Lundar's Library

Day 273, Year 547

Today I participated in a joint clan hunt between E’las Loth’mon
Ferindril and clan Open Hands. The objective for the hunt was to storm
Tenebrion’s Tower, obtain a Mist Key, and take several mystics to the
2nd Ethereal Amulet trainer in Tenebrion’s basement. A total of 18
exiles showed up for the hunt, 11 from Open Hands, 5 from ELF, and 2
mystics who wished to further their Ethereal training.

However, we had a rather difficult time trying to take
Tenebrion’s Tower. Powerful undine such as Banshees, Wraiths, and
Skeletal Rages cut through our ranks like a hot knife through butter.
To make matters worse, any exiles that fell within the Tower were
immediately taken by Tenebrion’s slave Morty to the “Meat Locker” for
storage. In short, no sooner did our party enter the Tower, did Morty
have a fresh collection of “meat” in his storage room.

Luckily for us, a large number of exiles came to our rescue, and we were soon mounting another attack on Tenebrion’s Tower.

However, even with the help of the newly arrived exiles, the undine
in the Tower gave us a difficult time, and we fell once more and ended
up in the Meat Locker again. This time, however, we had several healers
waiting for us in the Locker, and we were soon back on our feet and
ready for another round. We had to repeat this several times, but each
time we made a little more progress, and made it a little bit further
up the Tower.

Finally, on the 9th attempt, we were able to secure the 6th and final
level of Tenebrion’s Tower. However, we noticed two very strange
things. First of all, Tenebrion, who usually resides on the 6th level
of the Tower, was not present, and a Sarir was watching over the room
in his stead, tossing fireballs and lightning at our party. Secondly,
we could not find the Keeper of the Key who also makes its residence on
the top level of the Tower, and holds the Mist Key needed to reach
Tenebrion’s basement.

This was certainly disapointing for our party, since we could
not accomplish our objective of getting the mystics to the Ether
trainers, but we didn’t let this dampen our spirits. We instead headed
to the Meat Locker, trapped Morty behind a wall of kudzu, and had some
chilled beer with pretzels. We called the hunt a success, for even
though we didn’t reach Tenebrion’s basement, we still managed to
accomplish our main objective– to have fun. I would definately enjoy
participating in another such joint-clan event in the future.