Lundar's Library

Day 117, Year 547 of the Ascendancy

One of the time-honored traditions of Puddleby is to jump into the
Abyss shortly before a Chaos Storm, and today a group of exiles decided
to do just that.

The thirteen of us gathered in the Dark Temple,
then made our way to the Astral Plane, where we tried to come up with a
survival plan. However, as the healer Suu’ub pointed out: “You can plan
all you want, point is: you die when you enter.” And he was right.

The original plan was to let Hidden enter first to
draw the monsters away, then follow him after waiting 10 seconds.
However, Hidden only managed to last 7 seconds, foiling out plan. This
forced us to move onto plan B, which was basically everyone running in
at once. We lasted for about as long as Hidden did.

Once everyone was down, we began the long wait for
the Chaos Storm to come. However, wait as we may, the Storm did not
come, and we were forced to wait while we were chewed by Fire Rats and
cooked by bursts of flames.

During the course of our long wait, several other
foolhardy exiles joined us in the Abyss, and several rescue attempts
were made as well. However, this only added to the corpse count, until
we had nearly 30 exiles fallen in the Abyss.

After about 10 puddle hours of waiting, a small
party entered the Abyss and actually managed to rescue myself and
Mephisto. However, by then we were both too badly fallen to be raised,
and we couldn’t be taken to town because there was a Greater Death
roaming the Dark Temple. Thus, we spent the last few hours of our wait
on the Astral Plane.

Finally, after more than 12 puddle hours of
waiting, the Chaos Storm finally arrived in Puddleby. Norm hooked
Mephisto and myself on a chain, and dragged us into the Abyss for a
final time before we were blown back to Puddleby by the Storm.

In town, the healers were hard pressed to heal all
of the injured exiles who had fallen in the Abyss, as well as others
who had fallen pulling similarly crazy stunts.

Once I was back on feet, I looked around town but
couldn’t find any new buildings that had opened, though I did notice a
new painting in the Museum. I still haven’t had much time to look
around, so I don’t know if anything else is new, but the Abyss raid
sure was an exciting way to kick-off the new Chaos Storm.