Red Dragon
Posted by Mike Blitz on June 30th, 2007
We keep fighting our way up towards the top of the Crystal Tower. In many ways this feels culminating, as if we heading toward the climax of the story. Resistance continues to be heavy. We go up what must be another half dozen levels, when we finally reach what appears to be a top of the tower. We check either side and get ready to go through what may be a final door. Just before we can do so, a red dragon attacks us.
Oh, crap. Our lightly armored ninja drops almost immediately. Our Dragoon takes a heavy hit. We all get blasted with a spell. Stupidly, I forget that our Devout has an instant revival/full-heal spell. Instead of casting that, I use a Raise spell, which brings our ninja back with just a few hundred hit points. We immediately all get hammered with more damage, which of course takes our ninja down again. We’re putting some damage on the dragon, but will it be enough?
Then our dragoon falls. I get everyone back up by the end of a round, but we are all below 500 hit points. I set up our Devout to cast a powerful heal for everyone in the party, but the dragon attacks us first and wipes us out.
What a dummy I was. I panicked.
Status: Death by Red Dragon, Was Level 58, now Level 56
June 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Yeah, the dragons can really be tough. However, if you have the ability to have a thief in your party, you can steal ethers and other special armor from the dragons.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Terpkristin: Ah…that would be nice. Special armor would be helpful, especially if I could put it on my ninja. He gets pummeled fast.
I would have been happy with surviving, though. I can’t believe I was so stupid in that battle. All I could think of was not choking. Of course, I choked. As soon as the battle was over, I remembered that I had that new Level 8 Devout spell that resurrects a character with full hit points. If I used that, I think I would have won. Such a maroon.
July 1st, 2007 at 10:58 am
Mike, the special armor is only for Onion Knights. =/ It’s the legendary Onion equipment.