Monday, January 21, 2008

Agenu'ai's Coronation

In a struggle of almost epic proportions, Agenu'ai began to collect all the things she needed to enter and survive in the haunted Karazhan. Even though her struggle to retrieve a key had been a full success, the more important goal to find a group willing to take her into the fabled place, so that she could lay her thin, elven fingers on some real epic booty was also going to be determined by how well equiped she was. Or rather, the viability and survivability of such a group largely also depended on the bloodelven priestess' equipment.

Repeated raids into the Shadow Labyrinth eventually procured amidst the debris a robe very much to her liking, eagerly grasping for it, she was stunned and shocked to find someone in her group to be even more greedy than herself. Next to the robe she desired so much was another, a robe for mages or warlocks, and in the hurry to seize that other robe, the mage had snatched both robes right from under Agenu'ai's fingers. Truly furious, mostly perhaps about being outdone in greedyness, she curst the mage and swore to tear the Shadow Labyrinth apart until she would lay her hands on that very robe!

A later expedition into Arcatraz helped sooth her mood properly, even though it didn't quite seem to go as smoothly as could be hoped. The path to Skyriss was fraught with peril, though, a bunch of Ethereals cramming them in a tight spot, as not four, but eight charged at the group in an effort to destroy their lives. Luckily for the group, the paladin managed to present such a glowing bright target that none of their group fell in that almost epic struggle. At the end, the paladin had to kick her way past the corpses that lay in one heap around her.

But the worst fight was yet to come, as hidden in those cells were not only a grumbling gnome mage, but also an air elemental which tore through Agenu'ai's group with its frightfully far spread lightning bolts, shreddening the priestess with his lightning and almost turning her group into a crisp pile of ash. When they finally managed to defeat this ugly elemental, the last, deepest cell of Arcatraz was opened and Harbinger Skyriss revealed. The fight went surprisingly smooth, neither the imprisioned monster nor his clones being able to hurt Agenu'ai's group lethally.

And when her group at long last dug through Harbinger Skyriss' dungeon cell, they discoverd among other loot the very crown Agenu'ai had heard so much about. This time nobody beat her to it and she put it on her head grinning pleased.

Not only did she own the very thing she had come here for, but she also felt ready to face the dangers of Karazhan now and not fail her group utterly. But that's a story for another day...

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