I was on random queue last night, and as a general rule, I don't use voice chat with randoms because I have a feminine voice, and that goes very poorly 99.9% of the time.
But I get matched, and we're all adjusting gear before we go into this dungeon, and a dude comes on chat to ask if we need to trade anything. Full Appalachian accent.
Another dude responds, full Southern.
Another guy hops on chat, and you can just hear the glee in his voice as he says that he's good, also in a southern accent.
It is at this point that this shit is too good, so I take a risk and go, "Nah, I'm good too, stocked up just before" in full tilt Appalachian.
Then second dude just goes, "Holy shit, are we all...? Hey, Last Dude's Name, do you have a mic?"
And the last dude hops in with this thick Mexican-Spanish accent and apologizes for the sound quality on his mic.
Then first dude goes, "Oh shit where are you from?"
And he goes, a little hesitantly, "My family was from Mexico, but I grew up in Texas."
You know the exact sound teenage boys make when someone lands the most perfect trick shot bottle flip? Because that was us.
"Damn!" Says first dude, "We got us the whole ass southern spectrum!"
Hands down the best fucking random group I have ever gotten. We sat there for like, 30 minutes just chatting. Me and Texas dude were best friends in two minutes flat, and we talked about not using the voice chat for obvious reasons, and the other guys were really sympathetic about it. Appalachian dude said he was teaching his daughter to play, but wouldn't let her use the mic for that exact reason.
It took us half an hour just to, you know, start the dungeon. Which was only supposed to be a half hour long dungeon anyway.
The stars shall never again align for me in such a way. The odds of getting 5 rednecks in the same random group on a fantasy mmo rpg game are already abysmally small. But for one glorious hour, it actually happened.
We didn't end up friending each other after for dungeon crawls, mostly because we were all on wildly different levels and positions. Southern dude 2 had only just qualified for the dungeon by level, Texas dude was spending most of his time building up a new character, me and southern dude 1 were both endgame players, and Appalachian dude said he was mostly spending time teaching his daughter to play and so wasn't actually active much.
So if Southern dude 2 hadn't literally just hit the level wall that afternoon, and Texas dude had decided to build his other character instead, and me and Southern dude 1 hadn't taken a break from grinding the new endgame content, and Appalachian dude hadn't decided to stay up and play his own character for old time's sake, we never would have met. The stars must have actually aligned, I swear, but we were all going back to our regularly scheduled gameplay and probably wouldn't be helpful to each other.
Like ships passing in the night, or whatever. I think I'll be comparing that random group to every one after for the rest of my life.
