What it's All About

Friday evening was the first time in quite a while where I think we simply gathered a bunch of folks together, and laughed our way through the entire evening.

Sure, there was XP to be had, some favor earned, and plenty of "über" lowbie loot to be had.

But I think it's pretty safe to say that we quickly forgot about the fundamentals of game-play...

Depending upon how you look at the group composition, we had three Face Stabbers and three Lifetakers. I could be counted as two and four, if you consider the fact that I was running EmmDee, who's technically a Lifetaker, but my only alternate character in that guild. Still... It was an unusual combination of players, and things digressed rather quickly.

Which is what made it so much fun.

In many ways, it hearkened back to the days of running with Kruella and Meany, in which *anything* could be said in voice- and party-chat.

And usually was!

Yeah, Friday was more like a guy's night out than an evening's questing in DDO.

But, I suppose that's what made it so much fun. Especially since we were running some of the less thrilling quests in the low levels.

There were several times where I was laughing so hard that I couldn't keep the other members of the party healed up.

Not that that was a huge concern, as everyone was carrying *some* sort of self-healing with them, but it was obvious when I couldn't concentrate on the Clerical tasks.

My cheeks hurt well before we were done with the first few quests, and felt as though they'd fall off my face by the time the evening was through. It was a rather insane but thoroughly enjoyable way to spend an evening with friends.

I look forward to more of the same.

Many thanks go out to Danthrag (Elainee/Killiayn), Krinjen (Roulph/Belzur), Sephrena (Bashal/Confrag), Sundiata (I don't know any alts yet), and Truesong (True... many things), for an entertaining evening. We'll have to do that again some time...

Keep it fun!