CMP

Congrats, CM.

Atramor bites his lip as he notices the small army that's headed towards the northmost group, but braces himself mostly for the incoming Rogue Lion Commander attack. "Emperor, Nikolai, I suggest you move into one of the rooms on the left. There's going to be one more knight than we can handle, but I'm sure we'll be able to prevent either of you being taken if you're not in the throne room itself. Arthur, I think you should help out the western defenders with Alandri, you'll be more effective against humanoids anyway and you've taken Blackenord out of commision. It's more than enough time for Cronk, Thothwick and De'kra to finish his guards." Does any effect prevent an enemy from moving rooms?

I smell a backstory...

"Wait, put Cronk first, I think he needs to take a free hit or two... Ah, wait, nevermind, William's attacking."

You should a Potion as well, Adam.

Yes, I believe so.

Shoot. I need to do a Ziegfried Quest, yet at the same time I want to slap around the Town Guard some more in Quest 40... And Wren too. There's too much awesome this August.

I don't know if I'm even going to sign up for Quest 39, that all still sounds awesome.

"Aye. Phil, you're gonna have to take whichever one of them has the most health or armor. But I know you have a tendency to try and pop the biggest head anyway." Atramor chuckles, watching the other party between the mass of red and gray between the stairwells. "...If they don't come this way, ya'll know we're gonna have to charge them next round, aye? Heh. I wonder if that red-eyed bastard's ever tasted deadly venom before." "William, I highly recommend using your Smelling Salts on Cronk, and then he use his extra turn to try and heal you. Just a friendly suggestion, but I dunno if you're in a fightin' shape right now."

Atramor skids to halt, nearly toppling into Septrine in his haste. "Alright. We're gonna let them come to us, partly because Knyghton needs a heal, a little because Phil won't leave the Emperor, and a bit so that we can see what we're gonna be facing here. Tarn, I recommend you take this moment to slot that Remedy into Helbaerand." His hands glow brightly, trying to shove away memories of his unluckiness in the last battle doing so as he tried to heal Knyghton. McCafferey took up a spot on an empty torch bracket, staring down Sir Loren from across the hall.

"Lots of crap, mates."

Well, I meant on the scale that heroes do. The effect is a lot more useful as anti-hero than anti-enemy.

I'd say it's a shame that enemies don't heal, which would make it more useful, but someone might get the wrong idea.

Oh, right.

It does the latter as a result of the former, I think.

My intended strategy after the Dastan quests end and I get back to the hall, combat-wise, I feel might be a bit game-breaking. But it's too awesome not to use at the same time.

Don't worry, the Cursed and Badly Posioned effects completely disregard SP. And deal an ominous 13 damage per round to boot.

I say we have an Arena tournament to see who gets to go!

How many more Wren Quests before then?

I want in on that Quest.

Of course not. Granted there's far less than there were at the start, but there's almost a quest that'll at least consider a level 1.

"Knyghton, don't forget you've gotta keep movin' north too. Phil, can ya' please go with him? The Emperor's being flanked by the highest level parties, there's no possible way they'll be able to get him out of the palace where he stands right now. Actually, if Phil refuses to move, stay where you are Knyghton, so you won't be chargin' headfirst to your death."

"You guys have a much better chance than ya' think. You have a healer, a homicidal lucky and blessed Battle Mage that deals double damage, and a Knight who takes no damage from the back row and cuts right through armor like air. The worst that'll happen is that they're'll be so many of them they'll be able to sneak Alandri out while you're fightin'."

"Well, look. They're going down different stairwells, I can't imagine they're all going for Alandri. At least this way, there's a chance you won't get...completely swarmed. And even if so, you don't have any more of a chance defending where ya' are now than you have over there."

"I meant that you should stick in the back row while you get the hell out of there too. This is no time to get heroically suicidal. "