So close we can smell it

(Apologies for no photos at this point, I need to pull them off my computer! )

We've been working Siegecrafter Blackfuse for a couple of days now. Yesterday we finally got him down.

Wipe after wipe of perfecting sawblade positions, laser kiting, belt management etc we got there. I was on the belt at the time, when Tsff started the count down to the kill. 
I'd got distracted and wasn't in a good place to use disengage and I don't trust myself with the pipes so I had to wait to be pulled from the belt. I got down while the boss was at 6%. Panic kind of set in as the electromagnet started to pull us back and sawblades were flying around. Slowly, his health went down and boom! He was down and we were screaming! Killing this thing was a triumph, after all those wipes we got better and better and none of us could contain our jubilation at it.

For once we actually needed people to roll on a bit of loot! Tier shoulders dropped but they would have made three tier pieces for three people. Ant won the roll and Blunnerz ended up with a shiny trinket to replace his lfr one. Nanutzza also got lucky on her personal roll and got a tier piece for her warlock.

We ran on to Paragons. Stopping in the doorway to the tunnel to quickly regroup. The trash were pulled just as Tsff said to stack up to stop them jumping around. Tauti and Tauli (<this was confusing in the name department!) both ended up as bug food. Once the trash in the tunnel and in the Paragon room were dead and everyone ressed, Tsff pointed out the crystal that starts the encounter. We were all grouped around it when Nanutzza joked about clicking it and you get a mount. This joke is probably never going to get old, even in WoD. Jolly then piped up saying he had to explain the joke to his work mates (Hello Jollys workmates!) as they had read about us making more mount jokes while Jolly was away. Remenising about the Elegon run, we all had a laugh. Which quickly turned to horror as the bosses came down. People scattered like frightened sheep. Turning back around we had no choice but to go for it without any real clue about who was doing what due the the ninja pull! We blamed Flinkan because of his 'anti-downtime' stance. He denied it. "Check who has a new mount" Nanutzza joked. Jolly apologised and said it was him. There's no mount Jolly!

Flinkan and his downtime. We had been spending about five minutes between each wipe buffing, eating and generally musing about things. Flinkan was getting impatient and made a post about cutting down on 'downtime'.
We all paid attention to this and endeavoured to hurry up with wipe recovery. It went well. I have two people who spam me to remind me to eat!
It has now moved on to pointing out every single time Flinkan isn't ready or needs to go and reforge etc.
One night while we were grouped up and ready to go, Flinkan was finishing some PvP he was doing. Downtime Flinkan! He said he would be a minute so the pull timer went up for 59 second with the threat that if he wasn't here he would be paying the first round of repairs (We were joking of course). We have now got very quick at wipe recovery but Flinkan without fail will get 'downtime' yelled at him if he asks for repairs, needs to eat, needs to pee...

We tried again and this time pulled properly. We used hero at the start and got through the first two bosses before we got eaten by bugs. After looking up some tactics and getting advice from Alrysia we went again. This time deciding to use hero when Korven was in his amber. When the boss landed hero was popped.
"Errr... hero on the first amber..." Tsff said.
We got through it anyway and battled on.
There were many moments with "who is next?" Being asked. At one point we were killing the wrong one due to confusion/not being able to pronounce the bosses name.
We had three left when Ant got eaten by a Kunchong. Sad times.

Dusting ourselves off we went again. Flinkan had asked for this to be our last try as it was getting late. We all agreed. After a few bosses went down I had aim on me and Blunnerz yelled "feign death!" over ts. Terrified due to the silent concentration being broken I clicked my button like a mad woman (it wasn't keybound at that time) and accidentally clicked the button next to it as well.
"HAHAHAHAHA OMG HAHAHAHAHAHA" I was in fits of laughter and couldn't see through the tears.
"You're alive?! What's wrong?" Tsff asked, concerned at what doom was going to fall on us all.
"Omg I'm so sorry!" Was all I could muster in between giggles.
"Oh... we have hero?!" Tsff was really confused. As Flinkan is a shammy the hero icon was identical to his, Tsff couldn't work out why we had been given hero considering Flinkan had been instructed to use it on the amber. "That was you? I was trying to work out what was going on and I was looking through my buffs"
We got to the enrage timer with Tsff the only one alive on the last Paragon. The timer hit.
"Oooh he got big" Nanutzza said over ts.
"And I shall die now" Tsff replied as his face hit the floor.

After this wipe (lololol) we regrouped and Flinkan agreed to another go. Unfortunately while we were eating and re flasking someone managed to pop hero again.
"Oh dear"
"Haha"
"Hero?"
We gave it a half hearted shot but wiped on the 7th boss.

After many calls for another try we went again.
[Raid chat][Flinkan] I'm going to rage quit if someone pops hero again

We got to about the 3rd boss, by this time we were tired and we're being eaten by parisites as Tsff lost the bug boss for a few seconds. We had a good crack at it and had got so close.

"You know what's through those doors..." I said looking towards the final room.
"Heirlooms!" Blunnerz replied.
"Haha! Yes. Shiny shiny heirlooms"

WoW before football

We have a thread for 'Slacking Off' from raids due to holidays, buisness trips etc

There's a lot of holiday dates in there currently which is good for being able to plan back up raiders.

Flinkan then added that he might not be able to raid due to a football match being broadcast... which prompted the reply of 'WoW ho's and bro's before football!'

Consulting the officers online about this (reality: telling them that he was down as tentative as he might watch the match instead of raid) I was given some good advice.

[6.TRJOffice][Hunternessa] GUILD KICK

hehehe

Update!

Everyone logged in!
There was much grousing going on in guild chat about it all though which had me mildly distracted.
Also on the forum there is a thread about downtime between wipes. On there I stupidly stated that I always forget to eat after a wipe, Flinkan took it upon himself to whisper me to remember. The first time worked! Add soon as it popped up I ate. The second time he didn't whisper so I forgot and only realise after we wiped that I hadn't eaten or used a flask. Bad Flinkan. I asked over ts if he had made a macro to spam me after a few more post-wipe whispers
[Raid chat ][Flinkan] Oh that's a good idea =)

Oh dear...

What to do when people are afk

We had an awful time last night. Poor Treehouse kept being disconnected and after 20 minutes we drafted in Woggins to help out. I'm not sure what he was expecting as it sure as hell wouldn't have been the precision that goes into an RT1 or 2 raid!

Blunnerz was having computer issues so Woggins got the brunt of the zeppelins that we had saved up. This involved much sniggering as he asked over ts "I've got a zeppelin, who threw that?"

At one point Ant had to take a phone call from his Mum. Which resulted in the typical teenage whining being typed out into raid chat...












Conversation soon turned while we were waiting for people to get back to their keyboards to the Black Prince rep that was getting a boost. Prefect time to have a joke at Flinkans expense this time.

"Hey Flinkan have you seen that the drop rate for the runestones is going up for a week?" I said. Putting the fox amongst the hens. I was greeted by this as way of a reply.




Followed swiftly by...

Busy doing nothing

I can't remember when this was but we were at Juggers. Rather than preparing to kill it, we had a typical RT3 moment where we got insanely distracted and went off looking at other things.

Due to the fact that Blizzard have built the SoO raid into the physical world that you can see and explore and have just added the bosses (just like the destroyed Golden Lotus quest hub) it's almost like you are 'phased' when you are there with your group. Technically, people could be flying over you but you can't see them and they can't see you...

Anyway. (See! So easily distracted!) Being right outside Ogrimmar, we got distracted by the 'village' outside and went off to explore it while a few people were afk. There's not an awful lot to see there. Some trolls, some more trolls, a troll by a tent... Then we caught sight of the horizon. There was only one thing to do, run through the Barrens!
We ran in different directions and I hit a wall. Except my wall was a giant void like I'd fallen off the edge of Azeroth itself.




Finally coming back after trying to see if I could fall under the Barrens. We got into position to kill Juggers. Someone asked what the plan was exactly. Flinkan promplty replied with the short version of what we were doing.




Unfortunately, Jollyjanes monumental effort at trying to make it through the boss still hasn't lost its comedy value and he was still trying to be coaxed into running through again. It's a very shiny mount you get! He wasn't going to fall for that again and steadfastly remained in one place.



We did get Juggers down, the actual fight was a blur of bombs and spiky things coming out of the floor. And I'd bet my laptop that 1- a cloak dropped and 2- we disenchanted everything. We moved on to our favorite bosses in the whole wide world of Azeroth. While clearing trash at one point we pulled four packs and several of us were tanking/dying/running around like headless chickens. After clearing all the trash there was one thing that entertained us for longer than the loot.



Yeah, we shamelessly looked up the treasurers skirt... He's clearly not the brains of Ogrimmar!

Heart of STUPID BUGS!!

Tuesday was a strange one. I was late, Tsff was away on business, Jolly got caught at work and Tauti had to go into work.
Three people down and we needed something to do.

Naturally, the first thing that sprang to mind was an Elegon run. With Marv and Rawls joining us we headed over to try and get us a piece of see through serpent.

We were a bit over excited and started clearing with just one healer. No one realised until I saw that Ant's name wasn't the usual bright orange it normally is. Rolling over the other name that was a dull colour I noticed that Flinkan wasn't with us either.
"Hang on, we only have one healer!" I spluttered as Marv ran down the stairs to the first boss. As I was running back after going off to investigate a hallway. Luckily, there was enough trash to keep us occupied until Flinkan got to us and I stopped wandering off like a small child.

Ant however was no where in sight and the bosses got pulled. I let an 'errr' go out over ts as I fixated on Ant's name and the fact he was still at the shrine. Like a rabbit in the headlights, I watched everyone batter the lion-dogs while I tried to work out what to do about Ant.
"Oh shit! He's not here?" Marv asked as he occupied all three bosses. "Sorry Ant! We've started without you!"
"You didn't need anything did you?" Blunnerz asked.

There were several jokes about how we might struggle to get this boss down or that we might all die due to the damage. One of the jokes had hardly been finished when the bosses died.

We pressed on and got to the second boss, assuming that Ant was on his way. We got in the ring and everyone was there. Onwards!
This one seemed over before it had begun! The boss gave us all a tickle and then fell over. Without hesitating we ran on.

The next few bosses were no trouble and were down before we could make many wise-crack remarks about wiping.
When we got to the trash before Elegon, Marv pulled the first group and we just seemed to lose our senses and just attacked anything that moved. There were several calls for "I'm tanking" as Marv had to herd all the trash up again.
"Are you shooting the big ones?" He asked as he chased one of them around.
"Yeah" someone said, carrying on attacking.
"Oh! I was going for the little ones and I was wondering why they were all running away!"

Someone died. It wouldn't be a proper RT3 run if someone didn't die on trash. Getting them up after the last trash went down we stood near the console looking into the abyss.

"If you jump to the middle you get a mount!"
"Oh if only Jolly was here with his heroic leap"
"Are we going to switch this thing on?"

We did switch it on and set to work. Protector thingys were killed, balls were nuked, the floor was evacuated by everyone... Well. Almost everyone.
Flinkan suddenly had a fit over his keyboard and 'jfsfjkofvj r syjgerghfdgj' was typed out. As we were stood on the outer edge of the ring, killing the columns we saw Flinkans nice shiny blue bar suddednly turn black and the word 'dead' was emblazoned across it. Oh dear.

 



 

 

Alas, there was no mount so we carried on and killed the last boss. I've always wanted to click the machine so I did, causing everyone to scramble down to the lower room. Marv then realised he was the only tank. With a high pitched "errrr! Ok!" coming from him the mobs started coming. Killing them quickly enough for there to be a substantial pause in between the waves, we had time to stand there and twiddle our thumbs for most of it.

 
We then went into HoF. There we managed to ninja pull the first boss and despite not everyone being prepared we got it down fairly quickly. However, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get through the spiraly shit on the floor and right before the boss died my char seemed to give up the will to live (or the healers forgot about me again) and I crumpled up into a neat little pile on the floor.

When we got to the Wind-Lord, everyone sighed.
"I have never made it to the other end on this character" I said. The only time I've done it is on Lilouann, I really wished I was on her now!

The first phase was fine, got through that really easily. The second... Well. I was running to the other end of the hall when I got a heroic leap away from the boss when two whirlwinds appeared in front of me. I was doomed.
"Oh for fucks sake! I was nearly there!" I groused over ts. Nanutza was having similar issues. Although she managed to die.
"I'll just wait for the boss to come to my corpse" she laughed.
While I was messing around in the middle the rest of the team were doing a good job of killing the boss and when I was almost at them again he died.
"Hurray"
Not the most excited of responses to a boss kill but I was just glad it was dead.
Next on the agenda was Garalon.



After killing the trash, the big bug bastard appeared.
"Aw! Now I can't get my loot!" I complained.
We did a little tactic discussion and managed to ninja pull it.
"Omg run away!"
There was a massive scramble to the stairs but three of us were stuck in side. Feigning death I waited for Snuggles to die before I got killed by dots. I didn't make it. Stupid flappy bat-fish killed me again...
Up we got and tried again. With Marv dragging it around, we got half way and then wiped time after time. We regrouped and discussed what we needed to do and what was killing us.
While we were chatting, Blunnerz chucked down a healing aoe and pulled. Again we scrambled for the stairs as Garalon started to lumber down them.
"What the hell! That's not fair that he can get over the wall!"
There were pheremones everywhere as people were running around the small room waiting for him to reset. You would have thought we would have learnt not to ninja pull the boss. Oh no... We did it another three times.
"God damn it"
"Run!"
"I forgot! The healing spell pulls the boss!"

Marv suddenly piped up with a suggestion.
"If I was on my other char then we could kill this no problem"
"We could summon you?" Nanutza said as Treehouse created a summoning portal.
"Oh yeah! I'm not locked in this one! Haha be right back!"
Once in, it took us all off two seconds to kill the stupid bug...

We didn't have as much luck with the Blade Lord.
Although I did learn something that with all the times I've run this, I did not realise I could do this until Rawls said about it.
We had too many people in amber to break out than we had people without the debuff. Rawls suddenly mentioned as we were looking at a raid completely encased in amber.
"This is where you want movement trinkets" he mused.
"Omg my racial!" I yelled.
And then as a beautiful harmony we both said at the same time...
"Every man for himself!"

DOH!

A hard decision but totally worth it!

Last night was raid night. Hurrah, back to our ten group.

We were waiting outside shrine for Jolly to log on and Tauti to overcome her pc woes.
Everyone was goofing around, running around the steps on mounts or spam healing everyone in sight. Blunnerz had earlier on in the day said he was going to try Holy for Thok so he was lighting up the floor with his oh so glittery healing aoe.
Looking at it is pretty mesmerising. So shiny. But considering I have a bit of moonwalking going on when I get out side of the shrine I was beginning to wonder if our conversation about the sparkly floor and lagging might come true.






"Blunnerz, how are you doing with Holy? You had much practice?" I asked, eager to see if this new spec seemed promising. The smallest, stroppy voice came back over TS.
"I don't like it."
Oh dear.

Conversation soon turned to what boss to start on. We had two options. The faceroll of Malkorok or go straight to Thok. It was an 'umm-errrr' moment. Do we continue from the terrible dino or work towards him? More importantly, did people need anything from them if we did go in from part three? I checked the raid journal to see what dropped from them both (after clicking on the game menu and then the shop icon first) I needed a ring from Malkorok so if I needed something chances were that others did too.
"We're going to Malkorok first!"
With that decision we stood around shrine again.
Flinkan was getting impatient.
"We have to wait for Tauti! Verdie is sorting her pc out" I said. Calm yourself little goat!

However it made sense to go in and clear trash. We sent Jolly and Flinkan in first.

"Did anyone see my amazing flying?" Jolly asked.
"Did you struggle to find the door?" I asked just as I crashed into the wall next to the HUGE archway.
"I struggled to find any open space to fly in. I found walls, trees, rocks..."

At last however we were safely inside and waited for the trash to apear. Tauti was still trying to log on so we worked through the trash so she could just run in.
Just as trash was pulled, I needed to go afk. I positioned myself at the back of the group where I would be safe and nipped away. When I came back I was dead.
"I'm dead"
"Yes as we just explained, we're bad tanks" Tsff said. The sacrificing had begun.

They actually came back to res me, which says a lot about my loading screen time considering I was a foot from the door. Snuggles cane back out and we pressed on.
We got to Malkorok and got him down on the first try. Huzzah! I was however dead and was waiting to be ressed as I wanted to know if my ring was on him or if I should use my last roll. It wasn't, I rolled and got my ring! For my solo luck, Blizzard decided to curse the group and give us a cape. Again we disenchanted both items.

We were by the spoils guard when I was positioned in front of Blunnerz and was having to eat cookies to try and stay alive. When I finally snuffed it I aired my complaints on ts.
"Blunnerz! I was stood right in front of you and you let me die!"
"Toatally an... accident" Blunnerz sniggered. "Plus I was looking at my raid groups not who was in front of me! "
"Is that what you do when you heal?" Jolly asked.
"Yes" came the chorus of replies from those that had a healer.
"Isn't that a bit... boring?" He questioned, the disbelief that you could go through a raid just looking at a disco floor grid rather than the actual fight.
"Yes it is" Blunnerz replied.
"Do it with a blank screen!" I helpfully added
"Alt-z! Then it won't be boring!" Tsff chirrped in with.
"That's awesome!" Jolly suddenly piped up with. The joys of a display free screen now apparent to him.

While we waited for a few to run in, I tried to take a screen shot of the floor to replace the 'amazing' technical drawings I'd done for the forum. I panned up slightly and noticed huge panda boxes on the wall above the room.
"It would be awesome if we could open those" I thought aloud. People came over to see what I was looking at.
"Ooh or that horde box" Blunnerz added.

I looked at the floor again and worked through my amazing plan in my head.


I'd put instructions for our side on the forum for everyone to know what to open and when, with the points each colour would grant us when dead. It meant I shouldn't get the compete brain freeze I usually got when running into the other section and stalled telling Jolly what to open.


On our first attempt we got to the last mob in the second section getting down to 4% before we ran out of time.
Such cries of woe have never been heard before. Stunned that we had got so close we picked ourselves up and went again. And again. And again. One side would have a good run and the other side die and then the next try the good run side would die and then the other would make it. This carried on for about eight wipes and then... Holy shit! We did it! With ages to spare!
Yelling at anybody on my side to 'PULLTHELEVERPULLTHELEVER!!' I didn't even realise we were done in a comfortable amount of time.
"It's fine! We've got 30 seconds!" Blunnerz said as we watched the last two points being slaughtered on the other side.

Nerd screams erupted from my speakers. And this time, it was deafening. We had finally, on our own, defeated a boss that had given us so much trouble. Two weeks ago we never got through to the other side, this time we were through more often than not. And finally we had stuck a crowbar into that box lid and jammed it open!

The loot... After all of that we had to disenchant one of them. Desperately seeing if someone could use the leather agility legs that dropped. Trying to convince Tauti that they would be great for her off spec
"Mines tank..."
"Oh please don't disenchant it" Tsff whimpered.
"Don't disenchant that ring!" Nanutza said over ts with a very definite tone.

We didn't. And she got it.

We were so pleased with ourselves. To some people only killing two bosses might not have been much progress but to us we had just gone to the moon. Ant summed it up quite nicely that were so relaxed and take everything in our stride. We're not angry when things go wrong, we just keep going until we get it. Our wipe totals are something to laugh about rather than get despondent about (67 on this one in total!)

We raid/wipe hard but we have fun harder!

Tales from the vault

I was having a look through my screenshots, seeing which ones I could delete as many of them were due to pressing my screenshot button accidentally when I should have been going left or right.

I came across quite a few that made me laugh.

 

How to reset a boss like a boss...

 

This was amazing. So, we were on Shamans (obviously) and the last time prior to this when I went in to reset the bosses I ended up pulling them out and they ate half the raid. In my defence I had never reset a boss before so like a true Huntard I had no idea what I was doing. So I told Sish he needed to do it.

He didnt know what to do with them so whispered me to ask me what he should do. Shoot the, boss and feign death straight away I offered as my advice.

Sish went in and pulled the boss. We waited for him to run out so we could group up a the right markers to start the fight. Sish didn't come out but the bosses did. It was hilarious. He had feigned death, the bosses had thundered past him, he then hopped up to run out and he was faced with the arse end of Darkfang and Bloodclaw.
He had to wait for us to start the fight so he could come out and join in. Huntard boss resets for the win!

 



More Shamans resetting here. The hunters of the group were deciding who should go reset and asking in raid chat how to reset. A Druid healer gave up the will to live quite literally and just charged in an committed suicide. Sish could have just done that...

How to catch a porcupine...

 

Blunnerz was on his hunter and was in search of a porcupine. Sish and Limir were there for moral support and I just tagged along to see what all the fuss was about. Blunnerz was being eaten alive by the spiky little shit.
I lost track on how many times we all ran/flew around the mountain as Blunnerz was kiting this thing. It got to a point where I would throw him some healing and get myself into combat and hope that the porcupine wouldn't go after me. He did eventually get it and then said that he hoped it was worth it.
If you play a hunter then you know how it feels to be after a pet you want and then to be kept being mauled by it while trying to catch it. Having three people follow you around while you die every five seconds while attempting it and then giggling as you get more and more frustrated is... well, funny for the spectators...



 

 

 

Thats not what you're supposed to grow!

I will leave you with this little exchange in GC which speaks for itself...

I am a chicken murderer!

Thok is a scary mofo

When we all logged on last night we were missing Ant. He did give his apologies and would be back in an hour.
I logged in during a conversation between Flinkan and Danue and how poor Flinkan felt after buying another cape.

[Raid chat][Flinkan] Yes I feel kinda broke now only 19k left =(
[Raid chat][Danue] ofc!
[Raid chat][Danue] after all that whining
[Raid chat][Flinkan] HAHAHAHA you bastard :P
[Raid chat][Danue] you calling a grandmum a bastard?
[Raid chat][Danue] shame on you!
[Raid chat][Zionxi] LOL bad Flinkan!

While we debated/scoured for a healer we went in to clear trash. Bearing in mind we were on Malkorok again there wasn't much trash to kill and before long we were stood in Malkoroks ring wondering what to do.
"We could try with nine?"
"Would the healers reach everyone?"
It meant that we had five ranged and four melee. The puddles were going to be hard.
"Can you reach me if I'm here by the gate?" I asked. I hate playing by the gate. My zoom goes all wonky and I have to stand sideways to be able to see anything other than my own arse.
"Where you are is fine" Blunnerz said, shooting a spell at me. "I can't reach Treehouse though"
Treehouse shuffled around a bit and everyone was in range but it did mean there was a bit of a void between the ranged now on his side.
"Can you put up a gate so you can get to the middle if there are puddles?" Blunnerz asked.
Treehouse started putting up his gateway.
"Either the dumb one or the other one..." Blunnerz added.
"Hang on. The dumb one? Or the other one?" I asked just as Flinkan made a reply in raid chat.
[Raid chat][Flinkan] do you not know what things are called?
"Hey at least this time it's not me making up names!" I added.
[Raid chat][Flinkan] this is true Ella
"The demonic one! Oh god. I have a warlock and I still don't know what the things are called" Blunnerz concided. He had now added to the list of things forever called something else.

As we had nothing to lose we decided to give it a try and see what happened.

The Blizzard God's were with us and all the cone attacks left a nice big area for us to stack in. The puddles were always right near someone and we didn't fail at moving when and where we needed to. At 5% it did get a bit much and people started dropping. It was one of those 'zomgod' moments. We were sooooo close! I had 1% health and was popping cookies and using my herbalism heals like I was addicted to them. There were three of us left at 1%...
Omfg. We did it!


Confused cheers over ts as we beat our last record and I forgot I needed to loot the corpse.
This is where I'm not sure why Blizzard hates us so much. Both bits of loot ended up being disenchanted. We had kinda got used to that happening and shrugged it off after we had a whinge about it.
"Oh well, more sha crystals"
Two seconds later...
"Spirits of war" Tsff whispered.

We went on and got to Spoils. This time we did need someone else. Verdie offered her services and we didn't decline it!
As this fight has been documented several times, I won't bore you with the details. We did however get a little distracted after a wipe while we were waiting to get ressed (we are so lazy)
Nanutza announced that she was hugging a skeleton so naturally when we were up we went to have a look at what one it was.
"Blunnerz is this yours? It has a dog head" I asked.
"It's tall so it must be Flinkan, he will have the biggest skeleton" Tsff replied.
"But it has a dog head..."


This set me off on the hunt for another huge skeleton.
"This one is Flinkan!" I enthused over ts. "It has horns!"
Everyone went to have a look.


"Who dies like this?" Nanutza said, looking at a skeleton that was starfished on the floor.
"I think that's one that was already here"
"Let's put a marker on it and see after the next wipe" she said. The red marker went down on the skeleton.
"Why does everything only have three fingers and toes?" Blunnerz asked,  looking at his own dog/human skeleton.
"Cartoon like" Tsff said "if they have more it looks strange"
"Yeah then they end up looking like a kids drawn them, you know where they end up huge with a million fingers" Jolly chirped in with.

We tried again with spoils and with Verdies help (and a lot of 'GET THE LEVER!' being screamed over ts) we cleared it. Just in time for Ant to log on.
Verdie whispered me to say that she would drop out to get Ant in for Thok. As much as she helped us with the missing dps in her own admission, a mage isn't a healer, so she bid us goodbye and good luck. Ant was ported in and we started the run to the big beast himself.

We went into this with no plan whatsoever. Flinkan had posted about it on the forum but our input up to now consisted of my post saying 'awww jesus'.
We took our place near his foot and just went for it in the usual RT3 style.

After running around like headless chickens for most of it we got him to 43% before we were struck down by the green puke/ice/fire shit. It wasn't a bad attempt but we did need a few minutes to gather ourselves.

"I'm just going to roll a ciggy" I said "calm my nerves..."
[Raid chat][Flinkan] Ella haven't I told you that smoking will kill you
[Raid chat][Flinkan] you will look like an old lady when you are 30
"I am 30!" I spluttered
"Oh no, you did not just say that?" Tsff said while a few started laughing
[Raid chat][Flinkan] ops
[Raid chat][Flinkan] <3
"Demote!" Was called out over ts "you're in big trouble now!"
[Raid chat][Flinkan] hahahaha wtf
[Raid chat][Danue] ahahahahaha
[Raid chat][Flinkan] Ella you are the most gorgeous girl I have ever seen, you don't look a day over 22
[Raid chat][Antdruid] Awwww <3
"Nice try" I said "you're trial now"
[Raid chat][Flinkan] DAMMIT
[Raid chat][Flinkan] then you will look 60 when you are 40
[Raid chat][Danue] !!!
[Raid chat][Flinkan] smoking is baaaaaaaaaad for you
[Raid chat][Blunnerz] just stop
[Raid chat][Jollyjane] no way I smoked until I was 40 and I'm real handsome lol
[Raid chat][Flinkan] hahahahaha

After this little joke/insult we got back to it. And by back to it I mean we put Blingtron up, hoped for zeppelins and then all got in the party spirit.



I think it's needless to say that we didn't get him down. Although I did post that picture up on the forum with the comment "we were soooooo busy killing Thok..." and we got a GZ from Rolypoly. Explaining to him that we hadn't killed it, we spent a good proportion of time having a party instead of killing it but we would stash the gz for next week when we would kill him. We were then left with a new post:

"Un-GZ!"

Mean!