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- From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
- Subject: Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds: Beholder Corps.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.024803.29948@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:48:03 GMT
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- Well met John,
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- jviv@usmi01.midland.chevron.com (John Viveiros) writes:
- : That's the chicken's way out and makes the battle too easy (I didn't
- : enjoy it as much as when I tried without the Dust). You go in the room,
- : see the beholders, etc. and leave. Outside, cast prep. spells (haste is
- : essential) and go back in. (I had already used the dust the first time
- : I tried). The first thing you do is get all your characters out of the
- : room and around the corner, away from the spell bombardment. Then
- : however many have survived can fight the monsters that come around the
- : corner. I found that enlarged backstabbing F-Th's are very useful here.
- : Eventually you will have to reenter the room to pick up the stragglers.
- : Oh, confusion works well against the preists, plus alot of spell fire
- : goes at them if you do.
- :
- Ah.....this sounds like the tactics I've learned in the finale in Pools of
- Darkness. Funny that such tactics didn't occur to me when playing Curse
- of the Azure Bonds :)
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