Tallon Zek Sneers At GoB from the Grave

Sunday am checked Balinvar and noticed Mallo running a TZ raid. I knew one was likely and it was the reason I was keeping an eye on things while getting stuff done around the house. Bi was just emerging from her coccon and I got us into the raid as late adds, running on in. There were 5 rangers in the raid, so I felt it was a lock that the bow would drop today. Last two raids were just me and Luniel. The TZ takedown went fine, but slow. I remarked to Bi during the fight that this was taking too long.

"Why do you say that?"
"Trueshot just expired (i.e., 2 minutes had gone by after I found my spot and tested the range)"
"What's TZ at?"
"60%"
"Oh, is that bad?"
"Should be dead or close by now"
"Oh"

Overall, it took 5 minutes to get him. Not bad, except that the room is on an 8 or 10 min timer. A Gliden Deathblade added from the stairs area right after TZ fell. It was one of those annoying splitters. Note that the stair area is the healer area, so many of them were dead too. One ore two tanks, we did the best we could, but too many were down and we couldn't lock it down. Total wipe. Well, don't that just suck. Dead TZ with loot and a 30 minute timer running and 12 level 68 trash mobs between our naked GoB party and him.

Mallo and some others made a dash through and while they all eventually died, Mallo did manage to check the corpse. He got the spells off and linked the bow, it was there. "Rangers, get SoW and follow me. First one to make it to the corpse gets the bow." I had SoW, but it was old, I zoned out refreshed and ran back in. Mallo and the others had gone, it's OK, I found their corpses part of the way in and added mine to them. Actually, I added 3 more to that one. My last run in, Tristairn and myself made it to TZ's room w/o agro, but the body had poofed about a minute before. /cry The most amazing sight was the carpet of bodies from the ZI to TZ's room. All the rangers left at least 4 or 5 corpses each in there. Plus a number of others who tried to help out.

Mallo remarked that he hadn't died like that since Hate CR days. My hat is off to all those who tried to get one of us in there. And to TZ, "I'll be back."