Post #483081 by blue.octopus on Sat, Sep 12, 2009 2:17 PM

On 2006-12-22 06:41, cheeky half wrote:
Cheeky Half Jr. spends too much time playing 'World of Warcraft', or 'WoW' as the kids call it. Mr. Cheeky casually (and sarcastically) throws him the comment "I don't suppose there are any Tikis in that game of yours, Son?"

"Why certainly, Father" comes the polite reply. "Kindly allow me to demonstrate".

After watching his character hitch a ride on some flying beastie, battle innocent chickens and skin them, and then swim across an ocean to an island he proudly shows off "The Tikis of WoW".......

So there is indeed some educational value in these darn kids playing their stupid video games.

I play Wow quite a bit and the developers have added more Tiki stuff over time.

I play in a guild called Tiki Gods.

The trolls are the main race who make tiki statues and shields and are into tribal drumming and fetishes.

In the current expansion to the games (Wrath of the Lich King) there was also introduced a neutral race of Walrus people who build huge stone heads(moai) to hold the spirits of their ancestors. And being a fantasy world, this in fact happens and you can talk to some of these spirits.

There are also some bad trolls - and they are protected by enchanted Tiki's - 4 different variants of floating PNG styled shield and spears.

If you participate in some of the recurring quests in the game you can acquire a mini enchanted tiki shield as a pet that follows your character, and plays a different drumming music while activated.

Being a game aimed mostly at younger players it doesn't deal much with liquor, but there is a variety of alcoholic beverages to be found and also an annual beer festival in game - which if you complete a certain number of achievements gets you membership of a special beer club which send you a different, unique drink every month for 1 year. All the in game drinks have exotic names, but you can't make your own mixes or cocktails in general. However with cookery skill you can make some drinks by combining other ingredients.

Drinking an alcoholic drink in the game blurs your vision and makes you move randomly, the more you drink (and the stronger the drink) the more pronounced the effect. It decreases over time until back to normal.

you can learn to make one Rum drink which increases your skill while fishing.
There is also a fun quest/mini game where you have a still - and have to add bananas, pears and oranges to make a new tropical drink. however like most quests you only do it once.

that's probably about as far as it goes, although the next planned expansion will add some more tropical islands.