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[Group][Solace]: A well-dressed priest is a happy priest
She did a twirl, all white and gold and stirring feathers. Drew was really glad that the fancying-imaginary-elves phase was way behind him.
After a moment, he selected Solace and typed/whistleinto his chat window, and Orcarella signalled her approval.
Then a human elementalist appeared and threw huge ball of fire at the golems. The assassin logged out instantly. Drew leapt into action.
[Group][Orcarella]: wwwwwwwwws1111
He stared in dismay as his carefully executed keyboard commands, that had been intended to send Ella dashing forward to grab aggro on the mobs, instead popped up as a stream of gibberish in chat, making him look like a total noob in front of his new guildies.
Nice work, Drew. Hit return next time.
The golems were lumbering forward, heading straight for the elementalist, who was wearing nothing for armour and still cheerfully spamming fireballs like it was Guy Fawkes Night. Drew sighed, threw a Circle of Corruption under the monsters, and charged forward to draw their aggro. He hammered the keyboard, alternating threat-building strikes between the two golems. He was pleased to see a protective little halo surrounding his character, which meant Solace had her head in the game.
Arrows whistled past him, cutting into the golems’ health. They were followed by a small owl Drew was pretty sure came from the high elf starting area. Even without the extra DPS, the golems went down pretty quickly.
[Group][Orcarella]: Don’t pull without the tank
Another fireball whooshed by and called the attention of two more golems and a purple-robed machine priest.
[Guild][Orcarella]: ffs
It was time for this guy to learn a life lesson.
Drew pulled his character back and typed/sit. Next to him, Solace and Ialdir started dancing together. Typical of the game’s animation, Solace writhed slinkily while Ialdir flailed around like a complete prat who was being electrocuted. Drew had typed/danceon this character exactly once and instantly regretted it, but it was nowhere near as bad as the male high elves.10
The elementalist was still throwing fire while two robots and a loony cultist beat on him with hammers. The moment he died, Drew threw down his CoC and leaped into the fray. This group fell over slightly more slowly, but not by much, cultist first, then robots.
Drew was starting to feel he’d made the right choice. The other two clearly knew what they were doing, and he was almost having fun, despite the failamentalist.
[Group][Burnzurfais]: ffs
[Group][Orcarella]: Don’t pull for me
[Group][Burnzurfais]: y no healz
[Group][Solace]: Because you pulled without the tank
[Group][Burnzurfais]: u suk
Solace resurrected the tragically fallen Burnzurfais. Somehow, even the guy’s avatar looked sulky.
[Group][Burnzurfais]: buff me
[Guild][Ialdir]: Guys, I think we’ve found a potential new recruit.
[Guild][Solace]: He’s a real prince.
[Guild][Orcarella]: lol
They took down the next pack with no problems, and then the corridor opened out into a wide, circular ring. In the middle, streams of lava converged and flowed into the furnace beneath. The first time Drew had seen it, he’d thought it was pretty majestic. The twelfth time, he’d just wished the whole place was smaller. This was well more than the twelfth time.
There were three bands of golems and cultists patrolling the rim. Once, he’d hit on the cunning notion of knocking them all over the edge with his Ruthless Surge, but they’d gathered at the bottom and come slowly back up, bringing the entire dungeon with them. He’d found it kind of hilarious, but his guildies at the time had been furious.11
To give Burnzurfais due credit, he somehow managed to avoid throwing fire at them until Drew had put down his circle and charged into the first group. It was all going pretty smoothly until three extra burning robots lumbered over from the other side of the room.
Drew gave the guy the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he’d just had a tabbing accident.Happens to the best of us.He strafed awkwardly over to intercept, just in time to see the elementalist hurl a fireball at the final group and then wrap himself in a cloud of mist, leaving them to run straight for Solace.
