On Ogre Lords and Trinsic Mines...
Acxxi
I spent the night in Delucia and, lacking the recomended silver weapons that
are useful against Bone Knights, decided to travel through the cave back to the
Trinsic area. My new friend Irontoe (guildmistress of the UBB) had introduced
me to the mountains of Trinsic a few days earlier and even though I was on
vacation, I ran into a vendor selling bags of 10 pick axes for 250 near a cave
so...
I just couldn't resist! (I must raise my "Resist Impulse Buy" skill at some
point)
And I'm glad I didn't! The mountains around Trinsic are excellent mining
territory on Drachenfels! I saw nary another player and mined for about an
hour. I left with over 500 iron and assorted Verite, Gold, Shadow, Copper,
Bronze and agapite Ingots in my pack, and still had 4 shovels left over! (as
is my wont, I left the 30 or 40 Dull Copper ore piles on the ground where they
belonged)
I was feeling pretty good about myself. After restocking Donnelly, my vendor,
I decided to make my way to a dungeons. Not just any dungeon, but my friend
Elinarson's old foe: Wrong. He had told me tales of Ettins, Trolls and Ogres,
and I was eager to gain some fame!
Feeling cocky, I left my recall kit at home, and ran from Yew to Wrong (pausing
only to fight the odd Orc Mage - and some of them are very odd!). I decided
not to even bother with the first level, and ran straight for the teleporter to
level 2. I was immediatly surrounded by Ettins - five, I think. I had to wait
until my stamina came back before I could bolt to the back room, nearly dead!
I cast a couple of Greater Heals on myself (opting to save my potions for quick
healing during combat), when who should spawn right next to me but Mr. Ogre
Lord himself! I was thrilled! At last a worthy opponent! I armed my katana,
went into war mode, and prepared a mighty swing when...
The world turned black. I swear it took the Ogre Lord no more than three hits
to reduce me from a full 100 Hit Points to nothing. I think he had a little
red scratch on his health bar from my exceptional katana! The same katana that
dispatches his less noble bretheren in about 10 hits. I was stunned, but also
a little exhilerated. So, I abandoned my longest-possessed set of armor and my
two little magic trapped boxes of regs (my apologies to whoever finds them!)
and ran back to Valendor (ever notice there are hardly any healers around
Wrong? Why is that?!).
Healed and humbled (pride, indeed, goeth before a fall), I comforted myself
with shopping, buying my first ever set of true black clothes (which is sort of
a sign of a mid-life crisis, I fear; me trying to dress like these all-in-black
kids!!! Imagine!!!), a new rune to Yew and some recall scrolls. I spent the
next hour close to my house starting fires in an effort to become smarter and
more agile, with some success...
However, my mind kept going back to my encounter with the Ogre Lord... in my
heart, I know I have to go back and kill him someday... but how? Maybe a few
more fires will raise my intelligence enough so that I can figure it out...
Rock of Minoc
Drachenfels
Yuri Gorlinski
>
> However, my mind kept going back to my encounter with the Ogre Lord... in my
> heart, I know I have to go back and kill him someday... but how? Maybe a few
> more fires will raise my intelligence enough so that I can figure it out...
Magery works, as does archery. I wouldn't suggest
using a melee weapon to attack Ogre Lords...
There's no future in it.
Shih-ka'i, OGD
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Before you buy.
Quaestor
> The world turned black. I swear it took the Ogre Lord no more than three hits to
> reduce me from a full 100 Hit Points to nothing.
Ogre Lords cheat. Just before they walk on screen they guzzle a whole tub of
Wh00paSS! I have this from a reliable souse.
> I think he had a little red scratch on his health bar from my exceptional katana!
That was your mistake. He noticed you.
> The same katana that
> dispatches his less noble bretheren in about 10 hits. I was stunned, but also
> a little exhilerated. So, I abandoned my longest-possessed set of armor and my
> two little magic trapped boxes of regs (my apologies to whoever finds them!)
The OL probably did. TRULG GLOTZ FLIN BUTZUDRN! ("y0 he gotz pHAt rEgz, d3wD!")
> and ran back to Valendor (ever notice there are hardly any healers around
> Wrong? Why is that?!).
It would be wrong.
> Healed and humbled (pride, indeed, goeth before a fall), I comforted myself
> with shopping, buying my first ever set of true black clothes
<SMACK!> Put those BACK!
> (which is sort of
> a sign of a mid-life crisis, I fear; me trying to dress like these all-in-black
> kids!!! Imagine!!!), a new rune to Yew and some recall scrolls. I spent the
> next hour close to my house starting fires in an effort to become smarter and
> more agile, with some success...
Hey, in college they call it learning if you go to class and copy the notes of the
instructor into your book without them passing through the heads of either. I
guess starting fires to make your brain and nerves grow is OK.
> However, my mind kept going back to my encounter with the Ogre Lord... in my
> heart, I know I have to go back and kill him someday... but how? Maybe a few
> more fires will raise my intelligence enough so that I can figure it out...
Trap him behind a rock and BS him. Do it quick before they have the monsters
starting fires, making Their brains grow.
Acxxi
>> Healed and humbled (pride, indeed, goeth before a fall), I comforted myself
>> with shopping, buying my first ever set of true black clothes
>
><SMACK!> Put those BACK!
Yeah, I deserve that. I used to buy and wear a jester costume after I did
something particularly stupid, so I suppose buying black clothes is symbolic of
much the same thing... Its like wearing a little sign that reads "kick me."
(or in this case "<SMACK!> me")
Quaestor comments on fighting Ogre Lords:
>Trap him behind a rock and BS him. Do it quick before they have the monsters
>starting fires, making Their brains grow.
I have it on good authority that Ogre Lords can kill Blade Spirits, so that its
useful to cast *two* on the big guys.
I figured this starting fires and camping thing would make my brain grow
because somebody I know said if you stick your hand in the flame, it'll make
you smart. Of course, he also said "if you hit your thumb with a pick-axe, it
will make you smart." Well, my wizard friend Elinarson recently laughed when I
told him this and said that "smart" has a second meaning. He wouldn't tell me
what it was, though. All I know is that when I get burned, I feel sore!
Rock of Minoc
Drachenfels
Quaestor
> All I know is that when I get burned, I feel sore!
See? you gettin smart already!
Swank MacCloud
>me to the mountains of Trinsic
A fine lady, and a great place to mine. My miner has a house out on the west
coast and no one is ever around...you find the hidden temple thing yet?
>I ran into a vendor selling bags of 10 pick axes for 250 near a cave
OOHH where? Were they exceptional?
*GM impulse buyer here*
>Not just any dungeon, but my friend
>Elinarson's old foe: Wrong. He had told me tales of Ettins, Trolls and
>Ogres, and I was eager to gain some fame!
Uh oh...when I moved to Valendor, I decided to go there. If I wasn't getting
overtaken by serpents and rats I was....
>surrounded by Ettins - five, I think.
Sometimes more. Once I went there and died, lost connect, and when I
reconnected there were so many I couldn't count them. They were stacked untop
of each other like 3 fold. Lucky I was with the mage tower, and they took em
down and rezed me *smile*
> when who should spawn right next to me but Mr. Ogre Lord himself! I was
thrilled!
...uh why?
>I armed my katana, went into war mode, and prepared a mighty swing when...
He let loose a mighty sneeze and killed you, like he did to me once upon a
time. They should really make the ogre lords look much different then the
regular ogres. In fact that should color them that EV Llama Purple. Then I
could see them from a ways away, and run.
>and ran back to Valendor (ever notice there are hardly any healers around
>Wrong? Why is that?!).
I noticed that too. I love Valendor, its so conveient. Now only if we had a
bank...
*uses powers of mindcontrol to sway OSI*
But then again I wish for a IGM on Drach first.
>Healed and humbled (pride, indeed, goeth before a fall), I comforted myself
>with shopping, buying my first ever set of true black clothes
Where? Ye Great Srdolch Merchants? Nice guy, and the soon to be new mayor.
I like black as a accent color, but not full black outfits. That just looks
silly. I wear some black clothes, but I've been thinking of switching. My
paper doll just looks silly, with floating body parts or clothes.
>Maybe a few more fires will raise my intelligence
Nah, if your a fighter don't waste skill points on camping. If you want Int
use anatomy. Get that damage bonus, and all the Int a warrior never wanted (I
wish they would change this, make it like hideing more dex then int).
Godspeed and come visit!
Swank MacCloud-Atlantic
Ace Card-Drachenfels
Acxxi
>> when who should spawn right next to me but Mr. Ogre Lord himself! I was
>thrilled!
>...uh why?
>
Because I was absolutely and completely clueless about the strength and
nastiness level of ogre lords. I thought "Oh boy! Here comes a great fight!"
as opposed to "Oh no! He's going to be wiping me up with kleenex in a moment!"
>>I ran into a vendor selling bags of 10 pick axes for 250 near a cave
>
>OOHH where? Were they exceptional?
>*GM impulse buyer here*
Ok, I didn't have my sextant, but I will try to describe its location. If you
are on the west side of the trinsic mountains, go all the way up to the
northern-most cave (it has a forge house outside named something like "for all
the miners with no forges"). Er, truth to tell, it might be the second most
northern mine... Anyhow... Follow the mountain up to the first little vendor
house to the north. It will have a guild sign on it (I think) and two vendors
on the porch. One of those vendors sell bags of ten picks at 250. I didn't
bother to check if they were exceptional, but his house and vendor placement is
exceptional for miners drooling over the amount of potential ore!
>.you find the hidden temple thing yet?
By my green candle, I have no idea what you are talking about! I would love to
find a hidden temple thing! Where do I have to search to find it? (is this
another thing like the hedge maze?)
Anyhow, Ace, hope to see you in Valendor!
Rock of Minoc
Drachenfels
Swank MacCloud
>
>By my green candle, I have no idea what you are talking about! I would love
>to
>find a hidden temple thing! Where do I have to search to find it? (is this
>another thing like the hedge maze?)
Kinda. Its past 2 hidden passageways. There is a small valley where, on other
shards, lots of houses are(If I recall). On Drach there is only 1. I don't
think any others could be placed there. Inside is one of the niftyest
buildings in the game. I hope they use it in a quest someday. Hell, I really
wish they would just let me have it as a house for me! hehe. Oh well I can
dream.
>Anyhow, Ace, hope to see you in Valendor!
Be on the look out for the New (tenatively named) *Valandor Sands Casino*!!!!
Operated by, Ace Card, and Sticky Fingers. Its getting together at this point,
but it should be great fairly soon. Betting on games of chance, betting on
gladiator fights(still looking for some trustworthy folks), and maybe a auction
or 2 here and there. Not to mention a great place to hang out!....hopefully,
heh(Located in the old Valendor Alchemy Shop, next to the Valendor Market
Place)
Godspeed,
Ace Card
Swank MacCloud-Atlantic
Ace Card-Drachenfels
Eric A. Hall
> Ogre Lords are obscenely tough: There is NO WAY to melee one w/o a
> couple of healers backing you up & a Vanquishing weapon in your hand.
My fisher/t-hunter will routinely use two blade spirits to take them
down. It always takes at least two because the Ogre Lord always kills
the first one. There are only a couple of critters in the game that can
do that. Ophidian Knight-Errants are the other one. Anybody know of any
other monsters that can actually kill a blade spirit regularly? Not
dispel it but kill it.
Austin
Poison ellie, Blood ellie, Balron, and dread spider.
Kiril Threndor
about 2 seconds.
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Answer the call.
Grant Farrington
wrote:
>The Collector of Souls? Or does it just dispel?
Seeing as though it uses magic i'd say it would just dispel it. It
would be interesting to see whether it would defeat a blade. It hits
very hard but I don't think it has as many hp's as an ogre lord.
Then again who's going to go down there and cast a blade :)
Cheers,
Austin
Every twink that fights them used to.
Blades lasted about 15 seconds before dying to them.
jx...@po.cwru.edu
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:16:42 -0800, OrionCA <ori...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> >The Collector of Souls? Or does it just dispel?
>
> Seeing as though it uses magic i'd say it would just dispel it. It
> would be interesting to see whether it would defeat a blade. It hits
> very hard but I don't think it has as many hp's as an ogre lord.
A balron has around 1000 hitpoints compared to an ogre lord's 800
hitpoints. Well, this info was current as of when we could play
monsters on the abyss shard, I doubt they've changed.
-Smedley
Eric A. Hall
> Poison ellie, Blood ellie, Balron, and dread spider.
Dreads do not beat them. They dispel them when they can, but die fast
when they cannot. I went on a treasure hunting binge today and used
blades on dreads in many different ways.
Austin
Guess it depends how quickly they use their L5 poison.
Grant Farrington
>>Then again who's going to go down there and cast a blade :)
>Every twink that fights them used to.
>Blades lasted about 15 seconds before dying to them.
I was thinking more along the lines of all the noto pk's that we've
seen down there every time we went. I've never seen so many weird and
strange people anywhere like I have in the lower levels of hythloth.
Cheers,
Grant Farrington
>A balron has around 1000 hitpoints compared to an ogre lord's 800
>hitpoints. Well, this info was current as of when we could play
>monsters on the abyss shard, I doubt they've changed.
Hmmm... interesting .... I always thought they weren't that tough as
they always seemed to die reasonably quick compared to what i've
experienced with the ogre lords.
Cheers,