Ever since I started playing EQ, I've wanted to go on a Vox or Nagafen raid. Lady Vox and Lord Nagafen are dragons, for those of you who don't already know that.

Vox lives under Permafrost, a castle in Everfrost Peaks. She's guarded by ice goblins and ice giants. She breathes ice-blasts of 300+ points of damage, hits something horrific like 20 times a round for 100+ points a blow, plus fear, plus spells.

Sounds like fun, yes?

Well, first off was the hurry up and wait. I was a good girl, showed up at the meet-place half an hour before we were supposed to. Phil and I sat down and waited. And waited. And waited. Killed a few ice-giants. And waited. Round about 8pm, we moved into the King Room (that's just to one side of Vox's lair). We killed Ice Giants for a while, clearing out the path to Vox's room. Phil got bored and angry after about an hour, and left. Ah well.

Round about 9:30, we moved into the prep room. (That's a small enclosure exactly next to Vox's Lair). At about 10, after we'd started organizing groups and stuff, the raid leader and his second both went link dead. And didn't come back. GAH! So we voted in a new Raid Leader (since we were all here anyway) and got moving again.

We did groups and group buffs. My total hit points after being buffed out the wazoo was 2800 (normal for me, unbuffed is about 1500) and Cold Resist was 247. Very very good.

About midnight, we charged. I got feared the second I stepped into the room and spun around in helpless circles for a while, then managed to regain control and ran up. She smacked me a few times down to 20% health before my cleric came to the rescue. I got breathed on once - ack! and then it was pretty much smooth sailing after that. I watched one of the Shadow Knights go down after he Harm Touched her for 286 points. My shaman friend, Lanadena got tail swiped into the pits and overrun by angry bears. Ow. One thief got a good backstab in and was immediately breathed on and evaporated. A druid dropped over after getting a snare to stick on her. One monk got low on hit points, tried to Feign Death and failed. Vox bit her. Crunch. Bye bye monk lady. And I'm not sure how the wizard dropped, I missed that.

However, no one in my group died (there were 8 groups total, 37 people) and only six people total died. Pretty good, all things considered. And I got the killing blow in, which pleased me to no end. And my group did the most damage to her, so we got the exps for the kill. Yay us!

The loot, however, was caster cloak, monk bag, lame bracelet, and two rogue spears. So, aside from some cash, I didn't get much out of it, save a bubble of exps. But hey, at least I got to go. And I had fun, which is cool.