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Every once in a while in Morrowind, i get rewarded with an unusual battle from an otherwise run-of-the-mill npc. A battle with a bizaar sequence of actions or something that takes me completely by surprise. It happened a while ago, but most memorable for me was a battle of skills with a conjuror atop one of the Ancient Dunmer Strongholds (not sure exactly, but i think it was Andasreth)

After clearing out the lower levels, Urival stepped out onto the roof and was greated by a couple of deadbeat types. The first fell without incident but the second, a conjuror with a decent magicka reserve, squared up at one side of the temple style ash pit and summoned a greater bonewalker. I usually like to totally go totally overkill with a daedra in response to a petty summoning but this time - since summoning seemed to be the only thing this guy could do - i played along. I positioned Urival at the opposite side of the pit and summoned a skeletal minion.

Both necromancers stood watching their summonings duke it out in the pit. The skeleton dropped first and i replaced it with a Least Bonewalker summoning. For another minute or two the conjurors watched the battle and again, the greater bonewalker came out on top. Thinking the two time victor to be on its last legs, i reverted to the skeleton minion for my next summoning. Sure enough, the bonewalker fell and was replaced by another which easily defeated the skeleton.

Time to up the ante.

I sent a Bonelord into the ring and the battle lasted longer than i would've thought. In the end, the zombie fell and the enemy conjuror stepped into the ring to dispose of the bonelord. Bad move. As soon as the bonelord died, i unleashed the power of one of Urival's better necromantic enchantments - The Bone Staff. Before he could cover the distance, a skeleton, a ghost, a bonewalker and a bonelord appeared between them. (If there's a facial expression i really wanna see implemented in Oblivion, it would be surprise!) The conjuror put up a good fight for a second or two but gave it all up when i added four more identical summonings from my own reserves. I just wish now that i had've taken a snap of eight undead horrors overwhelming a hapless conjuror in a dunmer stronghold's ash pit. Would've been one for the album.

So, has anyone else had any memorable battles that they wanna share?