So I decide to go to bed at the relatively early hour of 1 AM last night after a wipe in Uldaman. I hearthstone back to Orgrimmar and am selling some of my loot, when I hear one of my favourite messages come across the WorldDefense channel: "Sen'jin Village is under attack!"

So I mount up and head south to Sen'jin and get there just in time to hear a second cry for help, this time from Darkspear Strand. A few seconds later I ride up beside the fisherman's hut to find it is inhabited not by the fisherman, but by a level 25 Night Elf from "The Flying Squirrels" guild. I slay her with no trouble, and make the assumption that being slain by me would be enough to scare her away from further misadventures.

How wrong I was. I had just finished hearthstoning back to Orgrimmar when I heard that Sen'jin was under attack again. So once again I climb onto my mount and make the run south. When I arrive, I kill the Night Elf again. While she waits to respawn, however, a guildmate of hers shows up, this time a level 43 Night Elf Rogue named Atias. Being only level 45 myself, and Rogues being a particularly dangerous PvP class, with a level 25 to back him up, I figured I was now outmatched. Forgive me for repeating myself, but once again: How wrong I was.

They both attack at once. I focus on the Rogue, knowing the Hunter will not be able to damage me much if at all. I drop a Grace of Air totem, my lightning shield and windfury weapon already in effect, and go to town. The rogue hits me with one sinister strike and an eviscerate before falling under a barrage of melee blows and frost shocks. The hunter dies almost immediately afterwards.

A little wiser this time, I run back to the village, not particularly wanting to corpse camp. Before I even get there though, the Rogue has respawned and is running around to the other side of the village. I run up to him on my mount and shoo him away. He looks at me. I look at him. We're both PvP enabled, but I for one don't plan on attacking. He stealths; bad sign. I sigh at him, still mounted. He backstabs me. I dismount, and go to work on him once again. This time, I actually have to heal twice, but my mana never drops below 50% before the rogue falls once again. I drink up some of my leftover conjured water from Uldaman, then mount up and wait for his return. I have no problem corpse camping him now, after that last little display.

This time he respawns and sprints down to the ocean to try and get away from me. This is a common failing that most alliance, and heck, most Shamans don't realize. Only a Druid can escape a Shaman in the water. Everyone else is dead meat. Two words: Water Walking. When you're running at 100% run speed, but the other guy is swimming at 67% of run speed, it's roughly equivalent to being mounted. He has no chance of escape. I hunt him down and kill him once more, he does not even bother to attack back this time. Good, maybe he's realized he's outclassed and plans to leave.

Nope.

He respawns on the shore, mounts up and heads for Valley of Trials. Of course, I can't let him go there, so I chase him down. Spurs and and a Carrot trinket give me enough speed boost to catch up to him, at which point I dismount, and Frost Shock him. A Frost-shocked mount can only move at half speed, so I simply walk up behind the mounted rogue and smash him, frost shocking at regular intervals to keep him in my range. As his last sliver of health is about to disappear, he dismounts, and takes a swing at me. He dies a second later, and I figure "Ok, maybe he's had enough". He's about half-way between Sen'jin and Valley of Trials, so I leave him there and head back to Sen'jin.

I've given him a free opportunity to hearthstone, or at least mount up and leave. I wait there, thinking "Surely he must've left..." And then he attacks the fisherman again. Strangely enough, one of my guild mates was heading down to talk to that particular fisherman, and he arrives just as I finish killing the rogue yet again.

So he stays to help me out, and we kill the Rogue twice more, when lo and behold, a level 54 Night Elf Warrior (creatively named Legolias) arrives. At Sen'jin. This is getting ridiculous. (the town's guardians are level 27, and the fisherman -- always a popular target -- is a whopping level 7)

We almost take him down, but being caught by surprise, both me and my level 40 guild-mate ultimately fall. Atias takes the opportunity to laugh at us and spit on us, something I'll note we had not done to him despite his numerous deaths. Amazing how he suddenly becomes the big man when the much-higher-level arrives to help him. The Warrior is 9 levels higher than me, and now the hunter returns, so by the time we can respawn, we are outnumbered, outlevelled and corpse-camped. We both opt to wait for our PvP flags to expire, but not before calling for reinforcements. My brother, a level 51 warrior, and another guild-mate, a level 50 rogue, head out to assist us. Meanwhile, the three alliance wreak havok on Sen'jin. Well, the two of them. The level 25 hunter gets pounced by a guard and killed. Haha.

Our rogue arrives just as one of Sen'jin's level 55 defenders (there are only two as far as I can see) attacks the alliance group. So I dismount and start healing the guard as his health gets low. It takes a while before they realize what is going on, but eventually the rogue comes after me. I ignore him and focus on the warrior, and under our combined attack he falls relatively easily. The rogue dies as well. My brother Evijan shows up, and there are now 4 Hand of the Forsaken defenders. The warrior sees he is outmatched, and leaves.

No such luck on the Rogue. He gets killed by Evijan a few times, then the level 40 and I chase him around on his mount for awhile, while he goes back and forth along the shore. I continue to shoo him away. He continues to ignore me. Eventually we get tired of chasing and kill him. Finally, he disconnects, and logs on a horde character to spew insightful commentary at me like "first i fuked ur mom then i fought u guys" "nighty nighty fuker". I reported him, then hearthstoned back to Orgrimmar to go to sleep, like I had intended to do several hours ago.

So concludes the battle of Sen'jin Village. It is not the last, I'm sure. It is 4 AM at this point, and I have to work in the morning. So that is where this story ends. Thank you to all the Hand of the Forsaken members who came to my aid.