World of Warcraft, pink hair, two and a half thousand gnomes, a war chief and breast cancer. How does that connect? You will read about it …
The Horror in Pink
The Horde players of World of Warcraft on the Scarlet Crusade server must have been quite surprised last Saturday when a flood of pink-haired gnomes poured through the gates of their capital.
The event “Running of the Gnomes 2015” attracted nearly 2500 pink-haired gnomes who ruthlessly made their way. From Dun Morogh to Ironforge, then into the Deep Run Tram to Stormwind, from there into the Swamp of Sorrows, by boat to Ratchet, and finally to Durotar to visit Vol’jin.
However, the whole madness had a good purpose: The annual Gnome Run aims to raise awareness of the dangers and risks of breast cancer and to encourage people to donate. Whether the Horde players thought about this when they desperately tried to keep the pink monsters away from their war chief is debatable.
It definitely drew attention. Almost classically, it ended with the server even crashing briefly. Mission accomplished. The chief tinkerer would be proud.
