[thufir]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lvl 36 (now 35) enchanter just died on the bottom level of Dalnir. i lost my pixels i guess..

Let me explain.

We have a little group of regulars within the Knights Who Say Ni who like to see and do things that we haven't seen and done before during our time on Live. The dungeons are the best part of EQ in my opinion so we try to go to those. Our little core group of Grallos the 35 shadow knight, Phacemeltar the 35 enchanter, Messie the 35 monk and Twotons the 35 shaman has scrapped its way to level in places like Upper Guk, Permafrost, Solusek's Eye, Cazic-Thule, and Splitpaw, crawling in the best old school fashion that we can manage. These are all our mains and we're all new to the server.

Cazic-Thule, in fact, has its own story. We fought our way up to Archon pyramid and were at the top when we wiped due to an unfortunate 3 pull at exactly the same time Phace's charmed lizard page decides to show his true colors and turns traitor. Messie manages to FD out of the carnage and a 60 druid named Mothernature hooks him up with some buffs as he half-fights half-feign-flops his way down with our corpses to the wizard spire. We loot up, determined to try again, and fight our way back up to the top of the Archon pyramid (even finding the very same page along the way, who we charm *again* - never let it be said we learn our lessons the first time). This time we kill the Tae Ew Archon and Phace, ghetto geared that he is, claims the Lizardscale Belt with need. By this time it's getting late and back down we go, fighting through the various lizards and we're at the last floor from bottom when, well... this is a thread for DDoS wipe stories so, yeah. Everything slows to a crawl, 3 lizards pop on us as if in a dream, Phace is the first to go down in the scuffle. DDoS lets up enough for me to grab aggro on popped adds while Two, who is at 10m, mems gate and gets out (at my request). Messie FDs in time. I die heroically, on the opposite side of the Archon temple from the way in, with several see invis mobs in between me and my corpse. Messie subsequently dies retrieving Phace. I'm able to retrieve their corpses, which are closer to the entrance to Archon pyramid, but I still can't get myself despite repeated attempts so I log for the night.

In the morning I roll up a level 1 Halfling rogue who I walk down to CT to retrieve my corpse successfully. Aristulian of the DDoS Relief Team rezzes me up and all is well. No idea if this trick will work again now that sneak/hide's been patched, though...

But anyway. Back to Dalnir.

For this little expedition it's just me (Grallos), Phacemeltar, and Twotons. We pick up a 30 druid along the way and hitch a ride with Mothernature (yes, she's awesome) to the Dreadlands and grab the subsequent evac to EJ from KC. We were actually going to go to Kaesora but after Twotons accidentally walked to Dalnir instead we decide that's probably better for our level range. We arrive and start killing, nearly everything is db and we are rolling. Druid has to leave, but we decide it's best to drop down a floor anyway, so we do that and crush the mobs at the drop point. OK, to the 3rd floor then. Down through the checkerboard tile into the pit, quick jaunt west into the corridor. Pulls commence, lots of Kly and coerced slaves die before whirling blades, their worlds dissolving into anarchy.

3 Kly are on us when the DDoS hits. I die in sad slow motion, watching my hp drop. Twotons and I are in teamspeak, but he can do nothing but watch as his heal spell never completes. Shortly afterwards they die in a similar fashion.

I'm bound in Field of Bone, next to Kaesora. Phace is too. Twotons is not. He spends a bit trying to find a port to OT from EC before he gets lagged into oblivion and doesn't log back in. His corpse is still down there.

Phace and I chance invising to our corpses. I scout ahead, checking for goo. None in the way on first, none in the way on second. All is well. We get down to corpses, loot up, invis. Now it's time for me to get out. Phace can gate, but I have to risk the run. I get to the coffin secret door and ...

Well, I'm an ogre. Duck, twist, duck, twist, can't make it through. No problem. I got an ant's legs potion (my "ogre tax" I like to call it). Shrink, get through. Re-invis. Dash up the ramp. Peer inside next room...

Gyrating goo hits YOU for 44 points of damage

FD! Failure! Get up! Run! Aggro more Kly! I try and find a good place to die and settle on an alcove near where I aggro'd the goo. No problem, I know where my corpse is...

... you can see where this is going. I get to the secret corridor. Can't get through. Not close enough to corpse for /corpse to work. No ant's legs potion. Shaman's offline.

Phace tries twice to get my corpse at least as far as the secret door; both times pathing goos get him. Once, he's able to gate out. Once, he isn't. He's able to retrieve his second corpse, thankfully. But apparently my carefully chosen place of death has been chosen very poorly, right near 2 pathing goos.

I permit myself a bit of despair.

While I'm wallowing in misery on the 3rd floor of Dalnir, terrified that my invis will pop during a DDoS attack and I'll get murdered yet again, Phacemeltar is sending tells to random people near us asking for help. A shaman named Zalg, may his name be forever blessed, offers to drop down and throw me a shrink. This is done, and I get through the corridor. However, /corpse only succeeds in getting my second corpse which I had left down there earlier - I can't seem to get the one with all the equipment on it. I figure, what are the chances a rezzing cleric will be on the 3rd floor anyway, so I loot it all the way up and /corpse again. This one gets the corpse with the good stuff, so I loot it all the way up too using the same logic, and am able to get out and to the zone out on the 3rd floor by some analysis of the goo pathers and a few good FDs.

Phace, BTW, has his corpse now, as the story implies. Twotons still doesn't, but I imagine he'll get it in the morning.

If this post wins the prize, I plan on spending just enough of the 20k to score an FBSS, and splitting the rest with my 3 buddies.