The Entroband Screenshots Gallery: On Why the Justice Artifact is so Hard ... by <chriskousky@hotmail.com>
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Your weapon cuts deep into Rinaldo, Son of Brand!
You gouge Rinaldo, Son of Brand!
Rinaldo, Son of Brand puts a terrible blood curse on you!
There is a malignant black aura surrounding Large Leather Shield of Celegorm...
Scythe of Slicing 'Songmaster' glows purple.
You feel your life draining away...
You feel a surge of energy!
The granite wall turns into mud!
The Demogorgon is unharmed.
The Shadower is unharmed.
You feel a sudden stirring nearby!
You feel your life draining away...
You feel a sudden stirring nearby!
You feel very weak.
You feel very stupid. <x2>
You feel naive for a moment, but the feeling passes.
You feel clumsy for a moment, but the feeling passes.
You feel very sickly. <x5>
You feel very ugly.
Rinaldo, Son of Brand shouts, 'AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!'
You have slain Rinaldo, Son of Brand.
There is a price on Rinaldo, Son of Brand's head.
The Great unclean one casts a spell to revive corpses.
The Corpse of Rinaldo, Son of Brand becomes dust.
The Demogorgon misses you. <x4>
The Shadower misses the Seraph.
The Shadower bites the Seraph.
The Seraph shrugs off the attack.
The Shadower misses the Seraph.
The Shadower bites the Seraph.
The Seraph shrugs off the attack.
The Ancient multi-hued dragon breathes gas.
The Bloodletter of Khorne resists a lot.
The Demogorgon resists a lot.
The Bloodletter of Khorne resists a lot.
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On Why the Justice Artifact is so Hard ... Sometimes you just don't have a chance to retrieve a corpse ... Stupid RNG! Posted on 24.11.2005 02:55 Related character dump: Lucky Bastard, L50 High-Elf Warrior Comments? On 24.11.2005 03:38 Elliott946@aol.com wrote: Doh! That was pretty cold of the RNG, as you really didn't have a chance. With the benefit of hindsight, it might have been better to lure some of those beasties away before getting the fatal blow in. Slicer had 4 corpses to go, and Benedict was one. The fight was uneventful, and Slicer won, but the Bloodcurse activated and, among other things, summoned a pack of Chaos hounds. Slicer fortunately wasn't statue-ified, so he immediately teleported away, rather than risk an errant chaos hound breath, even though Benedict's corpse was just in the next square over. Better safe than sorry. On 24.11.2005 04:38 roblt97@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, getting the Amberite corpses is a serious challenge. It took me three characters failing to obtain an Amberite corpse before I decided to make killing them a special event. Even if it's against your strategy, you've got to let a wounded Amberite flee (or teleport yourself away) if there's anything nearby to complicate corpse retrieval. The only thing harder is getting Qlzq...'s corpse. On 24.11.2005 04:54 Elliott946@aol.com wrote: I think Qlzz's corpse is the one whose difficulty is the most terrain dependent. If he's in a reasonably confined space and you can get close to him before getting into his "summoning LOS" or have dimension door or the like, well, I won't say he's trivial, but he's a whole lot less difficult than any of the Ambers, except maybe Rinaldo, because unlike the other Q's, he's all offense and no defense. On the other hand, if he's sitting in the middle of a big room and you have no way of closing the distance quickly and lack exceptional ranged attack abilities, don't even bother because he'll kill you. On 24.11.2005 05:01 chriskousky@hotmail.com wrote: Ummm ... The Beasties were actually summoned by the Curse. I had 0% chance of recovering that corpse ;-) This has actually happened to me several times. TY_CURSE on killing wanted amberite summons monster that destroys corpse on the same round. Doh!! Its pretty rare, though. Usually it is my own stupidity that prevents retrieval of the ?oArtifactCreation, but this time I can honestly say that it was not my fault! And I do agree on the Q's ... wait for a decent antisummoning setup, or don't even bother. On 24.11.2005 05:56 Elliott946@aol.com wrote: Ah, I wasn't sure from the messages if they were summoned by the curse or not. That's just terrible luck. On 24.11.2005 05:59 rolbt97@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant by picking my battleground. I assume the Bloodcurse will summon, so I treat the Amberites like Qs--tight quarters. If only 3 or 4 monsters end up with LoS to me, I can read mass geno, grab the body, whatever. But there's always the "bad freakin' luck curse," like you say. On 24.11.2005 06:20 chriskousky@hotmail.com wrote: Well, I guess I was not completely diligent about luring Rinaldo into an ASC ... he died in like two turns! I suppose if I had, then I could have retrieved the corpse despite the Summon of the Demogorgon and the Stone to Mud. I had him against the wall, and it was just me vs. him on the fight, but there was open space behind me. But how often do Great Unclean Ones revive corpses? I've never seen that one before ... Its like the RNG had it in for me ;-) My revenge was to find a ?oArtifact Creation in the dungeon! The RNG retaliated with a worthless set of attributes on my newly artifacted BDSM. It is a tug of war battle we have going here ... I *will* win :) On 24.11.2005 16:10 roblt97@hotmail.com wrote: Lol! You sure showed the RNG! :) Seen 1529 times. |