Log In Issues: November 19th

[silinteresting]

Mythdrannor. 2nd ed. My first gaming session with a new group, using a rogue created and then boosted to L14 to join in.

Mythdrannor was new enough to us that the party insisted on making noise and casting spells, just to see what would happen.

I could end there and let you fill in the blanks because anyone who knows anything about Mythdrannor knows that's a really bad plan. I was not one of you at that point...

So anyway. A short while into our exploration we're quite injured, and fighting a tanari, a wyvern and a young dragon (possibly green, can't quite remember).

The latter we had discovered in an abandoned roofless tower. Spells used in the fight caused the summoning of the tanari which came in through the front gate, blocking off our escape route. This protracted fight attracted a wyvern.

My rogue was sneaking up the stairs to jump onto the dragon and backstab it, but spotted the wyvern circling overhead. Deciding we didn't need more things in the fight, I ran up the stairs and heroically leaped instead onto its back as it flew past, and immediately backstabbed it with my precious wrist daggers, critting, and killing it instantly! Go me!

I'm awesome.

However, being as we were about a hundred feet up at this point, thing rapidly and literally went down from there. At high speed.

Landing on the injured dragon with the blunt trauma force of a wyvern falling as a dead weight from the sky killed it, just after it's last attack had finished off the the tanari (and injured some other party members). The party members (including me) survived that last breath weapon + the wyvern/rogue impact, but had mere moments to revel in the awesome before the tanari, having been killed, exploded as they are wont to do and threw the usual treasure shrapnel all over the place, lacerating the party and bringing down half the tower, ending the lives of all but the ranger. The ranger who was now stuck in the middle of myth drannor alone, following a massive battle and a huge explosion, which inevitably was going to mean more bad guys to deal with.

The ranger got away and eventually managed to get the party resurrected blah blah blah.

The point is I had to buy the pizza, for having nearly caused a TPK of a 2 year running L14 party in three dice rolls my first time out.

I'd be bitter if it hadn't immediately made me legendary enough to make me friends that I still have today.


EDIT: also, failed to connect to server. Tried argo and wayfinder.

cool story nice one

[SymphonicTheory]

Everyone come to Minecraft!!!

[arkonas]

That would be me..

yeah i'm in the same boat as well. i got to log in then that stupid loading screen crash then 5 failures to load from not finding my information to it taking too long to connect to another loading screen crash. yeah.

[arkonas]

Everyone come to Minecraft!!!

no

[Powskier]

Any one got any good AD&D stories since we can not play?

Not many that are short;...anyone have that friend ,who rolls their dice like a vagas shooter? my one buddy is that guy...wins every darn board game , mad dice skills surely help. Need an 01 ,on a d100 ? A rare roll indeed,or minor Telekinesis? he's actually playin star wars for some reason;come bak to ddo Hudak! Personally ,I roll way to many 20s when I DM...i actually switch between 1/2 a dozen dice to help players believe they roll fair.

[OrodelaSol]

no

What's Minecraft?

[FAQ]

Can't connect either :/

[catouse9]

mythdrannor. 2nd ed. My first gaming session with a new group, using a rogue created and then boosted to l14 to join in.

Mythdrannor was new enough to us that the party insisted on making noise and casting spells, just to see what would happen.

I could end there and let you fill in the blanks because anyone who knows anything about mythdrannor knows that's a really bad plan. I was not one of you at that point...

So anyway. A short while into our exploration we're quite injured, and fighting a tanari, a wyvern and a young dragon (possibly green, can't quite remember).

The latter we had discovered in an abandoned roofless tower. Spells used in the fight caused the summoning of the tanari which came in through the front gate, blocking off our escape route. This protracted fight attracted a wyvern.

My rogue was sneaking up the stairs to jump onto the dragon and backstab it, but spotted the wyvern circling overhead. Deciding we didn't need more things in the fight, i ran up the stairs and heroically leaped instead onto its back as it flew past, and immediately backstabbed it with my precious wrist daggers, critting, and killing it instantly! Go me!

I'm awesome.

However, being as we were about a hundred feet up at this point, thing rapidly and literally went down from there. At high speed.

Landing on the injured dragon with the blunt trauma force of a wyvern falling as a dead weight from the sky killed it, just after it's last attack had finished off the the tanari (and injured some other party members). The party members (including me) survived that last breath weapon + the wyvern/rogue impact, but had mere moments to revel in the awesome before the tanari, having been killed, exploded as they are wont to do and threw the usual treasure shrapnel all over the place, lacerating the party and bringing down half the tower, ending the lives of all but the ranger. The ranger who was now stuck in the middle of myth drannor alone, following a massive battle and a huge explosion, which inevitably was going to mean more bad guys to deal with.

The ranger got away and eventually managed to get the party resurrected blah blah blah.

The point is i had to buy the pizza, for having nearly caused a tpk of a 2 year running l14 party in three dice rolls my first time out.

I'd be bitter if it hadn't immediately made me legendary enough to make me friends that i still have today.


Edit: Also, failed to connect to server. Tried argo and wayfinder.

great story!

[Albinosaurus]

When you run maintenance or restart the servers, don't forget to plug the power strip back in.

Edit: On a more serious note, I do feel a little cheated by the fact that I just recently bought 3 months of VIP, and the next 3-4 days are constant connection/server issues and down time. I just want to play.

[Braegan]

Add me to the list that can't connect.

[ghaeles21]

me too :-/

[cpw_acc]

All sorts of issues going on I think.

Tried to buy a bell from the store. Took ages for the store to respond. Then item never appeared in inventory, even after waiting a few minutes.

Thought I would try disconnecting/reconnecting to see if it would appear....Bad Idea! Now can't log back in (and 30 ddo points lost).

Sigh....

[Calinthus]

Do you have an ETA for the fix? Have a guild run in less than an hour.

[Ebforest60]

Same here.

[firstprotector]

any idea if or when we can log in, or should I just go find something else to play

[Anck-Su-Namun]

and me getting

failed to queue for server (0x800004005)

Same for me on Sarlona

[Ambelza]

Well I believe the day off has now been officially ruined. Seems like DDO has been down the entire day. When are we gonna get an update?

[Domacett]

Any one got any good AD&D stories since we can not play?

http://vimeo.com/39114507

[RangerOps2u]

Arghhhhhhh!!!!

and now their all down. I'm so glad I have payed for the laggg and downtime over this last 30 days. DDO store idea ...make a purchasable lag bypass timer ....you'll make bank!!

[BritAKAsh0rtstuff]

any updates on this?