Quarryman

"Hoke, you definitely want to stay in the back, if you fight from the front these creepers will surely overwhelm you and you'll be knocked out."

"Right. We must target several creepers or they'll overwhelm whoever goes first, and seeing as Hoke has the best defence of us I'd suggest he does it. If Hoke is okay with taking a bit of damage I'd say we can leave five creepers untargeted, this obviously requires Hoke to stay in the back row. So, if we target three creepers that will leave three of us to target other enemies, and with the Gloom Widows being the nastiest I think we'll have to hit them. This means all the owls, mandragoras and shutterflies will be left alone, but none of them are very dangerous so I think that should be fine. It really is too bad we don't have more ice bombs or we could have wiped out all the creepers, mandragoras and shutterflies with just four well-placed bombs.." OoC: suggested battle order: Hoke Alexis Namyrra Skrall Nur Stigveladi "I shall cast an Ice spell at Gloom Widow A from the back row.". "Stigveladi, I think you should target a creeper with an ice spell. And pray to whatever god you worship that you'll overflow and hit all the enemies at the same time, that would be wonderful."

"I'll have to agree with Hoke here, the phoenix essences will be most useful that way. Personally I have no interest in either smoke bombs, potions or tonics, and a shield is useless to me, so if I can get a phoenix essence that would be sufficient for me."

Namyrra does nothing in the back row

"Right, we could finish this with bombs and counterstrikes, or we could take our chances by hitting them. Any opinions on that?" "For now I'll prepare for an Ice spell at Healer D from the back row."

"No no no, you have to leave him alone so he'll attack Alexis and get killed for it. Go for Elder B instead."

"Skrall, if we change our battle order a bit and throw four fire bombs, and Hoke goes first and from the front row, then we'll also get rid of Elder C, does that sound like a plan?" OoC: suggested battle order to get rid of Elder C: Hoke (does something, just don't target a healer) Alexis (throws bomb) Namyrra (throws bomb) Skrall Nur (throws bomb) Stigveladi (throws bomb)

"That was worrying me too, until I realized that the archers are weak enough that we can wipe them all out without giving them a chance to fire any hails of arrows, if we throw three bombs that is, and none of us actually attacks any archer." "So, fire in the hole!" With an elegant overarm throw Namyrra sends a firebomb flying from the back row, landing among the nasty teddybears for great effect.

"Have to say I don't understand master Nur's comment either, but his plan about throwing firebombs should work, if we throw three firebombs, and make sure Alexis takes a free hit from Archer E, and Hoke takes a free hit from Healer B we should get rid of all the archers plus Healer B, which isn't a bad result."

"Right, if Stigveladi takes another hit she'll go down, so I'll heal Stigveladi with Mediq."

What did they build this year?

"Hoke, now you're aiming at a teddy bear that's already dead, that's rather pointless, isn't it?"

Thanks! The leaves on top were either cecilie's or DarkDragon's idea, can't remember who of them suggested it, and since there were no leaves on it when I delivered it to cecilie for taking along to Brickworld I suppose they took some liberties when rebuilding it in Chicago. And I'm happy to see that it can take the weight of the monorail, was a bit worried about that since I didn't have time to test it with a train going across before taking it apart for shipping..

"Hoke, Alexis, you are both targeting Archer A, surely one of you should switch target?"

"Okay Hoke, I'll switch to Ice spell against Archer C from the back row."

"Argh! Again!"

Again OoC: and you forgot to increase my gold ;-)

Kidnapping a raccoon on the way to Billund sounds like an excellent plan, it would be very beneficial for science if you manage to capture this elusive species.

Ice spell at Healer D from the back row

"Master Nur, I do consider the squeals of creatures trying to kill me instead dying themselves to be quite satisfying, you don't agree?"

"Yay! That was fun! Let's try that again!"

OoC: suggested battle order to ensure most efficient counterstrikes: Namyrra Skrall Nur Hoke Alexis Stigveladi

Ice spell at Bugbear Defender B from the back row

Was in Oslo at around 14:15, but had to take a nap because I was so tired, three days of great socializing with great people and great beer kinda does that to me, guess I'm getting old or something.. Already missing everyone and looking forward to next year in Billund, just know it's going to be brilliant. Good thing I'll be seeing at least some of you in Skærbæk in September, and maybe at some other events between now and May also? It was a blast, again, brilliant organizing from CopMike, Holodoc and Bonaparte as usual. And special thanks to GRogall for the Munich guided tour, while it was a pretty packed schedule it didn't feel rushed, good job.

"Well, the Sheep Meadow was as far as we got on my previous visit here, so I'm afraid I have no input regarding what kind of what enemies we'll encounter at the Hollow Oak. I agree with going there once we've rested a bit though. And once I've rested I'll drink a nostrum before we're going to the Hollow Oak."