I haven’t updated this in forever - mostly because I’ve been busy with Davefest, school, and sleep. But here is a tale of true wtf - it’s from Tab’s suitemate, and he just emailed it to me. Read it.
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Brendan talking about his roommate Brooks:
So I got Brooks to start playing WoW over Christmas break, because ya know, it’s a fun game and all and I wanted him to play. So we start some characters together, and he comes back from the break freaking playing nonstop. I’m levels behind him, and I don’t wanna play catch up, so I just play on my main (character Brendan plays the most). Brooks keeps leveling and is on all the time now. He’s constantly on Vent (Ventrilo, a program players use to speak via microphone to each other) talking to his guild mates and stuff. One day I come back to the room, and it’s like 6 or 7 at night, and Brooks is saying he’s just about to start his guild runs of instances (dungeons). He keeps going and going on this stuff until I go to bed. At around noon the next day he finally finishes and goes to sleep on his bed. A couple hours later he wakes up freaking out, saying he’s missed half of this really important class.
The thing is, this professor docks an entire letter grade for every class missed. So he was like, “Dude let me borrow your phone” to his suitemate Chris, and of course he said sure. He goes outside to call, and comes back in freaking out even more. After Chris asked him what happened, I overhear him saying “OK I called my professor and told him that I was in Houston because my dad had been shot in the chest and I couldn’t come to class.” (AHAHAHA)
So what the hell?! After awhile I begin hearing from the kids in the class talking about Brooks, and how he never shows up anymore. Something about his dad. I find out that the kid has been skipping all of his classes, using the same “my dad has been shot excuse.” He had been playing WoW the entire time. To see what Brooks was up to, I went up to him and asked him what was up with his dad, that he had heard something had happened to him. Brooks actually starts to tell me that his dad had been shot in the chest and was in a coma. I ask what happened, and he responds with:
“My dad (lives in the Woodlands) was driving to work when he saw a car crash ahead of him on the freeway. He stopped at the crash and got out of his car. Someone from the crash had also gotten out of his car, and was a gang member. A rival gang did a drive-by, shot the gang member from the crash, and shot my dad twice in the chest. My dad went to the hospital and slipped into a coma. And he just got out of it today!”
I ask him why the hell he hasn’t said anything about it to me, so far, since his dad was supposedly shot like two weeks ago, and was JUST NOW coming out of the coma. He said that he didn’t want to worry us. Thought it might be too much of a hassle. Chris and I confront him about it, because he had TOLD us about the lying he did to the professor for missing the class. He says:
“Yeah, I was lying to my professor, but the day after my dad really did get shot. I think God is punishing me for lying.”
We’re not sure if we should believe him or not. I mean, he has been lying to everyone around him in an attempt to play more WoW, so is he lying to us, too?
A couple days later, we decide to find out on our own. While Brooks was sleeping, I took his phone and copied down his sister’s number. Chris and I went out to the study room and put the phone on speaker phone. We called his sister. I identified myself as his roommate and asked if anything had happened to her dad, if he had possibly been…. Shot? She freaks out and starts to yell at us, things like “HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?” etc etc, and we know that Brooks is definitely lying.
A few days later, I hear my alarm clock going off. A nice, lazy sounding wave that I programmed it with. I reach up to turn it off, and hear a deep voice:
“How could you wake up to that?”
I wake up with a start and realize that Brooks’ dad was next to me. His dad explained to me that he was here because of his worthless son. He had to ask all his professors to please not fail him, because he’s a compulsive liar.
Brooks told us that he had to uninstall World of Warcraft… but we caught him playing it through the blinds a couple days later. We confront him again about it, and he just denied playing. At about this time Brooks moves out of the room.
No, he still “lives there.” He just doesn’t sleep, visit, or do anything in the room anymore. He really lives down in a study lounge, playing WoW in almost all his spare time. Basically, his life consists of eating, WoW, drinking, WoW, sleeping a little out of the room (couches and the study lounge) and maybe playing WoW on occasion. Brendan caught him once in the lounge with his headset on. When Brooks say him, he alt-tabbed out and closed his laptop, acting all friendly.
Brooks’ new thing is trying to pretend he is out of the room at all times for a few reasons:
A) He has to improve his grades! He has to study all the time! He has so much homework, he had to stay over Spring Break just to get it all done. Except when I looked online at his character, I could see it leveling up.
B) He knows this girl that he really wants to date. He has to spend all his time trying to impress her and hang out with her and stuff. Still leveling up.
lol
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