I remember how I hated when people wanted you to link epic achievement, since seen it as pointless, since it doesn't say anything about their current gear. With new tiers, it became meaningless, and now people use addons to measure how geared you are, and check your current gear, the one you will use on the raids. Of course it is far from perfect, since it speaks only about the level of gear and not your choice of gear.

But lets see the whole thing from a different perspective. If...

Speaking with anyone in any language is easy for an erinyes, but understanding anything written? Well, if we can read the text, or anyone can read the text to us, it might be possible, but when it is written using an unknown alphabet?
But I had a few coins with same kind of symbols on them, and soon I was able to guess which symbol means 1, 2, 5 or 0, not much but better than nothing.
Much better than nothing if the text to decipher contain a lot of numbers and formula. Inventories...

When people talk about the recent ban on Ensidia raiding guild a lot of arguments about a simple question: Was the exploit intentional? Conspiracy theories in comments to the post on wow.com seems to be interesting. But why such conspiracy theories are bad? Lets start with known and verifiable facts:

• Using the same item is standard practice
• Old log parses show that Ensidia members used the same items on regular basis.
• The encounter wasn't tested on PTR so noone had information about bug from

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I shouldn't use unknown portals as a means to escape. Ok, ok, if I can't teleport to a safe place it might be a good alternative, but you could end up in middle of the Blood War again.

A peaceful inn, many mortals around you, you would think it is a safe heavens for anyone who can afford to leave the forces of hell behind. But when you hear someone was murdered in the inn, and everyone in the room with the portal is suspect and one adventurers from there is arrested, that can make...

How would you introduce characters from prime material to endless possibilities of planar travel? Well, most of them stumbled uppon an unknown (to them) portal at the end of their background story.

They ended up in a strange inn, and some of the adventurers there were accused of murder, and while it quickly became apparent that the innkeeper worships devil, proving the innocence of the poor dwarf might be difficult.

What do the party know?

• The dwarf accused with murder

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