Shadow Shard #2

Finished up the second Shadow Shard TF this evening, continued from Thursday. About half the missions, running about 5 hours. Hang Time, Noelle Frost, Shock.Therapy, War Bones, Sword of Asgard, Amorpha, and Psi-clone.
The final AV battle, Rudaludarulaluk, or whatever his name is (Rudalak), was just what it should be — tough, white-knuckly, but doable. We zapped most of the near minions, went in, pounded on Rudi for a while, inadvertently drew the far minions, nearly all died, rezzed up, zapped the minions, fought Rudi some more, had Rudi come into the outer room, fought Rudi still some more, and, finally, long-last, beat the SOB.
PC face-planted four or five or six times — ended up 86k in debt (which, of course, doesn’t mean all that much right now). At that, everyone else did close to likewise. Lowest death count was probably Shock, since she tended to wisely stay way back.
The pic at the right is Rudalak. From the ground (where PC was, flat on his back), looking up over the head of War Bones, who just Taunted the god. Yes, he is that tall. Yes, he stomps like he is.
I was able to confirm, over the afternoon that in mass-hold situations (esp. something nice and visible like Noelle’s ice stuff), Psionic Tornado is great fun. A nice AoE damage power, with Containment.
Much fun.