Posted by Joshu on December 14, 2000 at 15:24:56:
In Reply to: What Went Wrong posted by Macheath(VIP) on December 14, 2000 at 15:01:26:
> Okay. I'm going to point out some of the general things I noticed in my cursory glance over this log. I'm sure you could come up with more substantial, specific things with a detailed examination, but this is what I'm giving you. Waigerits didn't necessarily handle this very well, and it ended up causing a little bit of a ruckus. So, here's a couple pointers.
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> It's been mentioned several times that the group was there to kill Rituraaj. Not to get the Scarab cabal item, not to desecrate the altar or pee on the likeness of Arkhein Sacer. To kill Rituraaj.
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> Despite this, the log opens with Balrahd and Sercirus in another room, killing a revenant. Well, I guess that's alright. I don't really see the point of it, but at least they got one of the revenants out of the way.
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> Then, our point of view moves into the altar room, where Sachiel has just cast an area-affect spell (nova) while writhing in agony. This drags our favorite Scarab assassin into the fight, and the silly invoker ends the round convulsing, to die soon after.
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> The fight had actually been going on for quite some time at this point, with Rituraaj holding the fort. And yet, there were people scattered around the temple killing revenants, and those who were in the room with Rituraaj were all focusing on the Lich Coprophagous. The one exception to this was Sachiel... and I don't think Rituraaj was feeling too much pain from the invoker's mighty physical blows. I don't know about you, but when I go to an inner guardian to kill a person, I make plans ahead of time to have certain members of the group rescued out so they can focus their attack in the proper place.
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> The warriors and paladins in the room, what were they doing instead of rescuing people away from the Lich? This fight had been going on for a while, and what had they done? Well, we have Varital, who hadn't yet figured out that the Lich wasn't being affected by his drowning weapon. Klemek? What was Klemek doing? Pummeling the Lich, of course. And effectively lagging himself out of the fight.
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> With a bard (Elarion), an invoker (Sachiel) and at least two paladins, one would think the group would have had better protections up. They weren't taking much damage, but they had no business taking as much as they did. Shield potions, stoneskin fillets, bard resist, invoker shields, sanc. Ugh, it could have been ugly. Instead, they stood there and let Rituraaj dispel them all, or whatever he was doing before Qxorlarran got there.
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> The bard, Elarion, was forced to waste his/her time singing healing songs, instead of being rescued out and perhaps trying (and failing, no doubt) some songs on Rituraaj himself. Stood there healing, in fact, until he/she was lagged out and killed.
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> From what I can tell, Phindar the lightwalking duergar shaman basically did nothing but stand there punching the Lich Coprophagous until he died. Which boggles my mind. To his credit, he did get off one demonfire, and even remembered to aim it at Rituraaj... and then finished dying less than 2 rounds later.
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> At this point, everyone's so badly wounded that the fleeing starts. But finally, Balrahd meanders into the room and attacks Qxorlarran. Thank God. Oh, and Sercirus too. Though it appears all he did was flee immediately, then sit still for quite a while, waiting for Rituraaj to come and attack.
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> Meanwhile, Balrahd wisely realizes that everyone is dead and dying and leaves. Varital spams flamestrike on the Lich until Qxorlarran takes care of him quickly.
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> In case you can't tell, the only person who struck me as even remotely having a plan or even a high level stream of consciousness is Balrahd. Mainly because he accomplished a goal, directed his attacks to Rituraaj instead of the Lich, then recognized a bad situation and got away.
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> Rituraaj didn't even have an elemental in this log, by the way.
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