On a ROLL!

So wow, it's a been long time. Far too long, or so I'm told... So many responsibilities (alts to level!) and so little time... So yeah, I'm a slacker, but it's a good thing that Pak as a whole is not!

We've been working hard with our friends in Sanctus Arcanum, and maybe one of these days we'll become Pakanctus'Cafanarcum. Hmm, that has a nice ring to it. No? Ok fine, but we are still kicking ass!

While we've played around a bit in the new expansion and gotten some nice loot, we have been spending the majority of our time exploring Meldrath's Amazing Brilliant Fabulous Tremendous Remarkable Stupendous Wonderful Delightful Majestic Mansion of clearing mobs for 2 hours before you see loot...

It started off with what might be EQ's most annoying event (this expansion!)... Breakneck, Master at Arms, which really should have been called Breakneck, Master at Killing Pullers. Or maybe that's Breakneck, Master at Wasting Your Time. Or better yet, Breakneck, Killer of EQ. In case you haven't noticed, I don't much care for this event, so I was delighted once we finally broke HIS neck!

Glad to see you dead!

Then it was on to meet Breakneck's twin, but lazier, brother. Krond the Longhorn. After finally getting him to stand up and fight, it was just a short time later that he laid down again and gave us some loot. Overall the fight was a little bit annoying, but we did have casters getting kicked and people beating up on other people, so it wasn't an entire waste... I was able to snap a quick picture of him standing up, but shortly after he fell back to sleep

Somebody get this mino a pillow...

Then it was on to meet Brinda Sprockets the Cor... blah blah something or another. This fight was weird, all I really know is that there were lots of Roman Numerals (yuck!) and a ton of corpses to loot. I was to busy trying to navigate the sea of XI's and LXX's and CDXLVIII's to take pictures.

See!

So you can just take my word for it that we killed... something, and eventually got some loot!

The next event was a fun one to learn. It was quite challenging, but at the same time not too terribly frustrating. Seneschal Bargangle Tinkerson was the main guy in this event. Something about that name, I like it... Tinkerson. I think I need a new gnome alt, don't expect another update for a while...

Here's a glimpse at some of what we had to deal with.

Congrats Pak and SA!

After that, we met up with the Tactical Prototype XXV... more Roman numbers, great, Romans suck! Once I got past the funky numbers I realized that this was actually a well thought out event, I give a thumbs up to the devs who worked on this one. You have a lot going on, and quite a lot of differant things to figure out to make the event go smoothly. It was another fun one to learn, but even funner (yes, funner!) to win!

And then we met the big guy. Meldrath himself. And just in case you forgot about the mobs in the zone that you had already killed (which in the hours you have spent clearing, it is a definite posibility), you get to do it all over again! It really wasn't that bad tho, and surprisingly we beat the event without a whole lot of strat tweaking... It just took a whole hell of a lot of time. Pak and SA members alike stuck with it tho, many staying up WAY past their bedtimes, with work the next morning. But after several hours, we got it down and cleaned up on the loot.

We went back at it this week and got the entire zone cleared in 2 days, workdays at that. Hell of a job to both Pak'Cafan and Sanctus Arcanum. We couldn't have done it without you guys! I've said it before, and I will say it again, Sanctus Arcanum has been a very welcome addition to our raids, and our chats. Our guild types are similar enough that we have meshed quite well and it has been nothing but a great time. I think speak for every member of Pak when I say thank you. Thank you for working so well with us, thank you for being such great people, and thank you for making raiding enjoyable again. I look forward to the days ahead...

Kaktharka, Paladin of Brell

Solteris CLEARED!

Yeah, yeah... So we're a little bit late here, but we finally got 'er done! We were down to the last two encounters, but our focus was on vacation, our numbers were dwindling, and we just hadn't gotten around to it...

Thanks in part to our new friends in Sanctus Arcanum, our raids are full again. Combine that with a few more levels under our belts, and our focus back and we went into Solteris ready to take on whatever dare stand in our way. First up was Commodus, Solar Construct. We made short work of things there and quickly turned him in a corpse!

Then we moved on to take a look at the final encounter of the zone only to find two of our old friends... Solusek Ro and Mayong Mistmoore.

"Two Gods"



More like "Two Pansies"

And that's not all! We've been real busy the past couple weeks. We've taken down our first mob in the new expansion... Hell, what's it called? *sneaks off to Alla's* Oh yeah, The Seeds of Destruction.

Rottrued the Twisted!

And got our first taste of the new loots to come. Here's a few of what we got...

Congrats Taewen!

Congrats Zantir!

Congrats Llareth!

We've also played around with some other new expansion content. Actually let me rephrase that... We've been played around with by some other new expansion content, but we had a blast doing it!

We've also taken our first steps inside of Meldrath's Majestic Mansion! Stay tuned for an update on our first kills there soon. We'd have something dead in there already, but we're still clearing zone trash... Stay tuned for more!

In closing, I want to give the folks in Sanctus Arcanum who have been raiding with us a huge welcome. You guys truly are a great pleasure to have around and are an amazing group of people. I really am looking forward to the days to come. I sense great things coming for the both of us!

Kaktharka, Paladin of Brell

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