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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2080718" data-attributes="member: 1465">The successful battle took 3 rounds. Here's a description of how each character contributed the the cause  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Prince ThrommelBasically PT killed Iuz by himself. With Fragarach he was the only one able to hit the demigod, because the sword has the property of automatically always hit. Luckily PT has Power Attack, so Iset it to max since the penalty didn't have any effect. Each hit (2 attacks/round) did about 32-38 damage, and Iuz had around 400 HP IIRC. I also had drunk a Bull's Strength potion, but no other buff.The problem before was that I didn't have enough time to kill Iuz because St.Cuthbert appeared too soon. This time I succeeded only because Iuz always attacked PT, and Fragarach has another special ability: every time someone hits PT, he gets an AoO against the attacker, which also is an automatic hit. I was therefore taking advantage that every time Iuz hit PT, he also received ~35 more damage  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Druid 9He was useful with casting an Ice Storm and a Flame Strike, but only had those 2 at this level. IS was better because there was no ST and it did cold damage, while Iuz is immune to half damage of FS (the fire part of dmg). I should have cast 2 IS instead. The Druid also cast one Poison which beated the SR and Iuz failed the ST, however I think it had no effect because Iuz remained "badly damaged", and I was expecting the label to change (even if damage total would have remained the same).Sorceress 9I had tried before to have her cast Magic Missile, but with Iuz's SR 25 it usually dealt less than 10 dmg each round. In the successful battle I tried instead to cast Grease on Iuz, so that the Prince would have got an AoO for +35 dmg. However I realized later this was a mistake, because it also makes Iuz do only 1 attack/round, and instead the more Iuz hits the Prince, the more damage he takes himself  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Barbarian 9, Paladin 9 and Ranger 9Completely useless. They had some chance of hitting (not with anything less than an 18 or 19 IIRC) but not of beating Iuz's DR 25/cold or holy. Eventually they could have probably damaged Iuz only on a critical, but I suspect that only the Barbarian could have, so I let them power attack the max and be ready to heal the Prince with potions later.Anyway the weird thing happened on the third round. Iuz was not dead yet, he was 1 hit close to death (I didn't know it of course, I found out later) and St.Cuthbert appeared to save him. For some reason I didn't understand, as soon as St.C. appeared, Prince Thrommel got an AoO on Iuz with which he dropped him down!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> As the previous poster wrote, St.Cuthbert was stuck on the scene! I looted Iuz only to find completely mundane and worthless black cloak+gloves+boots. And by the way, I think I didn't receive any Xp at all for killing him!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> At this point, with St.C. hanging there, I tried to speak with him, but he was only able to shout "IUUUUUUZ!" every time  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Therefore I thought, next best thing........ you know  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Well I tried to take over St.C. as well. He would have been impossible: +52 natural armor, total AC 70, and over 1600 Hp. Only that he had no fire resistance at all, so I did the very lame Produce Flame trick and dropped him dead. Again, no Xp and nothing worthy in his equipment (mundane full plate with gloves and boots), however I took him his mace. I admit I was fool enough to hope during the battle that it could have been something close to the DMG Mace of St.Cuthbert... no way, it's called "Spiritual weapon heavy mace" but seems to work like a normal non-magical heavy mace.Ok, I just wanted to share this  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As I said before, it was lame to win by cheating but what the hell, I had finished the whole game before and I just wanted to try what happened. Now I'll go on and hopefully I will see the ending vignette with something about Iuz's "death", tho I'm pretty sure that there'll be nothing about St.C., as the programmers very unlikely thought it could have been killed.</blockquote>

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