The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
Purple Heart
by Vonya
This weekend, I broke my pinky toe.
How, you ask? Well, let me tell you!
So there I was, deep in the heart of the Madison, Wisconsin urban jungle, surrounded by steely-eyed, sword-weilding members of the Japanese Yakouza.
It was them or me. All of my other options were gone. There would be no more running and there was no hope of escape.
I would either tell them the secret recipe for the colby-swiss cheese that had made me famous, or I would die to protect the interests of Japanese cheese exports.
With a resigned sigh, I released my own perfectly balanced Katana from its sheath, the metallic whisper of the blade over-loud in the dark alleyway. I had sworn never again to raise my sword against others – sworn never to….
…what? You don’t believe me?
What tipped you off? It was the fact that I was in Madison instead of at my computer, raiding, wasn’t it? DRAT, keeping these lies straight is hard work.
You’re right. I was raiding when I broke my toe.
My chair is on wheels and I pushed with my foot to move it away from my desk when my foot slipped and slammed into my computer.
Boring, innit? Makes you wish you hadn’t interrupted my Yakouza story!
Maybe I’ll get a purple heart for injuries sustained in the line of duty? No? Maybe just purples then, I suppose that would be alright.
Has anyone else managed to injure themselves in real life while playing a game? Anyone? Please tell me I’m not alone in my ridiculously-attained injury?
(Also, just in case anyone’s concerned, I’m fine. A bit on the gimpy side for a few days, but fine.)
March 3rd, 2009
I’m glad to hear you’re okay
Apparently your award will be one swollen, purple toe. You could take a photo of it though as record of your sacrifice! I’ve done that on more than one occasion but fortunately have not broken toes… yet. Barefoot gaming is not recommended for you, young lady! I recommend steel toed boots!
BTW does non-computer gaming count? I once broke my index finger playing a take-no-prisoners game of Slaps.
Yes, you heard me right… Slaps. Or Red Hands, whatever you may know it as. The game where the object is to slap the other person’s hands before they pull them away. Well, they did, and my hands continued directly into the floor we were sitting on, jamming my index finger.
I not only jammed and broke my finger, I chipped a bit of bone off that to this day is still floating around in there. *turns green*
What can I say? It’s a gift.
March 3rd, 2009
Wait…what? You pushed AWAY from your desk and kicked your computer? HOW? I mean…where IS your computer?? Because the visuals I have just don’t work…
Ohh..and..feel better. I opened a sliding closet door last night, which caught a sneaker just so and pushed it into my right big toe…bending the nail back enough to draw blood. OUCH…
So…I’m kinda feeling your pain.
March 3rd, 2009
Must….not….laugh…..
March 3rd, 2009
Another achievement checked off the list!
you go girl!
March 3rd, 2009
Uh huh… look, Vanya, if you’re actually an international Cheese Baroness fighting a world of gouda and evil (see what I did there?), that’s cool. You don’t have to cover it with your exciting story of WoW raiding and wheeled death chairs. It’s alright to have a boring life of international intrigue. I myself quite enjoy a good katana fight in a Wisconsin alley with the Yakuza over the weekend. It’s time to stop being ashamed.
March 3rd, 2009
Nerf table, chairs are fine.
Seriously though, here’s hoping that your toe gets better soon. I actually performed a rather similar incident recently when I heard some of my guild mates on Ventrillo talking about something that sounded important while I was in the kitchen. I, being the clumsy Paladin oaf that I am, came charging in from the kitchen (ham sammiches during raiding is the way to go) and slammed my foot on the door jam in my computer room. Needless to say, I yelped a little.
March 3rd, 2009
I don’t think there are many people who can say they have broken a bone while raiding. Hope it heals quickly!
I sit on a pilates ball, so I’m probably in more danger of catastrophic raid injury <.<.
March 3rd, 2009
I wanna know if you were on vent at the time and what the rest of the raid heard… >_>
March 3rd, 2009
LOL! Tables are OP and should be nerfed. Reduce their dodge coefficient! I love it.
“Pushed with your foot” as in slammed your little toe against your PC with large force?
I laughed, but I feel sorry for you. Broken toes are annoying to heal.
March 3rd, 2009
I knew there was something off, because I was in Madison last weekend, and clearly would’ve heard about a Samurai Cheese fight.
March 3rd, 2009
I once got a scar from a plastic yoghurt pot.
I show it to all the girls.
March 4th, 2009
I once got called into a raid at the last minute, while I was still preparing dinner – in my rush to get it ready and get to the PC, I somehow stuck my finger in the wand mixer (stick blender, Bamix)- while it was going…
the raid was completed with significant quantities of blood soaking into a bandaid wrapped in tissues, not as much Rejuv as usual (button one, which my injured finger was responsible for), and my prizes included T5 shoulders and a 1.5cm long scar. Woo!
March 4th, 2009
Hmmm, I’ve gotten some bumps and bruises while gaming and even sore muscles (go Wii Tennis!) but never blood or broken bones. I shall have to remain careful. You just never know what dangers may be lurking when you are intently involved in a game.
And Madison, hm? *ponders if that was picked randomly or if you are a fellow Wisconsinite*
March 4th, 2009
There is a story on a blogg somewhere about someone on a raid night either got a nose bleed that wouldnt stop bleeding or cut that needed stitches. At the emergeny when asked how long since the injury and when the person said “four hours”, the nurse looked him straight in the eye and said “Raid night right”
March 4th, 2009
Does being sedentary all day long and increasing the risk of heart disease count as injury?
On a more obvious note, my computer sits on a custom made workbench that’s 4 feet high, so I play WoW either standing or sitting on a tall bar stool. And the room that this workbench is located in was designed to be a dining room, so there’s this massive crystal chandelier in the middle.
One night in karazhan, we killed some boss for the first time (i forget which, sadly), so I naturally do my Superiority Dance which is pretty uncoordinated and involves arms flailing about like Coco the Monkey. For the theorycrafters…
(tall person) + (wild flailing arms) + (pointy sharp crystals attached to the ceiling) = one sliced up hand
March 5th, 2009
Sorry about your toe! Though the part of me which squeels inside any time an actor in a movie mentions Wisconsin so just squeeled when u mentioned the city I live in, in a post…
Hope your toe feels better!! My mom once broke her toe in the tub somehow and the amount of pain she was in, leads me to believe that ur not feeling that great at the moment!! So hope it feels better fast…
March 6th, 2009
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March 10th, 2009
Does a RL game injury count? If so i collapsed a lung playing football with no pads. Ended up in a hospital for 3 days. As far as injuries from playing gmes. i would have to say not yet.
March 11th, 2009
My comnputer sits to the right of me on the floor. The keyboard cord occasionally becomes untucked from the safe position and droops a little low down by my feet from the back of the computer. In the stretching and moving that’s normal with raids, there has been many a time i tried to take a quick 30s afk to grab a drink, bio etc and have gotten my foot caught in the cord as i try and exit to my left. This then usually results in a twisting face plant onto my floor and much cursing afterwards about my knees sore/hands sore/coffee cup now 10 feet away on the floor….