another recycle from the survivors board about hunting with nom
last night was a classic example of hunting with me and nomadic.
nomadic and i were hunting our new dagger toons (ramy, l23 and ratspike, l21) at the hills citadel last night. in true chis and nom fashion, ratspike (chris) ran off at the speed of light, unbuffed in his explorer society armor, and ramy (nomadic) got killed in the worst possible spot.
it seems that the Wasteland Rat Association of Dereth was having it's annual banquet in the area surrounding the hills cit portal, and they were serving Braised Dagger Toon as the main course.
so while ramy was getting buffed to recover her corpse, ratspike finished the run to the cit, tied to the portal, and tried to sneak back to ramy's corpse. ratspike stood no chace against a single wasteland rat, let alone the dozen or more in the surrounding area (along with raveners, and some 70+ undead). so he outran the stuff that was chasing him and snuck past the rats, "metal gear solid" style, and was able to get to ramy's corpse unliquified.
with the corpse problem taken care of, ramy was free to run like hell to the cit. once they two joined up at the front of the cit, they set about killing all the luggies.
true to form, the actual dungeon crawl was not nearly as scary as the run to the dungeon. after one hour, one death (ratspike), a couple of levels, and a few close calls, ramy and ratspike we ready to head back to rith to sell and resupply.
it was at this point that we were asked by a young axer named dante the wanderer (possibly one of wels' extended family, the wanderers) to help him recover his corpse just outside of nanto. dante was a very new player, on his third day of playing AC, and was glad to have our assitance.
upon arriving on the scene, we discovered that the corpse was camped by grievvers (the level 50+ variety). ramy and ratspike took turns leading the spiders away from the corpse, and we actually managed to kill one. dante got his stuff back, and was eager to join us on our next suicide mission.
what better way to teach a young player about death and glory, than to visit the olthoi arcade?
so we set off for ML, showing dante how to outfit himself to hunt bugs. we made good progress thru the first two floors and were fighting drones within minutes. i checked the fellowships vital signs, and everyone is low on health, so i start yealling in fellow ship chat to heal. dante is healing like a madman but litterally cannot land a heal to save his life. i told him to run, and i ran after him to try to heal him, but he was dead before i could get to him..
so ramy and ratspike are not only surrounded now, but also separated. they are trying to break thru the wall of bugs that searates them, but being daggers, both toons are great survivors but decidedly lacking in the damage department, especially without an axer. every bug on the floor has taken a number and is waiting in line to come wail on us, and i end up biting it not long after.
now ramy is alone on the drone floor, and i am hustling dante back to the arcade. no time to sell, no time to rearm, just get back down to help ramy.
the fellowship chat went like this:
ramy: guys, i am hating life down here.
rat: ok, we need to get down to ramy, so don't stop to kill anything unless it's blocking the way.
dante: ok
ramy: a little help...
rat: use the gems i gave you to get your protects up
ramy: are you there god? it's me... ramy.
so we get back down to ramy who is valiantly fighting all the drones on the floor, plus all the harvesters and gardeners that dante and i dragged with us. it was a green acid bloodbath.
and just like before date fails all his heal attempts and runs upstairs... i run after him, hoping to heal but he gets clipped by a gardener half way to the exit portal. ramy clears a path and is able to join me and we clear the second corpse and grab all dant'es gear.
it is now appearant that dante's healing skill *sucks*. he had poured a ton of xp into it, i gave him some treated kits, and he still can't land one, so i decide we need to get him a healing buff like a raeta's necklace, and possibly some counseling for his "perfomance anxiety". i get all of dante's corpses, but not before dropping half of dante's death items on my new corpse, and i think ramy died as well. it turns out we are too powerful for the raeta's quest (or so we heard) so i just gave dante the raeta's necklace that my archer wears.
at this point each corpse recovery attempt has resulted in at least one new corpse, so it is time to change tactics.
so i log ratspike out, and log janus in. she drops some uber level 5 buffage on ramy and dante and accompanies them to the arcade, imperiling bugs back to the stoneage and healing and revitalizing the melees as they lay waste to everything. we have all the corpses cleared and recovered in like 3 minutes, and finally, justice has been served.
afterwards, while we are hanging out at the rith LS goofing around with emotes, dante tells us that he learned a lot, and that was the most fun he has had playing so far. obviously he needs to get out more
the moral of the story:
for a good time: call ramy.