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Syxx
04-05-2004, 09:02
Hi All,

After last Wednesday debacle where we messed up the start time and only half the team were on time, last night was alot better, with a full team showing up ... Chiller-Babe being the exception, but we forgive her .... after all she is on her honeymoon.

The team was ...

Leaper Barb
Posion Necro
Bone Necro
FOH / Conviction Pally
Wind Druid
Fire Druid
Hydra / Static Sorc

We decided to redo the rescue of Cain as a few were missing this quest. All was going to plan til we actually entered the red portal to Tristran. 4 members of the team went across the bottom of Tristan and engaged Gris, while myself and one of the necro went to free Cain. (mistake number 1 ... we should have stayed togather) Before we reached Cain, a pack of Goat thingy's and their boss intercepted us. Our 2 mercs and the necro's golem blocked the Goats while the necro bonespeared and I static'ed, but they were too much, our minions died so we had to back off towards our party. We hoped to confuse the monsters and stop them following us by taking the corner sharply. They weren't on our tail as we rounded the bend so I assumed we had succeeded, and I went to help static Gris. Our pally at this stage was standing behind the group not doing much (mistake number 2 ... typing a message, drinking coffee ?) when I noticed the Goats hadn't been fooled by us, they had followed after all. The Pally being the closest started get to hit by them. I put up some hydras on top of Goats and staticed for all I was worth, but still the Pally remained immobile. In my mind I was screaming for him to move. I didn't have time to message, as I my fingers were busy firing off attack spells. Our Leaper Barb saw the Pallys was in need of immediate help and tried the intercept and warcry the goats, but he was a second too late, the Pally got deeds.

We stood around feeling sad at the loss of a party member (our first KTA 4.0 death), especially me as the fault was partially mine. I kept wondering why he didn't move, but that didn't change the fact, I helped set the goats off in the first place. I am very sorry about that, Baroni.

Rather than Baroni retire for the remainder of KTA 4.0 we asked if he had another untwinked character around this our level, which fortunately he did We were between level 72-75, and he returned with a level 72 trapper. Using most of the looted Pally's equipment, we replaced the trappers gear in order to stick with our principle of being an untwinked team. We also kept our eyes open for specialized Assassin gear.

Of we went Black Marsh and continued throught Hell Act 1. Our newest member fitted in very well. With the fire Sorc and Druid providing various Fire attacks, our Poisonmancer nova'ing poison, and our Trapper spamming lightening, we had 3 strong elemental attacks, and nothing was immuned to our party.

The remainder of Act 1 went according to plan, except for Andy who dropped garbage when she was toasted. She was meant to drop some really delicious uber items, but she obvious wasn't following the same plan we were. Then again it could have had something to do with our pretty low MF.

Well, people it was great to run with a full team again, and except for the death of our pally ... it was a fun night. I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.

Magnus / Vix : I was wondering if you feel like a little KTA action ? Next Monday I will be away in India with work for 2 weeks and will not be able to attend our evening sessions. Could I ask one of you to join KTA 4.0 and play KTA-Sol the Hydra / Static Sorc for me ? With the loss of Conviction, her screen wide Static becomes quite important. I haven't checked with the others, but I'm sure this will be ok as you both are old time KTA members. If you let me know by Friday, I'll give you the password to the account.

Regards
Syxx /KTA-Sol

Kevman
04-05-2004, 09:43
Yes,

Was a sad day yesterday, with our 2nd death (dont forget the normal ones.......). I saw it happening but for the first half hour of play was running round like a zombie.............

Dunno why.......

We recovered well though, and everything seemed to gel a bit more.

Oh, and you forgot the uber cold damage from blow :) - about 800 hurricane and about 1600 tornado :)

Kev

Silvervixen
04-05-2004, 10:31
Hi All,


Magnus / Vix : I was wondering if you feel like a little KTA action ? Next Monday I will be away in India with work for 2 weeks and will not be able to attend our evening sessions. Could I ask one of you to join KTA 4.0 and play KTA-Sol the Hydra / Static Sorc for me ? With the loss of Conviction, her screen wide Static becomes quite important. I haven't checked with the others, but I'm sure this will be ok as you both are old time KTA members. If you let me know by Friday, I'll give you the password to the account.

Regards
Syxx /KTA-Sol

So sorry for your loss Baroni. RIP. It sounds like the worst monster of all got you, the LAGbeast.

I don't know if i'll have the time to play your sorc syxx. I can probably manage one or two nights but not all four. If you Magnus have similar time issues perhaps we can divide the evenings. I know it would be fun and i haven't played a hydra sorc in a loooong time so that would be fun to.


Vix

Ps. Nice going to India, i bet. Have a nice trip and make sure its not all work!

Mn_Swe2
04-05-2004, 10:44
Magnus / Vix : I was wondering if you feel like a little KTA action ? Next Monday I will be away in India with work for 2 weeks and will not be able to attend our evening sessions. Could I ask one of you to join KTA 4.0 and play KTA-Sol the Hydra / Static Sorc for me ? With the loss of Conviction, her screen wide Static becomes quite important. I haven't checked with the others, but I'm sure this will be ok as you both are old time KTA members. If you let me know by Friday, I'll give you the password to the account.

Regards
Syxx /KTA-Sol

I'm glad to hear that you are up and running smoth again :)

Sorry about the Pala Baroni, R.I.P. Proves once again that you can't really relax a single second when you're untwinked, kind of what makes it fun though.

As for your request. I'm not 100% sure I will be able to attend all 4 evenings theese following weeks, but if 3 evenings is better than none, or if Silver and I can split them between us, I will gladly step ut to the plate :)

If you want me to play your char or use one of my own (twinked) is for you to decide, but I have a feeling that you want ot go the untwinked way?

If I play instead of you I will make sure however that they don't do Baal without you. I'll slow them down... lure them into wrong directions... attracting all monsters I can see... I''ll insist we have to rescue the Barbs in Frigid 12 times because I didn't get the quest, heck-I'll even hostile them and scare them with my magic Hydras :lol:

/Magnus

Baroni
04-05-2004, 11:30
We stood around feeling sad at the loss of a party member (our first KTA 4.0 death), especially me as the fault was partially mine. I kept wondering why he didn't move, but that didn't change the fact, I helped set the goats off in the first place. I am very sorry about that, Baroni.

There is nothing for you to be sorry about Syxx. It was 100% my own fault. The cause of my death was that I was typing a message, and was looking down at the keyboard for too long a period of time. Combined with the fact that I had mp3's playing rather than listening to the game sound, I didn't realize I was being chewed up until it was almost too late.

I really must learn to touch type one day.

Thanks for letting me join up with my Assa. She is in need of some better equipment, so I think I'll do a few (dozen) solo NM Eld/shenk runs. I obviously don't want to twink her as that would be against party rules.

See you all on wednesday.

HAMC8112
04-05-2004, 18:37
Magnus? There will be no need for 4 sessions i believe, if we get duri and meph next time there's only dia, the forge q and baal left, so 3 should wrap it up for sure.

Mn_Swe2
04-05-2004, 20:23
Magnus? There will be no need for 4 sessions i believe, if we get duri and meph next time there's only dia, the forge q and baal left, so 3 should wrap it up for sure.

Yeah, but I still think it's a good idéa for Silver and me to split the sessions. Would be fun for both of us to meet KTA[4.0] in a game :)

/Magnus

det
05-05-2004, 10:19
Up and running indeed..and so is my PC again.

Still installing some programms (I am running Win 98 SE again after all), I would love if somebody has an idea how to get rid of some annoying programms that are always there at the autostart, like a C-Mixer in the Taskbar and crap. Any decent Win forum?

But that is besides the point, we are talking KTA after all :lol:

It was quite enjoyable - apart from Baronis death that I feel as responsible for as Syxx. After all, it really was us the lured the monsters to the party...but then again, like Baroni said..it could have been avoided without typing. That said, it can get annoying when somebody messages his friends using the /f m command, and my screen is green with text in a northern European (or was it dutch) language... I the culprit knows who I mean ;)

I am still not sure if I will ever change my setup..that 50 res all, 175 Mana and fast cast on my staff is just too seet, especially since i will never be able to get decent block anyhow. It would take a "White" Runeword (is it?) and a killer head to make the switch. When I now try to switch to my +3 poison spells, the damage is just not THAT much increased (1000 per BS)

That said, I felt quite comfortable with the party in hell last night and look forward to more carnage today :clap:

Baroni
05-05-2004, 19:31
Just to let you guys know that I won't be able to make tonights KTA game. I have an interview for a new job tomorrow at 8am so I'm going to get a really early night.

Wish me luck.