Yes. Yes it is.
I promise future bosses will be more creative. All that talk of undead was in my mind and I was watching some guy play dark souls 2 on twitch. So..yeah.
Alright. First post has been edited to give the start to the boss fight.
If any of you know where that boss image is from I give you props. I like to say..he was "inspired" and not just taken. ;)
But, if any of you have any questions or anything or if we need to work anything out post here. I know it's rather sudden but I'm sure it will all make sense soon :)
As Arina continued to wander the crowd of people that was slowly becoming more and more segregated as everyone was finding their respective groups. Arina stood on her tip toes to look to the back of the crowd and saw many of the healers together just like the person at the front said. She always had a soft spot for the healers. Being of her build she loved being the one to cause massive damage to the mobs and adds and the bosses. But the players who play as healers, give that damage dealing power to solely heal their teammates and themselves.
She would probably never play as a healer. That just wasn't her style. But this isn't anytime to be thinking about soft spots for other classes. As she came back to reality, or virtual reality, she bumped into a rather tall looking male who was of a tank build. When he saw her bow on her back he smiled to her. There were three other male standing next to him. "Hey guys, I found a-" But he was cut off by his buddy who was waving him at the end of the group as he brought up a mage to add to their group.
His focus quickly shifted away and he seemed to forget about her. Arina gave a small huff and then turned away.
Before she knew it she had locked her eyes on another Cait Sith that was sitting on top of another player who seemed to be rather annoyed by the situation he was in.
Something about that player caught her eye, and now as she watched she saw a few solo players come up to each other around her and begin speaking. This was her chance, they had a tank! Who was...like..a midget.
No way.
'And you three fine darlings, yaranaika?'
Arina didn't even realize how close she had gotten to them. She was definitely talking to her. Well, looks like she found a group to run with. The archer shifted her shoulders a bit before smiling to all of them.
"I'd love to party up with you all. And..." She pointed a finger to Fuyuko. "You are by far the smallest tank I have ever seen."
She couldn't help but laugh. She meant no disrespect.
Before she could say anything else another player approached them and asked to join up with them. Arina smiled to her. "I believe so. With that, that makes us a full party." she smiled to all of them yet again.
Then she waved her hand a bit to each of them. "I'm Arina by the way. Nice to meet you all!"
But before proper introductions could go underway the large collected, and now organized, mass was seemingly hushed by the three main leaders at the front as before.
"I trust you all have found your respective groups? He cast his eye through the large crowd of players. When he was done a large smile crept up on his face. "In that case, let's get this over with."
The three players turned around and all pushed on the boss's large door to open it and let every player through.
Arina looked to her group and followed along with them. "This is it I suppose.."
Once inside the air seemed to be filled with the stench of death and decay, as well as soot. The crackling of flames could be heard all around and the room seemed to stretch on for miles in the endless darkness. The only light came from the small sparks from the random fires littered around the ground.
Players all filed into the room and everyone was readying their weapons for the coming fight.
Once everyone was inside the door slowly came to close behind them. Once it did the room was almost pitch black if not for the small fire light.
In this darkness no one said a word. Then came a noise. The sound of rhythmic beating, too loud to be coming from any player. Even though the sound was loud, it was also loud and caused the ground to shake beneath their feet.
I'm not going to keep ripping off Dark Souls, I swear.
After a few seconds the beating seemed to speed up and then it came back down to its regular pace. Then the torches all around the room lit the room up all at once and there the boss stood, in all of its grotesque glory. The room was very large due to their large party size. The boss towered over the players and seemed to not even know that they were there. Every new player to this instance was anxiously waiting for what to do.
Arina was among that group. The grotesque mass of chained bodies for a boss? What were the game developers thinking?! That was disgusting!
But before she had time to react the boss reached his body covered arms up and then let a loud roar stumble a few players.
"Tanks! Hold it's aggro while our DPS does their job! Healers! Keep an eye out and have your spells ready! This boss has a small move set for close range attacks and virtually no ranged attack except for one. But that's no threat to use if his aggro is held! Let's go!" With that said the player brought his large shield up and ran at the beast, a battle cry on his lips the entire time he ran.
Tanks from all the groups followed suite, and the melee DPS players all started to move around the boss to start dealing damage and let the tanks hold him
Arina knew she wasn't going to be getting close, but she liked this because she could keep an eye on her teammates. As she moved back she looked around and found the ones she teamed up with. All of them were close range...
"Don't die..any of you."She muttered to herself as she started to pull back an arrow to start dealing damage to the Boss.
I think we should just limit it to something like ', wait for two or three posts before posting again.' or something, so we don't see a problem with speedposting.
Good first posts everyone.
I'm thinking of waiting for Stella to post before I do, but I know her post said posting on Thursdays and Fridays would be a problem.
I don't want to skip Stella! D: