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[Group][Aconite]: Yeah, do you mind we’re desert gorging it?
[Group][Efthalia]: i might if i knew what it meant
[Group][Aconite]: I picked it up from Jacob
[Group][Aconite]: It basically means winning by exploiting the fact that you come back from the dead
[Group][Aconite]: And your opponents don’t
[Group][Aconite]: It’s from a comic he likes9
[Group][Efthalia]: i’m just impressed that has a name
[Group][Aconite]: But you’re okay with this, right?
[Group][Aconite]: We might die quite a lot
[Group][Efthalia]: my repair bill is like 3 coppers
[Group][Efthalia]: i’m good
Drew was actually getting quite into it. There was a sort of… cleanness somehow to the challenge it presented: this obstacle is designed to requirexamount of resources, you haveyamount ofresources, how do you use those creatively to make up the difference. In practice, what it meant was a mix of hit-and-run tactics, kiting, and really intense crowd control. They died a few times, but gradually they developed a kind of military precision and an instinct for what the other person was doing, which meant they often triumphed when they really, really shouldn’t have. It was a way of playing the game that Drew would never have thought of, and he was really glad Kit had shared it with him.
Eventually they made it to the final boss, Quagmire the Bog Lord. He was a gigantic tainted water elemental, and apparently he was just sort of hanging out on the off chance a party of adventurers would want to swim to the bottom of a lake, fight their way through a cave full of frogmen, and beat him up.
The poor bastard didn’t even have any dialogue.
[Group][Efthalia]: i can’t believe we actually made it
[Group][Aconite]: I know, right?
[Aconite] says: Charnos, when we first met, I didn’t understand the depths of your courage or the purpleness of your face.
[Aconite] says: But now I understand that you are a true heroic spirit
[Aconite] says: I couldn’t have done it without you, buddy.
[Aconite] says: You, me, and this other guy hanging out at the back
[Aconite] says: No idea what he’s doing
[Efthalia] says: Hey!
[Group][Efthalia]: any tacs
[Group][Aconite]: Actually, after all that, he should be pretty straightforward
[Group][Aconite]: I think he’s got a tiny knockback
[Group][Aconite]: And an AoE that will be meaningless because we’ve got no melee
It was, as it turned out, as straightforward as Kit had suggested. Charnos kept Quagmire busy while Efthalia and Aconite plinked away at his hit points, with Efthalia throwing out the occasional heal as needed. A few minutes later, the elemental exploded in a sploosh of dirty water. It ought to have been anticlimactic, but it felt awesome.
Achievement unlocked: The Bubbling Mire
[Defeat Quagmire the Bog Lord in The Bubbling Mire]
[Group][Aconite]: Yay!!!
