Minor spoiler follows...
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I was mucking around in the sewers under the Temple District last night. At the northern part of the sewers I cam across this band of toughs (Gaius, et al.) who demanded 1000 gp from me. I refused (of course) and a fight ensued, the toughest im my game so far.
Well, the first 4 or 5 attempts resulted in failure. They cast some form of fear spell that had half my party running away panicked. The other half (the spellcasters) of course got doshed. (Cool aside - Jan, just before dying, says "Don't forget to raise me" or something like that).
Then I decided to try a different tactic. Rather than tackle the party head on, I got Edwin to cast cloudkill at them, and also hasted my party. Jaheira cast miscast magic on the mage Gaius. I then RAN away to a room that was behind a secret door earlier and waited for them to appear. I cast a fireball at the main sewer corridor, entangle and summoned monsters.
The tactic worked. The fireball dealt out additional damage to the pursuers and the entangle stopped them where they were. The monsters ploughed into them while I moved my kensai forward to melee. The rest used missile weapons and magic and soon the enemy was no more. Without even a scratch to my party!
The enemy must have been a high level party. I used the ring of human influence on one of them (the cleric) and managed to control him. I looked at his spells and I saw many symbols I had not seen before. Blade barrier was one of them. So they must have have been more powerful than my party, which makes the victory all the much sweeter.
Just one question. In one of my earlier attempts, I berserked Minsc so that he would not fall under the mind spells that the enemy cast (fear, and hold person I think). But I lost control of him (his circlet was yellow, and selecting him resulted in a 'blank' control panel). He started attacking Edwin (and no they did not have an argument earlier). After he finished Edwin he went for Aerie, and killed her! What's up with that? Is it a bug, or was he charmed or whatever?
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"Butt-kicking for goodness!" - Minsc
"Cities always teem with evil and decay. Let's give it a good shake and SEE WHAT FALLS OUT!!" - Minsc
