I've discovered that when Ronald McDonald and I get together, a lot of other people usually end up being pretty unhappy. Ron ICQ'd me recently and asked me if I was up for spreading joy and happiness to the good people of Baja. As always, I was all for it.

We started in Deceit were simple thieving turned ugly and several people decided that they would kill us vile thieves. Unfortunately for them, they weren't that good at fighting. But, we thanked their ghosts for the possessions and proceeded to dominate every level of the dungeon.

While we were bashing our way through the dungeon, Ron mentioned to me that there was a Contest of Champions in Avalon that night. We'd discussed interesting strategies on disrupting that event a couple of times, so I was psyched at being able to test out one of the plans.

My plan was passed on because it takes a little more notice and murderers. So, we made preparations for Ron's plan. We went to Avalon and started marking runes inside the arena all along the southern wall. We then started gathering the troops (about an hour before it was time to go). We had someone at the CoC letting us know what was going on and our plan was to gate it during the first match. We'd heard that the ass puppets from LoD were planning on raiding the contest too, so we had to go the first round or they would try to steal our spotlight.... not likely.

"The Avalon guards know that you guys are planning something. They're lining the arena with people," our spy tells us. Apparently all the "guards" were wearing true black, so we chose white as our uniform color. Within minutes we had gathered a quick assault force with some serious talent in it. Eight people about to make Baja history... :)

The time came when our spy let us know that the first match started. WHAM - 8 gates open up and the fun begins. We dropped several people right away and then all of the defenders targeted me. Owie. After several ebolts and a poisoned weapon of some type, I was forced to recall out. I get back to SH with 14 hp, poisoned and 15 mana. Unfortunately, I was the second one targeted - they killed Heretic (not pictured in first pic). So, we lost a man and I was the first one to recall out. That's ok, because the rest of the guys took advantage of the temporary distraction I was and whipped all kinds of ass.

Well, that wasn't enough for me. A gate, an ebolt and a recall just wasn't going to do. We all regrouped in SH and got ready for round 2. This time only one gate was opened, but plenty of people went through it. This time we brought demons... mass unhappiness for some people. In this picture you get an action shot of me fulfilling Ron's request to kill Lucina just as he's yelling for her to be targeted.

In the end there were just ghosts and us. Unfortunately, one of our friends Gospadin Peroda died, but he was defending and we were assaulting, so.... *shrug* So basically, we lost one man and they had many losses.

They cancelled the CoC immediately. I can't wait until the next one. I'm sure that Ron and I will be there...

Nighthawk