2008-02-08 Only Three to Tango

Philly wasn't sure who would make the regular thursday run or what we would be doing, so I logged in and then went to get dinner as no one else was in game yet. Brae had arleady let us know that he would not be able to make it. Arq has been ill and we weren't sure if he would be in. Kon had left word that his computer repair was complete and that he expected to be there. We had discussed possibly making another foray into SFK so that Kon could get the quests done that he'd missed.

But as 5:30pm became 5:50pm only Philly and the warrior, Huldu, had showed up. We had just agreed to just help each other work on raising our skill levels for our professions when Arq arrived. Yes, he was still not well. But he'd been sleeping all day and wanted to spend some time in game. We talked about what we could do with the three of us, and Arq mentioned that he still needed to complete a couple quests in his pally quest chain. He needed to do another Ragefire Chasm run for one of them. That sounded like fun, so we headed for Orgrimmar.

RFC is no match for three mid-level 20s players, so we made it as challenging as possible. The warrior and pally would try to aggro as many mobs as they possibly could, drag them all into a pile, and then we'd work through killing them all. No matter how many they grabbed, Philly only needed to do light healing, and spent most of the time helping to kill the mobs. We had a blast.

We finally got to the area for the pally quest. We cleared the room and then arq activated a stone that is set at the back of the room. I've seen that stone there many times on RFC farming runs, even tried to activate it, and never knew what it was for. Now I knew. The stone released a level 20 elite demon, and the three of us took him down.

Amazingly, Philly even got a drop out of RFC that she could use. On our prior RFC run, Kon had mistakenly rolled need on a very nice blue chest piece called [Robe of Evocation], which drops off of one of the bosses. We kidded him about it but no big deal. On this run the robe dropped again, and it was still a better chest piece than the one Philly was wearing. Other blue gear that dropped we could only greed on and then sell as we didn't have our disenchanter, Brae, with us.

The RFC run didn't take that long, and since none of us had collected the flight paths we would need to get to BFD yet, we decided to make that run.

It's a long way on foot, but we didn't have any other choice. We gathered back up at the Crossroads, and then headed north for Ashenvale. Once in Ashenvale, we wound along a number of trails to get to Splintertree Post, the first flight path we needed. From there we headed west. Since we were doing other things while making the run (Philly would take side trips to collect flowers, for example) we got pretty strung out, but we all knew where we were going (yes, even me). That almost got Huldu in trouble, though, as he was the only one of us to encounter the elite giant that patrols one section of road in Ashenvale. If I recall the giant is a level 36. To Huldu he was ?? and five times Huldu's size. He managed to avoid him, although it got his heart going pretty good.

Straddling the road we were on is Astraanar, an alliance town. Wild once accidentally tried to enter that town, and fled for his life, alliance npcs hard on his cow tail. We diverted around the town, killing the occasional spider that got too close.

From there the road twisted northward, and eventually there is a path that breaks away from the main road and heads to the coast.

At the coast it's a short run south to the Zoram Strand outpost and the flight path we needed. To the north of the post is Blackfathom Deeps.

About halfway through that road trip Kon arrived. His computer wasn't as "fixed" as he thought it was and he'd had to upload and install some drivers. He hoped it was working now. We used the Summoning Stone at BFD to summon him out to us, and then Philly showed him the flight path at Zoram strand. Arq had one last quest to do for his pally quest chain, which was to kill nagas right in the area where we were. We helped with that, and arq then headed back to the quest giver. The quest reward was a very nice blue level polearm. That will be nice to have in BFD come sunday.

Huldu had to leave, and that left just Philly and Kon. Since Kon did not have the flight path at Spinebreaker Hold, I offered to make the run all the way back with him to show him where that was. Philly then called it a night.

Before leaving, though, Philly was able to confirm that I can change our quest night from thursday to tuesday. Kon is commited on tuesdays for the next two weeks, so it will be 26 Feb before we make the change.