Maws was the first battle of the night. We met in Azshara around 8:00 and slaughtered him pretty easily. A strange fight, what with being in the water, it's still the easiest of all the special raid encounters it seems. Once Maws died, we had the Blue Scepter Shard in our hands.
Next we rallied to Moonglade, accompanied by Fusion, Winterborne, Remnants of Chaos and Malice. With the four Nightmare Fragments reunited in the hands of Remulos we summoned Eranikus , Tyrant of the Dream. Within about 5 seconds we all lagged to death and died. Ouch.
A bit of strategy refinement led us to splitting up the guilds to different parts of Nighthaven to more effectively deal with horrible, horrible FPS issues. Our second attempt went much more smoothly; we managed to slaughter all the shades with relatively few problems. Some positioning issues led to portions of the raid getting slaughtered, but all seemed to be going well. That is, until we realized that Remulos disappeared. He didn't die, he just disappeared. We think he may have fell through the world or something.
On our third attempt we took down the shades smoothly, Remulos still present, and Eranikus landed upon Nighthaven. Baz and I made rather valiant stands tanking the massive dragon but both got eaten after a few minutes tanking, leaving Eranikus in the capable hands of Remulos and the High Priestesses of the Moon. Our massive laggy zerg of guilds brought Eranikus down to 20%, at which point he despawned saying it was not yet his time (err, wait, wrong dragon), leaving us with the Green Scepter Shard.
Our trip back to Tanaris yielded at last, The Scepter of the Shifting Sands.
If our war turnins complete soon, we should have the AQ gates open on Saturday. Exact time is to be determined still. Watch for an announcement on the realm boards.