Though it was fun to walk overland with 20+ mages.
With the coming of the new quests for treasure the AMT has pursued the hidden loot. Overall the experience has been a good one. Lessons are being learned and with each new trip the events only get better.
The first offical Treasure hunt was a bit of a dissapointment, with the group size completely overwhelming the loot taken from the chest and the monster spawn, many found it disappointing. Though it was fun to walk overland with 20+ mages.
Once the Mage Tower's Tomb Raider developed his skills to the point where he could access the level 4 maps the real fun began. As it is with most instances in life, we over compensated for the large amount of people present at the first few Chest Crawls with a smaller party of four.
Case found the chest fairly quickly, and AndDroid, Homer and Rakerath set themselves up for the spawn. Case never saw the full chest come from the ground. A spawn of 4 Oger Lords and 2 lichs quickly dispatched him in less than a blink of an eye.
the monsters quickly felled the 3 summoned daemons that we though to be a good offense for us and within the next 30 seconds AnDroid met his maker
. [ the first time of 6 for the night-hehe]
The lag was fierce and the Ogers more so. Homer perished leaving only Rake, who quickly sought refuge by the coastline. "An Corp" was heard and all were ressed. The ogers had looted Droid and Homer leaving us with very little regs.
What followed was a dance that lasted about 45 minutes. The three of us running around what seemed like an incrediblily shrinking isle, with the Oger Lords and their new Fire elemental friends. AnDroid and Homer died again, leaving Case no option but to return home and get his brother Logan....and some back up =]
Thunder Red Hair and Nerapas lept at the chance to help save their fellow mages. Meeting on the Moonglow bank roof and quickly departing, the Mages arrived to find the ghost of rake had joined the other two. With the aid of meditation and a some good terrian the remaing monsters from the First Spawn had been defeated.
Case returned to the chest. It still needed to be opened! The loot was good...but the monsters wicked. With every other item removed from the chest a new foe would appear. AndDroid attracted the attention of a vicious Dread Spider.
It was mean like I have never seen mean before-and yeah Droid died...again.
Fire elementals, air elementals, oger lords and liches made the rest of the looting rather difficult at times. Success was had though and after and hour or so we met on the roof.
A few of the lessons learned.
1. 
Allow the chest opener at least a screens worth of space. The monsters spawn right around him and the chest and if you are there with him you are next =]
2. Your treasure is in a remote area...if we had all died on that isle
I would still be there and not working this webpage right now.
3. As the lockpicker,ensure that your partners are ready for you to begin looting...once a monster appears, stop looting and kill it. One oger lord is easier than two oger lords and a fire elemental all the while you are overloaded =]
4. It helps to have the opener of the chest use a teleport item..also a few invis's from your mage friends can give you that extra second to getaway and help in the fight.
5. If your fast enough and on ICQ with your friends, ".jpg" the map and send it to a few so that you all are looking in the general direction