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Magnifico 19 Apr 2010 15:37

I'm in a bit of a rush right now, but here's the relevant info:

Encounter text:

The feather in your hand crackles with electricity and lets off the all-too-familiar smell of burning flesh. When the world is subsumed with smoke, you're certainly right to be concerned.

Once the smoke clears into a dimly lit cavern, it's hard not to wish for the smoke back. The eyes staring down at you certainly aren't natural, but you can feel their hunger burrowing into you.

Combat messages:

You line up a powerful strike, crushing the raven for 24 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you. You feel a strange tingling, then start bleeding as a hole is bored into your flesh, dealing 28 damage.

You punch the raven, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 6 damage.
The raven casts its gaze on you but, despite its toxic imaginings, you remain unharmed.

You line up a powerful strike, crushing the raven for 15 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you, boring deeper into your flesh for 29 damage.

You punch the raven, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 13 damage.
The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 31 damage.

The raven's tongue extends out, wraps around your neck, and throttles you for 24 damage.

You line up a powerful strike, crushing the raven for 15 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you, boring deeper into your flesh for 20 damage.

You punch the raven, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 11 damage.
The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 33 damage.

The raven beats its wings, flying above your reach.

You've been beaten to hell!

The black mists return, obscuring the cave and saving you from the raven's predation. When they finally clear, you find yourself back in the world you've grown strangely accustomed to.

My equipment:
Hat: containment helmet
Weapon: twisting silver blade
Offhand: genuine raven feather
Shirt: feathered cloak
Pants: containment suit pants
Gadget: Myers sampling kit

My bonuses:

Power
10 Etheric Power
2 Evasion Power
10 Melee Power
2 Ranged Power

Defense
10 Etheric Defense
6 Melee Defense
1 Ranged Defense

Attributes
+7 Perception
-2 Reflexes
+3 Will

Encounters
Slightly Increased Chance of Choice Encounters

Other
2 First Aid

Cryptodynamic 23 Apr 2010 15:12

And this was with 10 Etheric defense. Man, this thing is nasty. Also, after the first round I had 1 energy of Entrapping Gaze.

You haul off and club the raven for 18 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you. You feel a strange tingling, then start bleeding as a hole is bored into your flesh, dealing 34 damage.

You punch the raven, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 19 damage.
The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 21 damage.

You move seamlessly into another strike, slashing across the raven for 16 damage.

You latch onto the raven and tear a chunk out of it with your teeth, dealing 7 damage.
The raven casts its gaze on you but, despite its toxic imaginings, you remain unharmed.

You haul off and club the raven for 18 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you, boring deeper into your flesh for 40 damage.

The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 25 damage.

You've been beaten to hell!

The black mists return, obscuring the cave and saving you from the raven's predation. When they finally clear, you find yourself back in the world you've grown strangely accustomed to.

Vholes 23 Apr 2010 22:52

Oof. Let's try to get a good build for this. What about an etheric deck with the following:

shining mask (+4 etheric defense, +2 Will)
crackling branch (+8 etheric power, +8 etheric defence)
(feather - does it disappear before combat?)
containment suit top (+5 etheric defense, +2 ranged defense, -2 reflexes)
containment suit pants (+5 etheric defense, +2 melee defense, -2 reflexes)
blazing pda + juryrigged bridge + unsettling loop + fractal loop + white noise producer (+6 etheric defense, +2 etheric power, -6 perception)

Fearsome Visage (+2 etheric defense, +20% will)
Holiday Cheer (+2 etheric defense, +2 perception) (make sure to time it right)
Halloween Spirit (+2 etheric power, +2 perception) (ditto)
preferably Ocean Sight (+2 etheric power, +2 perception)

That would put you at +32 etheric defense, +14 etheric power, which would become +27/+19 after entrapping gaze. Hard to believe that wouldn't cut it. (The buffs also cancel out the perception penalty, increasing chances of an item drop).

I'm resetting still, but if anyone wants to try this, I can loan or give any items needed except for the juryrigged bridge (and of course the Ocean Eyes skill :P).

(If tongue throttle is melee and not etheric, just throw on bone scales, bone spikes, no pain, fire in your belly, and/or substitute the containment suit pants for elegantly torn pants + hardened cloth&tough cloth)

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Last edited on 24 Apr 2010 23:26 by Vholes Show more

Cryptodynamic 24 Apr 2010 22:41

Well, it may be necessary to have the feathered cloak on to get the encounter at all, and it's still to be determined if you need the sampling kit to get any drops, so that cuts down on the possible defense a fair bit if those are needed. Going with a crackling branch and an etheric deck seems like a pretty good idea to try, though.

Vholes 24 Apr 2010 23:31

I say we try to actually kill this thing before we mess with the sampling kit. The owl mask, for instance, doesn't make any sense as a sampler-only drop.

If the feathered cloak is necessary, you're still at +22 etheric defense after Entrapping Gaze. Add on Fire In Your Belly, Residual Antidote, and Focused Mind and you're back up to +31. This guy does seem to scale, but that's enough to avoid most of the damage even for you big tough guys, and he won't get through an ancient resilience.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Last edited on 24 Apr 2010 23:32 by Vholes Show more

Beat it!

Magnifico 29 Apr 2010 14:30

You rake your fingers through the air. Scything blades of black stone match their movement, crashing into the raven, dealing 76 damage.
The raven focuses its gaze on you. You feel a strange tingling, then start bleeding as a hole is bored into your flesh, dealing 19 damage.

You gesture at the raven and whisper in a forgotten tongue. Black stone spiders the size of a fist rip their way out of the raven from the inside, dealing 67 damage.
The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 23 damage.

You see thousands of years passing, forcing them on the raven. The weight of ages deals 76 damage to it.

You've won the battle!

The cave collapses inward, matching the raven's death spasms. As chunks of stone fall, they reveal the world you've grown strangely accustomed to.

You found: raven's eyes

After the combat, you patch yourself up, healing 1 hit point.

Those spiders seem to have injected something into your foe's body. You extract it with the sampler.

You found: spider eggs

You've earned 1 XP in Perception

You've earned 1 XP in Strength

You've earned 5 XP in Will

My equipment:

Hat: wolfman mask
Weapon: crackling branch
Offhand: (genuine raven feather)
Shirt: feathered cloak
Pants: containment suit pants
Gadget: Myers sampling kit (Sorry Vholes, but I was too anxious to get the drop to risk a fight with no sampling kit.)

Effects:
Holiday Cheer (6)
Blood of the Ancients (11)
Writhing Flesh (12)
Ocean Sight (75)

Bonuses:

Power
18 Etheric Power
2 Evasion Power
2 Ranged Power

Defense
17 Etheric Defense
2 Melee Defense

Attributes
+9 Perception
-2 Reflexes
+3 Will

Encounters
Slightly Increased Chance of Choice Encounters
Moderately Increased Chance of Combat Encounters

Other
2 First Aid

Magnifico 15 Jun 2010 02:33

More fight data, if anybody wants to try and figure out its stats or something

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You whisper an invocation, more prayer than attack. Nevertheless, green flames extend from your eyes, burning into the raven for 32 damage.
The raven's tongue extends out, wraps around your neck, and throttles you for 25 damage.

You lock your gaze on the raven and deal 45 damage by twisting it to match your decaying vision.
The raven gives you the Evil Eye and you burst into flames. The malefic green fire deals you 10 damage.

You make a beckoning gesture at the raven. Spiders pour out of the raven, tearing wounds and biting it for 52 damage.

You've won the battle!

The cave collapses inward, matching the raven's death spasms. As chunks of stone fall, they reveal the world you've grown strangely accustomed to.

You found: raven's eyes

You've earned 1 XP in Perception

You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 5 XP in Will

Bonuses:
Power
17 Etheric Power
2 Evasion Power
2 Melee Power
3 Ranged Power

Defense
18 Etheric Defense
2 Melee Defense
1 Ranged Defense

Attributes
+7 Perception
-2 Reflexes
+4 Strength
+3 Will

Encounters
Impressively Increased Chance of Choice Encounters
Slightly Increased Chance of PvP Encounters

Fishing
Moderately Increased Fishing Yield

Other
2 First Aid

Vholes 15 Jun 2010 07:42

Thanks — I can do it if you provide your base stats along with the bonuses (or just your buffed total).

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Magnifico 15 Jun 2010 13:26

My base (and buffed) stats are high enough so that they won't lower the max damage of any of the techniques I use. :P

bigalphillips 15 Jun 2010 14:04

Looks like -3 to 3 etheric defense:

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Voice Of Wrath:
12 base + 17 power = 29

29-d to 58-2d = 32 damage

d = -3 to d = 13

Withering Gaze
12 base + 17 power = 29

29 - d to 58 - 2d = 45 damage

d = -16 to d = 7

Call the Swarm
12 base + 17 power = 29

29 - d to 58 - 2d = 52 damage

d = -23 to d = 3

minimum range:

d = -3 to d = 3

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