Tonight's raid consisted of going to the court of Af'Aliz (provided I spelled that correctly)  We took down a few of the named in the zone, and even got some nice drops.  Thoryn, I believe, got a new set of arms.  I must apologize that I didn't get a screen shot of them, but Jadda and I got new items.  Jadda got a nice earring and I got a nice wrist item.  We definitely will be going back here again.  There are plenty of new items to gain for our guild members.  A GRATZ goes out to those that recieved items tonight and a thank you goes out to all that were able to attend.  I'll try to do a better job at getting screen shots next time.  In the meantime, here are the items that Jadda and I received this evening.

Monday night we took a team over to the Island of Refuge, in hopes that the rumor of a treacherous foe slaying the inhabitants was not true.  Upon arrival on the isle, we discovered that our hopes were false.  The sage who had so deceivingly stolen Lord Nagafen's prismatic egg had taken his draconic form known as Darathar and with the help of orcs had slain all those residing on the island.  As a guild that hopes to bring peace and light to the world, we knew that Darathar must be stopped.  Otherwise what was stopping him from destroying our beloved city of Qeynos next?
So we found Darathar resting near the docks.  When we approached Darathar, he had no interest in talking and immediately attacked us.  But his attacks were of no avail.  While we did have some deaths in our party but we were still able to overcome the mighty dragon.
Upon the death of the beast, all of those on the raid recieved status points and it was just enough status to get the guild to level 34.  CONGRATZ goes out to all the members of the Inner Circle for attaining level 34, and a big THANK YOU goes out to those who attended the raid last night and helped Jadda and myself complete the Deception quest line.


Chausta Kovich
Bard and Chronicler for the Inner Circle

Darathar died again monday night.  This advanced several more members to thier prismatic 1.0 rewards.

After inacting vengance on this vile wyrm, the IC raid force moved on to destroy several other epic targets.

On the way to Nicanth's Lair in the corrupt temple of cazic thule, we encountered a rarely seen temple guardian known as Gar`tok.  We decided to invite him to our chicken fight in the lake where we made quick work of him and his minions.

Next we wrestled the teleportation ring from Nicanth to catch Greythorn up on his prismatic.  After zoning out of the inner temple where the cowardly drake was hiding, we discovered an epic thulian who recently escaped the plane of fear. 

The remaining IC raid members who had not retired for the evening made short work of this terrorfiend, sending him back to the hell from which he came.

Last night, we took a 12 man group into the ice castle, Permafrost Keep, with the intention of 'checking out' the new raid mobs that had been put into the zone.  Our first kill for the evening was Alangria.  She provided some complications, but after the rez attempt two was much more successful.  We killed her, got some loot and moved on to the next mob, Kuebed.  This little goblin took us by surprise as we were running down the ramp to find him and didn't realize the end of the ramp was on the level we were on....
But our quick thinking and adaptation put this nasty little goblin on his feet before any of his annoying goblish rhyme schemes could escape his mouth. 
What really surprised us is how close to leveling the guild to 33 we really were.  But with 12 people, each gaining between 11k and 12k status for the fight, we pushed the guild 4.8% into 33.  GRATZ to all the members of the Inner Circle, and GRATZ to those who were able to attend the raid last night.

Monday night was a fun raid night.  Not only were we able to help some of our members catch up on their prismatic quest by killing a couple of the drakotas, but we also decided that we needed to pay the ancient crocodile a visit.  The legends say that this crocodile, known as Lockjaw, has been an inhabitant of the desert since long before the Shattering of Norrath took place.    Knowing that, he's got to be at least 500 years old, and has probably grown up quite a bit since the time our ancestors knew of his presence.

Read on to see more shots of this fabled beast.