Have you ever have the feeling of power and that you can do anything?  absolute power is a wonderful and intoxicating feeling  even though its only in cyberspace.

Last night, I jumped back into WOW to level up.  I met up with my buddy when he came on and we did our thing - kill bad arse monsters.  Half way through, we returned back to town and got house keeping stuff done (sell loot and fix weapons etc...).   As we were leaving, a player came up to us and ask us to help him.  He was a level 14 and we are level 19 and 20.  "What do you want?" I asked.  I need help with "Investigate Amberville."  I replied, "We just did that."  "Please" he begged.  This player is a kid  

We agreed to help him and invited him to our group of two, which is now three.  Merrily we ran to Amberville.  Along the way, I found a couple more level 15 running along with us.  I invited them.  We are now a group of 5   It is a little army.  I invited everyone so I am the leader (I am also the highest rank in this group).  "Hey, why don't we do an elite quest?" I asked the group (knowing many of the lower levels will die).  The feeling of Power is undeniable and intoxicating. 

This feeling of power is trivial, I am sure, to a buddy of mine who was a beta tester of WOW.  The beta testers form a Guild called the Permafrost Guild and they were the first to complete the game is a few weeks.  Using a raiding horde of 40 players, they quickly put an end to the toughest Instances (real bad shit which guaranteed death to a single player).  The developers of WOW actually had to change some of the rules because of this group - heeheehee.

Back to the entertaining evening - working with a group is also a problem just like in real life.  We spend too much time debating what we are going to do - and time is precious for me.  The evening was fun as a group of players enter the killing zones and laid waste to the landscape.  We do not have to run around and hide and be sneaky.  We just walked in and blast everything that moved.   The players in the group were looking after each other and helping each other was also an amazing feeling. 

I made a friend last night - the kid who begged us to help him.  After helping him with the quest, I uninvited him from the group.  The poor kid was broken.  "Why?" he cried.  "Because, you are useless.  You do nothing and we do everything for you," I shot back at him.  I had watched him and he would sit back and waited for us to take out the monsters before he even strike.  I invited him back and after my buddy left we level together.  He was OK!  I guess he was over whelmed with two much higher characters and did not have the chance to show his abilities.  We work well as a team and he looked after me as much as I looked after him.  We ended at 11:30 PM.  "Where are you from?" I asked before we logged off.  "Rhode Island,"  he relied.   "Same time tomorrow night? he asked.  "Yeah," I answered with a smile.