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[Deathbane]

Prologue:


'The silence filled the air with a foreboding sense of menace. It seemed to wrap itself around the assembled hosts of Ithithˇ Singehail, filling them all with a sense of dread. The armies of the Whiskers of Copper had marched for days to reach the hills that led upwards towards the beasts lair, through rain and snow, pushing onwards driven by pure hatred. The creature, a bronze colossus named Rasm Firststeels in the language of the dwarves, was a thorn in the side of the newly crowned Ithithi. Since the dawn of time it had plagued the whiskers of copper, burning their home trees, stealing the fruits of the forest and slaying the precious animal friends within.

No-one knew how it had come to being. Tales of sorcery and a mad magician, legends from the age of myth when the earth and sky where made anew were all the that remained, burying all hope of discovering its past.

Not that it mattered to Ithithi. Newly crowned, bearly 21 and of a new family line, he led a decimated nation that had fell prey to his foul kin of the Evils of Depression. The colossus had recently attacked the home trees and killed the majority of the high council, their bodies broken under its vast strength. Ithithi remembered the scene, and how he had cowered while the emotionless juggernaut had laid waste to not only his kin, but the semi sentient, ancient hometrees that had brought his race to prominence some 400 years earlier.

Ithithi spat at the ground and turned to quickly survey his force of 500 elven soldiers. He steeled himself against the memories that threatened to overwhelm his nerves, and sword an oath to ilathe, the glacial winds.

Whether it cost him his life, Rasm Firesteels would die today and the whiskers of copper restored to glory.

Drawing his sword, he let out a battlecry that echoed along the lines, slicing the silence like a knife. A dull thudding sound of metal scraping rock answered them as the colossus came into view, the sun glinting off its war torn surface. Without responding, the colossus hauled itself from the cave, casting its shadow onto the assembled force below.

Ithithi let out another roar of rage, and the elves charged to meet their adversary knowing that today, it was truly either death, or glory.'


Challenge:

It seems i have created an almost undefeatable enemy, so i lay down the challenge to other adventuring enthusiasts. No bronze colossus of the Age of Heroes mod has ever fallen to any of mine, or my friends adventurers. Legendary heroes, from a single adventurer to an entire party of highly skilled heroes, no one has been able to sucessfully kill, or even badly maim the towering beasts.

So i put it to you to try! With the new version coming up, can you slay the bronze colossus' of the mythical plane?

Howto partake in the challenge:

Simply replace the bronze colossus entry in your creature standard .txt with the following lines of script

Code: [Select]

[CREATURE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE]
[NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]
[TILE:'C'][COLOR:6:0:0]
[MEGABEAST][TRAPAVOID]
[GENPOWER:5]
[FANCIFUL][PET_EXOTIC][TRAINABLE]
[PETVALUE:10000]
[CANOPENDOORS]
[SLOW_LEARNER]
[STOUT]
[PREFSTRING:height]
[BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:HUMANOID_JOINTS:5FINGERS:5TOES]
[NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[NOPAIN][EXTRAVISION][NOBREATHE][NOBLEED][NOSTUN][NONAUSEA][NOEMOTION]
[NOSTUCKINS][SEVERONBREAKS][NOSKULL][NOSKIN][NOBONES][NOMEAT][NOTHOUGHT][NOEXERT]
[BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
[DAMBLOCK:30]
[NOFEAR]
[SIZE:50]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:punch:punches:20:40:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:STANCE:stamp on:stamps on:100:120:BLUDGEON]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:STANCE:kick:kicks:40:60:BLUDGEON]
[EQUIPS]
[DIURNAL]
[BIOME:ANY_LAND]
[ITEMCORPSE:STATUE:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:BRONZE]
[ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY:5]
[NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_SLEEP]
[NO_GENDER]
[MATERIAL:METAL:BRONZE]
[SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[CANNOT_UNDEAD]
[SPHERE:METALS]
[SPHERE:STRENGTH]
[SPHERE:WAR]
[MODVALUE:30]

While you wont HAVE to generate a new world it is prefered, as the colossus's in your world with otherwise not have gained skills making them slightly easier to defeat.

Alternatively, download the age of heroes mod i made at http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1711. It doesnt matter as long as you have the buffed colossus to take on!

The winner is not only the person who first manages the feat, but also posts a engrossing story of battle along with evidence of the final victory, using either the gamelog or screens.

May armok guide your sword arms, adventurers!

[GrafZeppelin]

Must we face the beast alone, or can we take along our allies?

[Retro]

It can't innately swim; you can drown it. Someone took down a uberlegendary warrior with twenty years of sparring wearing artifact adamantine armour (yeah, this was Headshoots) by training to legendary in swimming and then forcing it into an inescapable pond somehow.

Though beating it by actual fighting would certainly be more impressive.

ed- haha, alternatively I'm stupid and haven't had enough experience with colossuses. Right, it would indeed just become an awesome swimmer.

[Deathbane]

Bring along as many companions as you wish!

Infact its a damn good idea. You WILL overexert before the tireless behemoth, if you fight it on your own.

Would a bronze colossus drown? it didnt think it needed to breathe! It has a no breathe tag D: it would start gaining swimming skill haha!

[GrafZeppelin]

Excellent. I shall try this soon!

EDIT: I might even keep a "Tries" counter. How many times will it take?

[Deathbane]

Haha, no idea! It would be a cool idea

Theres no limit on the number of tries!

How about recording how many companions are struck down on the path to greater glory?

For those who dont want to savescum - remember running is sometimes an option

[Foehamster]

For those who dont want to savescum - remember running is sometimes an option

Savescum is for the weak of heart.  Many a good adventurer dies to a wayward bolt to the throat.  Just be sure to strangle your killer while there's blood left.

This seems to be an interesting challenge.  Would it be bad form to build a fortress with cave-in levers and obsidian works to destroy this beast?

[caknuck]

[NAME:bronze colossus:bronze colossuses:bronze colossus]

Personally, I prefer "colossi".

[Roundabout Lout]

Would it be too much if I were to create an artifact weapon for use against the beast? Sounds like I could use it.

[x2yzh9]

That would be epic. Making a fortress get to max population, craft a set of adamintine armor and adamntine short sword and shield, with it at the top of a pedestal in a chamber with gold, statues, and a magma moat with the path to it carved with horrid beasts, then you have to don it upon yourself and kill the titan/whatever in an epic battle.

[GrafZeppelin]

It's going to be tough, I checked the legends and the only one to kill one of these was a goblin who already had 45 kills at the time.

[GrafZeppelin]

First Try:
The journey was long and hard, but the 21 remaining dwarves were ready. One of their number had gone insane and slain another warrior, but was taken down. Two others had starved to death.

They had made it to Spiteheart, home of Exzas Mostscratch the Legendary Lash. Slayer of 81 strong warriors before them.

They were nearing the mouth of the cave, when grunts were heard from the nearby cave!

"Troglodytes!" cried Tirist Mengetot, Swordsdwarf of Lisatnish. The beasts swarmed from the nearby chasm, beating down 3 of the 21. The rest continued on, and met with the large, bronze face of Exzas.

It was the last thing they saw, as Exzas pushed them off the cliff, in groups of 6.

One, however, lived to tell the tale.

One of Twenty-four.

[Igginator]

24 companions, nice 

[GrafZeppelin]

It took me 4 hours to find them all, and they were all in the same city.

It took about another hour to find the Megabeast, because his cave is right next to a chasm AND a delta, so the lag is immense.

[Igginator]

at least you won