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[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 12 - Into the Underdark)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 13 - Underdark)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 14 - Bodhi redux)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 15 - poison head)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 16 - Tree of Life)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 17 - Jon's no feline)

 

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 18 - Gromnir)

 

[Aasim]

Grond0, you should consider making a video. "BGT in 5 seconds". 

Good luck.

[Grimwald the Wise]

Well done Grond0. A most entertaining run.

[Grond0]

Bob the Biffer II (update 19 - Yaga-Shura)

 

[corey_russell]

Congrats on taking down Irenicus, Grond0 - getting close, keep up the focus. And if you are tired/distracted, play your run another day.

[Grond0]

Congrats on taking down Irenicus, Grond0 - getting close, keep up the focus. And if you are tired/distracted, play your run another day.

Thanks all.  I don't think I actually did anything wrong, but Bob has biffed her last ...

 

For Draconis she ran round for a while until the dragon came out to play then ran round a bit more getting Draconis to use up an invisibility before bringing out Ras.  That engaged the dragon while Bob put in a GWW from the rear until she was buffeted away.  Coming back again she attacked again and, despite Ras disappearing, felt she had a chance of finishing the dragon off with another GWW when this happened.

 

 

Her saves were all high in minus figures.  I'm pretty sure she hadn't been malisoned, but even if she had been her saves would all have been good enough to prevent any instant death attacks.  Looking at the screenshot it looks like her body has been displaced from her equipment which suggests she might have been buffeted at the end.  However, she had over 140 HPs when engaging so I'm struggling to see how Draconis could have legally insta-killed her.  I'd checked she still had acid protection at 50% before engaging a second or two earlier, but even if that had been dispelled right at the end I don't think even a full dose of acid in conjunction with a buffet could have killed her.  However, irrespective of my feelings one thing is clear - that is a dead parrotBob.

 

Edit: thinking further about it, Draconis' acid stream is quite capable of hitting a character multiple times if they are moving or close to a wall that can reflect the acid.  If Draconis was somehow able to breathe acid at the same time as using a wing buffet that could account for her being hit more than once by a single breath ...

[Blackraven]

Wow Grond0, you seem to have a patent on mysterious deaths.
I'm very sorry about Bob's inexplicable demise. She had been steamrolling through the game...

[corey_russell]

Grond0, just as a point of record I HAVE seem characters hit multiple times at once by his acid breath. He's gotten rid of my acid protection before too, if it's not equipment.

[Alesia_BH]

Condolences, Grond0. I was just about to login and chide you for going too slow (Hurry up, Grond0! Bob's hungry: she wants a grand slam!), when I saw Draconis, preening, victorious. Bummer.

 

Can we look forward to a hermaphroditic Bob the Biffer III?

 

Wow Grond0, you seem to have a patent on mysterious deaths.
 

 

The combination of a high framerate setting and a speedy install likely accounts for Grond0's monopoly on murder mysteries.

 

Judging from the screenshot, I'd say it was Mrs Plum with the candlestick.

 

Truthfully, I suspect that Grond0 has it right: the breath weapon. Draconis's breath weapon can kill solo characters quick if they are running without 100% protection. Unfortunately, a kensai who eschews potions and isn't willing to take a helping hand from a friendly mage can't reach full immunity.

 

The bummer is that Bob's death ends our would be winstreak at one . Hopefully Eyesore and Danya can get us started again.

 

Go Eyesore and Danya!

 

Best,

 

A.

[Alesia_BH]

He's gotten rid of my acid protection before too, if it's not equipment.

 

Yes: He has a remove in vanilla, IIRC.

 

I typically nudge him into wasting his remove while my characters are out of range. SI:A is run when its available. I also keep scrolls, potions, and or spells in reserve in case of a mistake that necessitates rebuffing.

 

 

Best,

 

A.

[Grond0]

Yes: He has a remove in vanilla, IIRC.

 

I typically nudge him into wasting his remove while my characters are out of range. SI:A is run when its available. I also keep scrolls, potions, and or spells in reserve in case of a mistake that necessitates rebuffing.

Not just one remove magic, but many (possibly infinite) in this install.  I have in the past gone through a whole heap of scrolls against him, but this time was trying to keep the battle short and take advantage of the kensai's strength on the offensive.  Even so, Bob was on her 3rd acid protection scroll at the time she died ...

[corey_russell]

Not just one remove magic, but many (possibly infinite) in this install.  I have in the past gone through a whole heap of scrolls against him, but this time was trying to keep the battle short and take advantage of the kensai's strength on the offensive.  Even so, Bob was on her 3rd acid protection scroll at the time she died ...

I've had the same thing happen to me. Which is why I always give the shadow dragon armor to my PC, unless he can't use it.

[Aasim]

Condolences, Grond0. What might have happened is that in non-EE games dragons sometimes (Thaxy being the prime example) use breath attack twice simultaneously. This would hit Bob for 12d6 x 2 acid damage, presuming both saves were succesfull, + 12+1d8 crushing from Wing Buffet. 

Still doesn't ramp up to instakill with 140HP unless you're terribly unlucky, and is impossible with 50%Acid resistance...

[Blackraven]

Glorydd, Dwarven Fighter/Thief, update 2

Freshly escaped from Irenicus' dungeon, Glorydd had little idea what to do. She knew not where Imoen and Irenicus had been taken, she was penniless and she had been deprived of most of her possessions, in what turned out to be Athkatla, a new city where she didn't know anyone. She felt just like she had months ago, after Gorion's death. Vulnerable and clueless.

But she also remembered how she had coped with her hardships: she had not despaired, rather she had put herself to work. It had helped her to learn more about herself and her environment, to become a better survivor, and eventually to overcome her enemy, the powerful Sarevok.

 

This would be her course in Athkatla as well, she resolved. She started by investigating a circus tent that according to a city guard had seen various people disappear. Upon entering the tent Glorydd, discovered why. Illusory magics had made good people, including an Elven lass and a mother who had lost her son, look like monsters. And vice versa, a number of monstrous creatures had been given the appearance of commoners. Glorydd helped the Elf return to her original form and reunited the mother with her lost son. She also confronted the mastermind behind the illusions, an Ogre Mage that when slain turned out to be a Gnome named Kalah - another illusion. Having been ridiculed for being a puny Gnome for most of his life, he had taken his revenge by converting the circus into his personal playground, in which he was looked up against. She pitied the Gnome. (She knew all too well the shallowness of humans and their society based on surface, not substance. In the Dwarf's case it was her curvy body that caused many a man to see her as an object rather than a sentient being.)

 

Exploration of the city led her into the Slums, a name that was well-earned because it was dirty and insecure for the unarmed traveler. She met a rogue there, Gaelan Bayle, who told her he knew an organization that could help her get to Irenicus and Imoen, but they required 15,000 GP for their help. It was an amount that Glorydd did not own at that moment. Bayle and his nephew Brus pointed her toward potentially lucrative jobs though: helping a noblewoman in the nearby Copper Coronet inn who had been looking for adventurers to aid her, and doing a number of commissions for the Shadow Thieves. Glorydd had had good experiences with the Thieves Guild in Baldur's Gate, and hoped it would be the same in Athkatla, but she first went to visit the inn. She met the noblewoman, a girl really, Nalia. Nalia told Glorydd that her keep was under attack, but was unwilling to shed light on who were the attackers or their numbers. This made it difficult for the Dwarf to commit.

 

Glorydd found that the Copper Coronet was the stage for activities she strongly disapproved of: forced prostitution, and pit fighting by slaves. She didn't hesitate to set things straight even though it meant slaying innocent creatures, wild animals that a Beast Master set upon her. It also meant the innkeeper's death, and the installation of Hendak, a slave freed by Glorydd, as the inn's new manager. Hendak begged Glorydd to rid Athkatla of its slavers by overthrowing their nearby stronghold.

Glorydd agreed to do so, but she traveled first to the Docks District where she presented herself at the Thieves' Guild. She took a job from one of the higher ranking rogues, Renal Bloodscalp. It consisted in finding evidence of treachery by one Mae'Var, manager of a guild hall just around the corner. The Dwarf infiltrated the guild hall with false documents, and got her first assignment from Mae'Var, stealing a necklace at the Temple of Talos.

 

She went to the Temple District forthwith but got ambushed in the Bridge District by a band of slavers that included a wizard. Her instinct told her to flee as she had no means to protect herself against the wizard's spells. But when she saw a sparkling short blade in the hands of one of the slavers, she decided to take her chances. She had one advantage, the slavers hadn't seen her yet. She placed three traps, but would not get much out of them, for they would be triggered by a summoned Ogrillon. With a Ring of Human Influence she had taken from Kalah's corpse, she charmed one of the fighters, an archer. There was little he could do against the mob but he did provoke the wizard in wasting some of her spells on him before he fell. Glorydd wasn't sure whether it had been enough and was glad to charm (with a Nymph's Cloak she had bought at Mae'Var's guild house) another summoned Ogrillon, just when the wizard came after her. The Ogrillon soaked up a Slow for Glorydd, but that was all the wizard had to offer in terms of debilitating magic at that point. Thus it was with relative ease that Glorydd managed to slay the wizard and the other slavers, including the man with the enchanted blade. Identification by means of a pair of Glasses of bIdentification she had bought at Bayle's place, taught her that she had just acquired Arbane's Sword. A Blade that protected against Hold effects and that allowed her to Haste one per day.

 

Also in the Bridge District she met Lieutenant Aegisfield, who told her of a series of gruesome murders. The perpetrator would flay their victims, often homeless people, and leave their bodies to rot in the streets. Disgusted by the lieutenant's account of the abominable practices, Glorydd offered to help him find the murderer. Several clues she picked up from local residents led to the tanner Riejek Hidesman. When she entered his shop, he admitted, but he was unwilling to go with Glorydd to Aegisfield. He fled, Glorydd pursued him and even hit him a few times, but the man escaped. Aegisfield was nevertheless thankful for her unraveling the mystery of the murders, and rewarded her with 500 GP.

 

On her way again to the Temple District, Glorydd got ambushed a second time, this time by a party of ruffians that had just poisoned a man named Renfeld. Glorydd didn't fight the ruffians this time. She took the wounded man to the Docks District, where a friend of his took Renfeld into his care.

 

Having had enough of the ambushes in the Bridge District, Glorydd decided to look for a second, possibly safer bridge to cross. She explored the southern part of the city from the Docks District in an easterly direction. It eventually brought her to the Graveyard District, where she discovered a hidden area inhabited by Spiders and a Half-Drow Hivemaster Druid, Pai'Na. Glorydd slew the Spiders, but not Pai'Na. She agreed to perform a task for the Half-Drow: the retrieval of Spiders' Bane (a blade that had once belonged to Glorydd!) from the sewers below the Temple District. Said district could only be accessed via the Bridge District though. 

 

Fortunately she reached the Temple District without any ambushes. At the Temple of Lathander she bought a Helm of Charm Protection, at the Temple of Talos she stole the necklace for Mae'Var, and in the sewers [note Blackraven: where no Beholders spawned, unlike in other playthroughs with the same install] she bought Spiders' Bane from two sewer cleaners. Glorydd brought the (severely damaged) sword to Pai'Na and was rewarded with a spider figurine, a Web Sack wand (hold target for 1 turn unless save vs spell at -5), and an Ioun Stone. She brought Mae'Var the necklace, and was then given a second task by Mae'Var's right hand, a wizard named Edwin. She had to dispatch Rayic Gethras, a Cowled Wizard that resided in the Docks District, and that had been following Edwin a bit too much for his liking. Glorydd had no reservations about taking on a Cowled one. She strongly disliked the wizards for having taking in Imoen without giving her a proper warning. She was sure that their unfair treatment of Imoen had been inspired by their fear of Irenicus. For Glorydd the Cowled Wizards had therefore become the Coward Wizards.

 

Rayic Gethras' home was guarded by Mephits and Stone Golems. A Steam Mephit gave Glorydd a good scare by stunning her (in spite of her good saves thanks to a potion of stone form: 1/-2/2/2/-1). Most Mephits had already died at that point though, and the two survivors failed to kill Glorydd before the stun effect wore off. She slew the remaining Mephits and, with difficulty and Kitthix' help, the Stone Golems. Rayic Gethras was very upset about Glorydd's intrusion. He had three instantaneously cast protections: Stoneskin, PfMW and PfNM. Glorydd hid and remained undetectably invisible thanks to her Cloak of Non-Detection, until the latter two of Gethras' protections wore off. She then hit him with an arrow of dispelling and various acid arrows, but that didn't keep the wizard from throwing a Symbol: Fear at the Dwarf. Glorydd protected herself against that spell's effect by quaffing a potion of clarity. One acid arrow later, Rayic Gethras was no more.

[corey_russell]

@Blackraven: Looks like Glorrydd is making good progress - with any luck she can follow Corarcher into the Throne of Bhaal.

[Blackraven]

Thanks Corey! There's still a long way to go for her in SoA, but she's had a good start  

[Alesia_BH]

Not just one remove magic, but many (possibly infinite) in this install.  I have in the past gone through a whole heap of scrolls against him, but this time was trying to keep the battle short and take advantage of the kensai's strength on the offensive.  Even so, Bob was on her 3rd acid protection scroll at the time she died ...

 

Noted. How does the targeting mechanic work does he target on self or the player? What's the AoE?

 

Which is why I always give the shadow dragon armor to my PC, unless he can't use it.

 

Agreed. If I don't have Abjuration spells, I use the Shadow Dragon Armor in that fight. Bob, of course, didn't have that option.

 

All told, it sounds like a tough battle for a Kensai.

 

Tragic end aside, nice work with Bob, Grond0

 

Best,

 

A.

[Grond0]

Noted. How does the targeting mechanic work does he target on self or the player? What's the AoE?

It's targeted on the player.  AoE seems to be standard for remove magic as far as I can tell.

[Grond0]

Go Eyesore and Danya!

Regrettably they've gone ...

 

Gate70/Grond0 multiplayer attempt 73 - (8th and final update)

 

Eyesore, gnome illusionist (Grond0) & Danya, elf fighter/mage (Gate70)

 

There was a promising start tonight when Abazigal concentrated too long on a mordy sword and Danya was able to pummel him from the rear.  As expected the Slayer was then never competitve in the 3rd pocket plane challenge.

 

Moving on to Sendai's enclave the drow captain and his cronies were subject to a surprise attack and failed to put up much of a fight.  Various opposition in the enclave proper was either bypassed or smacked down - though Ogremoch did come quite close to embarrassing Danya.  In the final fight with Sendai's statues things went quite well initially, although one planetar was sent hostile by an encounter with a pit fiend and had to be put down by Danya.  However, the real Sendai proved to be a different matter.  The current planetar chose to unsummon early on, exposing Danya to attack and she was tagged by harm.  A couple of blows from Foebane got her up to 9 HPs before Sendai landed another killing blow.  After she was resurrected a final planetar was sent into the attack, but it lasted only seconds before becoming another harm victim.  Trying to put an end to Sendai's antics before her summons became too overwhelming Danya then tried a GWW assault - and once more was subjected to harm (I don't think she ever learnt spell immunity and spell turning had been dispelled a while before).  This time though the immediate follow-up blow was too much for her constitution to stand and the shattered fragments of her body disappeared into the ether.

 

Eyesore continued the battle for a minute or two, but he had no easy way to win and soon resigned himself to the fact that there was no way forward without his companion.