AG: My Adventure (in my words) From: burgesmw@cnsvax.uwec.edu Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 22:50:23 +0000 This is a description of an adventuring turn. I usually write one up to send to friends who were not along for the adventure. Someone said I should post it, so here it is. I hope to get the actual turn on disk this Friday. Note that this is a very powerful group so the monsters we meet are not what beginning adventurers would meet. Party : Pazuzeus Gravestone, Galin, Dergus Trapfinder, Sxar, Firiel, Alf, and a healer. Adv site : Dead Hills Diff level : 14 Sxar's strategy : Sit in back and fire Bow. We are pooling EP so why not. 8) 1st encounter : 2 Brigands, 1 Bandit Chief, 1 Cutthroat, 1 Swordmaster. Wow. What a tough bunch of monsters. Alf picked up the Prot Gem. 2nd encounter : 2 White Centipedes, 5 Blast Beetles, 1 Rock Beetle, 1 Killer Beetle, and (gasp!!) 1 Horned Centipede. I thought this would be a tough encounter because of the Blast Beetles because it was a large room and the Blast dudes were surrounding us. Now, Fenrir and Paz had met a Horned Centipede before (with other insects) and had won fairly easily. The Horned Centipede had taken a LOT of damage. Mike Lee had just run into one his last Barstow turn and said it shredded them. Of course I laughed. Well, getting back to this encounter, Sxar hit the Horned Centipede with an arrow and was UNABLE TO DAMAGE THROUGH ITS NATURAL ARMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can do damage through plate with an arrow!! Well, I now begin to worry. Many of the people ended up concentrating on the Horned Centipede. Thank goodness some of the others killed some of the other insects. Also, it was a good thing that they kept the horned Centipede dazed with the daze spell. As soon as the Horned dude went down, every insect left ran for its life but we still got a few before they could get away. 8) Dergus was taken out by the Horned dude but damn, he lived!! 3rd encounter : 3 Warlock Skeletons, 1 Lizardman Skeleton, 2 Skeleton Beserkers, 1 Skeleton Warrior, 2 Goblin Skeletons, 1 Skeleton This occured in another large room with the Warlocks positioned in each corner. This is VERY deadly. Well, we started fighting it out. Eventually there were only the 3 Warlock Skeletons, 1 Lizardman Skeleton, 1 Skeleton Beserker, 1 Skeleton Warrior, and 1 Goblin Skeleton left. Paz took enough Blast shots and decided to retreat. EVERYONE ran off with him!!! Sxar had an overpowered setting of 2.3 and he was the first to join Paz's retreat. This was a very powerful group so that would tell me that the Warlock Skeletons have a VERY high power level. They earned it since their Spells destroy Prot Gems every time. You need 50 Prot Gems vs these guys. Well, everyone successfully retreated except the healer. The healer stumbled (I would NEVER guessed that would happen ;) ) and a Warlock dazed her than Blasted her. The healer is dead. You wouldn't believe the cheers of joy heard throughout the group (we were pooling EP and now the healer is gone and we don't have to share anymore!!). Firiel cast a low level cure party on those injured and we continued on. A FOUNTAIN!!! : Firiel didn't drink at all (weird). Everyone else did and Sxar got 9 KP from it. GLISSEN!! : Alf makes the trade and gets a level in Universe Magic. (remember he also got the Prot Gem early...). 4th encounter : 3 Warlocks, 1 Big Bruiser, 2 Bruisers, 1 Swordmaster, 1 Thug, and 1 Bandit Chief. Oops. I forgot to mention the BANDIT LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, this wasn't a large room, so that could work in our favor. Maybe we could take a Bandit Lord. No matter what, I knew I would get away since I was in back. Well, much to my horror, when I fired at the Bandy with an arrow he Blinked it and started targeting Sxar. Well, he got into long range and I started sweating profusely. But good old Paz saved the day and got the Bandy's attention (I had pulled his unconcious body to safety on the last encounter so it was a payback thing). Well, to make a long story short, Galin nailed the Bandy for heavy damage and knocked him to the ground. Once he got back up, he was very hard to hit. The Bandy eventually was really tired and severely wounded and got hit some more and decided to retreat!!! I thought, "we are going to kill him!!" but he got away. Well, we finished off the rest of the wimps and celebrated. Sxar cast his massive lvl 4 cure party and healed everyone enough that they didn't cry and want to go home. Oh, and Alf picked up the Earthy Brown Scroll (the filthy pig!!). 5th encounter : 3 Dog Demons, 1 Hell Hound, 2 Huge Rabid Dogs, 3 Big Wild Dogs, 1 Wild Dog. I was worried about those Dog Demons because they are fairly tough. It ended up that I didn't have to worry since they kept them dazed and I pumped them full of arrows. It was actually a fairly easy fight. After some more traps, we made it back home. Alf was the big winner on this adventure. Anyway, Sxar got 50 EP's, 391 gold, 1 Adv Kill point, and 3 Destiny points. Oh, and I also got 2 levels in Bow use to make it level 5!!!!!! Eat your hearts out!!! Matt Up