Exquisite Turmoil

As promised, my blog about Castle Mistmoore (not that anyone likely cares or would hold me accountable for not posting about Castle Mistmoore since I don’t think anyone really reads this :p). So yesterday, not being a schoolday (yay, as opposed to today being a schoolday — boo), I finally managed to get into a group around 2:30. Our goal? Camping Sage in Castle Mistmoore~! After a long time spent clearing up through the Catacombs with my nice slow group, we finally made it to the back door of CMM (commonly known as Stairs). With four members. Because the rest deserted us on the clear up. Leaving me the only healer. So my oh-so-intelligent group recruits a SIXTY-FIVE mystic for like.. the meanest single group zone in the game. At least in my opinion. Man CMM is nasty. Shit hits like trucks, respawns sooo fast, has nasty AEs..

So anyway, this obviously didn’t go well. We wiped like five times in the first hallway, everyone said screw it and bailed. Luckily another group who was already camping Sage (wish I’d known it was camped when I started clearing with the other group) was on the lookout for a second healer and CoH’d me right in. I looked at the tank with sadness (Zatar, 70 SK) and realized that he was using a 2h instead of a sword and board for what I consider to be a very difficult zone (obviously). And then I doubletaked. Permastun? WTF? Apparently the Voulge of Endless Lamentation is a drop from one of the Epicx2 in Shard of Fear. Unfortunately Zatar couldn’t remember the name of the mob (clearly not an EQ1 player) and said it was something like Agony or whatever. While I don’t know for sure which epicx2 are in the zone, I’m going to guess it was Terror? Since I thought only Terror and Dracoliche were there as epicx2. Anyway, despite the broken weapon of uberness we managed to wipe right after I was CoH’d in.. I’m guessing they spent too long looking for a replacement second healer that the spawn cycle got off, and everything in the room basically popped on us at once. At this point the conjurer and wizard left, leaving us with SK, mystic, 66 dirge, and me. We grabbed a 70 swash and a 67 conjurer and got going. We cleared back into the room, made a few kills, wiped again, got back to stairs, and the tank had to leave for a raid. When the tank had to go, the mystic took off as well. This was very sad. I wanted my pants. The conjurer (Vezstran) provided us with a new tank — a 70 pally whose name I can’t remember other than that it started with an A and was totally awesome — and I provided us with a new backup healer (he’ll kill me for calling him backup when he stomped me on the healparse), Dan!

We cleared back in to Sage immensely successfully and plunked down for a camp until 11:30 that night. We got two Novum Tectums (whee), one for Vezstran and one for myself (even more whee). We also got a set of legs for the dirge, then a set for the swash. Shortly after dirge legs dropped, the dirge “had to go” and my old friend Prophit came out to play! This was a double bonus as A) I like Prophit and B) Prophit already has his legs). During our downtime camping Sage I ran Keth out to CMM and had Vezstran CoH her into Sage room in case we needed more summonings after Vezstran left, since his girlfriend was harping on him. We got another Sage spawn, conj legs dropped (of course :p) and then Vez had to go. We replaced him with a Yadinal (who I texted to bring him running, he’s always so reliable!). After this, we managed to get another Sage spawn and get some legs for our tank. This, of course, meant that everyone had legs, except for me, since Yad and Ven already had theirs. But, of course, Sage decided that he didn’t like me and didn’t want to spawn and drop more legs for me. Around this time, Xivali had to go and Prophit’s time was running short. When Xivali left we invited a troub out and set to. Prophit took off, we grabbed a monk in his place. The troub, who managed to somehow be slow as hell despite having Selos, arrived at the same time as the monk.

CoHing was had by all and camping continued apace. You will note, however, that neither troub nor monk had pants. This made me sad.. no more guaranteed pants for me. Not that it mattered, since Sage only spawned once more during the night and dropped a wooden chest (that bastard). So, in short, everyone who camped Sage for more than an hour got pants except for me. And I camped them for longer than anyone :p Ah well, such is life. I’m glad I got my Novum in any case. And I will get pants damnit >.< I just wanted them so badly because then I wouldn’t have to worry so much about trying to box Garanel. Not that he’s particularly nasty, but since the fury is on the same account as my tank, it makes things rather difficult. Boxing to Priest of Fear for the hat is no issue… boxing to Garanel without Selise *is* an issue. I just hope I manage to get my six set bonus *before* RoK comes out.

On a more positive note, Rith reinstalled EQ2 last night and was able to log on for a bit and chat with us. Guild chat was full of discussion of Scarlett Johannson’s breasts, Firiona Vie, and Scarlett + me porn. Life was good.

Link of the day: Everquest Movie