Last week’s attempt at Kara ended at the Opera event, where we got Rom + Jules and failed utterly at interrupts. This is approximately the conversation we had while waiting for Barnes the stage manager to raise the curtain this week.
Leafsong: Right, I’m hoping that it’s going to be Wiz of Oz. Because if it’s Rom + Jules again, we are screwed. And if it is Red Riding Hood, we are screwed also.
Aphel: W/E.
Leafsong: …Because I have never survived being chased by that damn wolf. Never. He killed me every time at 70. EVERY. TIME.
(Ten seconds later)
Barnes: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this evening’s (blah blah blah) TAKE FOR INSTANCE THIS ELDERLY OLD WOMAN WAITING FOR A VISIT FROM HER GRANDDAUGHTER
Leafsong: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
*encounter begins*
Leafsong: /HoT /HoT — AGH WTF *is transformed into tiny red gnome* NOOAAAAAA
*repeat 4x throughout encounter*
In summary:
Leafsong: 4 times
Aphel: O times
There was a total period of about 20 seconds total the entire fight where I was not running madly around the stage, screeching and cursing. Luckily casting HoTs on myself + the fact that he only hit for about 3k or so when he did smack me, meant that it was not insta-death. Still. BAH.
Aran was hilariously easy, even though Aphel’s crab kept failing to keep still on Flame Wreath (only did about 3-4k damage). Chess was frustrating! It’s all about luck as much as anything. We managed to do it on our third encounter, with me riding Llane’s ass and Aphel hopping in and out of the conjurer/healing dude as needed. It was slightly helped by the fact that for the last thirty seconds, Chief Blackhand (the Horde king) decided to turn his back on me and do absolutely nothing.
Netherspite – wiiiiiipe. Couldn’t work out wtf the beams/portals did.
Malchazar – two wipes, the first being because both of us are hardly what you call BC raiding vets, and we didn’t realise that it probably wasn’t a good idea to be in melee range of Malch after his Enfeeble (drops you to 1 health). Second wipe was due to Aphel’s moron crab, the LESS SPOKEN ABOUT THAT THE BETTER. 
Aphel said,
12th May, 2010 @ 9:36 pm
TONIGHT, WE WITNESS THE TALE OF A GREAT, DARK SORCERER AND HIS CRAB NEMESIS. WATCH NOW, AS THE HEROES BATTLE THE GREAT, DARK SORCERER! BUT WHAT IS THIS? THE DARKNESS ENVELOPS THEM, AND THE CRAB MOVES CLOSER TO HIS MASTER AND — OH!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS HAS BEEN YOUR KARAZHAN OPERA.
Leafsong said,
12th May, 2010 @ 9:42 pm
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DON’T REMIND ME