Thursday, January 22, 2009

Warhammer : Destro Alt Night [Jan 21]

Another Wednesday and our small crew was getting ready
for our weekly adventure . We were missing our trusted
tank Trogue (hope you feel better mate) , so the plan
was to do some questing and engage the enemy in some
scenarios . Assembled for the night :

- Tzudevil ( DoK --rank 19- -)
- Streyla ( Sorceress --rank 17-- )
- Keseth ( Zealot --rank 18-- )
- Oska ( Squig Herder --rank 18-- )

Oska was running a bit late , so our trio set out to Troll country .
The night started out on a positive note , as we participated in a
demolition of the order team at the "Phoenix Gate" .

Arriving at "Troll Haugen" , we set about completing different
tasks for the local chaos warlord . The Raven Host had come to
these parts in search of the Soulblight Stone, an artifact of dark power that Lord Tchar'zanek desired to possess.
The Champion required the stone to enact a plan; what that plan was, only a few truly knew, but the whispers about the camp spoke of a mighty and terrible feat of magic that would forever seal the fate of the Empire . Bjarne the leader of the previous expedition soon after retrieving the stone ,had been attacked and eaten by a Troll .

Our quest naturally led us to hunting that forsaken beast
and soon we came upon it . The power of the profane artifact
had mutated the creature into a terrifying, disease-ridden monster
of unnatural strength.

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Soulblight

After a long and exhausting fight , the fell beast lay dead at
our feet . Lord Tchaarzanek will be pleased !
At this point Oska was able to join us , we ran it again
and were not disappointed ! it went twice as fast and were rewarded with a massive loot bad which my zealot luckily won !
Setting north afterward , our crew happened upon an Eerie sight .
a Chaos portal guarded by the warriors of Nurgle !

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Chaos Portal

Nurgle was after the Soulblight Stone !
Led by the ambitious warlord Sysstos the Wretch,
the forces of Nurgle used the portal to travel from the realm
of chaos and were massing in the hills ready to launch an
assault to retrieve the stone ! This shall not pass !
the stone can not fall in the hands of the Lord of Decay !

We had to clear our way through the massed battalions of infected warriors .and forge a way for Belarrl (a champion of Tzentch),to face off with with the leader . This was very hard as squadrons of 3 champions , then 6 attacked the champion in waves along with regular warriors . The last wave as we advanced near the portal was deadly , we went down but dragged just as many of the bastards with us !

on the bright side , most of the champions were caster type npcs and they don't hit very hard . Revising our tactics , we attempted this Public quest again . Streyla , our Sorceress ,
lived up to her tanking reputation and AOE Tanked like a champ , grabbing all the aggro off Belarrl and decimating wave after wave of Npcs . It took all the Energy my zealot could
muster to keep her healed up as she soaked crazy amounts of damage . The closer we got to the portal , the heavier the waves of champions got , Strey went down couple times only to be brought back from the dead and continue the fight .

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Systoss the Wretched

This Time we made it to Systos . Belarrl engaged him in battle and
we pulled his retinue of champions one at a time burning them
down as fast as possible before Belarrl's health went out .
We engaged him after what seemed an
eternity and brought him to his knees !

This was a Fantastic Public quest . designed for 6-9 players ,
I am still amazed how tightly we managed the pulls , how close we
came on couple tries , and how awsome it was to
vanquish it ! Superb Job guys !
a gold bag in the end also was the icing on the Cake !
My zealot is sporting 2 pieces of havoc armor , and ranked
up again on the last kill ! rank 20 !

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Rank 20 Mount : Chaos Steed

we gotta do the portal PQ for Trogue next week that's
how awsome it is ! we all have capped our influence for this
chapter and the rewards were great also . we Finished
the night with some open RvR and a succesful keep assault
at "Mandred's Hold" ! Great fun Overall !

until next week !

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