When not pranking orc patrols or raiding tauren towns, Shimmre, aka Sara Andrews, can be found peaceably hawking her guild, Oz, in the public channels of the World of WarCraft realm Shadow Moon. Twenty-five, transsexual, swinging long shifts as a showgirl at a gay nightclub in Nashville, and self-described as "usually quiet and reserved until [she gets] to know you," Andrews spent hundreds of hours in 2005 polishing her PVP skills and helming Oz. "I've always been a big videogame freak; ever since I was little, Nintendo was my life!" she says, laughing. "I discovered MMOs through Ultima Online, and I played that a little bit but never got into it. Then last summer a friend introduced me to WOW, and I really liked it, though I didn't care for remarks many of the players made, like the fact that everything is apparently 'so gay' when it's bad. So I decided to create my own guild, which would be GLBT friendly." Sometimes singing, other times slogging her way through WOW's exacting echelons to a formidable level 60, Andrews had big endgame plans for her developing guild--until January 12, 2006, that is, when a note from publisher Blizzard blinkered everything.