Playing a game of Duck, Duck, Goose has become a tradition amongst PvP players in the Alea Iacta Est guild. Games are usually held prior to entering a Battleground (While waiting for the battleground instance to start) in the battleground waiting area. Games are also frequently played during the proceedings of a PvP meeting.
To play Duck, Duck, Goose a group of players sit in a circle, facing inward, while another player, the ‘picker’ (a.k.a. the ‘fox’), walks around tapping or pointing to each player in turn, calling each a ‘duck’ until finally picking one child to be a ‘goose’. The ‘goose’ then rises and chases and tries to tag the ‘picker’, while the ‘picker’ tries to return to and sit where the ‘goose’ had been sitting. If the picker succeeds, the ‘goose’ is now the new picker and the process begins again. If the ‘goose’ succeeds in tagging the picker, the goose may return to sit in the previous spot and the ‘picker’ resumes the process.
The tradition of playing Duck, Duck, Goose was started by a group of AIE players while waiting for an instance of Arathi Basin. 1) The players at this mythical first gathering were:
