Gruln and Kuurn: Roguetastic

These two brothers died in a car wreck on October 23rd 2008. This video and the tale below are the only links to the legacy of gaming they left behind. Only a few were lucky enough to witness their illuminating bodacity.

Once upon a time, in an Azeroth far far away....

::Queue the music::
::enter credit scrawl::

Two brothers, Gruln and Kuurn, had figured out the 34-3-34 Rogue BC spec and broke the game by being so good. With perfect coordination and flow that only brothers can achieve, they waged war on a guild known as Synergy.

Armed with 100% ambush crit chance, 103% stealth movement speed, 5.5 second gouges, 1 minute blind cooldowns, 70% backstab crit chance, 34% damage reduction, poultryizers, parachute cloaks, rocket boots xtreme, their trusty pvp trinkets, honed gamer reflexes, daily meditation on Sun Tzu and literally nothing to do for two months, they blanketed Synergy in a shawl of humiliation.

What began as low level ganking quickly escalated into all out war. Taking on their entire guild as merely two Rogues was perhaps the greatest feat in WoW to date. Vanish-saps, jumping 180 degree gouges, quadruple blinding with prep-blinds, chicken silences, sprint-deadly throws, gouge bandaging with a potion pop, LOS breaking, gouge tanking, evasion tanking, rocket boot-kidney shots and cliff jumping to safety with parachute cloaks were commonplace tactics for the brothers Gruln and Kuurn.

Many long battles ensued across a wide range of zones and levels. With the brothers using a third account to spy on Synergy's whereabouts, swift death followed their members wherever they went.

After weeks of killing Synergy members in world pvp, there came a fateful day in AV when the Rogue brothers met with Plus, a Synergy shaman. The Alliance were packed into Drek's keep being turtled to no end and spawning at the RH. Gruln and Kuurn, however, managed to keep picking off Plus until she was forced to spawn all alone at IBGY. She was killed repeatedly for the remainder of the game and humiliated in the best way the brothers knew how: spamming "LOL" and dancing on her corpse.

No finer moment was so perfectly captured in all the battles than the utter humiliation that was caked across Plus's face with their Roguey juices. To this day, this video serves as the moment Synergy broke. The very moment when the guild knew that the brothers were deeply embedded in their skin, and that the next six weeks were going to be rougher than they could ever imagine.

If you roll an alliance character on Ravenholdt, and message a member of Synergy today, they will still recall the tales of when their 8 man revenge squad got trounced in the Pirate cove in STV by nothing more than the same two Rogues who camped their questing lowbies. Of the time when they were shamed at Nesingwary's Camp in STV on their weekly lowbie-ganking event by nothing more than two Rogues. Or of the time they ALMOST got the brothers in Ironforge when the two legendary Rogues held down the AH for four straight hours without dying. Or even the time when the two Rogues, while leveling in Arathi at 34, managed to kill a 36 Warrior from Synergy, being escorted by a merciless decked 70 Priest, SEVEN TIMES without ever being killed. Or of the most legendary event of all, just before the fateful car wreck that claimed their lives, the time when the brother's Gruln and Kuurn, through their alliance spy in the Synergy guild, met members of Synergy at Blizzcon 2008 and shared some drinks with them without ever divulging their true identity as the Rogues that had stuffed their faces into the bloody soil beneath their garroted necks 24/7 for more than 8 weeks.

To Synergy, to gamers everywhere, and to the amazing skill and charisma of the brother's Rogues, Gruln and Kuurn. These two truly were the best players I have EVER seen.

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