[Midget Gems]

Since the Forum is quiet at the moment I've got a few stories for you. I have just finished off my adventure using two Bards and a couple of interesting things have happened along the way......
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First is the encounter with Dalton and the Demon-Knight

I always enjoy the fight with the DK, it's one of the few fights where I'm not outnumbered. I reloaded (for fun) several times and beat him 4 times out of 6 using completely different tactics each time. But the thing that surprised me was that on one occasion Dalton started fighting with the Demon-Knight. I never realised he was able to do that (nor did I think he had the courage), anyway he took lots of damage and eventually died. Anyone else seen him get involved and what triggered his action?
While on the subject of the DK, how about this for 'Bard Power' - I walked straight up to him and cast, from the scroll, the Dark Side level 7 spell "Prismatic Spray" which killed him instantly, very nice but waaayyyy too cheesy. I try not to use many Dark Side feature in the regular game. A Bard would have to be about Level 20 to learn this spell so it's totally unrealistic to have it at this stage of the game.

Next story concerns our old friend Aec'LeTec.

I won the fight upstairs and figured it would be good role-playing to go straight down to face the big guy, without resting or healing to keep the sense of urgency. I didn't have many spells left but I thought I could out smart him. I took control of the situation by casting Ortiluks Resilient Sphere on him, so that I could have enough time to clear out the Cult Guards. Then I got ready to play my trump card - a scroll of Clouldkill that I had saved specially for the occasion. I stood out of his sight and cast it where I thought he was standing - but it missed him!! Don't panic I thought .....if I can just get his attention, save against his Gaze Attack and lead him towards me, he will walk into the cloud and face certain death ......phew that was a close shave. Still a clean kill, with no damage taken, so that's a nice result for my team.

Another encounter was with the Skeleton Warriors in the Warren.

Now Skeleton Warriors are no pushover for a couple of Bards so how should they proceed? Well they could go invisible and Dimension Door over the traps but I didn't have the spell, so this is how it panned out. Take one Bard with Invisibility, Mirror Image and a bit of Fire Resistance and walk up to the Skeletons. All the traps when off causing 100+ points of damage to each skeleton (= death) and a slight scorching to the Bard. And you thought Bards were wimps didn't you!!
On we go to face the final confrontation ............

Hope you found something here of interest.

[ 02-16-2003, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Midget Gems ]