The fights that made me run like...heck...

[dcgames]

You guys are making me want Oblivion really bad. I have to get it from Amazon and wait five days. Ugh. In the meantime I'm trying to decide if I want to set up a RAID 0 array on my computer. I've heard it enhances the game play with Oblivion.

[darkedge42392]

Hahaha. It's well worth the wait, dcgames. I waited four years to get Oblivion. And I still love playing.

 

(to get back on topic)

 

One of my biggest fights that made me run like crazy was against the Werewolves in the Lost Paladins of the Divines mod. :sweat: That was tough. I died like 20 times fighting my way through that ruin. They would pop out of no where too, and scare the living crap out of me. It probably didn't help I was level five going in either . . . But, the reward at the end was worth it. :biggrin: Though now a days I use the High Indoril armor from Vvardenfell Imports. ;D

[RatcatcherOfKvatch]

My first time facing Agarmir I was in the "death valley" level-wise, that mid-level spike where all the NPC's get tougher much faster than you do if you haven't payed close enough attention to your leveling strategy.

 

So Agarmir was pretty tough, but the guard he brought with him was nigh invincible. He had a full suit of Orc armor -- I'd never even seen a single piece of it before now -- and after a full burn (all stock spells -- I also never did the Mage's Guild or Frostcrag Spire quests) and few hp's (no decent potions either) I still couldn't beat them both.

 

Finally I concentrated everything I had on Agarmir, no healing, just full burn while his guard waled on me, and with just a few hitpoints left Ninja'd the key from Aggie's cold dead hands and ran like Hell. Captain Invincible follows me out of the crypt and right into the mingling townspeople. Usually NPC enemies will go after other NPC enemies, but Cornholio was completely focused on getting to me. I ran in a circle as Guardicus ran after me and a dozen townspeople in upper-class clothing waved daggers and popped off spells most of which missed due to our circular course.

 

Strains of "Yakety Sax" filled the air as a scene worthy of the Benny Hill Show played itself out. I finally regenerated enough to heal myself and fill my tank for good measure so I stopped to fight. In a few seconds the townspeople handed Biggus Dicus his final beat-down and I got a set of armor parts of which I'd wear for the next 10 levels or so.

 

After that fight I took stock of my skills and realized the alchemy I had been training up could've actually proven useful for more than just quick cash. All those Fly Amanita Caps I'd collected -- and I'd never ventured out of the Imperial City further than Vilverin so I hadn't discovered the miracle of flax just yet -- all those mushrooms had a "Restore Health" I hadn't noticed before, and all I needed to make my own health potions were any other ingredients with "Restore Health". I started noticing other things, too, like "Damage Health" could combine with other cool stuff like "Fire Damage" to make double-acting poisons.

Of course you can make way better potions than that, especially with the truly uber swag like harrada, and in a little while longer I would discover the devastating power of "Paralyze", and once you make custom spells you almost never touch a healing potion, like if you use an actual healing potion it's like you've done something wrong (or you're at that end stage where dozens of Daedra are running wild), but it was that boss fight with Agarmir that was my coming of age, my realization I needed to step up my game.

 

The best part was the Benny Hill chase around the plaza, though. I laughed so hard once Yakety Sax inevitably started playing I almost forgot how close I came to dying. 8)

[SandsOfTime404]

The Unicorn. Now there's a fearsome opponent. Ages back when I was relatively new to the game I had come across it. Killed a few minotaurs and it was just standing there. So I walked around it a few times, drew my weapon... nothing. Then I realized I could mount it. So here's me, possibly the biggest fruitcake in Cyrodiil now, riding up to Bruma on my lovely white unicorn. I get near the gates and there is someone walking past. Out of nowhere I am forcibly dismounted from the unicorn. When I made an attempt to get back on, I realized that the option was no longer there, and before I realized that my lovely unicorn had run off to begin murdering everything in sight.

 

I was distraught. It killed the unfortunate passerby first, then proceeded to take out the guards posted at the gate. That's when the s*** really hit the fan. My precious unicorn, whom I had loved so much, turned on me. Naturally, I ran as fast as my fat legs would carry me, stopping at towns in the hopes of getting a few guards to pick it up and kill it, all of who met the same fates as those that challenged it before them. It wasn't until I reached Anvil that the thing finally died. It was indeed a sad day for us all.

 

Oh, and Umbra was scary too. :D

[Eiries]

So I figured I'd be all set to annihilate Raelynn the Gravefinder...

 

Haha! Glad to see I'm not the only one she's given nightmares to!

 

RatcatcherOfKvatch:

 

That was a most entertaining story!

 

SandsOfTime404

 

Every time I meet the unicorn, it tend to run from me. Your personality must be awesome. Of course, once you got off it, it was surrounded by people with significantly lower personalities... then, hilarity. Isn't Radiant AI lovely?

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For a couple of stupidly difficult mod battles, the end of CORE1 and the battle outside of Phobos Temple in GTA2 both contained similar horror stories: 8 to 10 fully armored, armed to the teeth and fully souped up guys, all wailing on you at the same time. Recoil percent chance? Bah, throw it out the window! You're gonna spend more time on your butt crying as they pound you into minced meat anyway!

 

Group battles are the WORST.

[majikmonkee]

Hah. Good stuff all around, these stories have all had me laughing. Group battles suck worse with Deadly Reflex installed, someone in the group always seems to be waiting to skewer me after a knockdown.

[RatcatcherOfKvatch]

RatcatcherOfKvatch:

 

That was a most entertaining story!

Hey, thanks! What did you think of "The Love Ballad of Mannimarco?"