Killed St Roka for the first time.
I was on the last floor of the orcish mines, clearing out the market when suddenly a whole pack of powerful orcs come in through a part of the mines that I thought I already cleared. Being an Air elementalist (think lightning Mage) and having dealt with the packs before. I let the get a bit closer so I can use electric discharge on to clear them out quickly.
Suddenly when they're in melee range, St. Roka (considered by fans to be one of the toughest uniques in the whole game) rounds the corner that was supposed to be my escape route. Since I could 't escape like I originally planned to, I had no choice but to let him come closer (while that other pack is wailing on me). Eventually he comes close enough and I use a blink scroll to blink ino the corner he rounded earlier. After a single turn I then stepped out of his LOS.
I follow my escape route and after reaching a set of stairs, I begin to recuperate, recovering from the wounds Roka inflicted with his smite attacks as well as the ones caused by that pack. The rest didn't last long though because it turned out that St Roka followed me!
It then became a 1v1 where I was firing lightning bolts and he was firing smites. He was winning. Quickly, I attempted to activate the invisibility feature of my artifact wizard hat. After 4 turns, it finally worked and Roka could no longer see me (meaning he could no longer aim his smites). I then continue firing lightning bolts in saftey, knowing that Roka couldn't hit me, chipping away at his health like a toothbrush chips away at a dirty dinning hall. There's one problem with this set up though (other than the piss poor damage with my strongest spell). In crawl, invisibility covers you in something called magical contamination. If you get covered in enough, you'll begin to glow, meaning you won't be invisible anymore (a clever way to prevent you from being permanently invisible). What this means though is that once my invisibility runs out, I'll be back to horrible square one.
Thankfully, the cavalry arrived! St Roka's cavalry... uh huh... fun, but as you'll see later I end up using this to my advantage. I then come up with a brilliant idea. I wait for the reinforcements to surround Roka and then I read a scroll of immolation (In case you don't know what it does, it essentially turns every enemy into a time bomb that is set off by cold blooded murder. Kill them and they explode). Still invisible, I then begin firing lightning bolts into the crowd. The crowd is surprisingly tough though and it takes a few shots to kill them. Suddenly, my image flickers, but it's too late, all they can do is watch as I fell the first orc with my lightning bolt and unleash hellfire upon them. He explodes, engulfing another orc in flame, who also explodes, killing 5 other orcs, and then they all explode into one glorious chain reaction that would make the atomic bomb proud!
Columns of flame dot the landscape where there were once orcs, and when the loading clears, there are only 3 survivors. Myself, a horribly wounded Roka, and a wounded orc warrior who really shouldn't have survived this mess. Fully invisible once more, I pray that Roka remembered my face before I blast his orc buddy and end him with one final explosion...
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