Just Kill Me Now

I said I was working on my epic, right?

First thing a driud does is talked to Telin Darkforest.

He's standing hidden in the trees down in Burning Woods. I get to Burning Woods, run all the way from one end of the zone to the other, talk to him. He gives me a "worn note". I get ready to go and get attacked by a giant. I run away from the giant a bit, root the giant in place. By the time the spell goes off, the giant has managed to pin me against the wall and I can't get around him. I can't back up, I can't move left, I can't move right, I can't go forward. Stuck. Whap.

Loading. Please Wait.

I run back to Burning Woods, get my corpse, get my rez. Whew.

I take the "worn note" over to Greater Faydark. Over near the orcs of Crushbone, I'm supposed to meet my contact, a druid by the name of Faelin Bloodbriar. She's a random spawn, and her placeholder is an Orc Pawn. I go over there and spend two hours killing every orc I can find. Nothing.

A day later, I bring Balthenie with me over there.

"Here," I said. "You stay here where she's supposed to spawn and I'll kill orcs to try and make her spawn."

Stupid me, I forgot to mention that I just needed to give her something, not kill her. She spawns, Balthenie tries to root her in place. WHAM. Balthenie is dead in less than five seconds. At least I didn't hit her, so she was still happy enough to take the "worn note" and give me a "ring".

I drag my friend Evildoc (A dark Elf cleric) over to Gfay and have him rez Balthenie.

Then I take the ring and go over to Kithicor Woods to find a dark elf named Giz X'tin and give him the ring. He gives me a "worn coin" and a Dark Elf Reaver spawns and tries to make paste out of me. I run.

I take the "worn coin" back to Telin in Burning Woods and he gives me a "dark worn coin" and tells me to seek out Athele.

Once you see Athele, you have to have at least 8 people to do this next bit, and this is what I was doing last night.

You give the coin to Athele. She gives you a "worn grass amulet" and you have to start "gathering forces". Essentially what you do is run around the zone and get a bunch of high level druid NPCs. You give the amulet to Sionae, from her to Nulen, from him to Teloa and from her back to Athele.

After that, a Dark Elf Reaver and 2 Dark Elf Corrupters spawn up on the mountain side (where, if you are smart, and I am, you have the majority of your forces up waiting to pounce on them immediately.) I bound on the mountain, so as soon as they spawned, I gated back and helped maim the inkies. They didn't take long to drop over dead.

I looted the "Fleshbound Tome" (ewwwww gross) and ran back to Athele with it. I gave it to her and she gave me the "Earth Stained Note". I went to gate back again to my friends on the mountain.

You Have Been Disconnected.

FUCK!

Try to log back in.

Xegony - LOCKED

FUCK!

I log on to chat. GM says they're doing a rollback of 30 minutes. That means everyone goes back to their save point from 30 minutes ago. Well, shit. That means I should still have my coin, but we're going to have to kill the inkies again.

Finally, get to log back on.

My rollback point of 30 minutes ago was after I'd given the coin to Athele, but before she'd given me the amulet. So I have nothing. I have to start over from the beginning.

FUCK!

I have a petition in. So maybe I'll get something out of it. But you know, I doubt it. Verrant's awfully "well, sorry" about shit like that.

Posted by tisfan at October 24, 2002 11:33 AM