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Torfar · Posted: 2010-01-04 Jan 19:00 Post subject:

Since I was on my booring mood and let it go out over the CoA yeasterday with the 3D Sarth try I decided to make up why Torfar couldnt be there. I am sorry for not coming but was in a booring mood yeasterday and I am sorry it went over you, but atleast you find another tank... to bad you didnt make the kill though.

Well, heres the story and it might possibly open a door for my priest alt into this guild as well Happy

(Trying to keep it short so isnt that much, just wanted to jot it down quickly to ease my conciense, but who knows, maybe writing these things could be a habit... if it doesnt bother people too much Tongue

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The mission that was given was to try and free a group from the grasp of the Lich King. It was an infiltration unit which had important information about the Lich King and his castle, Ice Crown Citadel. They were supposed to report back 4 days ago, but since no one appeared this task force was set up to try and get them out. Since Taurens aren’t really known for stealth it was a small group that could get in and out fast and hopefully take down interruptions before breaking the alarm. So the group was made up by 5 people, not too large to get noticed but enough to get through and it was a druid and a shaman for backup, reconnaissance and healing if needed. The others where two warriors, one of them Torfar, the last one was a former warrior, but now a death knight. These five was picked since they had worked together for many years, although mostly in bigger battles and skirmishes but also on quick and small attacks like this. They knew each other weary well and what everyone could do, and since one of them had became a death knight, he also knew a quick way to the dungeons where the prisoners where usually kept. As anyone can see, this is not a stealth group, but if you can knock the guards out before the rise the alarm, there is no need for stealth.

Sneaking into the dungeons of Ice Crown isn’t an easy task, it’s not something you do just like that and neither did they. No matter how well the defence is, if you attack one side it’s easier to sneak in from another, but this is also a well know tactics. So they did it, but with a twist. It started with a bombardment on the wrath gate, followed by another one on the north eastern gates all to leave the western gate untouched. After an hour or so the bombardment stopped, and while the dust was clearing the little unit snuck in through the wrath gate as the bombardment started again.

Surprisingly everything went as planned without any bigger difficulty. Of course, they didn’t go through the gate since there would be guards and outposts, but the death knight in their party knew of a lesser guarded way in, just big enough for a small party which could either lead to the wrath gate or down, to the dungeons. Since this was such a small entrance and was well watched from towers up ahead the guards had been moved to the bigger gates when the bombardment started since if you tried to get enough troops in this way to cause any real damage, it would be spotted from up above. But since they were only 5 and with well thought out tactics and allot of luck they snuck in without being noticed.

As they ventured down the long cold corridors and taking out any guards in our way they slowly but surely got down to where the prisoners were kept, and there they were. The infiltration unit had all been imprisoned, and by the looks of it tortured in many ways. They were hardly alive but thankfully the druid and the shaman could get them on their feats again. As they tended to their wounds they spoke of more prisoners further down who had just been brought in. But as time was running short and the bombardment was soon to seize completely the death knight told everyone to leave and make way upwards, but one stayed. Torfar said that he would take a quick look, just to see if there was something to do for those who had just been brought in, as his superior in command the death knight said no but Torfar wouldn’t budge. They both knew that time was running short so he just said one thing to the warrior before heading up, “When you die, just don’t accuse me and come back to haunt me.” Torfar laughed and simply replied “Well, when you died, did you leave me alone brother?” At that the death knight laughed as well and they went separate ways.

As he kept going downwards he soon came into what looked like a laboratory. He didn’t know what was going on but from what he could tell, they seemed to be doing experiments on living as well as on the undead. In one of the corners of the room there where a huge pile of corpses from both living as well as undead who had been disposed and in a cage there where but a few still breathing prisoners. There wasn’t really something you could call guards down here, more doctors... or what you could call doctor, so with one quick swoop Torfar launched at them and before anyone realised what was going on they were down. He took the prisoners out and learned from them some of what was going on here. They were working on a cure for the poison that the forsaken had created as well as different poisons that would affect the living as well as the traitorous death knights and undead, and that the infiltration party probably more was a trap than anything else. It seemed like the reason why they so easily could free them was because they were the first with a deadly poison in them and that this poison would be triggered as they left Ice Crown Citadel.

Since the first group had such a big head start it was probably impossible to reach them before they got out, so instead of trying to reach them they tried to find a cure. One of the prisoners here was one of the bloodelfs priests head teachers who had great knowledge when it came to healing and different poisons and he went through the different notes the doctors had made. And in a way, there thorough research gave them the answer, since they had written down what had slowed down the effects, what had increased the effects but also what had terminated the effects. So trying to get as much of the antidote as they could they run up and out of the citadel and to the encampment at Kor’kron Vanguard, where signs of the new disease had already started to spread. Some had already fallen but thanks to the preparation made from the bloodelf priest many lives could be spared, including all prisoners and the little assault group.
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Write you later / Torfar

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