Not sure why every town that begins as a
☼ when a world is first generated always devolves to a
# once a character is created and then becomes a
+ by the time we travel there. Very odd.
Anyways,
just to the right of the town + at the top of the map is a lair of a freak mate of twilight.
If safety comes first, any night troll type, even a spouse or a night troll child should be treated with caution, whether fought solo or with a group, which should mean complete metal armor, shield, and a weapon with low contact area and good penetration. But as spouses have been weak in every 42.xx instance my characters have met them in, Bim opts to make the journey just wearing the elk bird
padded jack, with no metal armor for protection.
Usually I'll have a melee character using the multi-attack combo (quick attack + dodge away) play Holly Holm to the night troll's Ronda Rousey, drawing it through the choke point of a corridor if there is one, and then doing the same outside the lair. Position-based, single-action, stand and trade tick combat just requires far too much stat parity versus the night troll grab.
As per all lair entries, Bim enters prepared for melee. He sees the distance is too close to create a campfire firewall, so he's ready to drag it up the corridor and into the open. He wonders if Cerol will help:
Bim still tries to make a campfire firewall (just to see) and doesn't trigger the safety warning, so it's time to play archer. Cerol apparently has sought refuge in the wild. Bim makes the shot to the leg bringing it down. It's nice that that was one from the first batch of 5 arrows Bim made:
After taking away its speed and charge capacity, Bim leaps over the firewall to finish with melee. The feeling of the freak mate of twilight in terms of stat parity was such that Bim went with single-action, stand and trade and had his dodge set to stand ground:
End stats after:
After Bim rejoins Cerol, they head off to find a giant's lair. There Bim finds two giants:
This scene of everyday domesticity flies in the face of everything Armok holds dear:
But since Bim is a dubious worshiper of his own god, and disdains Armok as he disdains most laws, he leaves them be. Bim is glad he had Cerol wait some distance away from the lair as just one arrow shot would have brought this frail, elderly couple under the sword.
Well, next up is another ettin. Hopefully Cerol can get some work in. He's never used his bow. Bim will load up on arrows at the local mead halls. They really can't do any drinking unless Cerol earns his way.
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