Siriah wrote:
> My most promising character yet reached the banshee level. I thought I
> was out of luck, because both of my fireproof blankets had burned up
> in the Tower of Eternal Flames for some reason, which had caused me to
> lose my beeswax, and the potions of deafness I'd tried to make both
> turned out blessed. I had no unholy water, either. At that point, I
> got the most fundamentally stupid idea ever: I was going to sneak up
> on the banshee and bolt it to death in one hit before it could see me.
>
> I cast Farsight and opened two secret doors to the Banshee chamber.
> She didn't react. I then bounced a magic missile off the wall to hit
> her. It didn't kill her, and she started to chase me. I ran away on my
> seven league boots and tried to destroy her with firebolts, but she
> shrugged most of them off. As I was nearing a dead end, there was a
> message something like "The banshee screams her horrible wail". It
> didn't hurt me, apparently I was far enough away. I remembered I could
> tele****t to the downstairs, and got the hell out of there.
>
> Does anyone know what the range of the Banshee's scream is? Someone
> who's trained with missile weapons could probably take her out without
> even needing deafness (although it wouldn't be very smart).
I don't know the exact distance (perhaps it even depends on your
perception, in which case high PE would probably be worse), but judging
by my addiction to luring her to the Living Forest, it is large enough
to make killing her from a safe enough distance difficult. If you lured
her away enough from her original spot, you can always use magic
mapping/tele****tation to descend and return later when you can kill her
safely.
s.
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