He can't touch me. This is how it's gone so far... he'll lie or leave out certain details but this is exactly how it went down.

After the challenge on the boards was issued he made a reply that "it would have to wait until after the weekend" - sometime during the week I start getting locates left and right.

Soo, low and behold who drops a beam just outside the north barricade while I'm hunting? Stolas! He pops in and I immediately go on the offensive and pop him with 2 arrows.

Of course he runs like a girl.

10-15 minutes later he comes back - this time he gets a mental blast off. I berserk and roar LASH which stuns him. Of course, he has contingency up so he instantly teleports back to his beam in Shard... right outside the auto empath.

Rinse wash and repeat a few times. I manage to get the drop on him again using pitted sigils. I always manage to land good hits but he either runs away or gets teleported back.

I then decide to just wait out the next attack. I stand at the north barricade with only eagle up. He pops out of his traditional RF with a mental blast. Surprise surprise! This kid is a one trick pony.

He stuns me and then FAILS to cast his next two spells. I wait for the stun to fall off and I peg him with my hammer a few times. Here is the log of this little nugget.

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Brave Adventurer in the Realms:
Stolas.

The riveting gaze of the Eagle continues to sharpen your senses.

Suntori closes his eyes for a moment and grows still.

The riveting gaze of the Eagle continues to sharpen your senses.

You are unable to continue watching for Stolas.

Stolas reveals himself.
Stolas gestures at you.
Everything suddenly goes white for a moment as pain washes over your senses.
You drop your gold sigil and throwing hammer.
You are stunned!

With a sly smile, Stolas murmurs a tenebrous phrase.

You are still stunned.

Stolas gestures.
Small motes of light flicker for a moment around Stolas, then fade.

You pick up a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron.

You hear someone murmur.

You search around for a moment.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
You notice Stolas, who is quite obviously attempting to remain hidden.

R>throw stola

Stolas's crimson cage flares.
< Moving in with powerful grace, you throw a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron at Stolas. Stolas barely blocks with a crocodile-skin shield. The hammer lands a strong hit that rips skin and snaps bone with a hard blow to the right leg.
The throwing hammer falls to the ground!
[You're badly balanced with opponent in strong position.]
[Roundtime 2 sec.]

Stolas gestures at you.
Small motes of light flicker for a moment around Stolas, then fade.

You pick up a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron.

You turn to face Stolas.
Stolas's crimson cage flares.
< Moving with powerful grace, you throw a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron at Stolas. Stolas attempts to dodge, taking the full blow. The hammer lands a hard hit that deeply bruises the right bicep.
The throwing hammer falls to the ground!
[You're badly balanced with opponent in strong position.]
[Roundtime 3 sec.]

Shadowmancer Stolas just went east.

You pick up a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron.

R>think Run coward
You concentrate on projecting your thoughts.

[Mer'Kresh, Gull Circle]
Behind a towering white fence sulks a pale crescent-shaped building resting atop a series of terraces. Richly colored plants of various species crowd the sculptured steppes, some fronds and leaves poking through the gaps in the fence to tickle the paving stones. Though the street itself is basalt colored, a wild assortment of shades is provided by the brightly painted facades of the nearby buildings.
You also see a white-washed arch.
Obvious paths: east, west.
Suntori followed.

You search around for a moment.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
You don't find anything of interest here.

[Mer'Kresh, Gull Circle]
The glint of light sparkles from the glass dome atop a rounded pink building, only slightly less brilliant when clouds cover the sky. Aside from the light catching dome and the bright pink shade painted on its walls, the building has been constructed with function in mind, and shows minimal adornment. The waters of Torbis Sanhalas glare from behind this obstruction, desperate to catch a glance of the city streets.
Also here: Shadowmancer Stolas who is hiding
Obvious paths: southeast, west.
Suntori followed.

Stolas's crimson cage flares.
< With the speed and temerity of a swooping falcon, you throw a square-faced throwing hammer made of pitted black iron at Stolas. Stolas fails to evade, taking the full blow. The hammer lands a strong hit that rips the top layer of skin from Stolas's chest and exposes underlying muscle, lightly stunning him.
The throwing hammer falls to the ground!
[You're slightly off balance and in superior position.]
[Roundtime 3 sec.]

Stolas suddenly vanishes without a trace in a brilliant splash of red lights!

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I then chase him back to Shard. Vaeyrin provides the gate. Apparently this is a horrible crime so Stolas jumps Vaeyrin. Apparently I?m supposed to take 4 different boats and spend four hours chasing him each time he teleports away from a fight. He then gweth smashes me. (Kudos to him for being the first person to get it done!)

So Vaeyrin dies. Vaeyrin gets resurrected. Stolas tries to kill me outside the Adan?f safe room where folks heal and raise. He fails yet again. He runs yet again. This time Vaeyrin finds him and kills him. I?m a sad panda bear. I camp his corpse but he has the aid of most of Shard?s wannabe super heroes. Get gets raised and then exits the game.

So this is what I have to deal with. Yeah, I got pre-emptive on him and fired the first blow but it wasn?t like he was coming to visit me for tea. He cries over gweth a lot. I offered him a challenge but apparently I wasn?t allowed to use berserks or roars or dances. Of course he could use all his abilities. Go figure eh?

He tries to make the comparison that using Contingency is no different than a Berserk or a Dance. I make the counter claim that none of my abilities are being used to run away from the fight. Even when I stand out in the open in a room ? arms wide open waiting for his mental blast, he still runs away after every single attempt.


-Galren Moonskin

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

I seem to recall Stolas claiming that you knew, when he wanted you dead, you would die. That indicates to me that he thinks he can take you any time under any cirucumstances and I'm still waiting on that to happen, while I continue to laugh at Stolas. Good on ya Galren.

Bavest

It really isn't all that exciting. He'll never fight me without Contingency. We're not talking about a buffing spell or a debuff or anything. This is pretty much equivalent to the Warrior Mage familiar dragging move the familiars player gets stunned.

It is not even fun anymore chasing his lame ass around. Oh well, guess we proved him wrong. He can*'*t kill me any time he wants. To kill me it would involve him actually sticking around for a fight.



-Galren Moonskin

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

<<He's like Skeletor fighting He-Man. Part of being an evil genius is refusing to see the plain truth that you have no possible way of winning>>

What a great line

<<He's like Skeletor fighting He-Man. Part of having guts, and being a suicidal moron, is refusing to see the plain truth that you have no possible way of winning.>>

fixed. and good show, both of you

I'm actually curious why you aren't one-shotting him as well if he doesn't have more than 300 Evasion(I'm assuming he has less Shield ranks than Evasion). Or perhaps that Cage of Light spell is just that awesome.

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Just some numbers for you guys to play around with.

~440 longbow
46 agility
dancing eagle
only using snap shots since he only comes out of RF to cast a mental blast

I also tossed a hammer at him a few times landing solid hits and removing arms. Pretty much the exact same ranks for HT as longbow. HT just uses melee calcs over ranged.

I know if I had a full aim I'd obliterate his chest but you have to remember, Stolas is running with...

Seers Sense
Cage of Light
Random CJs (no doubt to defenses)
Possibly a prediction
I'd even venture to guess that he's rolling with SOP and some random war mage buffs.
He also uses shield.

Now he hunts in adanf. I pretty much 2 shot them with ease dancing eagle so if thats as far as his defenses have carried him then I'd say his magic is giving him a lot of protection.

Add on the fact that if and when I do get a stun, he instantly teleports back to Shard thanks to Contingency.

If I DONT land a one hit kill he's pretty much impossible to finish off. My only real option is to sneak back to Shard when he ain't looking and jump him... if he ever comes out of his Sect Hall that is.

At this point I think it is pretty much over. Only got one locate yesterday while he was on. I think he's given up. I'm still going to kill him for the gweth smash though. Patience is the key to killing him.

-Galren Moonskin

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

To bad you can't grapple and choke em twice. Snap has got to be fun.

Drevid

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http://www.phiiskeep.homestead.com/Barbarian.html

Cylons... why debugging matters.

Venic smiles as he sticks his copper bead in one nostril, covers the other one, and exhales forcefully, shooting the bead directly at Drevid!

Wow. I thought flounder and Stolas were the same thing.

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Mage: Its what for dinner.

he must be hiding out in his sect hall, my MM got that sort of message when trying to locate him recently.

<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

LOL 3 nice arrows and the rest were trash. Congrats?

Remember, what was that line you said earlier? "Galren, you know if I wanted you dead you'd be dead" right?

Yeah... I thought so.

-Galren Moonskin

Tusfaov calmly says, "Excellent. The inner fire burns bright within your chest, Galren. You have achieved a new level of enlightenment."

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

<<I can get Mental Blast to stick on dancers with low level casts of Mental Blast at 20 mana which just roll off of Galren's BMR. Some attack spells snapped at him at half of cap just fizzle.>>

Do not compare Adan'f dancer 60-70 level critter to a 100 Barb, its just dumb no matter how you look at it.

Also think about what spells you are snapping and which ones you aren't able to get off, the tier of spell does matter.

Given the fact, Stolas with Aleyden stunned, webbed, on the ground, CRS with no magic resistance didn't do anything, I doubt you will ever take down Galren.


"So like I said, don't take it personally. All cultures have their share of fools. It's just that we always felt yours had a lot more than ours."
~~Warrior Mage Guild Leader Senfrislor, The Prydaen in Their Own Words~~

Stolas obviously you're the one that's running and hiding in this conflict. It makes you look even worse since you're the one who originally stated that if you wanted, Galren would be dead. Just sayin'


Vinjince

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"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die."

- Sima Yi

<<Gonif, I could be in the sect hall or in a safe room or I could be in RF or hiding or I could be too far away for your abilities to sense me on the skill check. You get the same messaging for all 5 of those things. But, you know that since you play your MM so well.>>

i'm aware of that. my MM in prime is only 30th. my tf MM is higher. what can I say. MMs are better in a scripting environment. :-)




<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

Nobody ever webbed you (irony there ain't it?), nobody ever stunned you or heart linked/nissa's binding you, nobody riftal summoned you, nobody stuck a familiar on you from my own asking (but once people hear I'm hunting you they get curious I suppose), nobody vertigoed you, nobody clouted you, nobody did a single thing to help me outside of one moon gate to Shard.

I guess my D&D adventure group is just too much for Stolas to handle.


-Galren Moonskin

Tusfaov calmly says, "Excellent. The inner fire burns bright within your chest, Galren. You have achieved a new level of enlightenment."

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

BE GONE FROM HERE REASON!

I am --- Navak

<<one could always apologize and attempt to mend ways if they didn't wish to be hunted all the time.>>

Yeah, but what's the fun in that?

<<But what it seems to me is that people tend to rally around Galren, because they just don't seem to like Stolas for one reason or another. >>

...Well this is the barb folder, and Galren is a Barb, well-known at that.

I do commend stolas for at least trying, it makes interesting reading.

I really am envious of Riftal Summons. The tools at the disposal of a Moon Mage make them really tough to avoid or catch.

-Galren Moonskin

Tusfaov calmly says, "Excellent. The inner fire burns bright within your chest, Galren. You have achieved a new level of enlightenment."

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

Do you think before posting? Or just let your fingers do all the work for you?

I believe the MM killed you because you killed him first Stolas.

I know, crazy.

Also no, roars aren't just a stat contest.

If you paid attention and read the folder, there was a big long list of things which affect roar success.

I am --- Navak