Once Upon a time, not so very long ago, there were five brave Ravens who went to see the nasty dead baron.
They sneaked, sneaked, sneaked in the back door and started happily killing the nasty undead gribblies that live in the ruined town of Stratholme. Sadly, children, none of them had brought their Medallions of the 70s, or whatever thy're called, so we couldn't recruit the nice chap with the hammer to help us with the baron.
These five brave heroes took down four mini-bosses with nary a bead of sweat on their brows. Well, maybe a little sweat on Eldenar's, but that plate / hessian pants combination must be both hot and, well, prone to chafing...
Then, they were confounded by the gate. Shut it was, barring their progress. Then little Strobmoli got a glint in his eye. A golden glint. "Hey, maybe we have to kill the other (lewt) boss (lewt) before (lewt) the (lewt) gate opens!"
So off they set, to kill the boss. But oh! Woe! Tragedy! Brave Leafshine was surprised roughly from behind by a gargolyle as we attacked other nasties, and noble Eldenar tried to save her, to little avail. Soon we were all sort of blue and glowy and running back to find our bodies.
Still, the final boss fell beneath Darrkin's Crusading swords, and we off to see the Baron again. We dealt easily with the nasty big horror things, and dropped Ramstein when he came out to play. But then ALL of his little undead friends came to find him, and delivered unto us a Good Kicking. Noble Eld was able to place Divine Intervention upon stout Aberas before death overwhelmed him, giving our watching spirits the chance to laugh ourselves silly as Aberas was eaten by every zombie ever as soon as the spell broke...
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Once again, we assaulted these hordes, but alas! Alack! We didn't pass through the gate before we attacked and every nasty we'd left alive in the city came to have a chat with Leafshine. And then everybody else.
Once again, we reclaimed our bodies and this time charged through the gate before attacking all your zombies are belong to us. And verily, they were pwned. And Leafshine even got her Yeti out to help. (This will be Important later...)
We rested up and Eldenar ninja... we claimed our lewt, and then went to see the Baron. Sly Strobmoli directed us to sneak round the side of the Baron's room, and stand on a mound of bones. Alas, that sneaking inflicted a small amount of damage on Lady Leafshine, enraging her possessive yeti, who went to have a wee discussion with the Baron about such things.
Thus did the Ravens sally forth into combat, a mite unprepared. And by "combat" I mean "Leaf and Aberas chain healing Eld and Darrkin while Strob does the AOE waltz with the skellie adds". And then did Leaf and Aberas enter the mystical state of OOM. And thus did Eldenar snuff it.
And thus did we collect our bodies and go home.
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