Parsons in Halloween Havoc

Picture the scene. 2am, a successful nights scrapping (hit 18) is at an end, I'm camping and going to bed. Suddenly, voices began booming out of the Lake of Ill Omen. Something about Goblin's rising from the Lake to take on Cabilis. There is excited shouts and /ooc's giving Goblin progress reports, a huge line headed for Cabilis and all hell is about to break loose. Just before they hit the sky goes red, deep red. Blood red. Another announcement. "No one shall escape Faydeder".

There's suddenly a serious up turn in the amount of con red creatures around. People are running about, confused at what's going on. Myself and partner have a few close scraps with aggressive Goblins. Then, excited chatter across the zone announces that - yes - holy shite - a dragon has risen from the Lake. We head off to catch a glimpse. The chatter gets more and more fraught. It's at the FV zone border. It's killing people. Lots of people. The amount of people in the zone quadriples and my comp slows to a crawl. Everyones rushing to get a glimpse. My group mate yells at me "Almost there", as we ominously run past a myriad of corpses.

Then, over the crest, tiny in the distance, is the dragon. Bugger me, it's a big one. I'm gonna sneak up here, and jam my thumb up it's butthole! Having hardly caught a glimpse, it's on top of me! AAAIEEE! Damn, didn't get a snapshot. But wait, I'm not dead I'm walking, uncontrolably away from it. Must be a spell. Phew. The spells wears off, and I turn and head back to try and get a damn snapshot. And there it is again. In the distance. It's moving flaming fast. Can't get it lined up. Then, ominously announced, along with countless others "Faydedar says 'You will not evade me Parsons'". Ok, change of plan, leggit! But too late, before I've even had a chance to line the shot up, I'm down! And dead. And zoning back to my bind point.

And now I'm naked. On halloween night. With a dragon running around. And scores of gangs waiting for me along the route. So, I cautiously follow the coast. Avoiding countless Goblins. I head up to the spot where I died. How am I going to get it back with a dragon in the way? But the dragon has moved. Excited chatter moves elsewhere, he's northwest of the lake. I recover my corpse. However, I wasn't so lucky with XP. A whole bub, gone in a careless instant. Curiosity killed the cat.

I'm aware of more havoc going down over the hill. However, I've had my fill. Don't wanna loose my level. So, I set down again. Bid farewell to the Lake. And bed. It's fun in there. So, one helluva Halloween event. Pretty darned exciting all in all. So that's why the servers went down yesterday? Uhuh, I get it now.