nom and i were hunting last nite on the banidt road between neydisa castle and bandit castle.
this is a really long run full of critters that are 60th to 90th level. in typical fashion for he and i, we used no buffs but those we provided our selves (no buff bot action for us thankyouverymuch) and proceeded to pwn everything around us, right up until we died.
i was running naihanchi, my lifemage, while nom was running ki' lin, his swordie. nai pretty much imperiled and vulned stuff while ki cut it into little pieces.
the first death came courtesy of a pack of L85 magma golems. there were 3 of them, with one of them on a fast spawn. i tossed some imps around with some difficulty, and all 3 of them set about the rather laborious task of bashing ki into tiny bits. for some stupid reason, i started friing frost bolts at these guys (presumably to kill one off so ki only had to deal with 2 instead of 3) and i negelected to heal or revitalize ki. he got a lethal dose of flamin hot golem love and a one way ticket back to the lifestone.
so now nai is alone with the two remaining golems, draining like mad to keep his fluids up, when a 4th golem spawns, probably the rather quick respawn of the one ki killed. it was tough but nai managed to clear all the golems alone (thanks to his leet draining skills) and i had enough time to top off, grab ki's stuff, and fight some undead while ki made the rather long run back to where he died. i even fought another spawn of magmas (4 in all) before ki returned.
when ki finally gets back, everything has spawned again and we are actively fighting the undead, more golems, and i think even a crystal golem. we make it thru probably one whole spawn, and are looping around to another when suddenly nai has gotten low on health, stamina, and mana. he is also out of stamina potions, and is failing to land heals with his last treated healing kit. he tried to run for safety and was dead a few seconds later.
so now ki is clearing badguys from nai's bod as i make the run back. and since we were stupid and didn't move from the center of the rather large spawn that killed ki in the first place, he is alone while i make my way there.
so now we are reunited, and we kill more stuff, and decide to continue on to neydisa castle. now we are making our way west, seriously far from the bandit castle drop that takes us so long to run from.
this time we get both get killed by something, i don't really remember what it was, and decide this time to head from neydissa to our bods instead of from the bandit castle drop.
as we make out way to the bods, we pick a fight with a crystal before i am buffed, which is pretty stupid, but is compunded my the fact that i decided to start buffing, instead of supporting ki. and surprise surprise, ki is dead.
fortunately we are like 20 paces from the manor portal drop, so he is back with me before i finish buffing. we kill the crystal (whom i could not land a single imp, vuln, or drain on) get ki's corpse and head east to the bods.
i should probably mention here that is is going on 5am now, so the sudden increase in stupidity could very well be attributed to exhaustion. i am litterally dozing off at the keyboard and wandered really far off course, leaving ki to get killed where he stopped to pick up a dye plant. the deathtoll is really getting out of hand.
so i tell ki to get his most recent corpse, and i will head to the ones we were trying to get to. i make it there by the skin of my teeth to find that a runed chest has spawned right were our corpses are. you the runed chest? yeah, guarded by 3 level 105 lugians and some big ass manouga. i ask ki if he lost anything important and he says yes, my sword of frozen fury.
at this point i have no idea what to do. my buffs are up, and it's a 20 minute run back here from the manor drop.
so i buff again, baned everything including my genitalia, plus a light weight buckler and a high meleeD nekode that i use to recover corpses. i don't really fight with the nekode so much as take advantage of the meleeD bonus and the shield while i loot my bod.
so i make one run for ki's bod. these are luggies, with hollow rocks. so i run right for the center and circle around them to make them switch from rock mode to melee mode. this works, and i have only swallowed a couple of their hollow boulders.
so i open ki's corpse, looting like a mad man. i get his gear and run like hell, out running the last guy with only 14 health remaining. i double check the gear and see no sword of frozen fury. i send ki a tell about it but he mist be busy cuz he doesn't answer.
now there is my bod left. i heal up and top off my fuilds and make my run. i grab all my DIs and run for safety, just to catch a rock to the skull from 100 yards out.
now i am back at the lifestone, with about half of my death items and half of ki's sitting on a fresh corpse. i am bleary eyed at this point, and i could care less about mine DIs. ki responds to the tell that the SoFF was on the bod he lost whle picking dye plants, so my motivation to retrieve DIs is now at an all time low.
so i permit ki, who is almost to the corpse site. he makes the run for my last bod and somehow manages to grab everything. we meet back at the rithwic lifestone and i give him some of his items and call it a night.
despite the needless death, it was still a productive night. nai made 46th level and was able to dump 2 milion XP into magic defense, and as always a good time was had by all.