CROWLEY IN PERIL!
So I'm footling along, as I'm wont to do, I'm doing pretty damn well for a change (this is unusual, I assure you), I'm kitted to the teeth, full up on wafers, cape, and what's more I'm only 2000 points from Warlock - nice one! Only I accidentally pass the thief, and he steals the cape off me - aargh! I hate that! Him and the magpie! If I had my way, I'd fod the lot of them.... Right, think I, I'm gonna get him, so I cripple him, - wh thief - one found in the place known as "treacherous swamp" - aargh! A particular trait of the thief, is that when crippled in the swamp, he'll drop the nice useful kit he's just nicked off you, so I uncripple, wait, cripple again, wh thief - "fuming swamp" - tsk, anyway, this happened a couple of times, until I eventually got him at the rapids. Right, I'm gonna have him this time. So in I go - steal cape f mo - the thief is moving towards you hatefully - oh bum.
Still, as I say, kitted to the teeth, so what the hell, away we go. Here came my fateful mistake. The cape (in case you didn't know) always seemed to me to be more useful to mobiles that it is to us, i.e. it works better for them (not saying what is does, in case wizzes frown upon me, and god knows I get enough of that already (G)). So I'm not keen to let the thief keep it during a fight, so I try to steal it, which during a fight causes you to drop your guard - your opponent gets a free hit. It doesn't work, so I try to steal again, and again, and again, and again - looking back at the log, it seems I tried to steal it a grand total of 9 times! All in the space of one hit !!! This is what I saw on my monitor with the next hit:
*qs Crowley the cabalistic necromancer eff str 81 eff dex 93 sta 92/105 mag 86 pts 47,381 gam 159 (yes, it's a lot of games, but I chat in the tearoom a lot, ok? (g)) *The thief hits you (76/105). You hit the thief (15-19). The thief looks superficially injured. The thief hits you (73/105). The thief hits you (65/105). The thief hits you (64/105). The thief hits you (56/105). The thief hits you (42/105). The thief hits you (29/105). The thief hits you (27/105). The thief hits you (12/105). The thief misses you.Scream!!! Oh my god! Still, not too drastic - as I say, I got so many wafers in my bag and pot, that they're practically breeding in there - eat a wf, and off we go again. Now at this point, a small but significant detail cuts in, I'd dropped the boat I was carrying, because they are really heavy in a fight, and obviously no-one was going to take it from my feet as it was obviously mine -right? Wrong. A protector by the name of Blunt (never seen him since) popped on the scene, picked up the boat, and ran off with it - well rude! Anyway, irrelevant at this point, but relevant later...
So we carry on for a bit, and I don't know when to give up with the stealing thing, and try a few more times.... the fight is going hopelessly, and I'm eating wafers here there and everywhere. Now among the wafers I was carrying were some wafers from the pagoda area - wafer30-33. A particular characteristic of these fellas is that if you eat too many of them, or too many other wafers, you get this particular message when you try and eat them:
*eat a wf
Ai-ai-ai! It tastes far too bitter to eat!
This generally causes major panic in me - I still had plenty wafers left which I could eat, but unless I remembered the specific numbers of them, I would continue to try and eat this one, and get this message - my stam dropping all the time.... Another nice characteristic of these wafers is that they put you into a drugged sleep - another free hit for the thief, at which point I found myself on a fantastic 6 stamina - argh! no time, flee s. - drop all my stuff and run, my tail between my legs, but still, I didn't lose any points.
I stood in front of the hut for a couple of seconds, going "muh, muh, muh", as I panicked, and then realised that although the thief would pick up the treasure items, he would leave the pot and bag there. They would still have the wafers in them, so all was not lost. So I quickly popped down, but as I arrived at the rapids, this what greeted my eyes:
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Rapids.
Lurking close by is a tall, thin thief. The thief is carrying a cape, a ruby2, a sceptre, a cowl, an amulet and a pitchfork.
Blunt the protector is here carrying a lobster pot0, a bag and a sampan.
*Blunt the protector has just left.
*The thief is glaring at you ferociously.
*Typhon the warrior has just arrived.
*f n
The thief hits you.
You feel your life energy leaving...
You feel your life energy leaving...
The thief has killed you.
You are no longer a member of house "AOF".
The new leader is Xena.
Not updating persona.
Aargh! that bloody protector again! picked up all my stuff! Such is my panic, I forget to leave the area, the thief attacks, I die, and there goes my second magic user in as many days, (sigh), back to the spring :-)
Till the next time!
Crowley the dead.....