Necrophidius with true sight?

jhorleb · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:08 pm

Quote:

A necrophidius exclaims 'Halt, lawbrdaker!'
A necrophidius exclaims 'You shall pay for your crhmes!'
A necrophidius stabs your chest, making a small but painful wound.

[HP: 93%] [ME: 37%] [PE: 36%]
>
A necrophidius stabs your left wrist, causing a big gash.
Your shield blocks a necrophidius's attack.
A necrophidius misses you.
A necrophidius is blinded by the dirt in its eyes!
A thick-maned lion scratches at a necrophidius's right toe, cutting it slightly.
A thick-maned lion misses a necrophidius.
A thick-maned lion scratches at a necrophidius's right ankle, gashing a small wound.

[HP: 90%] [ME: 37%] [PE: 36%]
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A necrophidius bites you!
You feel momentarily ill but it passes.

[HP: 90%] [ME: 37%] [PE: 36%]
>
A necrophidius stabs your chest, causing a deep gash.
A necrophidius stabs your chest, causing a gaping wound!
Your shield blocks a necrophidius's attack.
A thick-maned lion scratches at a necrophidius's stomach, barely wounding it.
A thick-maned lion scratches at a necrophidius's right ankle, gashing a small wound.
A thick-maned lion scratches at a necrophidius's left finger, cutting it slightly.

[HP: 73%] [ME: 37%] [PE: 36%]
> l nec
Hopefully a construct of some sort, the necrophidius resembles a skeletal
serpent, if that creature while living fed on horse-sized prey. Arching ribs
run the length of the creature, mounted off its sinuous backbone. Its
skull appears to be more monstrous in origin: lacking the elongated
serpentine snout in favor for stouter, more powerful jaws. Bits of rotted
flesh cling to the bone in several places.
Its abdomen is scratched.
Its left arm is scratched.
Its right leg is scratched.
Overall, a necrophidius has a few scratches.

A necrophidius is using:
<worn as skin> ivory hide (brand new)
<both hands> a stout flint-tipped pike (superb)
A necrophidius bites you!
You feel momentarily ill but it passes.
[etc etc until I kill it, then I look, and...]
> l
Snowy Wastelands
Drifts of snow blow violently about the rolling, icy lands
sssssss that stretch out before your eyes. Rocks jut up from the ground
sss*sss at irregular intervals; rocks made of ice and hardened snow,
sssss+/ rather than normal stone. It's cloudy, cool, and very, very
windy.
Obvious exits: n e s w nw ne sw se
The severed foot of a wraith is here.
(Charmed) A golden-furred male lion is here, confidence in his step.
(Invis) You are flying here.
(Invis) You are flying here.
(Invis) You are flying here.
(Invis) You are flying here.

I'm told all bounty NPCs have true seeing, but wasn't aware of this. If so, isn't that a bit overpowered?

Baldric · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:47 pm

Yes, it's OP and kind of stupid.

jhorleb · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:35 pm

Is it really all bounty NPCs?

Baldric · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:49 pm

Yeah.

Trexor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:54 pm

Maybe it had detect invis?

Baldric · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:56 pm

Bounty NPCs see through midnight, last I checked.

Edit: And his point was that it didn't break any of his mirror images.

Trexor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:13 pm

Baldric wrote:

Bounty NPCs see through midnight, last I checked.

Edit: And his point was that it didn't break any of his mirror images.

Oh.

Could the thing just have gotten really lucky, like I am talking about 1 in a 1000000000 odds. He does have three mirrors left. We have no idea how many he started with. Not as single one was broken?

I have found with law NPCs, if they have a secondary attack like bite or kick and they land it on you, they will continue to hit you. But if not they will hit the mirror image and hit those till they hit you and will keep on hitting you.

Baldric · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:26 pm

Naw they just have true seeing. The chance of the NPC getting lucky (just in the snippet shown above) is 1/3125. Jhorleb implied that it went on for a while. Even three more hits and we're talking about 1/41625

Jhorleb plays a priest, so his MI probably comes from a scroll that only gave 4 images in the first place. He can verify that, and can also check his log to make sure he only had 4 images to start with, not that it really matters. . .

Like I said before, bounty NPCs have repeatedly engaged me under midnight.

I think this change might even have been announced. It's been this way for a while.

ninja_ardith · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 pm **Posts:** 4452

bounty NPCs have been and always will be stupid.

Baldric · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:38 pm

ninja_ardith wrote:

bounty NPCs have been and always will be stupid.

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