On 5 Mrz., 05:11, sandra <sandra.ivce...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
There are things now known about the Banshee Wail - I have had the
wail kill me outside Farsight just by hearing the wail, but then i had
another NPC literally walk right up to her and bash her to death
without having any protection. Probably a bug when you don't get
killed.
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