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[Guild][Solace]: He doesn’t deserve your grats
[Guild][Solace]: He just killed me
[Guild][Solace]: He shot Irontongue while I was impaled
[Yell][The Forge Master]: MORE STEEL, MORE FIRE, MORE SERVANTS FOR THE GREAT MACHINE!
[Guild][Ignatius]: lol
[Guild][Heurodis]: lol
Orcarella has now been demoted to Guild Peon
[Guild][Orcarella]: I’m really sorry
[Guild][Solace]: Hee hee
[Guild][Solace]: You so owe me now
[Guild][Solace]: I’m going to make you my pocket tank
[Guild][Solace]: And you have to do ALL the optional bosses
[Guild][Solace]: ALL the time
[Guild][Orcarella]: i’m okay with that
They ran back to the entrance to meet Solace, who seemed genuinely fine about what had happened. Drew drifted betweenconfusion and relief—a mistake like that would not have been well-received in Annihilation. But, then, if he’d been running with Anni, they wouldn’t have been faffing about with optional bosses anyway.
Thankfully, the rest of the run went off without a hitch. They battled their way through the trash and down into the depths of the furnace, taking a short detour into the temple complex to deal with Arch Priest Garaxis, a skinny human in an outrageous robe who worshipped the Hand of Zoth-Arun and was the final boss of the previous raid tier. People had been smashing the Hand to pieces for a good six months, but Drew guessed the Arch Priest hadn’t got that memo. They beat heavily on him with pointy objects, and he fell over, dropping his [Mantle of Hydraulic Communion].
[Group][Solace]: omg need
Drew did a quick inspect. Solace’s shoulders were way better, and the mantle was healer gear so it couldn’t have been for her offspec.
[Group][Orcarella]: ?
[Group][Solace]: Have you seen how awesome these look?
[Group][Solace]: I’m working on a steampunk set
She put them on. Her angel wings disappeared, replaced by a disproportionately huge pair of shoulder pads filled with a mesh of wires and rotating gears.
Then she bounced up and down while Ialdir applauded and Drew grinned at the monitor like an idiot.
[Group][Solace]: Hmm
[Group][Solace]: I’d better switch back
[Group][Solace]: Thinking I’m giving off a bit of a mixed message fashion-wise
They pressed on through the Furnace, knocked over the Smelter and the Smith without too much trouble, and finally came face-to-face with the Forge Master.
[Yell][The Forge Master]: INTRUDERS! AUTOMATA TO ME! DEFEND THE FORGE!
[Group][Ialdir]: I always kind of feel sorry for this guy
[Group][Ialdir]: he’s just trying to do his job and a bunch of complete jerks bust in and start brokking his shit up
