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Last night I was in Mal's house and messaged Shadowstone to see what he was up to. Malacin and I wanted to take Magus to see the new Pillar of Flame in Wind, as he hadn't seen it yet. Shadowstone was already in Wind with Augur Wildwood, so Malacin and I joined them. A few minutes later Edison messaged me and I promptly summoned him and Magus. We puttered around Wind for a a little while, leisurely making our way to the Park entrance.

We dropped down into the park and had a fine time introducting ourselves to the new inhabitants. Gone are those ugly snakes and pesky frenzied ostards. No more gargoyles or gazers or shadow knights. Instead we encountered some blazing spectres, Apostles of the Pillar and fire elementals.

We dispatched the new fiery inhabitants and gathered round the Pillar of Fire. We all touched it and instantly felt smarter. (Granted the warriors among us thought they should touch it multiple times, but alas, they still only felt a little smarter).

While we were all getting smarter, we heard the death cries of Nia Atei. We decided to go help in the search for her corpse. We made it as far as the entrance to the park, up on the roof that contains the teleporter. We received word that others had reached her first and that she had been rescued.

We all got to talking and before too long, Leia Ranar and her pretty purple dragon showed up. She was on her way to the Pillar so we wandered down to the park again to make sure she reached it safely. She indeed reached the Pillar safely (not really due to our ragtag escort service). After she got to feeling smarter, we again ended up at the rooftop teleporter.

There we sat for a while. The men must have gotten into Grampa Ranar's private stock because they were half mindless, but definitely good for a few laughs. Leia and I just shook our head at their silliness. I think the strain of constantly battling evil had finally gotten to them.

Inevitably, our moments of relaxation were interupted by the arrival of some of Wind's finest. We quickly dispatched the townies, laughing at their weakness.

Before too long, some really strange things began to happen. I think we were all affected by the strange mood that had overtaken Shadowstone, Magus, Edison and Augur and could scarcely believe our eyes. What followed was nothing more than sheer lunacy.

A Lord of the Abyss turned Magus into a frog. Suddenly we under attack from all sorts of odd creatures. Purple wisps, a legion of pigs, an ophidian eldar, a squad of Titans, bewitched snipers (now those were just plain weird...green heavy crossbows floating eerily around and packing a mean wallop), some little creatures called mephets, flesh gollems, a buzzard, Frost Giant Shaman, a vampiric ostard. The list of bizarre creatures went on and on. I was seriously beginning to doubt our sanity and, indeed, thought the crazy hallucinations were going to be the death of us. Somehow we all survived this underworld explosion of strange and wondrous creatures.

My ramblings here can't begin to touch on the amazing hilarity and fun we all experienced last night. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Daeric.

We had more fun than I can possibly express in this little post. I laughed so hard and for so long that my sides hurt when I finally dragged myself off to Dreamland.

Cloudchaser wrote:My ramblings here can't begin to touch on the amazing hilarity and fun we all experienced last night. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Daeric.

We had more fun than I can possibly express in this little post. I laughed so hard and for so long that my sides hurt when I finally dragged myself off to Dreamland.

*mumbles something about people not clearing their help pages*

Would you believe that was an introduction to a quest I've been planning?
Me either. No story line, no plot. Just a hodge-podge of monsters I'd come up with during my Seer days. I must admit I had some assistance having sport with you all. Siobhan graced you all with a few of her wicked minions as well.
It was great fun for us too!
Thank you all for being such good sports.

Daeric

Well thank you to Siobhan too!!

It really was a hilarious riot of fun..We were all in that kind of a silly mood, all of us, and your antics were just perfect!

(edited to spell Siobhan's name right to avoid a lightning strike )

Alas, I was supposed to write this up but my log file wasn't saved so it took me a while to remember everything. I'll post it anyway, just in case a few more laughs can be had from it.

Well, I started my day Monday fishing with Iarwain. Shadowstone messaged me asking if I wanted to hunt. I'd finally got Iarwain's stats maxed and thought: "Why not. One of SS' hunts is sure to put him to the test." Little did I know what was in store for me.

So, SS and I went to Wind. All was well until we entered a room with about 6 mages of various types and a black wisp. Iarwain (after a valiant fight) bit the dust. SS told me Cloudchaser and Malacin wanted to join in and the timing was perfect. SS rezzed me and suggested maybe I'd like to get Augur since Cloud could pick locks... I readily agreed.

After some login problems I returned to find SS with CC, Malacin, Edison, and Magus (forgive me if I forgot anyone or got a name wrong – my log wasn’t saved). We proceeded to kill and loot everything that stood in our way. At one point a magic Two Handed Axe was found and Magus called: "Dibs". This started a round of "Dibs" calling that immediately went beyond silly. People called Dibs on loot, on chests, on monsters, and on the entire dungeon.

We fought on, ending up at the Park to visit the Pillar of Flame. Once that area was clear we weren't sure what to do and stood around the teleporters talking. The discussion eventually turned to the idea for a new "Dibs" looting system that someone wanted to propose (in jest) on the Quest Forum. During this powow, Leia Ranar's death cry was heard and we learned she was in Wind so we crossed the teleporters and cleared that area... but it turned out we didn't know exactly where she was, so the discussion continued (I learned during this that Leia had help coming) -- six of us just standing around in the middle of Wind being silly.

Eventually Leia found us. We continued talking, calling Dibs on everything and anything all the while (by this time, we were discussing a way to call "Dibs" on the shard for a day or week and various dot commands that would facilitate this, such as: .dibs <dungeon> or .dibsallyourlootismine, etc.). About this time a GM (who shall remain nameless) showed up in answer to a page I had forgotten about (the situation resolved itself). That taken care of, we all thanked the GM and I apologized for wasting their time. Interestingly, right after the GM disappeared some mobs starting showing up... just townies to start with. We quickly dispatched them and I joked that maybe it was a gift from the GM. Someone else said something less charitable and I quickly warned them to be careful what they said... but did they listen?

Almost immediately mobs of all shapes and sizes started appearing. Monsters we'd never seen before, wierd ones, big ones, nasty ones! Lots of them! This was the respawn from Hell!!! First up was an Abyss Lord with a strange name. This was followed by Shadow Mages, Poison Frogs, more townies, Ruffians, Flame Wisps, many others I can’t remember, and finally a plague of pigs and Titans.

In short, we had a ball. We kept reasonably well together, healing each other and taking out whatever was thrown at us. Not one of us died, although there was one injury -- CC complained of severe abdominal pains from laughing too hard all night long.

P.S. - Thanks Daeric and Siobhan!!! It was a blast!