Things We've Forgotten

Thanks to our recent reunion with long-lost guildies, it seems there have been some things we've forgotten over the course of their absence.

It came to light last night when we were running with Kruellah, dragging her through the Waterworks at break-neck speed, so that she could join the rest of the world in the areas of Stormreach beyond the Harbor. Most notably, the Marketplace.

We started our run being a bit chatty, but nothing (yet) that belongs in the pages behind the NC-17 sign.

Kru had questioned whether I remembered such conversations, and I replied simply that not only did I remember them, but that I missed them.

She thought that maybe I'd forgotten how... interesting... such conversations could become.

Certainly, I have not forgotten that.

I mean... The Main Vein...

And...

~other~ topics.

Always enjoyable!

But, apparently, there were other things we *had* forgotten.

We weren't long into second part of the four-part quest, when Kru noted how quiet the voice-chat had become.

Had we forgotten what it's like to conduct a completely random and unrelated discussion *while* we were slogging our way through quests we'd completed so many times that no one could count?

It seems we had.

Tanision even offered that we were simply concentrating on the encounter at hand.

True...

We were running the quest on Elite.

And Unarius, my new "pure class" Barbarian, had long since run out of healing potions. Meaning that Phrudin, Belzur's new lowbie Cleric, spent quite a few resources providing life support.

Which I have to reimburse him for.

Tan was also running his new lowbie Paladin, and Kru was running the latest version of Kruellah, also a Drow Paladin, like the original. They, too, were providing Unarius with life support, and they too, also deserve reimbursement for their efforts.

As soon as I log over to a character that has some cash on them.

So, there was a certain amount of concentration going on.

I was trying to do the proper amount of Barbarian zerging, without causing undo stress on the healers, but I wasn't the only one "tanking" either. Robinous and Soulencer were running their lowbie Fighter's, too.

Not to mention the fact that Soulencer's lowbie, Forbiddious, is a 'forged.

Phrudin's healing spells certainly don't work as well on the 'forged as they do on the fleshies.

But, the point is...

We came to a point where there was almost no chatting going on.

And, Kru noticed.

And said something about it.

Our excuses were pretty lame. But, the truth is, it's been a *long* time since we've had the pleasure of Kruella or Craygar in our groups. According to the guild member list within the game, 1 year and 10 months.

1 year and 10 months without the irrelevant chatter we used to be famous for!

Time to resurrect old traditions!

Who knows *what* will come up the next time we group.

Perhaps Themainvein?

Well, maybe not.

But, Kru's sister, Trowser Snakecharmer is back...

;)

Keep it fun!

The Most Unbelievable Thing Happened...

So, last night, Tanision and I were hanging out with Soulencer, trying to figure out what we were gonna do next with the new generation of lowbies we'd all rolled-up, when Soulencer chimed into voice chat with...

"Hey, I was supposed to tell you guys something."

"What's that?"

"I was over in the tavern with the brawling area when I received a /tell from someone. The were asking if Trin was still in the guild."

"Really?"

I thought to myself, well, I've played this game with a lot of people over the years, and there're quite a few who've left the game, so that could be anyone. But it was the next comment that got my attention...

"Yeah. Said he and his wife used to play and are coming back to the game."

Both Tan and I immediately replied with "NO WAY!!!"

"Yeah. Said he was hoping you were still around, and was hoping to run with you sometime soon."

"NAME!!! What was the name of the character!?!" (rather emphatically, if you couldn't tell)

"Umm... Azindra, I think..."

Poor Soulencer. I'm pretty sure I cut him off when I told Tan I had to run back to the tavern to switch over to Trin.

This, of course, quickly side-tracked our search for the next quest and instead turned into a search for this illusive character by the name of Azindra.

After switching over to Trin, I ran over to the Wayward Lobster, where Soulencer said he was standing when he received the /tell.

It was stupid, really. Especially after Soulencer told me he'd looked around for whomever had sent him the /tell, but didn't see them. Tanision and I quickly realized that Azindra had (smartly) used the Who panel, as any experienced DDO player would have, to check to see whether there were any Face Stabbers online. From there, it would be a simple matter of sending a /tell without regard for location.

Oh, well... I had to go look for myself.

Without any luck, though, I ran Trin back over to the Marketplace, to drop him off at the Phoenix Tavern before bringing Taciturn back out for more lowbie entertainment.

On the way over, though, I decided to stop by the Lightning Post to send a message to Azindra. When I arrived, I was surprised to see a message from Kruellah waiting for me.

Either I was being haunted by ghosts of Christmas Past, or my suspicions had just been confirmed. Either way, I quickly shot a message off to Azindra, and replied to Kruellah.

In the mean time, Tan and I had jumped back onto our lowbies, and were yammering speculations about whether it was really true.

What was truly perplexing was that Bashal had just logged off for the evening, and Belzur had not yet logged in. This was such surprising news, that it was unfortunate that the other two weren't around to share in it.

Tan and I were *really* surprised when not but twenty minutes later, Soulencer informed us that Azindra had logged in.

I stopped everything I was doing and immediately sent a /tell to Azindra... "Craygar?!?"

"That's me. Who are you?"

ZOMG!!!

"Trin!"

"Trin! How are you?"

/invite

"Craygar!!!"

"..." (silence)

"Guess he hasn't turned on his voice-chat yet."

"..." (more silence)

"Hey guys! Can you hear me now?"

"CRAYGAR!!!" (in stereo)

It quickly devolved into a social gathering, rather than an adventure party. I felt bad for Soulencer; he had *NO* idea who Tan and I were so excited to talk to. And then things got even worse, when Craygar asked us if it was okay if he logged off, because Kruella (aka Trowser Snake Charmer) wanted to log in for a bit.

I guess they no longer have two computers, or they're sharing only one account at the moment. So, it was a bit sad when Craygar logged of, but it was exciting when Kruellah logged in.

This time I had my Friends list updated, so I saw the message the moment she logged in.

"Is this the real Kruella, or simply an imposter?" I asked.

"There's only one way to find out."

Not exactly an authentication, but she'd replied first in general chat, which meant she was nearby, or I wouldn't have seen the message, and then she replied to my /tell.

We were standing near the entrance to Garrison's Missing Pack, so I lit off like a rocket, searching the Harbor for this character named Kruellah.

I quickly found her... over near the Lightning Post.

She was facing the other direction, and didn't see me coming.

I wanted to sneak up on her and give her a surprise, but I was running Taciturn. He isn't sneaky at all!

So, instead, I dashed up to her, grabbed her, and started to dance.

She turned around, removed her clothes, and began to dance herself.

It really *IS* Kruella!!!

LOL!

In fact, Craygar had been walking past the computer when he saw she was doing her naked dancing thing again. He, of course, made a comment Kru was obligated to relay to the rest of us...

"Craygar says... you're naked already!?!"

I'm still having a difficult time believing they're back.

We ran the rest of the evening with Kru, chatting about all sorts of things, but very little about our actual quests.

Some things never change!

It's so good to have Kruella and Craygar back. And it's good to have them both back as Face Stabbing Misfits.

There really is a future for this game!

Keep it fun!!!