So there I was. It had to have been almost 2 hours, but it was probably less than that. I was tanking a heroic random which landed us smack dab in Shadowfang Keep. Back before the cataclysm, the instance was home to the archmage Arugal and his Worgen, but he was defeated by a group of heroes (players). Now it's home to scourge remnants as well as the renegade nobleman Vincent Godfrey, who has issues. That's the simplest explanation. Basically, Vincent betrayed the Gilneans when he found out that the leader was afflicted with the worgen curse that had affected most, if not all, of the inhabitants of Gilneas. Vincent is prejudiced against those who have been cursed, and players find that out when they play a worgen and see how eager he is to "put this one down."
Long story short, Vincent realizes at one point that his ruler, Greymane, is cursed as well, so he kidnaps Greymane and holds him for ransom in the hopes of saving Gilneas if he handed him over to the Forsaken. Idiot. When Greymane is saved, Vincent jumps off a cliff to commit suicide, preferring to die rather than having a worgen as his king.
Unfortunately, death is not quite so permanent in World of Warcraft. Turns out that when a player dies, we can resurrect and keep playing the game, which makes death nonexistent. If an NPC dies, then they either stay dead for any time frame between ten seconds to 24 hours, or they become undead for some reason. In Vincent's case, he was brought back to life by the Forsaken, who are undead, and they made him undead too. Once returned to "life" he started attacking the Gilneans and trying to make a ceasefire between them and the Forsaken. One thing led to another, and he tried to kill the leader of the Forsaken. Now wanted by the Horde and the Alliance alike, Vincent Godfrey made a run for it, and decided to hide himself in Shadowfang Keep. Dude. That place is a death trap. I wouldn't live in there if you paid me... but then Vincent is undead, so I guess the place suits him well.
Now last night I had gone in there as a random, and we died about a dozen times. Most of it was mistakes made by one or the other. The healer kept running out of mana easily, and my health not as high as I wished it to be even with buffs. Would you imagine taking 6 minutes to kill Lord Walden, the guy who uses poisons in his fight? I swear, you move when he casts the green one and you stay the heck still when he casts the red one. Red light, Green Light, stop, go. Simple. Yet the second time we attempted it... only the healer and I lived through it. Occasionally I popped out of bear form to throw an innervate on the healer to give her more mana and to put Thorns onto myself (though admittedly I don't know if it did much good). The dps consisted of a hunter, a mage, and a warrior. The hunter came via releasing and running back, so he actually died three times. I wound up finishing off the boss, and the idiot doesn't drop the loot I needed. RATS! Six minutes for nuthin! COME ON!
At last we get to the final boss. We managed to take him out in one attempt, though I died doing it because I think I went out of range of the healer. The mage, hunter, and paladin healer stood on top of the stairs while the warrior attacked with me on the bottom. At one point some adds appeared and went up the stairs to whack on the healer, so I had to dart up there and swipe the crap outta them.
Now when I died, the boss died a split second later, so no other casualties as far as I could remember. And all of a sudden, I got an achievement. Whether everyone got it or not I can't remember. All I know is I accepted the rez and looked at my achievements list. Turned out the achievement was this:
""Bullet Time" Defeat 12 Bloodthirsty Ghouls with Pistol Barrage and then defeat Lord Godfrey in Shadowfang Keep on heroic difficulty.""
The thing was I wasn't even trying for an achievement at the time. All I wanted to do was get my valor points and go to sleep! So when I got the achievement, I thought to myself, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!? When did that happen!?"
All in all, it wasn't too bad of a run. I got myself two new pieces of gear for my tanking set, one from the auction house and one from the justice point vendor. And thanks to the Chaos Orb that our leatherworking hunter got, I was able to get the epic chest piece for my boomkin set. =)
Now I just need a few gems and enchantments. *sigh*
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