4 man TempestSpine war story.

[Elixxer]

CHAPTER 1. The PUG.

I just finished up with some walk ups in GiantHold when I see a elite tempest spine loot group. I thought what the heck there are high levels I bet I could pike a bit, grab a little loot, you know.

I join the group, I see one of my friends (if you will) a level 15 AA. We are 9, without healers. Over half of us want to run it as is but some decided to leave. The group leader had to leave for unknown reasons. Wink Wink. I asked for the star but it was passed to my friend (15 AA). Some players were already inside. There are 6 of us, one level 14 bard outside who leaves in 2 minutes. 1 weird halfling rogue monk wiz(?) thing? Who rage quits at fire and ice later. The level 15 elf AA. one 16 drow sorceress, another rogue monk thingy, this one was a WF and then me, 9 ranger 5 monk.

So you got a little intro, leave if you want or read on if your bored as 2 rats in a tub with your dad. The bard left.


CHAPTER 2. Fire and Ice.

We breeze easily to fire and ice, the hobbit gets the int rune and the AA smites the golem. We get to fire and ice, our WF runs for ice, comes back down with giants but no ice. Our hobbit thing then goes with him. ice dies somewhere way up there so AA caster and I go and kill fire, fire gets paralyzed in the lava. AA mistake but all is forgiven.

We failed. hobbit rage quits.
Caster and I run up to find the others, our missing companions AA and WF. Okay I think we should get some names for our warriors.

Level 15 AA = Jen. (fake name)
Level 13 WF = Dave. (fake name)
Level 16 sorc = Sarah. (fake name)
Level 14 ranger monk (me) = Exiile. (real name)


Exiile and Sarah
Madly search the ice caves for their lost friends. BANG Dave is dead. Jen politely kites the mob as Sarah and Exiile kill stuff. Exiile picks up the soul stone, a very very heavy burden it is that is why Exiile forgot about it at this moment.

Sarah is ****ed, she is so tired and weak she cannot cast anymore spells, she kited ice to the closed treasure room (which is closed) Dave MADLY kills ice! Oh wait, dave is dead, trying to tell Exiile to turn back to the shrine, but Exiile is far to deep in thought, Exiile runs down to fire with Sarah and Jen close behind. Shortly after they all met up, friends and foes we all knew A fight to remember had begun. (10 seconds later) Our hero's run back to the treasure room and loot the chests! Exiile finally hears the muffled voice of dead Dave and brings him to the shrine.
Our hero's jump back to the iron golem room, besides Dave of course who go lost in ice again.... Exiile saved Dave and brings him to the rest of the small group. Our hero's embark on the next mission. All is well besides the fact that they forgot the Nular Rune! (that's the first one right?)'


I leave you at this until later, for I have a full bladder and it is rather late here. Forgive the spelling mistakes ?

[maha0201]

LoL nice one i did some pug 2 man runs (2 TR zerging in front of pack and killing all ^^) but this one is more interesting since you dont have to wait for 7-8 toons to get to you ... since you zerg -.-"

[ddobard1]

What a mess! No surprise you failed Tempest elite.

[Elixxer]

CHAPTER 3. The Fire Trap.


When you step back outside of the fire and ice portal, to your right is the way to the hole in the floor and then the black door (loading screen) you will then find yourself on the edge of a cliff, climb around and you will be on your way to the fire trap.

If you take your left, the way Exiile always takes. You will find 1 fire giant 2 drow blackguards (racist) and 1 other drow thing. All of these silly enemies are avoidable, just run by them all and up the small cliff to the giant seer, the other monsters cannot follow. Sarah Jen and Dave however never took this route(?) so a little fight was hosted inside the caves of tempest spine.

After the small fellowship made it up the cliff Jen paralyzed the fire elementals as Exiile fought them with water strikes.
Shortly our adventures find themselves face to face with the fire trap. Sarah starts to give out fire resists, and Exiile begins some odd cheesy story's about jumping through traps. The walk on sun buff was giving to all. Exiile is the first to run into the fire death trap that kills quiet a few low HP toons. No save needed. Sarah makes it past just fine, as did Dave. Jen however got hit twice and was left with 1 hp give or take. Well don't take because Jen would be dead then... So just give. Nothing like rolling two 1's.




CHAPTER 4. The 1-4 Chest Door.


At this time Exiile wonders if Dave has ran this before, but decides he must have because he isn't that bad.
Sarah lays down 3 fire walls, Exiile begins to worry because she has seen full party's wipe here. She bickers a little about needing more firewalls from Sarah but Jen has already opened the door. With Sarah UMDing wands to heal her self she manages to out life the enemies in the firewalls. Jen paralyzed quiet a bit of the mob. Exiile was in AC mode so DPS wasn't the best but she lived (would have been fine in DPS mode...). and Dave, well I can't say our warriors watched Dave much at this part and Dave cannot tell you himself because Dave might not be around any longer.

The bravely hearted blood fiendish warriors prevail with ease. (Is there less mob with less players? Because it was really easy on elite!) a little more fighting here and there but nothing fun to chat about. 3 chests are up but no loot worth shining this light on. After all this fun fighting and looting the hero's rest for awhile. Sarah gives everyone a butt load of buffs. Jen has ran out of healing wands so Exiile spares her some, Exiile also gave a stoneskin wand to Sarah with 33 uses left. (Looted from TBF the gianthold walk up earlier) Fully fueled and ready for more action the hero's head to the water!




CHAPTER 5. The Swim. (forgot to put this in the title of this post)


Feeling sick from the being pulled through the portal but still fully buffed our here's run after the top clay golem and his/her chest. Jen smites him on the 5th hit. Nothing nice is in the chest. A small fight with a drow scorp and another clay golem later the warriors find themselves facing the swim of their lives. Exiile swims slowly just in case anyone got lost, better safe then sorry. By the time Exiile gets to the first clay golem in the water it is dead, Jen has smited it. Vendor trash. Exiile and Dave jump back into the murky water, filled with drow droppings. (They have to go somewhere right?) Dave drowns! because he is a WF and he cannot breath underwater we all know that! All the heros make it to the next challenge. Exiille is relieved to be out of the stinky water. Yes I was joking about Dave drowning. Ahead would be an even bigger challenge, a beholder!

[Elixxer]

CHAPTER 6. The Beh(I'm getting)older.


Feeling very nervous about this upcoming fight Exiile decided to head for the beholder when it spawns, surely she could hold it off her team mates long enough for the other mobs to get toasty with the firewalls. FireWalls were being brought up everywhere, wands were being whipped and heads bashed. The enemies quickly fell to our fully buffed warriors. But all is not well for the beholder has arrived! Exiile charges in and gets a nice slap in the face, no more buffs. The beholder was over halfway dead by the time Exiile got to it, and when she does find herself inches from the now leveled beholder it is no threat anymore. Jen is very excited having owned the beholder and all that. Sarah as always doesn't stop to chat with the group. After finding worthless treasure and intense buffing(dirty) our hero's walk on through a mysterious portal.

*FORGOT TO TYPE THIS* The group realized that no one grabbed the first rune, Exiile gives a couple good reasons why she won't take the runes, she would be tanking the ugly green giant. Jen decides she will take the runes, even though she never has done so. After Exiile explains the puzzle/runes the group moves on with rune number two and agree one of them will go back for the fire and ice rune.



CHAPTER 7. Dave, it's poison not glue.


Dave pulled the leaver for the next door, Exiile knew what was to come for she has ran this over 100 times, poison traps. Quick anti poison and the group is set Exiile runs ahead past the poison and single handedly kills the mob, well of course with Jen and Sarah's help.... Exiile has been tending many wounds this whole time, nothing like spending ki to keep your friends alive. The hero's avoided the fire trapped leaver besides Dave who stayed behind to disarm it with the poison traps. Exiile has an odd feeling Dave was sniffing the poison, he is a Warforged so it shouldn't effect him but he did get lost twice already. Maybe he is only half Warforged? He could be like a humorge or something of the like, sniffing poison. Dave finally finishes up his poison stuff and unlocks the door. A small fight is held and then the next door is unlocked by Dave. The hard worked drow and giants didn't stand a chance versus our hero's! Exiile pulls the strength leaver itching to kill some rusties.



CHAPTER 8. Rusties And Another BeeHolder.


Madly charging in with the speed of a rabbit shot out of a cannon our hero's beat down the giant until he cry's (makes me feel bad). Before he died he barked orders out to let out the rust monsters, he wasn't crying tears of pain it was tears of sadness that he would never see us eaten by his pets!!
Exiile punches the rust creature in the face, it almost took her finger off. Exiile flipped over the foolish thing and kicked him in the rusty nuts, but sadly they were already rusted off. Dave runs around screaming like a little pig, if you ever heard a baby pig squeal then you would know why the group had to cast spells to bring back hearing after the fight. A couple more powerful punches and kicks and the rust monster is done for. But more come pouring out of the tunnels. A small repeative minute later and intensive hardcore buffing the adventures find another hard to pull leaver. Exiile being the skinny strong women she is pulls the leaver with a pinkie finger, the very same that was almost eaten by the rust monster. "Firewall the beholder" Exiile's controller typed with his frozen fingers. Only Sarah had to go but Jen really must have been pumped about the chance to kill another beholder. Jen shot the beholder in every single eye it had, the price she payed? Her life! No just kidding, she just lost all her cool buffness.

[Elixxer]

CHAPTER 9. The bridge, The Inevitable.


Another portal, Sarah barfed on the other end, she went first. No one else had any problems besides a small stomach ache, why do we under appreciate healers?
A bridge lay ahead, 1 side up, uncrossable it is. Maybe the leavers? Guarded by poison and acid traps! Now either Exiile put on poison resist and pulled the levers or Dave broke the trap, lets say Dave broke the trap! As Dave disarmed the poison trap, Exiile swore she saw a small tear on the warforge's face. Wait no... that a little bit of poison. -.-
After our hero's crossed the bridge and kill some puny skinny kids A gate closed behind them. Exiile had bad feeling. No no please don't debuff me... please I'm using my icy and I sold my deathblock robe the other day, please don't use slay living... come on... A mob broke loose when 4 doors opened! Exiile stayed away from the death-priests and soon the mod died in Sarah's fire walls.
The iron golems ahead were no match to our hero's who slashed n hacked 'em down.
Ahead was a room filled with giants, iron golems, and the ONLY true one and only Inevitable! Jen and Exiile both fired their bows like mad,the giants stood no more. Shortly after that Sarah one shot the Inevitable. The hero's found junky loot but none the less They have found the last rune.




Chapter 10. Fire and Ice again and the Green giant from the frozen pea bag in your fridge.


Heading back past the bridge Dave grabbed something Exiile had a pretty good idea what it was... A cup o poison. Exiile had no idea how he could drink or anything and did not want to know what he did with it. The group rests, rebuffs a little. Exiile asks for a ddoor, no response from Sarah. "Hey Sarah you have ddoor?" Still no response. "She really is quiet" thought Exiile. Exiile takes off running back to Fire and Ice In less then 3 minutes Exiile is back with the group with the fire and ice rune. Exiile hands the rune to Jen. The group goes over the plan again rebuffs intensely, everyone is pumped to finish this 4manelite. We are not the stupidest F2P on the block, we are neither the best F2P in the house, I assume we are all f2p. Jen is for sure. But whatever, we are middle class and ready to eat that green giant with our under-geared toons.
Exiile does some awesome tumble into the portal but comes out on her feet. That's a first! She charges at the green pea guy, her friends behind wondering what puzzle piece goes where. After a bit of typing and a bit of brain gears moving the puzzle is done, Exiile has only been hit several times by the green pea. Easily healed by wand whipping from Jen. The runes our put in, Exiile has her back to the wall and Sarah unloads all that rage she has built up during the quest and brings him half down Exiile is happy, they are about to finish this! 40%... 30%, The green pea man giant thing sweeps his sword and whacks Sarah Dave and Jen off the edge. All Exiile has to say is -.-'
20% The green pea is gonna still fall down! But no! He whacked Exiile into the wall and she bounced off the other way into the belows of tempests spine. Why the wall was like a marshmallow? No one knows.




CHAPTER 11. The green giant, again and we will miss you "Insert name"


The hero's don't want to give up, so they don't. The puzzle is done, the runes are in. They just have to go out there and beat his funky green @$!#. A quick rest and hardcore rock star buffing the hero's find themselves facing the last portal, again. A quick recap on the plan, dps him. A fight that should be talked about for ages to come has gone underway. His blows were intense,but nothing a little kiting couldn't handle. Sarah kept agro for a long time, but soon the green giant man was dead. Loooooot! Looooot! Loooot! Vendor trash?... . Finally after a bit of dancing on the top of the mountain and messing with the puzzle Jen offers to clear all of tempest spine. Jen and Exiile go in a group as Dave and Sarah did. Jen paralyzed the fire elementals as Exiile cut them. Dave and Sarah were taking a little bit of a hit but nothing to worry about to much, the place was almost clear. It didn't matter where the fire elementals were, lava or land they fell all the same. Dave and Sarah started to make there way to Jen and Exiile slowly. Jen ran ahead of Exiile. Exiile went back to Sarah n Dave, a handful of fire mephits were eating them! Exiile always hated those creatures for some reason. Sarah fainted from the heat of battle. BAMM wand whip, Sarah gets away from the harm. Exiile and Dave, fighting side by side. Dave is taking a lot of damage, he should run but he doesn't Dave is knocked out. Exiile is fine with healing ki and fire resist, Either Dave had fire resist or Exiile had no SP. BAM wand whip Save is up, wand whip again, Dave runs away but the little fire devil see him and breathes fire at him, Dave.... is dead. All the monsters are cleared... Dave is still dead. Gone forever. The adventures buried Dave AKA threw him in the deep hot lava. Our war buddy is lost thought Exiile, he is gone... There's only 3 of us now. Dave is dead.

The end.

[BlackPlague]

Fire and Ice is on of those areas pugs can never seem to get right, not more than two times in 4 years have I seen a pug correctly pull it off. It seems like all the nightmares of gaming collide in one little area. The directionally challenged lose their compasses, the deaf lose their hearing aids, and the clerics forget what resurrection is.
Prbly because no one explained it to them, but that's another story.

Usually I just end up soloing Fire, calling out for ice to be taken out, running back to ice, find it halfway down the hall with firewalls and all kinds of fighters waiting in the main room fighting off giants screaming where's ice we have to take it out within 5 seconds of the other!!! I then proceed up the hall kill ice and listen for the never fail, "I'm lost".

[Arysta]

What? I waited all day and still nothing?!! lol C'mon now, the suspense is killing me..

[Elixxer]

Thank you all for the positive rep so far! I didn't intend on getting any, I thought someone would come and call it a rather lame story, I'm not saying it isn't. It's here for any to read, and any to judge but mostly for any of my friends who would like to read it. It's not a rant.

Still all the same I thought I'd get neg rep out of it

[Aeolwind]

Prbly because no one explained it to them, but that's another story.

I think this is the big one. It takes 2 seconds to explain fire/ice but the star rarely does it.

[Previsible]

I can understand explaining fire/ice to someone who clearly states that they don't know the quest.

But 9 times out of 10, people join who don't know the quest and refuse to admit that they don't know what to do. So you think everything is clearly understood then you finish ice and about half of the raid starts running to fire and a lot of people are left at ice asking themselves, "What's going on?"

[terribabe69]

Ahhhh Hurry and post more...LOL This is great hahaha I have had some adventures like this...Some of our adventures we have to pause cause we are laughing so hard at some of the stupid stuff we all do.. lol