The battle commences! Note this is going at like 10x what you see. Also I was forced to remove like 30 "looks," "glances," and other misc. stuff and split it in two logs cause the log was 900k+. Later we got lost and eventually found our way out after my party found where someone who had mmail and the HBS had died.
Too bad you couldn't skin her corpse, that would have been one hell of a hat!
Great battle! Ive had my own experiences with Spider some time ago during playtesting. And although I always died running and screaming I did find out its possible to run through her halls and come out alive. You just have to know where to head to. And I guess Luck has something to do with it as well. Anyways, thumbs up to anyone who battled. Never thought I'd see her dead :)
Maybe the bug with the wall will be fixed next time, and people with low hp(me) will be able to climb down and let stronger people come up next time instead of letting people like Adunazon and Shachmir take all the blows for all the severely weakened people and end up being overwhelmed.
Looking at the log, it seems that at least: Trempk, Lanka, Wind, Kameuh, Newcomer, Ketan, Celexa, Gothwin, Fuinor, Anathema, and Peesho survived.
And Darknova, Adunazon, Gazza, Melfire, Mortigan, Shachmir, Deathrider each died.
It looks like she killed Elvenwolf before he got to her lair, Im not sure why he was taking most of the hits on the way there. As for Pounder, if he didnt die when he left north of the lair he was fuckin lucky. But i dont think he lived either. ;)
So out of 20, 7 died.
I believe that Shelob took 36 people Duniv.
Wow. I think that pretty much sums it up. Props to all who fought so bravely, and to the many more who died. Anyone have a total on how many shelob has killed? It's gotta be high... As Gazza said though, are people really going to do this every boot? I mean, even with a huge party some of the most skilled players died. Well, I guess skill doesn't matter a whole lot under such conditions, but... Wow. Incredible.
Wow, my hat is off to Shachmir, he made Shelob his bitch with that ice staff. He died in the end, but well, he died better than most.
I would just like to know one thing.. I noticed this 'An elegant, red silk dress' in the list of items on the ground... Who decided that would be the perfect armour when fighting Shelob? Or that was simply the person who was used to lure here out who wore that?
But what for the sake of being Themematic, they did... 26 people per uptime... *Boggles at the concept. At those odds, my luck will definitely run out
As stupid as it probably sounds, I really think Tarn's right. I don't think the Ainur would code something that'll kill 26 people per uptime.
Wow what a fight.... what can I say, she killed me too. I think I saw my shield pack and armour in there somewhere... You will not be seeing me there until I'm level 20 plus. Only... well like Gazza, I've died three times in one day. So I'm pretty tired of CU and Shelob.
Uh, damn. So why did you guys just sneak under her and stab her from below? Seemed to work in the books pretty good.
So in other words, no matter what we do, at least 2 of us are going to die :-p
I've been thinking about Shelob, and it's going to get very old killing her...I can imagine being interested in it for a few times, then completely going off the idea of it. I mean...every boot...jesus. I'm gonna have to find myself a way to run through the lair without meeting her.
In retrospect, I think we should have done it how Adunazon suggested too. But that's in retrospect. At the time, I was going by what had happened the attempt BEFORE that one, in which we did do it that way...beat her up, go to her lair when she runs...and we ended up screwing ourselves over even worse, because she drags people off to her web with her as she runs.
'Melfice is beyond help.'
Hahaha! Wow, I've never seen anything so true to life! After reading through this though... I really think we should've gone with Adunazon's plan. The whole climbing up/climbing down thing fucked everyone over bad. It split everyone up and if anyone was left alone on the floor or a ledge when she was up there got destroyed (look at what happened to Adunazon)... maybe next time we can try that?
you could make a movie with this log, it happens everything you can imagine
And for the deathblow, I got a WHOPPING 222 exp! Woohoo! :P
Bah, i drained both my black flasks. Thats 12 drinks
Ketan says: I can't get things from my own pack
Ketan says: It says I 'can't reach' my pasties
Well, check out the beginning of the other log. I *DID* warn you all about that.
Gazza says: Once you're climbed up, you can't reach into your
containers
Gazza says: So have your healing in your hands.
But does anyone listen? Just like when I asked us all to stop moving while Shelob was attacking us, cos she was hunting and killing me :-p Nevermind though, unfortunately I had to learn your lesson for you.
3 deaths from that fucking spider. She's pissed me off :-p
Mad super props to anyone and everyone that jumped into CU when it opened. Especially for those people that went in there more than once. I wish I could have been there but alas could not.
I salute you all!
Just a suggestion but did anyone try to climb the wall without any equipment on them - unenc?
Newcomer says: fuck!
Yeah... fuck it. Tried to climb wall but failed after 40 tries.
And yes, Darknova, it is more like 10h fight! :P
And some other time waiting for you guys coming to meet us ;)
Thanks to all of you, and btw, my auction to gather ppl kick ass heh?
Damn i hate my job, ARG i wanted to be in on that fun stuff. Hopefully there will be a new mass slaughter of Shelob soon and i can participate.
I know what to do with the eyes... Teehee!
Does anyone know how much exp she gives? =)
Great battle everyone, and i gotta go with darknova thanx for the great pep talk ketan ;)
Ketan, my hero. :P
Wonder what pleasure find the ainur in coding tough NPCs...
Look at my ep drop from that poison, and watch how I rip Celexa off for the deathblow. And how its going fast enough for everyone to get useless bandages a round after they die. ;)
After 7+ hours of fighting, Shelob is finally dead! Congrats to everyone that helped and a big thanks to Ketan for that pep talk =p. NIce log Trempk!