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Huinesoron · 10-06-2025, 04:07 AM

Celebestel III

... is not dead! She's at DL 57 / CL 40, which means she's just unlocked two of her final three spells: Thrust Away, which knocks back a single enemy, and Mass Banishment, which deletes every non-unique enemy in a 20 space circle around her.

One of those is more useful than the other.

She reached CL40 on the single most insane level I have ever seen. I can't share the screenshot (grrrr Imgur), but the monster list started like this:

[U] Gothmog, the High Captain of the Balrogs
[U] Lungorthin, the Balrog of White Fire
1 greater Balrog
[U] Ancalagon the Black
[U] Cantoras, the Skeleton Lord
1 great wyrm of chaos
[U] Glaurung, Father of Dragons
1 great swamp wyrm
[U] Tevildo, Prince of Cats
1 osyluth
[U] Smaug the Golden
1 grand master mystic
[U] Ar-Pharazon the Golden
2 dracolisks
1 ancient multi-hued dragon
2 hasty ents
1 death drake
[U] The Balrog of Moria
2 ancient blue dragons
3 ancient white dragons
1 great crystal drake
1 lesser Balrog

Luckily, Teleport Other works on everything. ^_^ I think I picked up three different artefacts on that level, and left at least two more, it was crazy. I did actually kill the Balrog of Moria and ol' Smaugy, because I got them alone in long corridors and just pelted them to death with Mana Bolt as they slowly approached me. Glaurung got in one shot, which took half my health with double fire resistance and turned the entire corridor to lava; then I teleported him away.

The current level is a bit less unfriendly. I know Ar-Pharazon is around, because I tried to fight him and he teleported me away. I killed Draebor the Imp earlier. And there's a whole pseudo-vault up in the north-west that I haven't even looked at yet.

hS

10-06-2025, 04:07 AM	#31
Huinesoron Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea Posts: 3,991	Celebestel III ... is not dead! She's at DL 57 / CL 40, which means she's just unlocked two of her final three spells: Thrust Away, which knocks back a single enemy, and Mass Banishment, which deletes every non-unique enemy in a 20 space circle around her. One of those is more useful than the other. She reached CL40 on the single most insane level I have ever seen. I can't share the screenshot (grrrr Imgur), but the monster list started like this: [U] Gothmog, the High Captain of the Balrogs [U] Lungorthin, the Balrog of White Fire 1 greater Balrog [U] Ancalagon the Black [U] Cantoras, the Skeleton Lord 1 great wyrm of chaos [U] Glaurung, Father of Dragons 1 great swamp wyrm [U] Tevildo, Prince of Cats 1 osyluth [U] Smaug the Golden 1 grand master mystic [U] Ar-Pharazon the Golden 2 dracolisks 1 ancient multi-hued dragon 2 hasty ents 1 death drake [U] The Balrog of Moria 2 ancient blue dragons 3 ancient white dragons 1 great crystal drake 1 lesser Balrog Luckily, Teleport Other works on everything. ^_^ I think I picked up three different artefacts on that level, and left at least two more, it was crazy. I did actually kill the Balrog of Moria and ol' Smaugy, because I got them alone in long corridors and just pelted them to death with Mana Bolt as they slowly approached me. Glaurung got in one shot, which took half my health with double fire resistance and turned the entire corridor to lava; then I teleported him away. The current level is a bit less unfriendly. I know Ar-Pharazon is around, because I tried to fight him and he teleported me away. I killed Draebor the Imp earlier. And there's a whole pseudo-vault up in the north-west that I haven't even looked at yet. hS __________________ Have you burned the ships that could bear you back again? ~Finrod: The Rock Opera