[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Re : Scene 82: The Battle for Iceland (Part Five): It Has Come

[Nic Hughes]

Loran wrote:
> [OOC]
> Putting a NPC in front of the players... what a shame !
>
> But I really can't find an other option.
> Even simply waiting on the ground for the arrival of the Bat seems useless, if you're not driven mad, the tongue will certainly just take you alive and send your soul directly to oblivion... I understand now perfectly why despair always precedes this demon...
>
>   

I guess that depends on whether someone is willing to burn HP to buy 
eternal fame - and a chance of avoiding eternal oblivion. Resisting a 
tongue attack of 10W3 (or thereabouts) would seem pretty much at the 
harder end of possible. You could probably muster up +15-20 from 
equipment (the axe is a pretty good headstart) and there should be 
enough Uroxi, Humakti and the like about to muster up most of another 
+20 in magical augments if Broyan was convinced to get them to help out 
(the party can probably manage a respectable combined augment anyway). 
The Crimson Bat priests *could* counter by augmenting the bat but unless 
you turn up looking like a great Hero they are likely to be too busy 
worrying about other things - like all those berserk Telmori that need 
dealing with and of course trying to keep the bat under control so it 
eats the right army.

I think it looks more impossible that it really is - but the price of 
failure is definitely steep. Oh and there is no guarantee that the Curse 
is really as powerful as we think it is. Only Lev knows. I have to admit 
I mostly like the idea because I think it leads interesting places - 
like putting the Red Emperor in the position of needing to find how to 
cure the Curse in order to get his favourite pet back.


Nic

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