More Eq Stuff. Yeah, yeah, I know, get a life. Guess what? I have like five of them, and you get to read about them here. Aren't you happy? You should be =D
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Mandaroth: Oh, thank Karana! Zephy, can you come help us out here? We just got pasted cause we don't have a healer!
Here being The Lair of Infected Paw (or Splitpaw as it's more commonly known) a gnoll burrow in the middle of Southern Karana. It's a lower level zone, so I'm not too concerned (and with good reason, I could kill gnolls in my sleep, by myself). In any case, B and I go down and help them out for a bit, but we're getting less than no experience for doing so. Zephy's a druid, so I offer to drag us all up to Velious where we can hunt things a little bigger.
So, we go. And we hunt Ry'gorr Orcs. We had one bad pull in which another group dragged their Elite Guards over us (who then promptly wiped us out thoroughly) but they were kind enough to get their cleric to rez us all, which was a nice appology. At least I thought it was, you'd have thought someone offered to spit in Mandaroth's lunch as nice as he was about it. Asshole. It's not like they did it on purpose, and they did rez your sorry butt, so shut up and sit down.
We hunt for a while and gradually all of our guild ends up with real life things to do. We pull in other group members, a bard, a wizard (the same loot-happy ninja wizard I mentioned a while back, as a matter of fact), and a monk with an absolute boatload of pre-programmed social buttons, most of which he pushes without having the right target lined up. "Damaramu aims a Flying Kick of Death at Target! Prepare to die!"
Someone shows up to do the Ring Quest, so we start packing up our things to get out of the way. It's a good plan. Ring Quest, particularly the later parts of it, are very dangerous, even if you're just happening to be in the way. Someone else calls out that there's a free snow griffen egg on the north side of the Ry'Gorr fort. Balthenie only needs two more of them to finish off her 4th Shawl Quest, so we peel out of there to claim the egg.
We get the egg, decide we're done pissing around at the Ry'Gorr fort anyway and that we're going to evac to the bridge to hunt Snow Griffons. Balthenie only needs one more egg now.
Zephy: We'll go over to the bridge and hunt Griffs. ::casts the spell to teleport them to the bridge::
::zoning. Please Wait::
A Snow Griffon claws you for 80 points of damage!
A Snow Griffon claws you for 71 points of damage!
A Snow Griffon claws you for 55 points of damage!
We landed on its head. That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, really. But hey, when opportunity knocks.... you kick his ass. So we did.
And now Balthenie has her +4 wis/int shawl. On to pottery and Quest #5 of 8.