Most memmorable skeletal companion?

[welshweyr]

Hi,

Does anyone else have a particularly entertaining skeleton they've
raised with Summon Bones? By this I mean one who kind of became a
character in its own way rather than staying as an expendable
meatshield?

Mine was a half-orc paladin who I named Hannah. She was with me for
nearly 10 levels and died protecting my main character from
Catastrophe on level 13. She'd soaked spider poison, sneak attacks and
even cast some very well-timed heals. Through all this, her arms and
feet were never put out of action (the damage she soaked was spread
perfectly around her body parts. She even kept to the weapons I gave
her rather than choosing just the wrong time to snatch something off
of the floor.

Any other undead champions out there?

[Jason Symes]

I'm quite fond of making Odmok into a skeleton. Put some good weapons in his
hands, and he can cause some wicked damage.

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[Salem]

I kept the Goblin King and his legendary short swords throughout nearly
13 floors; I summoned him upon killing him, then took him with us up to
about the 19 floor or there abouts, where all we were seeing was ogres
which rendered his weak goblin self pretty useless. The only thing I
did differently was exchange his legendary copper breast plate for a
good black forged steel one, and good black forged steel leggings, steel
gloves, steel boots, steel helmet and bucklers, all found in the bazarre.
Owing to the armor he was wearing, he never got hit once in a manner
that damaged him until we reached the 19th floor, at which point, I knew
he was pretty much done for anyway; there was no way he could withstand
the damage of greatclubs, mauls and battle axes, equipped by ogres who
did a bass of ten damage.

[Allan Thompson]

That's a typical rookie mistake.

Never fall for a skeleton, she will only  let you down.

I should know, it happened to me once. her name was broomhilda and she had a very large club.

At first I was stunned. I didn't think I could ever fall for an ogre, especially an undead one. I thought to myself..." In all the prisons Of all the dungeons in all the fantasy games, she had to rise from the grave in mine."

But she grew on me. The way she  would mangle someone's head in...the cool way she would flurry all over the place. Oh yeah, she was something, and she was all mine. I would give her little looks , you know, something to show her that she wasn't just a minion to me, that she was special, and she would return my looks with those hollow eyesockets that would say to me,"I'm undead for you".

 

It was special. Really special. But then the day came when dwarfboy, my buddy got wacked by a couple of bugbears.

Well, as I was mourning his loss, some shaman zaps him and he gets himself all zombified. 

The second broomhilda looked at dwarfboy,  and saw that he was as undead as she was, I knew that things would never be the same between me and my skeleton fun slave. Soon, she only had eyesockets for him, and he was constantly leaking body fluids leaving heart shaped little patterns on the floor at her feet. I grew jealous, enraged, or maybe that was my barbarian special ability. Either way, I knew that if I couldn't have Broomhilda, noone could!

So one day dwarfboy was fighting some minataurs and so didn't see me casually offer my Broomhilda a Pina Colada with a tiny little umbrella. She drank it,  and well, let's say she fell to pieces after that. 1 part gin, 2 parts  Healing potion will do that  to the undead.

When dwarfboy found out, I could see that he blamed me for her death. He died of a broken heart you know. That is because I ripped it out and broke it real good. I am a barbarian after all. 

Well, anyway, as dwarfboy died...again...I knew that  I would never love a skeleton again like I did Broomhilda. No, there would never be another like her. So there it is,the whole tragic love story. Take it from me kiddo, if you get your heartstrings tangled up with a sexy ogre skeleton, all you will get is bitter large metal club to the head disappointment. Sigh.

 

Take Care,

Grundar the Brutal

Barbarian at large

 

 

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

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[Adriano]

I never have good luck with skeletons.

 

The longest one has lasted for me was ognog [or what ever his name is]. I brought him back from the dead on the level I fought him and he got killed for the second time the towards the end of the next level. That’s the longest I’ve kept a skeleton partner in the game.

 

For me, I don’t think skeletons are all that good, not even to use as a shield since the enemy chars just go after my living chars just the same.

 

Adriano

[dark]

I think the ultimate skelifriend award has to go to that good pal of all
adventurers, the Goblin King!

I remember one particular game when my party had two necromancers and a
bard, so his royal goblinosity got to keep all his own legendary gear.

We progressed down the dungeon a long way, past the last army, and even into
ogmok's laire, however Ogmok skull smashed the goblin king, then chopped off
an arm with his large axe, but that didn't put him out of action! thanks to
some scrolls, we went on with the one handed King. Sadly a quest minotaur
did for the king in short order, but he had an amazing run, indeed I don't
think he'd have ever got so far if hee were alive :d.

Beware the grue!

dark.

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[dark]

Fantastic!

[Allan Thompson]

Lol...actually, I seem to remember making the drake a skeleton servant back when there was wasn't any limits on who could be made a skeleton. He wrote a little something too about that, something about riding in to town on the undead drake skeleton, lol. Ah, the good old days.

 

al 

[Paladin]

These days I almost always make Ogmok a skeleton and give him his
axes. At potentially 90 damage a hit it's pretty worth it.

[Allan Thompson]

My message wasn't complete. I meant to say someone else wrote about riding the drake skeleton to town...

 

Anyway, I agree, Ogmok the disgruntled makes for one of the best skeletons in the game. It is also  a good idea if one is looking for good skeletons in lower levels,  to try to get a complete skeleton of a quest monster that has no name. These are always stronger and tougher then the average run of the mill monster. Had gotten an orc fighter from a quest that was just amazing with two swords a while back.

[bryant walker]

WEll, in my current game, I have a nul skeleton fighter, who actually is doing quite well. he is strong and swift, and has got a legendary great ax that he is doint about as much damage as ogmok is with. I gave him a lot of armor, and made him strong. He has every stat maxed, and is a quest monster.

Sailem, do you still have those black forge steel items that you used for the goblen king? I would like them.

[welshweyr]

Adriano, the trick with skeletons is to just kill them with a mangled
head. The more armour they have, and the more body parts they have
left intact, the better they will tend to survive.

Of course, you can shoot yourself in the foot with skeletons. I got a
satyr fighter who died from just a lucky Ice Blast head shot. I
summoned her just before remembering that I had the Mirrors next
level. Those guys are super tough to kill (especially when you have to
do it twice)! I had to dose her up - for the good of her health, and
that of my living chars - and carry on without her.

I didn't know you could raise named quest mobs. That's something I'll
have to investigate further.

[bryant walker]

No, you can't raise named quest mobs, but you used to be able to back in the early betas. I loved those days, but I have had some very good skeletons without raising the named ones.

In my current game, we are killing everything in just about one hit. The drake went down extremely quickly, and I used the cheat to fight him again to see if it would last longer, but it did not. I have ogmok and the nul, which are extremely evil skeletons.

[Paladin]

You must have either multiple Necromancers or a Summon Bones scroll if
you have multiple skeletons. And what the heck kind oc creature is a
Gnarl anyway?