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
[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!