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the wall in case his cone attack squished the whole party, sometimes it was up to Solace to smash Ialdir out of a rocky prison. Which was bad for Ella’s health and Drew’s nerves.

But the most progressed casual guild on the server triumphed in the end, and Pyrite slowly collapsed into a pile of rubble, dropping a pair of bracers that would have been useful a tier ago and a set of spiked knuckles nobody had ever wanted.

[Group][Ialdir]: GJ team

Solace ran past him, jumped into the giant’s body, and vanished.

[Group][Solace]: Weeeee

[Group][Ialdir]: That looks so wrong

[Group][Solace]: You don’t know what I’m doing in here

[Group][Ialdir]: Please exit the boss corpse in a calm and orderly fashion

[Group][Orcarella]: Does she always do that

[Group][Ialdir]: Not always

Pyrite’s remains vanished to reveal Solace doing her slinky dance. At his keyboard, Drew sighed and shook his head, but he was smiling.

[Yell][The Forge Master]: MORE STEEL, MORE FIRE, MORE SERVANTS FOR THE GREAT MACHINE!

[Group][Solace]: Still no rockling

[Group][Solace]: *cries*

[Group][Orcarella]: ?

[Group][Ialdir]: Pyrite has a really low chance to drop a [Baby Pyrite Rockling] and Solace has wanted it forever

[Group][Solace]: It’s the same model as the [Diminutive Ruby Golem] which is sooooo cute

[Group][Solace]: But nobody makes them anymore because it’s so fiddly to unlock the recipe

[Group][Orcarella]: how come

[Group][Ialdir]: It drops from a hidden boss in Magmarion’s Caverns. You need to do the whole raid in a special order

[Group][Ialdir]: And then activate the [Bejewelled Music Box] you got from the attunement quest

[Group][Ialdir]: And you can’t get the box anymore, so you can’t summon the boss, so you can’t find the plans

[Group][Solace]: *cries*

[Group][Solace]: And I’m this close to getting the Heavy Petting achievement

[Group][Orcarella]: i’ve never really seen the point of the pet thing

[Group][Solace]: They’re cute. That’s kind of their whole deal.

Next thing Drew knew, Solace was standing next to a [Tiny Angry Shrubbery] and Ialdir had pulled out a [Miniature Giant Space Hamster]. Honestly, he still didn’t see the appeal.

[Group][Orcarella]: Right. Irontongue?

[Group][Solace]: Yay

Once Solace had finished hugging Orcarella, they backtracked through Pyrite’s cavern, up the spiralling corridor, across the top ring, and up the staircase that led to Irontongue’s aerie.

They stepped out onto a plateau at the top of a twisted iron spire. A great metal serpent, winged and clawed and studded with rusted rivets and slowly turning gears, lay coiled around a dull black pillar.

[Yell][IRONTONGUE]: WHO DARES DISTURB THE SLUMBER OF THE WORLD MACHINE?

[Group][Orcarella]: wow i haven’t done this guy in six months

[Group][Orcarella]: can’t remember the tacs

[Group][Ialdir]: fairly straight forward

[Group][Ialdir]: main things are impale and scalding rage

[Group][Ialdir]: impale is when he stabs someone on his tail and hovers in the air putting shit on the floor

[Group][Ialdir]: don’t stand in the shit

[Group][Ialdir]: scalding rage is whole area aoe

[Group][Ialdir]: he’ll fly up and cover the platform in grey stuff so we all need to get behind a pillar

[Group][Orcarella]: cool

[Group][Ialdir]: plus standard dragon stuff

[Group][Ialdir]: you can get tail-swiped off the platform so like don’t

[Group][Orcarella]: kk going in

Orcarella raised her maces, shouted a battle cry, and charged.

[Yell][IRONTONGUE]: PITIFUL CREATURES OF FLESH! YOU SHALL NOT DISTURB THE HOLY WORK!

Drew started his rotation, barely able to see what was happening with his screen full of dragon face. But he wasn’t dying and Irontongue’s health was dropping at a good rate so everything seemed to be going according to plan.

[Group][Ialdir]: shit

[Group][Orcarella]: ?

[Group][Ialdir]: Small Mangy Owl just got punted off the platform

[Group][Solace]: omg noob

[Group][Ialdir]: hes an owl

[Group][Ialdir]: shud be able to fly

Suddenly Irontongue reared back and thrust its pelvis vigorously in Orcarella’s direction. And the next thing Drew knew, he was hoist aloft on the creature’s tail.

[Yell][Irontongue]: IMPALED!!!

[Yell][Solace]: IMPALED!!!

[Yell][Ialdir]: IMPALED!!!

[Group][Ialdir]: ooh on a first date

[Group][Orcarella]: *sigh*

[Group][Orcarella]: do you two have that macroed

[Group][Solace]: :D

[Group][Ialdir]: :D

There was nothing Drew could do while he was up there except make his own macro and enjoy the view, and actually the view was pretty good. The aerie was a tangled mess of steel and ash, bits of broken stone and fallen pillars littering a battered iron floor. He could even see a little bit of the Great Fissure below, shattered islands and rivers of lava. It was almost enough to make him forget what a pain the zone had been to level in.

At last Irontongue flung Orcarella to the floor, and Drew threw off a taunt to reestablish threat. He’d just got back into his rotation when Irontongue swooped into the air again.

[Yell][IRONTONGUE]: BOIL ALIVE!

Solace and Ialdir were already fleeing to the central pillar, and Drew pegged it after them, not wanting to be the noob who ate dragon breath.

[Group][Ialdir]: sw

Ella, Solace, and Ialdir grouped up