Dragon
Bash!
by Tom
On 10th June 1999,
following the 21:00 mobile bash, the Dragon was killed by mortals
in a fight (a BIG fight).
Tom talks, following the event. As easy as ABC...
| Good evening and welcome to the scorched remains of
what was once fertile grassland. The ashes you can see
behind me are all that remains of the brave personae who
so valiantly dispatched the dragon with their bare hands.
Oh yeah... and some heavy pointy things too. We wont
mention that Plasmatica was fighting using the ribbon.
What were you trying to do, blind it with a killer
combination of martial arts and morris dancing? The reset started well, with most people finding themselves a weapon. Gloria, myself and a few others (sorry, cant remember names) got the wafers etc.and some weapons. I'd given everyone 15 minutes to get themselves sorted and to give Gloria time to open the fairy ring, which opened at the west lush pasture. All went well until, at the 5 mins to go mark, someone decided that it a good time to go through the fairy ring. There were some new players lost trying to find the west lush pasture and no kit had been shared. Unfortunately two people agreed that the time was right, whilst everyone else decided otherwise. Two HAWUMPHs and we weredown by two before the fight began. Oops! "Ah well, spare weapons when we get there (G)." It went like this: 2 minutes to go and I shout out for everyone to get some sleep if they need it. I've just dropped off a stash of weapons at the fairy ring for everyone to share. Aurora and Rainbow are fighting each other, trying to decide the rightful owner of the longsword. We're gonna be dead before we start! It's time! Nerves go to the back of my mind (for the moment). We all assemble at the ring; those that dont know the way are shouted directions by myself (ok, I'll admit I did get east and west mixed up once, sorry (sigh)). Anyway we all make it to the fairy ring, there are now about twenty people all lined up and ready to go. We blast through the ring and most people ACC me the other side. Draggy bash is GO! Looking upward I spot the tell tale sign. BIG pink letters saying "DRAGON" tends to give it away a bit. So off we go and everyone piles in! Within 30 seconds there is the sound of a bell tolling, then another bell tolls 5 seconds later... Things are going well - for the Dragon. We've lost 5 people and the Draggy is on minor injuries! Jeezusss this is one tough mobile. More personas passing on and lots and lots of HAWUMPHing and the obit has increased to about 14 players. Spiderman is helping the Draggy by trying to bump off players that are close to death. Hmmmm... I lose my first persona, Tigger the Chief Dragon-slaying Necromancer, to the Draggy with a solid hit on me for more than 25 stam! I race back in with a warlock of mine. 2 mins later and I'm bringing in my last persona on the account. Dragon is now worth nearly 17k! Everyone is starting to sweat a bit... The Draggy is critically injured and most people are getting VERY low on stam. Im on 45 stamina at this point. Then the Draggy goes close to death... I'm on 23 stam.... Agreat many agonising seconds later and the killing blow is dealt by Commit. YAY! Everyone goes bananas, everyone gets 1,615 points each, everyone dances on the Draggy's corpse, everyone... ............ ...suddenly realises that they have an account with one protector left alive. Arrrghhhhhh!!! But we did it, so hats off to us all, eh? And to everyone that attended... Thanks for being there, I hope you all enjoyed it. (Not as much as I did - Draggy :) ) Dragon Slayers: Obit Fillers: Breath deaths: Sympophy too: |