MixedVariety
10-06-2005, 03:04
Ok, I never had so much fun with a botched up mission as I did this morning. All the people in my party, including me the mesmer, were completely hopeless and helpless and had a great time. Noobs. But nobody was a crab about it, we just kept trying.
We're doing the Sanctum Cay mission. First we get off the boat, talk to Evennia, she hands us the Scepter of Orr. We kill a bunch of inferno imps, go down to the first beach, up the river, and encounter a bunch of executioners, hellhounds, and the like. They all gang up on us and kill us because we charged in like dolts. Mission over. Try again.
Next time we get about 14 feet further. While we're taking care of the monsters, smaller groups at a time, one member of our party was wandering down by the beach and decided to bring a bunch of lightning drakes to the party. Voiceover in my head: "Hey, party of dubious heros, I'd like you to meet my leetle friends, our neighbors the Drakes"...Mission over. Try again.
Ok, now we were careful. We made it all the way through the poison swamp (only three of us died there standing like fools in the water, none of them me thank goodness), the Bone Drakes, up to the gate leading to the vizier's pad, and realized the Scepter was gone. We'd left it back at the dock near Evennia. Ran back to get it (easy enough, monsters were all gone now), returned, went through the gate, there were some Hill Giants and inferno imps. And this is where the real hilarity comes into play.
As we engage them in battle, whomever has the Scepter has the bright idea to thread his/her way through the fighting, run up to Vizier Khilbron, and hand it over to him. The cinematic starts, and you know, the Vizier is talking to our leader, a young blonde warrior fellow. Our leader makes the appropriate responses at the necessary times, nodding his head knowingly and twitching his eyebrows, and suddenly, he catches on fire. The viz tells us how we've been betrayed, Evennia is captured and all that stuff, bla bla, and now I think about it I can hear the sounds of battle going on. The leader is alternately fine, then catches on fire again...and in the background, there are hill giants running around, bashing the rest of the party once in a while with clubs. While the rest of us look on, totally unconcerned with the fact that we're being beaten and burnt to a crisp, the vizier, also unconcerned, goes on with his spiel. We're getting bludgeoned and fried. I guess the giants were actually on our side, because every time one of us caught fire, the friendly giants would come put it out with a club. Nice of them, eh? Vizier raises some helpful dead, who completely ignore us and go rushing off on their own somewhere.
I was laughing uncontrollably by this time. I couldn't help it. Coffee came out of my nose in the real world, while I stood around calmly being beaten and fried like a chicken patty in the virtual one. Finally the cinematic ends, we're all completely dead for a second and then miraculously brought back to life (maybe a built-in aspect of the cinematics, that you really don't take damage while you're in it?) The helpful dead are, well, dead. A couple of White Mantle creeps are hanging around, so we school 'em on the Ways of the Heroes, and go on to the dock.
Of course, nobody really could pay much attention to what the Viz was saying during the slambake fiasco, so we went all the way back to where Evennia's dock was. She was still there (the viz lied), her ship was fine, but nothing good happened and I think she was mad, because she wouldn't talk to us. After wandering around for a few days, during which time the Viz would pop into existence with some useless advice and tantalizingly disappear again, we finally found the dock and the Viz. Now you'd think he would have gotten some kind of head start while we were uselessly meandering around the island, but nope. He waited for us, then told us he had to summon a ship and could we please protect him, etc. But I know he lied, because he took so freaking long I'm quite positive he had NO summoning skills but ordered lumber, nails, cloth for sails, pitch, etc. from the local Home Depot and built a ship (I know, because every time I turned around to see what he was doing he screeched at me and told me to mind my own business) while we fought off everything until we were overwhelmed and killed. Mission over. Oh, and while we were lying there dead, in our twisted agonies, then...only THEN, does he tell us it's time to hurry, get on the boat.
Sigh.
We tried it over and succeeded without a hitch.
This was such a comedy of errors that there was no reason to get upset. Nobody swore or called anyone names, we all just had a good time being total n00bheads, and this is what makes the game enjoyable.
We're doing the Sanctum Cay mission. First we get off the boat, talk to Evennia, she hands us the Scepter of Orr. We kill a bunch of inferno imps, go down to the first beach, up the river, and encounter a bunch of executioners, hellhounds, and the like. They all gang up on us and kill us because we charged in like dolts. Mission over. Try again.
Next time we get about 14 feet further. While we're taking care of the monsters, smaller groups at a time, one member of our party was wandering down by the beach and decided to bring a bunch of lightning drakes to the party. Voiceover in my head: "Hey, party of dubious heros, I'd like you to meet my leetle friends, our neighbors the Drakes"...Mission over. Try again.
Ok, now we were careful. We made it all the way through the poison swamp (only three of us died there standing like fools in the water, none of them me thank goodness), the Bone Drakes, up to the gate leading to the vizier's pad, and realized the Scepter was gone. We'd left it back at the dock near Evennia. Ran back to get it (easy enough, monsters were all gone now), returned, went through the gate, there were some Hill Giants and inferno imps. And this is where the real hilarity comes into play.
As we engage them in battle, whomever has the Scepter has the bright idea to thread his/her way through the fighting, run up to Vizier Khilbron, and hand it over to him. The cinematic starts, and you know, the Vizier is talking to our leader, a young blonde warrior fellow. Our leader makes the appropriate responses at the necessary times, nodding his head knowingly and twitching his eyebrows, and suddenly, he catches on fire. The viz tells us how we've been betrayed, Evennia is captured and all that stuff, bla bla, and now I think about it I can hear the sounds of battle going on. The leader is alternately fine, then catches on fire again...and in the background, there are hill giants running around, bashing the rest of the party once in a while with clubs. While the rest of us look on, totally unconcerned with the fact that we're being beaten and burnt to a crisp, the vizier, also unconcerned, goes on with his spiel. We're getting bludgeoned and fried. I guess the giants were actually on our side, because every time one of us caught fire, the friendly giants would come put it out with a club. Nice of them, eh? Vizier raises some helpful dead, who completely ignore us and go rushing off on their own somewhere.
I was laughing uncontrollably by this time. I couldn't help it. Coffee came out of my nose in the real world, while I stood around calmly being beaten and fried like a chicken patty in the virtual one. Finally the cinematic ends, we're all completely dead for a second and then miraculously brought back to life (maybe a built-in aspect of the cinematics, that you really don't take damage while you're in it?) The helpful dead are, well, dead. A couple of White Mantle creeps are hanging around, so we school 'em on the Ways of the Heroes, and go on to the dock.
Of course, nobody really could pay much attention to what the Viz was saying during the slambake fiasco, so we went all the way back to where Evennia's dock was. She was still there (the viz lied), her ship was fine, but nothing good happened and I think she was mad, because she wouldn't talk to us. After wandering around for a few days, during which time the Viz would pop into existence with some useless advice and tantalizingly disappear again, we finally found the dock and the Viz. Now you'd think he would have gotten some kind of head start while we were uselessly meandering around the island, but nope. He waited for us, then told us he had to summon a ship and could we please protect him, etc. But I know he lied, because he took so freaking long I'm quite positive he had NO summoning skills but ordered lumber, nails, cloth for sails, pitch, etc. from the local Home Depot and built a ship (I know, because every time I turned around to see what he was doing he screeched at me and told me to mind my own business) while we fought off everything until we were overwhelmed and killed. Mission over. Oh, and while we were lying there dead, in our twisted agonies, then...only THEN, does he tell us it's time to hurry, get on the boat.
Sigh.
We tried it over and succeeded without a hitch.
This was such a comedy of errors that there was no reason to get upset. Nobody swore or called anyone names, we all just had a good time being total n00bheads, and this is what makes the game enjoyable.