"Here we go" the little voice in my head says as the screen turns white and slowly materializes into a reddish version of The Vault. As I hold X to grab the relic and head down GMF secret passage to the right of the stairs I notice an extra person is with us. "Damn it Raga, why did you have to teleport yourself?" One good outcome of his cowering near the exit portal was the three MLG dropouts who normally give me a run for my money were distracted by his aimless shambling, giving me a clear shot of their backs. Once the Hobgoblins were dispatched we called out to Raga, trying to coerce him from his hidey hole and receive a cleanse. Once he steeled his nerve enough to trek towards us, he fell in a hole.

The End

Then it got silly.

Like where I activated a Gorgon while Funk was still trying to get to the first post Templar chest. He picked up The Last Word one moment before we all died. Or where we ruined each others attempts to get the Gorgon chest via: Rockets, grenades, gunfire, bumbling, Fist of Havoc, Blade Dancing, wrong turns, ineptitude, double jumping, Radiance, Shoulder Charging, missed jumps, and poor timing. Once we finally got the chest and escape the maze I went back just to see what happens if you're discovered while everyone else is doing the jumping puzzle. You die... but can respawn.

We got more serious from there and beyond me purposely going into a portal as we defended them from the final wave of Praetorians we did pretty well. I added a few shards to my stupidly large pile but enjoyed it because it we had silly fun instead of raiding for raiding's sake.

and I finally managed to snag a Gally.

Congrats.

My favorite part was standing outside the first chest with my sparrow and launching unsuspecting guardians into the abyss on VoG. We discovered some pretty cool rooms by accident. Is the final Chest there?

Then the poop hit the proverbial fan, and the fun and games started in a VOG normal run. We had Raga (who wishes to change his GT to Unit Cohesion), Grand Master Funk, Robot (the vegetarian) Chicken, Relekh who now knows how to use the relic, Some Hobo we picked up, Hank Hill showed up on his Mower for a while, and a very drunk North. GMF decided during the oracles he would melee all the hobgoblins, We had 3 people at one point alive and it was a revive and be killed sort of run. We busted some myths in the gorgons labrynth. Being invisible in fact does not attract the gorgons to you, unless someone shoots you with a rocket. You can yell and scream like Zoidberg and it wont attract them. When several people are across the jumping puzzle and someone decides to punch a gorgon you all wipe, but only to the top of the puzzle. We ran both portals simultaneously, but due to bad commo on Chickens part he didn't understand when I killed the gatekeeper and had to blindly stumble his way through. We found out that having 5 people taking out oracles makes easy work, but tracking everyone down with the relic to cleanse was like herding cats. GMF got his first corrective measure, Chickens got kinky boots, and I finally managed to snag a Gally.

So, once you see calls for Minotaur you are save to move off the port point?

Once that ring around the teleport point goes from red to white, you're safe to move

Anyways, I've now been a part of bringing every member of the oholiab fireteam through a raid. Unless Mrs Oholiab gets an inkling to join in the fun...

She saiys that unless you want the entertainment of watching her runn around in circles while looking up at the sky, she'll stick to making the brownies.

I read that and immediately thought of this.

Anyways, I've now been a part of bringing every member of the oholiab fireteam through a raid. Unless Mrs Oholiab gets an inkling to join in the fun...

She saiys that unless you want the entertainment of watching her runn around in circles while looking up at the sky, she'll stick to making the brownies.

We hit a bit of trouble getting into the rhythm of taking down Atheon, but all we had to do was say the magic words: "this is going to be our last run." Seriously, these words are powerful. I cannot tell you the number of times they have pulled my team out of the rut.

Anyways, I've now been a part of bringing every member of the oholiab fireteam through a raid. Unless Mrs Oholiab gets an inkling to join in the fun...

You made a great point about aggro and keeping the Templar facing you. There were several rounds the other night where I could not get a critical hit on the Templar because he wasn't facing me or he was hidden completely from my view.

In the moment, I was a bit confused as to why he wasn't paying more attention to Cyber. It was only when I went back to watch the video that I noticed the 2 yahoos dancing around in front of him (;p), drawing his attention. I'm pretty sure that's what was keeping him facing our direction. Might be something worth testing in a future run.

Big difference from Thursday night's fun, huh, Cody?

Great stuff.

It's amazing what a difference the right gear can make. Cody and I were both using Gjallarhorn and Black Hammer... that, along with the other Ice Breaker and rocket fire made very short work of the Templar. Of course, none of it would have mattered if Cyber weren't such an unstoppable ninja with the Relic. He put in a lot of time perfecting that routine, and it payed off :)

On the PS4 I feel quite helpless without my Ghallerhorn or even Vision of Confluence. You made a great point about aggro and keeping the Templar facing you. There were several rounds the other night where I could not get a critical hit on the Templar because he wasn't facing me or he was hidden completely from my view.

Big difference from Thursday night's fun, huh, Cody?

Great stuff.

It's amazing what a difference the right gear can make. Cody and I were both using Gjallarhorn and Black Hammer... that, along with the other Ice Breaker and rocket fire made very short work of the Templar. Of course, none of it would have mattered if Cyber weren't such an unstoppable ninja with the Relic. He put in a lot of time perfecting that routine, and it payed off :)

Great stuff.