{"id":720,"date":"2002-08-28T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=720"},"modified":"2002-08-28T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T02:31:37","slug":"into-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2002\/08\/into-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 117, Year 547 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\nOne of the time-honored traditions of Puddleby is to jump into the
\nAbyss shortly before a Chaos Storm, and today a group of exiles decided
\nto do just that.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe thirteen of us gathered in the Dark Temple,
\nthen made our way to the Astral Plane, where we tried to come up with a
\nsurvival plan. However, as the healer Suu’ub pointed out: “You can plan
\nall you want, point is: you die when you enter.” And he was right.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe original plan was to let Hidden enter first to
\ndraw the monsters away, then follow him after waiting 10 seconds.
\nHowever, Hidden only managed to last 7 seconds, foiling out plan. This
\nforced us to move onto plan B, which was basically everyone running in
\nat once. We lasted for about as long as Hidden did.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOnce everyone was down, we began the long wait for
\nthe Chaos Storm to come. However, wait as we may, the Storm did not
\ncome, and we were forced to wait while we were chewed by Fire Rats and
\ncooked by bursts of flames.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDuring the course of our long wait, several other
\nfoolhardy exiles joined us in the Abyss, and several rescue attempts
\nwere made as well. However, this only added to the corpse count, until
\nwe had nearly 30 exiles fallen in the Abyss.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAfter about 10 puddle hours of waiting, a small
\nparty entered the Abyss and actually managed to rescue myself and
\nMephisto. However, by then we were both too badly fallen to be raised,
\nand we couldn’t be taken to town because there was a Greater Death
\nroaming the Dark Temple. Thus, we spent the last few hours of our wait
\non the Astral Plane.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFinally, after more than 12 puddle hours of
\nwaiting, the Chaos Storm finally arrived in Puddleby. Norm hooked
\nMephisto and myself on a chain, and dragged us into the Abyss for a
\nfinal time before we were blown back to Puddleby by the Storm.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn town, the healers were hard pressed to heal all
\nof the injured exiles who had fallen in the Abyss, as well as others
\nwho had fallen pulling similarly crazy stunts.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOnce I was back on feet, I looked around town but
\ncouldn’t find any new buildings that had opened, though I did notice a
\nnew painting in the Museum. I still haven’t had much time to look
\naround, so I don’t know if anything else is new, but the Abyss raid
\nsure was an exciting way to kick-off the new Chaos Storm.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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\/720"}],"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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}