The quest itself takes place in Old Hilsbrad, reachable only through the Caverns of Time. Basically, Don Carlos challenges you to defeat his younger self in Hilsbrad in the distant past. His younger self wanders around Old Hilsbrad with pet wolf waiting for people to come and kick his ass.

Bob, Scotty, and myself took out young Carlos with little trouble; however, I did catch a bad case of death because one of my area effects attracted the wrath of a squad of wandering soldiers, who proceeded to wax my shiny ass. Luckily, they gave up after killing me and didn’t go for Scotty or Bob. I was still able to complete the quest once I made the ten hour journey from the graveyard in the Caverns of Time.

Once we had the Haliscan brimmed hats and the other Haliscan gear Scotty made for us, our outfits were complete. We spent the next twenty minutes playing around in Gadgetzan, taking pictures, dueling with fish and odd objects, and drinking Nogginfogger Elixir until we were accidentally eaten by some Horde guy’s mount while we were mini-mariachis.

It was a great little adventure and just proves that we can come together as a guild and have fun even though we have busy schedules. I think we played for about an hour and a half at most, and it was packed with fun. I haven’t laughed that hard in quite some time.

Let’s do it again soon.

Also, let’s give a big thanks to Bob, who coughed up some money for our Teamspeak server. The rest of 2008 is on Bob. Thanks Bob!

A few of us were playing around with our Horde characters the other evening. Here is Bob’s Tauren druid sitting in poop. Good times, my friends, good times.

Wednesday evening is on the books for our next five man instance. Suggestions?

Tandy, Hocho, Jurgan, and myself blew through the Ramparts with no trouble at all last night, in spite of Scotty’s efforts to pull every mob in an entire area at once, but it’s not like a paladin is the best puller in the first place.

We all got together earlier this week and decided to tackle some of the odd quests up in Ogri’la. We thought we would give the dragon quest series a go, and we took them down with little trouble. I think this is Insidion, the Black Dragon. He took slightly longer to die than the others.

The only real casualty of the evening occurred when Noremacved was thrown off of a cliff. It was pretty damn funny, actually.

Until we can get everyone online at the same time, it seems like we’re stuck doing these dailies over and over again.

Heroic ramparts? Shadow labyrinth? Another shot at Mechannar? Let’s do it!

We picked up some good loot, the key to the Shadow Labyrinth, and a few spirit shards. The drops were pretty good, but usually no better than what we were wearing, so Kneeko was able to replenish his enchanting supplies a bit.

We wiped a couple of times, but nothing tragic. Talon King Ikiss was a tough one. He was a real mixed bag of tricks with his arcane AoE that did anywhere from 4500 to 5000 damage to anything in sight, and his constant polymorphing shenanigans. It was really difficult to keep everyone alive, but we managed it with only one wipe.

Noremacved managed to once again pierce the fabric of the space-time continuum, and had to be rescued from the phantom zone. He claims to have taken a picture of what he saw, but I bet that when developed, it will show him sitting at Dennys, eating hash browns while talking on a cell phone.

So now what? What instance is next on our list?

We entered cautiously, but soon realized that we were kicking serious ass. We went ahead and took a shot at the first boss, Darkweaver Syth. Here is a highlight from our initial encounter.

Yes, I was already dead when I took this screenshot. We were overwhelmed by the twelve elementals he summoned as Forunlawf tanked him. Even then, I think we were pretty close to killing him.

After doing a little research, we returned with a new strategy, and quickly tenderized Darkweaver into a Sythy cubesteak. We simply took out the elementals as he summoned them. No sweat.

It is worth noting that Bob’s frost mage, Hocho, kicks ass sideways. Our group of five, Hocho, Kneeko, Forunlawf, Noremacved, and myself, seemed to really work well together. We had good crowd control, good dps, a good tank, and pretty good healing.

I imagine we will return soon and clear out the rest of Sethekk Halls.

I will have something up soon on our journey into Sethekk Halls.

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