RE: Re: The Bat-Blat

From: Jeff Richard <richj_at_...>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:26:17 -0800

Oliver - I agree with all of your comments except the last paragraph. Despite GAG from past Digest discussions, I think the Bat should die at WW. Not fly off to Pameltela or whatever.

Lunars - don't dispare. The emperor wll bring back the Bat in 3 to 7 years.

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Sent:	Thu Mar 18 14:57:22 2004
To:	whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: The Bat-Blat

> Maybe it is about time for us to consider how Broyan and company
> defeated the Bat. I strongly recommend taking a look at the
Batstats on
> Wiki:
>
> http://www.eparsnip.f2s.com/phpwiki/index.php?BatStat
>
> A couple of things that leap out:
>
> The Bat is huge. Presumably, the Bat was summoned some three to
seven
> years after Boldhome and has gotten to eat lots of folk in the
> intervening decade (where has the Bat been? Aggar? Talastar?
Scaring
> the shit out of nomads?) I'd say it's Large is probably around
15w6 or
> higher. Flippin' huge. It can easily accommodate the Bat Guards
and
> Broyan's Companions.

How the heck do the Lunars co-ordinate with this thing? It'd be like them using a small nuke and charging in at the same time. Wouldn't their troops have to pull back before the Bat goes in? They're not immune to its effects either.

When you send the Bat in the general is expecting nuclear style results, massive destruction, fatalities, madness, etc. Later after the Bat's gone the troops should go in and clean up. Unfortunately the Bat didn't work in this case and be the time the attackers returned the Heortlings were ready for them.

Perhaps most of the defenders hid below the ground. Asrelia hides her wealth as a potential myth? Maybe this is the event that kills the Earth Priestess? She sacrifices herself to save everyone. Which leaves Broyan et al to attack and drive off the Bat.

We "know" that Broyan got around its area affect attacks somehow and managed to slaughter enough of the Bat Priests to make them lose control. At which point it buggered off to Pamaltela, right?

> My thought is that Broyan and his companions must manage to (1)
> neutralize the Chaos Scream, and (2) magically augment their group
> attack big time. two options come to mind:
>

I like both the options. Another related possibility is that maybe they used a heroquest to lose the ability to be driven mad? Maybe this is why Broyan fails later on. (I'd originalyl thought they'd lost the ability to be scared but I guess that's no longer an option).

Oliver

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