Since the completion of the bug grind and the very public event on Sunday evening, a lot has been going on Reason preparing the scepter that will eventually open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
I won't give an overview of the scepter line as it would be largely redundant with much better written and illustrated news posts about it from other guilds. Rather I'll just do my best to keep this post updated with our current status.
Currently we have completed all of the small group portions of the scepter line. We have acquired 7/8 of the Draconic for Dummies chapters, with only the chapter from Molten Core missing. We should acquire that tonight along with the goggles, which will leave us ready for the final boss of the blue scepter line, Maws.
For the green scepter line, we've acquired 1 of the 4 nightmare thingies from the Emerald Dream portals around the world. We expect to have the remaining 3 collected by Thursday. The final boss of the green line, Eranikus, will probably be taken care of Saturday evening. Once details have been determined we'll invite the other large raiding guilds to help in this rather absurdly large event.
The red line involves a clear of Blackwing Lair, from Vaelastrasz through Nefarian, in under five hours. Based on our past performance this should be possible. We've never actually cleared BWL in one sitting before, but we have done it with a composite time of less than five hours. Provided we're playing well, we should have that done with time to spare.
If all goes as scheduled this will leave us with a completed scepter this weekend.
Update 2/22/06: After completing our Molten Core run tonight we now have all 8 chapters of Draconic for Dummies as well as the goggles.
Update 2/23/06: We've finished grinding for the Nightmare Fragments in Feralas, Ashenvale and Hinterlands. Ashenvale and Hinterlands both took only about 15-30 minutes each. However we spent nearly 3 hours in Feralas farming the shard there. We've now completed our Arcanite Buoy as well. Still left: Blackwing Lair, Maws, Duskwood portal boss.
Update 2/24/05: Reason has acquired the first of the 4 shards, the Red Scepter Shard. Our BWL clear took an impressive 2 hours, 49 minutes. We killed the Twilight Corruptor boss in Duskwood for the green shard line. He was a rather interesting challenge; a bit reminiscent of Firemaw, sans the aggro ceiling.