{"id":533,"date":"2003-01-12T02:36:38","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T09:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=533"},"modified":"2003-01-12T02:36:38","modified_gmt":"2003-01-12T09:36:38","slug":"horde-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2003\/01\/horde-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Horde Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 318, Year 548<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"weblogDayText\">As I stepped out of the library today, I sensed that several of my friends were fallen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundragonclan.com\/maps\/ashisle.html\" target=\"_new\">Darshak Horde<\/a>.  I rushed myself to Ash Island to find a small party already there.  My clanmates <a href=\"http:\/\/ruen.puddleby.info\/journal\/journal.html\" target=\"_new\">Ruen<\/a> and Anfyr filled me in on the horrifying details: there were an incredible FOUR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clanlord.net\/bestiary\/beast\/undine.html\" target=\"_new\">Greater Deaths<\/a> inside the Darshak Horde, along with an assortment of Darshak Pirates and a powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoomcare.com\/archives\/000528.html#000528\" target=\"_new\">Necromancer<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\nOur party was determined to rescue the numerous exiles fallen inside,<br \/>\nand we gathered our forces at the southern entrance to the Darshak<br \/>\nHorde. Then, on the count of three, we charged into the Horde in a<br \/>\ntidal wave of exiles. It was a massacre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/hordemass.gif\" alt=\"Darshak Horde\" height=\"313\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"391\"><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b>Fallen in the Horde<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>We were surrounded by the Darshak the moment we entered the Horde,<br \/>\nand one by one were cut down and incinerated by the Darshak scum. I<br \/>\ncounted no less than 25 fallens exiles scattered about the Horde, with<br \/>\nmany more out of my sight. There were still a few of us left outside,<br \/>\nbut our only real hope lay in a poweful party hunting on Kizmia&#8217;s Isle.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, I could not wait around for a rescue, for I had to<br \/>\nparticipate in my clan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-conversant.com\/lundar\/109\/\" target=\"_new\">Dun&#8217;ilsar<\/a> competition, and was forced to depart.<\/p>\n<p>\nLater I heard that a large party did succeed in rescuing the Darshak<br \/>\nHorde, and were able to slay the Greater Deaths with the aid of the<br \/>\npowerful Blood Mage Aldernon. Still, it is a mystery why so many<br \/>\nGreater Deaths were gathered together in one place. Usually it is a<br \/>\nrare thing to sight even a single Greater Death&#8211; four of them together<br \/>\nis unheard of!<\/p>\n<p>One more thing worth noting: it seems the activity in the<br \/>\nDarshak Horde drew a larger number of exiles out of the library than<br \/>\nusual. At one point during the invasion, I witnessed as many as 107<br \/>\nexiles out of the library at one time, which is a lot more than I&#8217;ve<br \/>\nseen in a long while.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 318, Year 548 As I stepped out of the library today, I sensed that several of my friends were fallen in the Darshak Horde. I rushed myself to Ash Island to find a small party already there. My clanmates Ruen and Anfyr filled me in on the horrifying details: there were an incredible FOUR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}