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PvK
May 3rd, 2004, 09:37 PM
Never get into a staring contest with a Thing With Many Eyes!

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tinkthank
May 4th, 2004, 01:27 AM
A Starspawn priest with a bit of experience and Ritual of Returning cast upon himself finds himself attacked by a Thing of Many Eyes, one of those bizarre immobile creatures.

Well the usual battle ensues. (Instead of firing at it or stabbing it to death, my Starspawn casts his usual buffs and then Earth Grip a dozen or so times.)
Eventually the "independent armies" are routed. But of course the ToME can't move, so my Starspawn casts Earth Grip a few more times. Then the Messages "The independent armies have routed" and "The armies of Ryleh have routed" start flashing on the screen and replacing each other so fast I had to watch this modestly interesting replay twice to read it.
Then my Starspawn dissapears. He's not in the capital, so probably dead.
Always a surprise!
Duncanish
May 4th, 2004, 02:58 AM
Yea, but with oh so many eyes, you'd think at least one of them would blink first. ^^; The odds would be in your favour.
Nagot Gick Fel
May 4th, 2004, 09:14 AM
Always have the Starspawn (cast buff)x1-5 then (fire). This will prevent death from autorout, since most Void summons are either unroutable (mindless) or immobile. Starspawn priest are never hopeless vs summons, thanks to their life-draining attack.
tinkthank
May 4th, 2004, 12:57 PM
I had set to fire.
Starspawn mindbLast has ammo 10. After that he started to cast Earth Grip (Earth Grip!!!). Odd. Normally when my Illithids run out of ammo they RUN out in a beeline for the nearest enemy in an attempt to punch them to death, but not so here.
hee hee!
I thought it was fun
Nagot Gick Fel
May 5th, 2004, 01:08 AM
Strange. I've never noticed this kind of behavior. Once my priests started bLasting/meleeing I've never seen them try to revert to spellcasting.
PvK
May 5th, 2004, 01:31 AM
Originally posted by Duncanish:
Yea, but with oh so many eyes, you'd think at least one of them would blink first. ^^; The odds would be in your favour. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hehe. Ya the rules for staring contests must be different in the void.

PvK