Meet the Murkys

Greetings from MurkyDad. You may be wondering about all the Murkyness floating about here, and why we may have chosen that particular word to describe ourselves. Well, as the name of the blog indicates, both MurkyMama and I are nerds, and as nerds, we enjoy playing video games. Specifically, we both play World of Warcraft. I started playing back in December (my main is a level 41 Night Elf Druid, specced feral), and MurkyMama soon followed, to see what all the fuss was about (her main is a level 33 Human Priest, mostly holy specced).

We don't have a problem. We regularly go out, see friends, read books, see movies, etc. We just happen to enjoy playing WoW. Anyway, there are these in-game creatures called Murlocs, and they are fish-like things that make some pretty funny sounds in-combat, along the lines of "Mwralagahahahahah", you know, all throaty and gurgly sounding. Apparently, at some big Blizzard convention, they gave away secret codes so you could get your very own Baby Murloc Pet, and hence, Murky was born. He is a tiny little baby Murloc and makes cute, baby-like Murloc sounds when you click on him. Just so you know, the secret codes are selling on Ebay for hundreds of dollars, and no, we didn't buy one. But we did think it was cute enough to name the as-yet-unknown little one Murky, and hence, we are MurkyMama and MurkyDad.



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