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Old 12-27-2004, 08:33 PM   #2
SixOfSpades
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Join Date: September 16, 2001
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
Age: 48
Posts: 6,901
The only way he can be killed is by abusing the game engine / poor AI. There is no way of killing him that even remotely resembles anything that can be put into a fanfiction.

An example of how that couldn't be done:

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"And lo, in the meadow to the west we came upon a horde of Gnolls, setting upon a lone Drow warrior all at once. He carved into them seemingly without effort, recieving never a scratch from their Halberds. His twin blades flashed here, now there, and I saw that this would be a combatant truly worthy of my skill. When he had finished off the last of the Gnolls, I challenged him to a duel, in the interests of my Lord Tempus, God of Battles.
I desired fair combat, so I bid my four compansions stand very close to the Drow before temporarily leaving the party--the four of them were do curious about this strange warrior that they hemmed him in completely, with no room to move between them. I then attacked, and the Drow's counterstroke was horrific, and I quickly backed away....but then I realized that my Staff gave me the longer reach, so I continued swinging, only managing an actual hit every five minutes or so.
All this time, the Drow struggled in vain to find a space between my companions large enough to squeeze out of, so that he could get me within Scimitar range. Failing that, he attempted to shove them aside, but their feet adhered to the earth as the very mountains. The only alternative was to attack them, but as they were techically noncombatants, he declined to raise his blades against an innocent. Meanwhile, the steady, regular strokes of my Staff continued apace, and the Drow eventually fell, sometime in the late afternoon.
Such a bold, noble, courageous victory! Tempus must be highly impressed with my skill of arms. All Praise!
.....yeah.

About a year ago, some guy with only a few dozen posts to his name claimed to have beaten Drizzt in a fair fight, without any cheesy abuses at all, with a Level 1/2 party. That is the only time I have flat-out called someone a liar on Ironworks.
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