Two years ago, Tamalli organized Naked Molten Core on New Year’s Eve. We had a blast. I’d like to somewhat replicate that experience, only with a new group of people and perhaps a different venue. It needs to be a large enough place to take over 25 people if we have a lot of signups, it needs to be easy enough that we can get through at least part of it without equipping our uber tier 13 armor, it needs to be interesting and a bit alien… how about Ahn’Qiraj?

I know, I know, you probably all have questions. Here is my stab at answering them.

Can I at least wear underwear?
Your character has to start the encounter without any gear on. Your CHARACTER. You can be dressed up in fur coat and mukluks or you can be nekkid as a jaybird for all I care. Just don’t send pictures.

Is everyone invited?
Everyone who has a character high level enough to walk through the door.

Does this mean kids?
I’ll be bringing along my 11-year-old. Other kids may join in as well.

Uh oh. I’ll be drinking, and I might swear on vent.
That’s OK. My daughter can handle naughty language. She can’t handle people being mean, however, so don’t be mean. If your kid can’t handle the occasional f-bomb, this might not be the venue for them. If you can't drink without drifting into graphic sexual conversation, this might not be the venue for you.

What about loot?
I’m not going to set up Master Looter. It’ll be free roll for everything. Anyone who makes loot drama is voted off the island. It will be nice if folks are generous and donate nice loot to twinkish characters for whom this is a big upgrade, but if you want to save the carnivorous shoulders for some deranged transmogrification, that’s perfectly fine.
There are special mounts that drop in the instance that are only usable inside Ahn’Qiraj. These will be free-rolled too. Everyone wants the red one.

It’s so nice that you’re loaning your expertise to this instance…
Uhhh, what expertise? I’ve blasted through this instance behind people who know what they’re doing, precisely twice. I’m a Wrath baby. I intend to bumble along and probably will wipe the raid completely by accident at least once.

So, what precisely do you mean by ‘naked’?
No visible armor or weapons allowed, at first. Exceptions are festival clothing, fishing poles and chef’s hats. Lovely dresses and tuxes especially welcomed, since this is New Year’s after all. Especially if they’re worn by toons of nontraditional gender.
I also welcome transformational stuff. Halloween wands and bunny branches cluttering up your bank? Bring ‘em along! Haul out those extra ogre suits and deviate fish and noggenfoggers and archeology toys. We’ll probably have a number of bio breaks along the way while the adults go open fresh beers, so there will be chances to let our group creativity run wild. It’d be nice to return from bio break to a pile of skeletons and NOT have it be because someone pulled by accident…
Sometime over the course of the evening the little ones will be getting tired and we’ll want to hurry an encounter along. Any loot that drops in the instance is available to equip, of course, since you must show off new shinies and AQ stuff can sear the eyes. Somewhere before we reach C’Thun I’ll probably get tired of going so slowly and ask everyone to equip their uberawesome gear. Then we’ll finish the night by mowing down things like the vengeance of an angry mob.

We died gloriously multiple times to the bug trio boss, until I told everyone to put on their real weapons and we slaughtered them. And I told the mages it was OK if they cast spells...

The rest of the raid was fairly smooth. We wiped once or twice to the twin emps, then decided that if we wanted to get this done before the ball drop we ought to put on our real clothes. At which point things started dying left and right, and C'Thun was barely a hiccup.

I think Sedita got some really amazing-looking red-and-gold leg armor, and everyone got as many scarabs as they could stand. Now I just have to figure out what to do with all these scarabs and insignia and so forth...

The way this fight works is that Thrall and the Dragon Aspects help you as Deathwing tries to claw his way back out of the Malestrom, where he fell from the sky.  Each Aspect is flying over a platform, and you have to leap to each platform to "kill" Deathwing's claws and wings.  After downing a particular platform, you lose the ability granted by the Aspect associated with that platform.  Needless to say, there are a variety of corrupted old-world god adds that need to be killed and dealt with appropriately along the way.  After downing four platforms, you switch to phase two, which requires careful handling of two more types of adds, and a quick burn, as the lower his health gets, the higher AoE damage he puts out.  Ugh.  Anyway, he's DEAD!  Up next: heroic Morchak!  :)