Coming up empty in The Coincidental Forest of Quests, Num decides to abandon the search for the forest titan, retrace his steps and head back to the mountain range The Walls of Copper, where mountain titan Aro Hailwaves the Plain Sea and cyclops Wur Judgeyear the Ivy of Yore had been sighted.
Mountain titan shrines are like roc nests, in that they'll be adjacent 1 world map tile to the mountain range. You could just fast travel around a range and you'll eventually trigger the zoom-in which is what Num does, though he doesn't need to travel far from hillock Rainylabor. First he runs into the cave of Wur Judgeyear the Ivy of Yore:
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And then there's another zoom in:
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Instead of just bumbling around in fast travel to reveal the nature of the site, he drops into slow travel and moves one tile at a time waiting for the announcement:
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He slowly moves NE, first seeing the corpse of a dead dwarf marking the beginning of the shrine, moving one tile at a time, spanning east to west, to reveal the titan's vision field:
Aro Hailwaves the Plain Sea is 1-zlevel down hidden in a little pocket:
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If Aro is a webber, Num'll resume his journey to human held lands to collect around 200 arrows, but if not Num'll choose to melee.
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Deadly spittle is a missile like a bolt or an arrow. It doesn't spread and occupy space like fire, web, dust, or vapor. Stat-wise Aro has
a level 6 fighter/archer/biter/striker. Spittle, while governed by that Talented Archer skill, is pretty much random like a shower of arrows. Despite having only level 4 (skilled) dodger, anecdotally, big roll modifiers like level 11 (grandmaster) fighter plus the buff from a 10 need
Focused! should be enough to swing the defensive rolls his way, so he'll rely on passive dodger and skip the boost from active manual dodger:
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Num starts off by zapping Aro's legs with the spear to cause grounding.
After grounding Num did want to use a bite to the head to cause unconsciousness, but as it unfolded, copper spear ended up getting most of the best work.
So I guess copper spear'll be Num's main hunting weapon from here on out as it earned its place. Thematically, it's nice that the starting weapon of a recruit ends up being the day to day workhorse weapon. It's without the overstatement of a weapon with a quality modifier or of the best material. In many ways copper is like Ajax, son of Telamon from the Richmond Lattimore translation.