Alburet dipped a shallow bow, “Why thank you, sir.” He started walking to find the next patrol or group.
The next few pulls were repeats of the last one, except that Alburet didn’t get damaged when the Shieldbearer finally showed up since he stayed further back after pulling. After they completed a circuit of the ground floor they walked back to the door that had a plaque notifying them it was the Captain's Room.
“Okay, remember, he will call adds,” Gerald said. “I’ll pick them up as best I can. Once I have them, burn the adds down first. He calls them at 75%, 50%, and 25% life and goes into a frenzy at 10% life which is where you need to go all out. Any questions?”
When no one had any Gerald held out a fist, “No one else has cleared this place yet, so let's do it.” The rest of them bumped fists together before Gerald opened the door. Just before he walked in Alburet hit him with Retribution, getting a nod of thanks from Gerald.
The room was large, maybe fifty feet square with shelves holding various knickknacks along the walls. The center of the room held a massive Oak desk behind which sat a goblin easily half again as big as the ones they had been facing already.
“Who dares interrupt my paperwork?” The Goblin Captain roared as he got to his feet grabbing his two-handed sword from next to the desk.
Alburet targeted it and took in the information, Captain of the Guard level 11, 1500/1500 health. Alburet noted the rusty steel cap on the goblin’s head as well as the rusty chain shirt and leather pants. Pursing his lips, Alburet put his back to a wall and slid along it waiting for Gerald to grab aggro.
“The King of Stormguard sends his greetings,” Gerald replied with a dark smile.
The Captain bellowed and came around the desk to be met by Gerald's upraised shield. The three DPS waited impatiently as Gerald landed his first attack. Alburet caught Bob's eyes and pointed to the goblin’s legs, getting a nod in return.
As the Gerald’s third blow landed he shouted, “Got him, let's do this.”
As Gerald spoke Fluffball launched herself across the room to close the distance as Rocksure, Alburet and Bob all hit the Captain with spells. Bob and Alburet hit the legs of the Captain, getting a little more damage as the armor value was lower there.
Rocksure's spell hit the goblin in the head and he frowned, “Fucking helm is negating a chunk of my damage.”
“Go for the legs,” Alburet said as his next spell again hit the Captain's legs. “Armor cuts that amount off the damage, but only part its value for spells. Leather has a lower value than rusty steel.”
“I know that,” Rocksure yelled back in irritation, as he did but had forgotten and gotten used to all the other goblins that hadn't been wearing helms.
At 75% life the Captain roared loudly and a trio of adds came through the door. Mary, who was in the back of the room, made sure to tell them all. Alburet targeted the Shieldbearer and cast Sap Strength on it, making it drop the shield. It stopped for a second, trying to pick the shield up, before forgetting it and trying to cross the room to Mary, who had healing aggro.
Gerald hit the melee as it tried to go by, getting its attention, before turning to the now shieldless Shieldbearer and repeating the process. The caster, though, stood just inside the door and threw fire at Mary making her call out for help.
“Bob, focus the caster, I'm going in.” Alburet said as he rushed to the caster, throwing Retribution on himself. “I'll tank the caster if Rock can kill it,” Alburet said as he slammed his staff into the caster's face as it had been ignoring him.
“That wasn't the plan,” Gerald grunted as he tried to stop the three attacking him.
“You can't turn your back to them,” Alburet said as he blocked a swing of the caster’s dagger. “So we adapt and deal with this.”
Rocksure ignored Alburet and focused on the melee goblin with Fluffball, acting as if he hadn't heard any of what Alburet had said.
Alburet growled as he slowly whittled the caster down, focusing on taking as little damage as possible. As the caster dropped, he turned to see the spear wielder going down. “All adds down,” he called out, stepping back over next to Bob.
He was hurt, but not too much still at 480/550 health. He wished he regained health in combat like he did mana. As he watched, Rocksure smirked at him before going back to focusing on the boss.
“Alright, next time we handle the adds the same way,” Gerald said as his health was being replenished by Mary. He had taken a beating from the two adds as well as the boss.
“Sure thing,” Alburet replied as he went back to casting, speaking between Fire Blasts. “I can solo the caster again.”
“I am going to need to get mana back between the second and third adds, master,” Bob said.
“Do what you have to, Bob,” Alburet replied as his mana had topped back up during the melee fight with the caster.
The second add pack was the same as the first and dispatched the same way, though Alburet wound up at 400/550 health by the time he was done as he missed a few parry attempts. “Adds down,” he called out as his dropped.
“Regaining mana,” Bob said as he sat down and pulled out an emery board.
“What the fuck? Really, an emery board?” Alburet said, glancing down at the imp who grinned up at him and winked.
“Naw, just fucking with you,” Bob got back to his feet and leaned against the wall. “It was funny as hell though, to see that expression.”
“Gods, you are annoying as shit sometimes Bob,” Alburet said as he threw his next Fire Blast onto the Captain.
“Cut the banter with the imp,” Gerald called out. “No point to having useless conversations during a boss fight.”
Alburet rolled his eyes and saw Bob flip Gerald off while sticking his tongue out. Chuckling, Alburet tossed his next Fire Blast as Bob looked up at him, winking.
When the last set of adds rolled in, things got interesting. This time it was three casters, who all threw fire onto Mary.
“HELP!” Mary cried out.
Gerald turned and got tossed into a wall by the boss as his attention deviated too much. “Get them,” he wheezed as he got back to his feet.
Alburet had already crossed to the casters and thumped each of them, now having all the aggro for himself. He backed up a step as two of them began to cast while he parried the dagger strike of the one closest to him.
Fluffball came across the room in a leaping bound, sinking her weapon into the middle goblin with a growl. “Got this one,” she said as she began to hack at it like a woman possessed.
“Fine, I'll get the other one,” Rocksure said throwing a bolt of lightning at it. That wasn't enough to pull the aggro so it threw its fire bolt onto Alburet, who winced, which also got him stabbed by the dagger.
“Bob?”
“I'm on it,” the imp said, throwing Fire Blasts at the one Rocksure was attacking.
The trio of casters died, leaving all the DPS injured, with Alburet being the worst off at 300/550 health. “All adds down,” Alburet called out.
“Okay, get ready for the burn phase,” Gerald called out as the boss was down to 18% by the time the DPS went back to attacking it. “When it frenzies it will do double the damage twice as fast, so Mary might not be able to keep me up.”
“I'm running low on mana,” Mary said. “I think you’ll drop, so do not run out of the room guys. Do your best to kill it if Gerald drops, otherwise it resets and we have to do it all over again.”
Alburet nodded, throwing another Fire Blast and waited as he was going to hit the boss with Sap Strength as soon as it Frenzied. At 10% the boss began to flash red and foam at the mouth and it started swinging faster. Alburet hit it with his spell and hoped that would help before going back to Fire Blast.
At 5% Gerald went down as Mary called that she was out of mana. She rushed in with her staff as the boss turned on Fluffball. As the boss did that, Rocksure edged towards the door while he cast his spells.