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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8859777" data-attributes="member: 86051"><p>Maybe it does, though.</p><p></p><p>I've always thought of it as being a remnant of the "original" grey sqaarg getting better at fighting when more people attack it, just as it gets stronger when this happens. So fights as F1 when one PC fights it, as F2 in case of two, and then all the way up to F6 - and perhaps originally even higher until it was nerfed by someone, perhaps the author, perhaps Albie Fiore or even Don Turnbull (not unusual) if he was still around at the time.</p><p></p><p>There reminds me of perhaps one of the earliest examples of an entity like it: Robert Kuntz's <strong>Advancing Veteran</strong> from the original Greyhawk/El Raja Key/Bottle City dungeon (pics), which would rise a stronger fighter each time it was brought down. Note that Kuntz's original notes read "up to 40th, is at 35th" and that it was nerfed in the 2007 version of the Bottle City.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]269674[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">(from <em>El Raja Key Archive;</em> 1972)</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]269675[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">(from RKJ1 <em><u>The Original Bottle City</u>,</em> p. 10; 2007)</span></p><p></p><p>So perhaps the grey sqaarg was meant to start out as "a statue", which would just stand there doing nothing until approached or snuck past, upon which - surprise surprise - it would animate and attack, getting stronger and stronger?</p><p></p><p>I guess we'll never know what the grey sqaarg is truly about, though, unless someone can contact the author.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8859777, member: 86051"] Maybe it does, though. I've always thought of it as being a remnant of the "original" grey sqaarg getting better at fighting when more people attack it, just as it gets stronger when this happens. So fights as F1 when one PC fights it, as F2 in case of two, and then all the way up to F6 - and perhaps originally even higher until it was nerfed by someone, perhaps the author, perhaps Albie Fiore or even Don Turnbull (not unusual) if he was still around at the time. There reminds me of perhaps one of the earliest examples of an entity like it: Robert Kuntz's [B]Advancing Veteran[/B] from the original Greyhawk/El Raja Key/Bottle City dungeon (pics), which would rise a stronger fighter each time it was brought down. Note that Kuntz's original notes read "up to 40th, is at 35th" and that it was nerfed in the 2007 version of the Bottle City. [ATTACH type="full" alt="ERKA-AV(1972).jpg"]269674[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3](from [I]El Raja Key Archive;[/I] 1972)[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" alt="RJK1-TOB-AV(2007)-p10.jpg"]269675[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3](from RKJ1 [I][U]The Original Bottle City[/U],[/I] p. 10; 2007)[/SIZE] So perhaps the grey sqaarg was meant to start out as "a statue", which would just stand there doing nothing until approached or snuck past, upon which - surprise surprise - it would animate and attack, getting stronger and stronger? I guess we'll never know what the grey sqaarg is truly about, though, unless someone can contact the author. [/QUOTE]
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