: Even if you don't have a head, you can enjoy the headroom that Ice Fortress' triple-tier lofted ceilings amply afford. : Over one thousand different kinds of ice were used to build the fortress' three floors, each of which are at or above specifications for dungeon sinisterness and unsafety. I'll turn over the commentary now to the ghost of one of those contractor, eager to tell you all about the Fortress. Apparently this whole dungeon is a recent construction brought to you by the fel eskimo contractors of darkness. To make things spicier, the floor is slick, making you more likely to slide into an outstretched spike or piston-punch.Īfter all that collecting, it's time to finally tackle the ice fortress. Did I mention that there are a lot of Ice Golems around, and that fighting them yields the best experience I've gotten from any non-boss monster so far? I want as much of this as I can get.Īlso, those spikes on the wall are a hazard, and will strike you if you get to close. Greater MP capacity I just can't say no to. I still favor the ring for vaporizing the ice golems, but the other enemies around the ice field are now fully easier to beat using the boomerax.Īnother cave, another dollar. Since our mp most recently became dead useful, this is a welcome upgrade indeed.Īnd with that, the boomerax goes from being an acceptable substitute for the fire ring to being a competitor. Which is to say, the first time you play his game, no matter which chest you pick, you will always get this reward. His money-making-game is, thankfully, rigged. He operates on the fruit economy that is the mainstay of wizards and oddballs who want to operate exclusively with wandering warriors outside of towns. "For 10 Fruit you may pick a treasure box! What will you do? You might find potion, magic crystal, bomb, bow.or you might only find an empty box." In the middle of the snow field (not on the X, mind) there's this stump and a wizard within! When you encounter these along with others, they get a little more challenging, as their spinning attack affords them invulnerability, and yes, occasionally you'll simply get one that decides to keep spinning around like an asshole. One at a time, these guys are no problem to dodge. The snow shiva samurai spins from side to side and then stands and sends slender slices shooting outward. The boomerax is an acceptable substitute if you're out of magic, and none of the enemies you meet here are boomerax-dodging ankle biters. Each one has two drops, so you're fairly likely to be able to pick up more mp stars as you roast their hides. If you hit an Ice Golem with the resulting fireball, he'll melt. For the low-low cost of one mp, you can activate the fire ring. At this point, I'd have to hit them eight or ten times before they'd fall. They throw the same cold shoulder Glacius comboed into (and out of) and they have a piston punch that makes me rethink the old idea I had about building an engine out of ice. On the overworld, we encounter new, ice-theme-appropriate enemies, like these blocky ice men. You could use the ring of fire to melt them and leap in anyway, but I chose not to because I know where it leads and it would set us back. Those ice obelisks block you off from a pit. You can waltz right in and get this container heart without a problem. If you're looking around, you can't miss it. You may have noticed a cave west of our starting position on the map. Like any good adventuring party, our first stop along the way to the place we are actually trying to get to is everywhere else to pick up incidental crap. Oh, but the monks are used to this and part of the teleporter also strapped us into the thermal tights, right? If Alex's outfit was drafty before, now it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Out of the frying pan and into the refrigerator. He now stands in the hoarfrost chill of Death Mountain. Vested in breastplate and possessed of a sacred sword-sacred boomerax pair, Alex rushed to give chase to the village of Kazdra, where he-armed (or fingered?) with the ring of fire he had valiantly filched from the hellish fires of a Djinn's pad-sought to break the wicked barrier of ice that stood between him and Temple Keire, wherein evil ran so amok that even the muckrakers couldn't keep up. A thanks to everyone who watched this past weekend.Īlex, the sleight slice-artist and lackey first class of the Isle of Keire's army of one hurled harsh language in the general direction of the world's baddest wizard Argos after that sexy fiend made off with Katarina, ordinary girl of Rysis, to win a bet.
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