Another evening with Pizmo

So, oh my gosh, it'd TOTALLY been more than a week since that amazing evening with Pizmo. And he kept telling me that we'd get together and do stuff, but then he stood me up again and again.. I mean, I know he's like an absent-minded inventor guy and stuff, but I mean... I guess I started totally thinking that he had changed his mind. Like, maybe he went home and was all, crap, I'm so in over my head or whatever.

So today, FINALLY, I convince him that we should get together and do something. So he asks me to meet him in Nagrand. OK. I kinda dozed off on my nether ray, and he woke me up, and asked me to go to one of the flying islands. Which, I mean, I like spending time with him and stuff, but it was kind of weird for the guy to suggest that we go sit and talk, you know? Unless he's just looking for action, but that doesn't strike me as Pizmo's style, know what I mean?

So, we get up there, and he looks at his gems, and then he's just quiet, but then he brings out some booze and starts nursing it. Now, I don't dig alcohol much, and it was weird for him to start drinking just out of nowhere, you know? And he was like twice as fidgety and sweaty and everything as usual. And I'm all, Pizmo, what's your deal? And he brushes me off, and offers me water which is totally gentlemanly and stuff, but isn't answering my question, you know?

So, I just let it go, and I asked him what he'd been up to, and he totally wigs out. After dragging it out of him, I find out he was totally doing community service in Ironforge. After MORE dancing around the issue, he fessed up. Remember last year sometime when some crazy gnome blew a hole in the side of the Deeprun Tram, saying it connected to Gnomeregan? Yeah, uh, that was Pizmo. I sure know how to pick 'em, huh?

But then he started explaining himself. He told me about evidences he'd found, and how angry he was that Ironforge had not lent any forces to help clean out Gnomeregan, how frustrated he was that the High Tinker hasn't really done anything besides send token adventuring parties in rather than launch a full-scale assault. And while I'm not sure I buy all the conspiracy theories and whatnot, I see where he's coming from.

He asked me if I thought he was crazy for all this. And you know what? Zandramas was crazy, in a delusional sort of way. I've known other really, truly crazy people. But Pizmo? He's a patriot that went about things the wrong way. Why should those who succeed be called freedom fighters and those who fail be called insane? And so I told him that. I think that pleased him as much as I was pleased the other night. I'm so thrilled he trusted me as much as I trusted him.