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AN UNPUBLISHED DEATH ! Yes, I have just discovered a new way to die in Everquest. The scene happens in Karnor, dark castle lived by Drolvargs and haunted by undeads. With my group, we pull regularly monsters towards us and we cut them in pieces... Suddenly, a Drolvarg appears in front of me! As usually, I attack it at once to protect the cqsters. BAM ! BANG ! I have just taken 158 and 163 points of life !!??!! Intrigued, I look at the monster of closer... It is not a "Guardian" or a "Sentry" as usually, but a "Bodyguard" !! Wow, I never had seen one here! Our poor necromancer casted his spells too fast and he has not more than 1/5 of his points of life... I taunt the monster as a madman, nothing makes for it, it is polarized on my friend. Ok, I become angry !! I rock it my Harm Touch for 641 damage points. That works !! The Bodyguard don't appreciate at all the joke and it hits me very hard... At this moment, our cleric announces that he is out of mana !!! I hate this guy !!! The leader of the group sends then the famous : " ZONE!! ". hé hé hé, RUN LIKE HELL !! I rush to the zone that is not very far, I have about half of my points of life. Arrived at some yards of this one, my screen splutters .... And here I am near the Bodyguard ???!!!??? This thingamajig just teleported me to him !!!! Well on, the whole rest of the group has already zoned and I stay alone with this mob. That feels very strong the singed. I try to feign death, but this wrinkle hits me as a bus and prevents me from casting my spell... RUN LIKE HELL TO THE ZONE LIKE THE WIND !!!! Arrived near the zone, again ! The bodyguard teleport me on him one more time and Backstabs for 341... Arghhh... I die... I died... I succumb... Gahhhh!! You lose your level, You are now level 52. Doh!   THE BATTLE OF THE RAMPARTS : Karnor is a fort. There are moats, one drawbridge, bulwarks with covered ways... It is the night, the group of adventurers steals along the bulwarks. There is ISTAVAN a clerk who is also their leader, UNFORGIVEN the dwarf paladin, an enchanter, a ranger, a shaman and UENAELAR, drow shadowknight. One by one, the first guards were pulled and murdered, the road is at the moment free towards the ramparts of the second surrounding wall... Arrived on the ramparts, the adventurers take place in one of the corners and begin to clean the place. The caution is of stake during the fights, the least lapse and you fall in the moats or in the yard of the castle where the monsters roam. More grave still, if a monster falls, it will go back up on the ramparts with the whole guarrison at once... Other difficulty, it is necessary to stay in the center of the wall not to attract the monsters which are below ! During one hour, everything happens well , the monsters are attracted, surrounded and killed... Sudden, UNFORGIVEN returns towards the group pursued by 3 skeletons. The enchanter casts his spell of "Group Mesmerize" which congeals the three monsters, then the warriors attack the monsters one by one. Regrettably, the reduced space in the top of the wall obliges the paladin to fight on the edge... The penalty is immediate. " ADD!! ", this shout announces the arrival of a new "skeletton soldier", a hard to cook... Big battle, the group almost finished this one when it recovers all its points of life !!! " ADD!! ", one "spectral curate" has just arrived and heals the skeleton !! The atmosphere is tightened, the warriors evolve between the monsters harmless depictions by the enchanter " ADD!! ADD!! " New two drolvargs have just arrived, it is the panic, the enchanter roars that he can not more calm the whole troop, the cleric has not more than 20% of his mana, the warriors are low in life point... "ZONE". It is the flight towards the zone, UENAELAR directly jumps into the yard, what will give to him on the monsters more beforehand. The adventurers hurl themselves towards the zone, pursued by a ten furious monsters of this intervention. This evening there, group took out it, but it was close !   NEW STUFFS : At level 53, I gained the spell "Blood Boil", a DOT of 600 points. NATHSAR GREATSWORD : 2H Sword, Attack 17, Delay 30, str 10. SWIRLSPINE BELT : AC4, Haste. UMBRAL PLATEMAIL HELM : AC 17, INT 9, SV Magic 10, HP 35. Charming tiny creature !           ADD !!           ZONE !!