Week 1: Six Times Up the Mountain, Six Times Back Down
Season opens and Larissarla immediately finds the ceiling — a 13 key, tied for the second-highest push of the week, followed by six depleted keys in a row. That's Sisyphus and Glass Ceiling both, ten runs total, only four timed. Ambition outrunning the group, in miniature.
Compare Seralinn, who ran the exact opposite week: 11 pulls, 11 timed, an 11-run streak without a single depletion, walking off with Top of the Table at 2,650 and Most Improved for the obvious reason nobody had a score before this week. Punching Up credits Seralinn as finishing 1,226 above what 308 item level predicts — a compliment to the player, or an insult to the gear, take your pick.
Darkliche matched the streak number for number: 13 runs, 13 timed, a clean run of 13 without a hiccup. Still only fifth. That's the going rate this week.
The guild's actual nemesis has a name, and it's Den of Nalorakk — timed on only 60% of 45 attempts guildwide. Nobody needs to pile on, the dungeon's doing that job itself.
On the social side, Futaba, Ogwolf, Pirket and Ryngeby ran together six times with Lones along as guest. Didn't stop Pirket from collecting Boostee anyway — 1,148 rating below the group average over three runs together, a specific kind of humbling. Karenaie took the opposite trophy, Booster, sitting 1,065 above their crew over six runs, and also logged 9 of their 11 runs on the weekend for good measure.
Twali gets a nod for efficiency: 321 rating per run across just four attempts, the best rate anyone posted.
And somewhere at the bottom of the sheet, Yellowsham and Rongeby sat the whole week out. No judgment there — it's day 9 of the season, there's time yet.
