Terrorfnarr

A short time later the group entered the dark forest of Terrorfnarr. Winding its way through the maze of ancient trees lay a small, dimly lit path. All around this path, but strangely enough not venturing onto it, were a legion of level *? creatures the likes of which belonged in a senile old Grannie's darkest nightmare.

"I don't like it here." whispered Kenneth as the group cautiously plodded their way through the forest. "Can we go back?"

"Don't be such a wuss, I'll take on anything me!" replied Nutpacman.

"I desperately need to fart," pointed out Britofartus nervously "but I'm scared it will draw too much attention!"

Most enemies would ignore you unless you got too close, coughed too loud or wore an extremely silly hat. Controlling attention was a key part of survival! This was why the group was walking single file in the middle of the path.

Spurmunit thought Britofartus might be trying to lighten the situation but realised they could do with more back-up if they were going to stand any chance of questing in this area.

"I'm going to scan the recruitment stream to see if we can get more people interested in joining our party" advised Spurmunit.

A few moments later he looked up, one eyebrow raised in surprise. "Hey I've just checked and Nutpac has already formed a new ten main raid party which comprises of nine Nutpacman's and one space left for a Wizard. What gives?"

"Well I can Tonk and do damage. I have a pet to defend me in battle." Nutpacman pointed to his turtle that was munching on a piece of cabbage. It was a painfully slow process and Britofartus would bet good odds the cabbage leaf would go off before he finished it.

"I can heal myself." Nutpacman proudly displayed his stained bandages. "So all I need is a Wizard to turn an enemy all **sheep'ish and making water for me."

Players ate food to regain health, drank water to regain Manga. Silly but simple. Get used to thinking silly but simple, it's like a mantra to all Players.

"But you're a Barbarian?" pointed out Spurmunit."You don't use Manga?"

"So?" replied Nutpacman with a blank expression.

Ignoring Nutpacman's insane ranting, Spurmunit cleared his group and put out a call on the Gang stream for assistance. He managed to get Fishmisfit, Gloey, Denethawin, Buchish and the aptly named Newmember to sign up. Moments later they arrived thanks to Imodium. One of a Borelock's abilities is to manifest other players to their location. This requires the help of two other players who are used as a power conduit for the manifestation. The whole process takes a few seconds but, more importantly, looks really cool.

Almost as soon as their fellow Gang members had arrived and greeted each other there was a sound like a balloon makes when it is untied and let loose, followed by a huge sigh of relief from Britofartus, followed shortly after by a rather unpleasant smell. In the surrounding woodlands a thousand glowing eyes suddenly focused in the group's direction.

"Sorry" apologised Britofartus. "I couldn't hold it in any longer!"

Even with the extra Players Spurmunit knew there were too many enemies to fight. He decided a strategic withdrawal was in order.

"Run!" he shouted.

Everyone ran except Nutpacman who stood his ground, drew his sword and shouted, "Have at you!" before being mowed down. Several painfully embarrassing seconds later the evil indescribable things from mad grannie's mind caught up with the rest of the fleeing party who were slaughtered mercilessly. The whole party was wiped out!

* Enemies that are such a high level you have no idea how fast you died, under what circumstances or which direction your head flew off.

** Wizards have the ability to temporarily make one enemy too shy to fight. This is quite useful in controlling how many the party fight at any one time but it can be quite distracting having this huge, evil looking fiend standing at the side saying stuff like, "Gee, I don't know, I'd like to fight but you guys are like, so imposing and macho and stuff. It's quite intimidating you know!"