Re: Tournament: The Randomly Challenged II
[highlight] The Story [/highlight]
Scarface is merrily bouldering his way through the hell on earth that is the desert. The only boulder problems are those nasty beasties that refuse to move away from the boulders. That is, sand worms.
It only took Scarface half an hour of maggot slaying in the lost oasis to figure out that the maggot lair lvl 3 might be a tad bothersome, and he was right of course. So, the solution picked was an elegant one. I went wolf on their buggy behinds, and that worked much the same as a claw on an apple. I sliced them to threads with Feral Rage. Good thing too, cos I aint gonna be bouldering around with the ubermaggot at the end of act II, no sirree.
Provided I live to there of course.
The city was really easy to clean out. But while merrily busting Marauders, poison kitties and nasty leapers to shreds, I realized I forgot a very essential step if I was EVER going to go back in the good graces of the girls in Lut Gholein.
I needed to work on my bling.
So once I killed everything alive (and dead, there was this unique plague zombie walking around after all), I plundered my extended ATMA stash for old Scarface and came up with a nice collection of jewelry. Scarface figured: "Wanna bet I'm gonna get some juicy MF stuff? Girls love the magic find. Girls dig the studs that can bring down the pretty blue and yellow and green and gold items."
So, after wearing that Horadric Cube down to close to nothingness, There was not one item of the sweet blingness with the juicy mf. Not one.
Finally, scarface decided to go with an amulet of wealth, figuring that if the girls didn't get the goods, they might dig the gold.
But the true terrors were yet to come...
Snakes.
Now, Scarface always had a liking for the animals, but snakes weren't part of that group. For one, they didn't have any legs. And they slithered. They looked icky. But most importantly, you really, really can't wrestle with one. Even mockwrestling is out.
Well, these vipers reportedly had arms, but that didn't really improve matters, because they held pointy weapons in them. So, it was back to the boulders. Surprising how little effect pointyy weapons really have against huge, smouldering boulders.
There were several sarcofagi spitting out mummies, adn there were embalmed as well, along with two different breeds of snakes. Nothing managed to stood up to Scarface's maniacal laugh, the shiny steel flail in his hand and the boulders rolling in front of him, hiding him completely from view.
Until he found out there was another layer to this temple. And that place was jampacked with 3 greater mummies, and PLENTY of Slamanaders. It was touch and go two times, and one time, it was literally the spirit valiaintly moving in front of scarface that saved him from an ignoble death, but finally, the last snake, a big gold/green like one with bolts emitting from all parts of his body, died. And he dropped a blue rondache and a blue wrist blade. Whopp tee doodle doo.
Although a blingy MF amulet fell from another snake dude here (+12 MF)
Oh well, time to quit and get a good nights sleep before wooing the girls in the palace.
[highlight] Misc, stats and skills and all that and more [/highlight]
With the Viper temple gone, I don't expect much problems except for Fireeye (fireenchanted) and the summoner (the druid has no way to quickly reach him).
But the canyon may be problematic, with two potential creatures who don;t really give a rats *** about those boulders (the crushers and those red maggots)
oh well, thats in the future. The flail is pretty good in dealing with stuff that doesnt really want to die tothe boulders anyways-.
Several levls. Most are pretty ok statwise. Either evenly spread out with two in either strength or vit, or between strength and energy only. But the skills weren't that good. All in the summon tree, and mainly in the poison creeper (the thing is now lvl 5, and with a +2 pelt I found, I prebuff it at 7. It even lasts a bit in bossfights!) But I DID manage to land a very important second point in the oak sage.
Lvl 25 now. Not in the mood for a stats/skills listing, perhaps some other post
makes for slow 1 at a time killing progress lol. Hopefully things will improve soon, untill then i got full clears of the tombs to look forward to! :thumbup: 
