[lecompte]

Saturday for Rapture’s raid time we formed up a few groups and gathered at WC spires to port up to hate. Grrugg, Cygnan, Lecompte, Flickker, and Pallius are in the break in group with a couple more groups waiting at the spire for the wizard to pop down and grab them – haven’t had a problem with the DDOS lag stuff all day. Port up happens and we are all set for smooth sailing, we got 1 spite golem, 1 rat and 1 ghoul. Easy peasy, Flickker starts locking down everything but the spite – a couple more things add but it is still no problem. Pallius and Grrugg are on the spite, I’m throwing snares on anything and very thing to pull them off our casters. We think we’re golden. Other group is ready to come up when all of a sudden our spells are frozen. We can still see each other moving around but nothing is happening – Grrugg is starting to get a little nervous as his health drops and asking for heals. From his perspective it is life as usual… except, for some reason, his kick and taunt keys are not coming back up. Ten seconds of this, and our group is disbanded by server , fifteen seconds after that Grrugg dies, then the rest of us follow.

I petition the wipe and ask for corpse pulls/rez as it was due to server lag and I didn’t think we would be able to go get our bodies. Server seems to stabilize. Great news! We don’t want to wait all day for rezzes so we decide to have another go at it.

The group is composed of an ungeared Lecompte, Grrugg, Flickker, Cygnan, a geared Elgorn and geared Zukoe (wizard). We port up again each of us loots enough gear to perform and get to work on the TWO spite golems, lich, rat, ghoul, revenant. It isn’t looking good, our objective is simply to break in, rez up and get out. We aren’t able to do so, Grugg dies again and Elgorn dies also. The rest of us get out safely with an evac, just in time.

We rendezvous with Grrugg, and Elgorn at the WC wiz spires – at this point Lecompte has all his gear and others have a few pieces. I log off Lecompte and on to Halmir to give it another go.

So, this time it is Halmir (played by me), Cygnan, Grrugg, Elgorn, Flickker (wizard dropped group to port down for another group this time around. We realized that the breakin would be harder than the first time after round two.) The games begin: the spite golems come, Grrugg is evasive tanking them both, all the other crap is mezzed and we are doing fine. DDOS strikes. No heals for Grrugg – or anyone else, no relief from the mainland cause no one can zone; another full wipe.

At this point, I’ve written a short novella in /petition and Rapture agrees that we will have to wait. I agree to sit there on Lecompte and not worry about my rez timer cause I was (and still am) confident that we will get exp rezzes for those corpses that will/had timed out. I have some heresy at this point but my understanding is that TMO attempted a breakin shortly after up and wiped, attempted a second time and made it. TMO rezzed up those of us who still had timers (thanks guys) and we got all the gear off the corpses that didn’t have rez timers. Sidenote: I had logged off Halmir to preserve his timer, I logged back over to him and got the rez. In the end, Grrugg’s alt is on the same account so the timers on his corpses had timed out – he completely looted one when we went up to get his gear. As things stand: Lecompte took one xp death w/o rez, Grrugg took three, Elgorn two. Grrugg, by choice, completely looted one corpse so that one isn’t refundable but I’m very sorry to Grrugg and Elgorn for the way things stand now. I’m pushing my petition thread as I’m able and I’ll try and /petition the next time I see Sirken streaming.