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Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Umar Hills
For those of you puzzling over the goodberries, they're for Hanna. She enjoys them. It's about time someone made use of those things. I approve.
Assisting Jermien is a lot less fun when you can't use Ilbratha. Aurora has no use for metal, but she'd love some Mirror Images. Mr. Efreeti did the honors with the killer mimic.
Aurora handled the stone golem, nixing him just before he landed a first blow on Jermien. Ilbratha was sold. I cried.
Aurora handled the Temple of Amuana with ease, aided ever so slightly by a quirk. Somehow, someway the bone golem never made an appearance. He showed up in the battle record, but Aurora never met him in combat. When you exit an area SCS sometime teleport creatures to your new location. I've seen this in the temple specifically. Aurora went back to the light gem platform to rest once. Perhaps the bone golem was teleported there, but showed up late, after Aurora had returned to the temple? I have no idea. It was weird. Whatever. That's enough about that.
Anyhoo, Aurora took a slightly different approach in the opening temple battle. After noticing that the shade wolves lacked the THACO to hit, even with a +4 bonus, Aurora equipped her sling and shot over the wolves to the skeleton warriors.
This worked until a greater shade wolf slipped in, forcing a retreat. One skeleton warrior had been killed by then, though, and the other was near death. With Mr. Efreeti providing covering on our tactical retreat, Aurora had little work left when she re-engaged.
The Shadow Jailor fell to the Staff Mace. At 2d4 + 2, the Staff Mace is a respectable weapon in early SoA. It's a capable placeholder for Gnasher until we get that second pip in clubs.
Aurora's animals were of little use in the temple. They couldn't make their save v death against the shadow fiends, and they couldn't stand up to the skeleton warriors. Aurora had to go it alone. Not to worry. The friendly neighborhood lava pit lent a helping hand.
That was a glorious moment, so here are a couple more camera angles. First, from Aurora's point of view.
And now from the skeleton warrior's.
Hooray! That was the highlight of the quest. I'm calling it the highlight because I decided to go Pro Undead against the Shade Lord again. It's a hard habit to break. Instant gratification and all. Script suggestion for David: Have the Shade Lord cast Remove Magic on the Shadow Altar. It should cover most of, if not all of, the area.
It's been a long, long time since I've done the ranger stronghold quests. I enjoy these. The ranger stronghold is one of my favorites. We went with a full complement of summons for the ogron encounter. Aurora provided range support with Tuigan. Aurora is solid in melee now, with her Bracers of AC 3, shield, armor adjustments and weapon specific belts. Ranged fighting is her happy place, though. She's looking forward to getting more pips in range weapons, and adding crossbows to the repertoire.
The de'Arnise Keep is next.
Cheers,
A.
Assisting Jermien is a lot less fun when you can't use Ilbratha. Aurora has no use for metal, but she'd love some Mirror Images. Mr. Efreeti did the honors with the killer mimic.
Anyhoo, Aurora took a slightly different approach in the opening temple battle. After noticing that the shade wolves lacked the THACO to hit, even with a +4 bonus, Aurora equipped her sling and shot over the wolves to the skeleton warriors.
The de'Arnise Keep is next.
Cheers,
A.
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