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DARK REAVER :
She is called Dark Reaver, her blade gleams with a dark brightness and it is for me... In the depthes of the GUK's dungeon, a undead knight drops this sword. It is level 45 and a very strong group is needed there to come to end. One finds rarely the sword on its corpse, that makes it an object of greed of it for all the Shadow Knights. The stats of Dark Reaver are the following ones: 40 delay, 20 damage, SK only, cast Steal Strengh. It is made at the moment the most powerful sword for a Shadow Knight there!!!
Episode 1: Somebody learns me that this sword exists, the resale price is of about 1000pp!! I decide to be going to camp in front of the GUK's dungeon. Three days later, starved, I abandon, no sword to sell...
Episode 2: All the members of my guild know that I look for one of it. They send messages to every change of zone. Any result...
Episode 3: Tarasmarr found somebody who sells one of it!!! The meeting is taken to Greater Faydark, in the island of the dwarfs. Tarasmarr teleport us there... The lad is for the meeting, nakedly!! He has just been killed in a heavy dungeon ... My sword rests in the fine bottom of this donjon, with its body...
Episode 4: Raolwen contacted a lad who possesses the sword, but this one refuses to sell, it wants to exchange it for an another object, even more hard to find!! I offend it and I leave...
Episode 5: Sophia, a friend, announce me that the sword is estimated to 4000pp!!! My moral falls quickly... I have only 1300 in bank!
Episode 6: I flooded the Web servers on Everquest of messages, I contact regularly lads level 45-50 to ask if somebody has a Dark Reaver to sell... Anything!
Episode 7: A elf named EALAN contacts me, he has one of it to sell for 1000pp... I believe more too much in it. The meeting is taken, I arrive at the HIGHKEEP bank, the lad is there with the sword!!! My hand closes on the knob. It is magnificent!! The blade is black, as my soul... I goes down in the basements to test it on goblins. In the first worn blow, I pulverize my record of damage caused on a touch, a 54 instead of 35 before... Later, my record will be carried to 57!! Besides, I drain by chance 20 points of force to the opponent... I am a happy Drow!!!
 
THE DROW MURDERER :
Since yesterday, I am a murderer... Flashback....
I am with my group in Cazic Thule, we hunt the gorillas and named lizardmen. The gorillas allow me to get back necessary "Decayed Armor" to obtain my new armor and the people-lizards give popular equipments. One " TA EW lizardman " appears, I charge it with for objective to pull down it on my companions. Zwiiiiiing!!! What?? Still charmed? And me here is roaming at random in Cazic Thule... At random? Oh noo my nice lady... I go straight ahead on the magician of the group and I puts me hurling him knocks with my Dark Reaver!! The poor lad does not understand what arrives at him... The worst it is that the other members of the group can not go account of it, occupied to slash the lizardman... The only thing that I can make is to shout "I am charmed!" "sorry" "sorry"... The magician collapses at my feet, my new target seems to be the Druid of the group!! Bam! "sorry" Slash "sorry" Bang "sorry"... Fortunately for him, the lizardman has just fallen and the charm disappears... The poor magician roars his fury!! He has just lost invaluable points of experience. I can only appologize for the 4582-nd time.. Every others died to laugh...
 
WE WALK IN THE WOOD :
Do you remember the Kithicor forest, this forest that is it necessary to cross to go to Highkeep? On the occasion of the last Upgrade, Verant transformed this place in one of the places the most dreaded of every Norath. How do I know it?? Listen....
I returned from Neriak other evening and I went to Highkeep... Arrived in the Kithicor Forest, I notice an unusual adventurers' grouping (56 players in the zone instead of 10 usually). I interrogate a little all around and I learn that the forest is invaded of undeads!! Some even think as the entrance of the "Plan of Hate" is there... I investigate little... I hardly made some steps in the forest that I see a "Zombie Trooper". I con it, blue!! This wrinkle is level 33/35!!! And besides, it ballads with a "Undaed Healer"!!! All the present adventurers decide to pass in the attack... Waouuuu!! This wrinkle strikes knocks for 60 points... The battle makes fury, and we bring down the two monsters with a lot of trouble... For info, we were 7 players against the two monsters...
Check, it is not the everything but I have things to do in Highkeep me... By caution, I make me invisible and I sink into the forest... I overlap during my different route undeads about which I had never heard to speak... "Undead Cleric", "Skeletton Trooper" and some others ... Sudden, a message " Drow's dirt, you do not have anything to make here, join we in the death!! " What??? But not sir, I am invisible, you can not see me!! Mom!! There are also undead magicians and they can see the invisible.... While cursing the Everquest's designers, I try to save myself... Everything happens very fast then:
  • 1 - Zwiiiing!! I am blasted for 384 points!!!
  • 2 - Zwiiiing!! Charmed... I puts me running straight ahead on a group of zombies troopers...
  • 3 - Zwiiiing!! I am "desease" "poisoned" and "blinded"
  • 4 - The zombies intercept me 65 , 54 , 48, 60, etc..... YOU ARE DEAD!
It set to kill a perso level 36 about 10 seconds!!! I learn afterward that it is the night that all the undead spawn, the day is less dangerous... I believe that I retained the lesson... And it is so at dawn that I return to look for my poor corpse... The forests in Everquest, it is not for the weaks!!
Thank you to you, Ealan !!  
 
 
 
 
Wolves chorus...  
 
 
 
 
It is beautiful, my Dark Reaver !!!