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[Tecmos Deception]

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[S-] Slizik the Mighty [54 Warrior, The Hole]

Well, I said I was going to do my best to make my story for my kills in the hole more interesting than just a narrative of the fights themselves... but I'm not very good at that sort of thing. In hindsight I have all these screenshots in my mind's eye that would be PERFECT to plug into a story to deliver the vibe of dungeon crawling through the hole, but during the actual process I didn't think to screenshot them. Hell. Right after we started crawling along, there was a point where we had 5 ratman bodies all piled up next to each other in a little stairwell. Those 5 bodies would have been a great screenshot! But I didn't think of it until I had looted 3 of them. QQ.

Anyways. Here is the story and screenshots that I DO have to post!


I've been putting off my last SAC kills for a while now because they are the kills I find the most annoying. Killing bellycasters, killing stuff immune to all of my spells, killing stuff in a zone that I can't really CR myself in. But Drumas was bored today, so I asked if he'd be up for providing rez and dungeon-crawl services to me in the hole... and next thing you know, we were entering via the little locked rock/pool dealie in paineel.

Jesus. I am SO PISSED that I didn't think of all the perfect times to take screenshots until now.

Anyway, back on topic again, I lulled a bunch of those low-level elementals just inside the entrance and we made our way down into the open area outside of the Slizik jail cell complex before I picked up a pet. The first rock golem I snagged was level 50, and he ended up serving us very well for the next hour or so. Crazy that those dudes have almost 10k hp without buffs (and it seems like this guy was much less prone to breaking charm than the rat I ended up with later).

This is the first screenshot I took, taken about 5 seconds after realizing "oh shit, a little stairwell littered with ratmen corpses would be a sweet screenshot": http://postimg.org/image/eddaqx0gb/

A few more single pulls after that, my pet was guarding in a room with Drumas and I was peeking around the corner at Slizik: http://postimg.org/image/d0vlp130r/

After talking a bunch of smack about how easy a 54 warrior would be to kill and clicking off my cleric buffs, I pulled Slizik only to have my charm break the moment I did so. And then I realized Slizik was immune to stun/mez, as he and my pet chewed through rune and bedlam instantly and had me down to ~25% before I burned a wand charge on my pet and managed to fetter Slizik and try to get the fight back on track: http://postimg.org/image/5rfjmce9d/

Here you can see me not quite back on track though, because yeah, I just tried to stick a bedlam on that dirty little rat instead of on myself: http://postimg.org/image/u97na8gtt/

Charm held the whole fight though, and the slowed Slizik was not even remotely close to being a challenge for my monster of a pet: http://postimg.org/image/4pb07fr4x/


Of course, lulling past a dozen light blues and killing a handful of rats was much less interesting than what came next, which was Drumas and I crawling our way through basically the entire zone to get over to Dartain...