Zakk of the Bay – Michael Bay & “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Zakk_of_the_Bay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Sittin%27_On)_The_Dock_of_the_Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug
Khonsu seeks vengeance against your wizard as you have visited many worlds of the Spiral and left them all changed. In your wake, economies have shifted, empires fallen, plagues have been wiped away, rebellions have become regimes and legends have come back to life. Khonsu has united those you have stepped on and now your friends are doomed.
Mellori, Ozzy, Dyvim Whiteheart, Istar, Ivan, Pork, Stallion Quartermain, and Ceran Nightchant have been taken captive and scattered across Selenopolis. After rescuing Ceren, Istar, Ozzy, Pork, Quartermain, Ivan and Dyvim, Baba Yaga provides your Myth Wizard with some insight into Khonsu. She sends you back to Selenopolis to find the coherent story about Khonsu by talking to the storytellers. Zakk of the Bay is one of those storytellers.
Zakk of the Bay has a stories. BOOM! All stories go BOOM! And vrrroooooooooooooooom and choppy-chop, punch-punch. What if there was a hero and they were all nice and, like, friendly, and then dower and mean and they blew everything up?
Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Slowly.
And then they save they save the world and the grain. It takes eight hours.
Your wizard is not interested and cannot grasp Zakk’s intellectual sophistication.
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$6.6 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-most commercially successful director in history.
He is co-founder of the production house the Institute. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).
“(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is a song co-written by the soul singer Otis Redding and the guitarist Steve Cropper. Redding recorded it twice in 1967, including just three days before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. It was released on Stax Records’ Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous #1 single in the US. It reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Redding started writing the lyrics in August 1967 while staying on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song in Memphis with Cropper, a Stax producer and the guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.’s. It features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore.
The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Zakk of the Bay image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Michael Bay image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright Simon Davison and is shared under the CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons License.
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay album cover is borrowed from Amazon.com and is copyright Volt / Atco
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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