Wednesday (19 Oct) - Smoke and Fire!

Wednesday (19 Oct) - Smoke and Fire!

Hunter Fortress was Hot Wednesday, but things had to come to a quick halt before we were through when we had a little real life excitement. A backdraft from our fireplace filled the whole house with smoke. At first we didn't know where the smoke was coming from and thought there was a fire somewhere other than in the fireplace! We also had to check to make sure the dog and all the cats were accounted for. We have four cats we are fostering so we have a LOT of cats in the house right now. An hour later we were still airing out the house. Now that adds a little realism to our evening battles!

Speaking of those battles, we managed to bring in a small army across two different battleground brackets. It started with a 25-29 bracket Warsong Gulch with Bean, Pong, and Jocy. The horde team we were on was really and truly bad. So bad the alliance set up shop outside our own graveyard and dared us to get by them. Mostly we didn't. We mercifully lost 0-3 after 13 minutes of futility. Bean's pet, Sammy, was so disgusted Bean couldn't get him to show up half the time. But it was good practice. Bean hadn't played in awhile, and we were playing in different rooms for the first time (her own computer is better than the backup computer we were using before).

See arrived after the first battle and we re-organized. See is level 30, while Pong, Bean, and Jocy are under level 30 in the lower bracket. Bean volunteered to sit out a battle so that See, Speak, and Shevils could take our shots at the Alliance in the 30-34 bracket. Which we did! slaughtering them 3-0 even without having a single healer in our ranks. Speak led in KB's with 26, more than Shevils and See put together - but who's saying Speak was hogging all the kills? :P See and Shevils were in on the final assault to get the flag for the third capture, with See sacrificing himself to give Shevils her chance to break away, race across the field, tangle with the alliance outside our base and then streak inside for the third cap and the win!

See retired on his laurels for the evening and the 25-29 bracket of Pong, Bean, and Jocy went back into action. This time we were dumped into an Arathi Basin battle that became a mindless mire. Neither team could hold a base and most of the time there were only 1 or 2 bases held by either faction. That made the battle incredibly slow. Bean was certainly not slow, though, riding her mount from one battle to the next with her pet Sammy scattering the bad guys every which way. Jocy tried to keep up, but kept getting snagged into battles we were constantly losing.

Almost assuredly by accident we managed to get three bases to their two. The alliance were ahead in resources but we were gaining on them as time was starting to get tight. Jocy stayed at the lumber mill for the last five minutes of the battle and we successfully fended off four different attacks by the alliance. Our score was 1580 for alliance and 1570 for horde when we lost a base somewhere and was back to two each. Both teams scores went up to 1590 each, a tie, and then the alliance won it 1600 to 1590. Despite all the issues we just almost pulled it off in a 26 minute contest. Pong and Jocy were 1-2 in healing.

Back in WSG for our fourth battle of the evening, which we won 3-0, Pong made a grand exit from the 25-29 bracket with a no death performance and by capturing and capping all three flags! Pong leveled to 30, and we were busy re-organizing again when we had that little smoke problem thing.

So, overall, we were 2-2, but those wins were awesome! We also got six different toons into the game, three of which leveled (Jocy was the third, making level 27). Not a bad night at all. I do know that Jocy needs to get some better gear! She was running out of mana all night long.