Anyhow, neither of us had been to the cyclops spawn area, so we decided to check it out. When we showed up we saw a gray guy running around. Always one for a fight, I hit my ebolt macro and jump in. After my first one hit him, I fizzled the next three! Oh damnit. Wrong character for pvp. Oh well. The gray guys recalls as zero starts to jump in.
Two other people are on the safe, raised area near the cyclops spawn. Storm Bringer asks the other, "what was all that?"
"They attacked that bard that was here." Ooops. I'm a bard, so I guess that's kinda hypocritical. *shrugs*
Storm Bringer comes over to me on his ostard and starts telling me what a dick I am and all that. I yawn and laugh at this fool until he finally decides to attack. Well, my bard/tamer character is named Peon and with good reason. He sucks. But, I knew that nearly anything this guy threw at me I could survive because I had zero with me.
Well, Storm Bringer attacks and I give chase (he ran from my bard!), but his damn bird was so fast he was uncatchable. I go back and join zero at the spawn area. A minute later, the guy comes back, hides and casts an ebolt at me. Talk about pussy tactics.
I guess he's used to scaring people with his big bad ebolts, because he seemed awfully confused when I just stood there waiting for him to hit me. As soon as he hits me, he hides again. Again, this guys is obviously a pussy.
So, without healing, I await the second ebolt that I knew would be soon coming. I yell down the stairs to zero that when he comes out, I would attack him back continuously (to keep him from hiding) while zero ebolted the shit out of him. Sure enough, as soon as he comes out zero hits him with an ebolt.
As most of you know, the first ebolt hit is normally the weakest. This guy took the time to type, "You call that an ebolt?" just as zero's second ebolt was coming at him. If you haven't had the pleasure of being hit with a GM Mage's ebolt, don't - they hurt like hell. Well, our entry to the MENSA society didn't figure that out until after he'd typed that.
Storm Bringer was taken to nearly less than 1/3 health after the second ebolt with zero about to send another his way. He didn't run right away when he saw the third one coming - I guess he tried to hide first. That, my friends, was a mistake. By the time he'd pieced together that he was in trouble, couldn't hide and should run with his super-fast ostard mount - it was quite too late for him.
Moral of this story: Don't EVER say "you call THAT an ebolt?" to a grandmaster mage who is just warming up. Especially in T2A - with only two towns and no wandering healers - it's a long run to get ressed.
Nighthawk