A dread skeletton
This is charming here...
Hardest will be the fall
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HARDEST WILL BE THE FALL :
Back of an expedition with friends in which we had decimated a thiefs camp, I decided to go for a stroll
in Befallen. The level 1 does not have any more problem for me, I know it by heart. I decide therefore to
visit the level 2, as I have the key, it's simple to enter. Click clac ! I go into... A small corridor with far
end the famous edge that allows to see in under... It's hot down there ! A group of adventurers is fighting
with a "lesser mummy". I descend. Arrived down below, I look at the small young ones fighting and I
take advantage to cast a force drain on the mummy, just to climb up my strengh in case of need... I
explore... A dark corridor, I come to the end, it starts on the right and on the left... Hmmmm... To the left
! At the far end of the corridor, a door. I open it... Hail, mister "Great Skeletton" ! It did not see me, I
cast on him my clinging darkness to slow it down and I run back towards the young ones. Of course, the
skeleton is furious and follows me. Arrived in the big room, I turn back and I begin the fight. Cool, it
does not strike too hard and I dispatch it in 15 seconds... It's cool to be level 18... Well, this is not the
whole, but I have to return there, boys... This time, I go to the right at the far end... Here also it's raging, I
notice in the far green, red and blue glimmers, hello the spells ! I move forward, that corridor is very long
with doors all over. In one of the rooms, a group of three adventurers is fighting a necromancer. The
nécro invoked a monster to taunt the warriors and he sprinkles the wizard of the group with spells... I
evaluate the situation... The warriors seem to manage not so badly, I pass round and I attack the nécro.
Zouinggg ! He throw a Clinging Darkness on me ! Oh no, no ! This is me that must cast that ! Oh he oh,
I am all very slowed and my life bar dives... Despite all, I hit him with some blows that dispatch him in
hell very fast (I know, you will tell me : But this is here, Hell !). The warriors finished the other monster,
rest for everyone. This group is level 20-22 ! They propose me to come with them, but I refuse... They
wanted to take me to the level 3 ! I resume my exploration... I decide to explore all the rooms in the big
corridor... After some open doors and some fights with "Great Skelettons", I arrive in front of one of the
still close doors of the corridor... (Feel comfortable, it's beginning.) I open the door... Nothing, the room
is empty (you are disappointed, I see). Eye blow to the left, to the right. Holds ? There is a small door at
the end... I move forward... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!! BOUM ! OUCH
! I fell ! There was a hole in the ground !!!! God, not even a board or a security band, these cheating
programmers ! Good, but now, how can I climb back up... At this moment I began to be very afraid... I
am in a small room with a door, and turning around and looking everywhere in vain, no means to climb
back up by the hole that is too high to reach jumping... A quick calculation... (-2) + (-1) = MOM ! I AM
IN THE LEVEL 3 OF BEFFALEN !!! What's more I do not know how return to the exit for I do not
know this level ! (When you will have finished to laugh stupidly, I could continue !) To that moment, the
telephone can sound, the house can collapse, I do not release the keyboard.. I broadcast "HELP ! I fell
in a hole ! How to go out of there ?" The responses don't Delay... "The small room with a door ? Yeah, I
also was dead there" "Courage" "I would well have come to help you, but I am in level 8" "Have you the
key to go out of the level 3?" ..... WHAT ??? A KEY ??? I believe that this is what Biggard (a french
humorist) announces as "a big moment of solitude" ... Good, try to not succumb to pinac, to pacin, at last
to not scream... (But stop laughing ! This is irritating). I open the exit door... Small corridor with two
skeletons... I kill them, up to there all goes well... I have an idea ! I have a spell of invisibility to the
death-livings ! Zouinnggg, it's done, I am invisible... I explore the corridor... There are a lot of doors,
which is the good one ??? I open one at random... What is that ??!!?? A "Skeletton Elf", I con...
YELLOW !!! This thing is at a higher level than me !!! Gently, I close the door... Another door, a small
empty room with a door in front... I open. A big room with a guy in the middle "Necromant Ogre", to the
far a door... The ogre, that I recall you is not a death-living, speaks to me: "It's time to die Uenaelar !"... I
rush toward the door straight on... I heard casting strongly behind me... BLAM ! I am desease… BLAM
! I take 30 points by blades... I pass through the door running to encounter 3 ghouls !!!! (Already one, I
have some trouble) RUN LIKE HELL !!! And there you can see your Uenaelar that runs at random in
the level 3 of Befallen followed by a Mage Ogre, three Ghouls and all the things that I pick in the way...
(Good, if you do not stop laughing, I stop!) Thanks to my high level (about 500 life points), I had the
privilege to cross 5 or 6 rooms before dying crushed, slashed, pierced, burned, blind, the brain in pulp
and charmed. This is a lot for only one man, I believe that I never had as much active spells on me since
my birthday. I find myself naked in front of Freeport. I must acknowledge you that my spirits are to zero,
for I do not have any way to recover my equipment... I decide in spite of all to return in front of Befallen
and to try to recruit somebody to help me. Arrived in Befallen, I broadcast a heart-gripping call...
Response of a named TASS :
- "Where is your body ?"
- In level 3, I do not know where.
- That will be hard, this is a true maze below !
- Pity... I'll give you all my money, about 30pp.
- I agree, I go there.
- Heu... What? Alone ??
- Euh yes, you want to come with ? Ha ha ha ha !!!!
I say to myself that I fell on a crazy one… This char seems to want to go searching for all my equipment
alone. Continuation of the conversation with commentaries :
- await me at the gate of Befallen. (I am still there)
- And hop! In the well, hop! (This guy has just jumped in the well that resulted directly to the level 3 !)
- There is a lot of monsters here. (I had noticed it also)
- Good, I have just killed the ghouls. (??!!??)
- Super, this nécromant had a magic ring. (???!!!???)
- This is your body the drow with the pretty shield ? (Gargle... heu yes sir)
- I cannot take all, too loaded, you want what ? (I dream, this is a dream... Heu... the shield, the sword
and the armor pieces it is possible ?)
- OK I'm coming... There is a lot behind me, be careful...
And I see dropping a halfling in complete plate followed by a horde of various and varied skeletons,
Wide, Greater, Elf, and others more... The halfling stops itself in front of me and begins giving me my
equipement while about about ten monsters are trying to kick him from behind !!! The trading finished, he
half turns and explodes all this beautiful people ! And what's more he announces me "I will look for the
remains" !!! And he's gone again ! Ten minutes later, he brings back the remains of my equipment and
returns all my money ! I size up the halfling, RED (I suspected a little) with a quarter of its life points less.
A small chat follows in which I learn that Befallen is a "Low Level Undead Dungeon" and that there is
more very worse... In short:
- Level 18, this is even weak...
- I recovered all my equipment !
- I swore to this guy that I will never kill any one halfling during all my drow life.
- I swore myself to not return in Befallen during 2 years.
- This halfling never wanted to tell me his level.
- I don't still recover from this adventure !!!
I debated about this history with friends, it adorned that I had a lot of luck, guys as TASS, they are few !
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Chapter 14
