmates who have engineered and farmed many of the wonders I have gathered. Faelwen made Steam Tonk Controllers until they spilled out of her bags. Composite took my mats for 18 fireworks and sent back to me about 80 fireworks, all told. Yamie tried valiantly with me to farm Voodoo Heads and, when none dropped for Project Winter Veil, donated her own Voodoo Head toy to the cause. Good friends are good. I am thankful for mine.
Now at last the holiday has arrived! Gifts have been wrapped (wrapping paper, for use on non-stackable inventory items, is available daily from many general goods vendors, and comes in different varieties from Greatfather Winter’s attendant buskers). Countless parcels and packages filled with holiday gifts have been posted from us with love and affection to some of the finest players and people in the World of Warcraft. The bulk of our work is done, the joy of the holiday is here.
For me, the moment when Winter Veil truly began came last night while Apatheia discussed the strategy that led to our one shot of Deathbringer Saurfang. Gathered together, riding a wave of tremendous progression (3 TOGC hard modes and 4 ICC bosses have fallen to us in the past 14 days), listening to our captains lay out the battle plan, my guildies and friends filled my screen with eruptions of celebretory silliness as they played with the toys and gadgets I had sent them for the holiday. I laid out casks of wine, pastries, and fruit, while spontaneous firework displays erupted, remote control vehicles whizzed and popped along the floor, paper zeppelins and happy fun rocks tossed up among us all across the platform where we would soon bring this minion of Arthas to his knees. It was a wonderful, soul brightening thing to behold.
It occurs to me that, just as in the real world, there must be some denizens of Azeroth who adore gift giving as I do. Certainly there must be others who have not yet completed their own holiday shopping and are looking for bargains, suggestions, or ideas for holiday gifts in Azeroth. Moneybaggins and I have put our heads together and decided that our gift this season for the blogosphere and Warcraft community generally is our own holiday shopping list of the toys, gadgets, whizzbangs and so forth we distributed as holiday gifts to our Khadgar kith and kin*. I extend to you now, reader, this guide to the goodies which spread some joy around my little corner of the world, along with my best wishes for happiness to you and yours this Winter’s Veil, and in the new year to come.
Sylly and Moneybaggins. 15 December, 2009
* We have striven to ensure that items presented here will be Bind on Equip and purchasable from either the auction house (when available) or from a vendor in game. Categorization of items at discretion of Sylly and Moneybaggins, L.L.C.
MoneyBaggins and Sylly’s Holiday Gift List 2009
Fireworks, Crackers, and other Explosive Devices
We gathered fireworks by the hundreds for gifting this season, and found them to come from three major sources:
1) Fireworks made by Engineers
These fireworks are easy to get in large quantities if you hunt down the mats and bring them to your favorite engineer to transform into magical, mustache crisping explosive good fun! There are a number of fireworks that engineers can make for you this season, so throw them some cash (when else is their profession profitable, amirite?) and have some custom made for you. From this category of fireworks, this year I sent out dozens of Snake Burst Fireworks that were hand made by a friend.
2) Fireworks sold by Vendors
There are some fireworks which are always available from vendors in capitol cities . Others are available from holiday fireworks vendors at the end of midsummer festival. I found the Yellow Rose Fireworks that I gave out this year on Khadgar’s Auction House, along with some Red, White, and Blue Fireworks.
3) Fireworks for Auction
On the auction house. Mhmm. Seek ‘em out.
One last word on Fireworks of all description and degree of wonder. Think twice when gifting them to dwarves along with huge steins of ale and such. Think the consequences through, mate. Caution is yer man. Or perhaps your only man is the pint of Plain. Perhaps that is the way of it, after all.
Toys, Whizzbangs, Zippity Goodnesses of Various Description
Again, some organization into sub categories seems warranted, as Azeroth offers an amazing array of fantabulous contraptions to the holiday shopper this season.
Mechanical Mayhem:
Jepetto Joybuzz in Dalaran provides an abundance of light hearted fun and provides easy access to lots of inexpensive, silly, endearing gifts. At his shop I purchased stacks of Heavy Copper Racers, Trusty Copper Racers, Zippy Copper Racers, Grindgear Toy Gorillas, and Paper Zeppelin Kits at the toy store.
I asked a friend to help me make dozens of Steam Tonk Controllers, which have many more uses and the added fun of being remote controled by their operator for small level combat operations unfolding across the toes of bear tanks everywhere.
Charms
I was tickled to find a couple of Lucky Charms on the Auction House to people who are a lucky charm to me in one way or another. I also farmed a handful of Rabbit’s Feet one afternoon in Loch Modan. May the road rise to meet you.
For the need to nom nom nom
Although last year I gave out many Delicious Chocolate Cakes from my own oven, this year I focused on a handful of other culinary treats. Tigule and Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream was my confection of choice to give out this year. I picked up a couple of stacks in Thousand Needles and handed them out liberally. I also picked up a nice Dalaran White Wine.
Seasonal Samplings Stored for Four Seasons
I had a couple of stacks of holiday items in my bank that I’ve held onto for 12 months and gave out to friends. There are always numerous seasonal items that you can store away in this manner. I brought out some Preserved Holly and Snowballs from last Christmas. If you didn’t hold onto any from last year, these items are now available in game and quite easy to gather up for gifting.
Sylly’s Special Winter Treasures List 2009
I watched the auction house for months for a handful of items that I picked up whenever they appeared. These were the special treasures I gathered, my signature gifts this season, and which are now in the satchels of my friends in Azeroth.
Here is the list…
Coal*
*by special request from Greatfather Winter
Odds and Ends
There is the matter of a collection of other prizes that I gathered and gave along the way that ought to be categorized, but the staff has taken the rest of the day off to begin the Winter Revels in their own personal ways. Therefore, I beg you grant me a big of license in gathering them together here in this corner. I know we also were able to gift an assortment of Tree Frogs, and Steamy Romance Novels that found their way into the stockings of my compatriots. Perhaps a recent jaunt to the theatre with my daughter played some subconscious role in this selection. I gave a bouquet of white roses to each lady on my list.
There may have been a couple more items that have slipped my mind, it is hard to say. However, the shopping list above is as close to comprehesive as I care tomake it at the moment, and was sufficient to lavish joy and good times on 40 friends of mine. I hope that, in one way or another, the list brings joy to you and yours, too.
Happy Winter’s Veil!
Sylly
There are 3 Comments to "Moneybaggins and Sylly’s Holiday Gift List 2009"
yay, sylly is back!
happy winterveils! and your guildies and friends are so lucky to have a very thoughtful friend like you!
Hope all is going well, Sylly. You are missed. =^(
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