| Barbarian Got You Down? |
| This is a tale submitted by Heroboy and his brother, about an adventure the two had in Diablo2. From here on in, the story's told from Heroboy's perspective - NL
My brother, his friend and I have a group of sorceresses (oooh, threesome) who each specialize in an element. (He's fire, I'm lightning, his friend is cold. Whee.) Anyway, we were in this experience game when a level 28 barbarian demands we let him in our party. As most people know, barbarians before level 30 are comepletely useless, so we ignored him. (Actually, we usually ignore most people, since they only serve to leech off our EXP) So, anyway, this guy keeps complaining and we ignore him. Eventually, we go to save cain (we were playing in nightmare, we were all level 28) and then the barbarian manages to find us. So, he follows us around, trying to kill the things that our combined static fields, meteors and blizzards weaken. So I tell everyone "We're faster than him! Run away!!" and we all teleport away in random directions. So then we lose him, and regroup at the wp, head on out and save Cain. So the guy, being the sissy that he is, goes hostile. =D Of course, there's 3 of us, and one of him. Not to mention we're all the same level and he doesn't even have whirlwind yet, so he didn't even bother to look for us. Of course, he started threatening that if we didn't invite him, he'd hunt us down with his amazon, but none of us really cared. Once we got to the barracks, he left and came back just as we killed the smith. =) He immediately hostiles, and demands we tell him where we are. Of course, we all just call him names and laugh at him, so he's a bit annoyed. Sadly, my brother's friend made a portal to go to town and sell crap, so the guy figured out where we were. Fortunately, we were in the barracks, where there's lots of nice walls that we can teleport behind so the mean old level 40 amazon can't shoot us through. (Yup, he had a 20 level advantage on all of us.) =D Well, at first, we just teleported around. We found two areas that only required one teleport to get across from, but if you walked, it took a good 10-15 seconds, so the amazon got really annoyed with that, started calling us chicken and such. We just commented that if they actually noticed the pattern, trying to kill us would be exceedingly unsucessful. =) So my brother, being the fire sorceress and just having reached level 30, started throwing up a couple hydras every time we teleported. Then, from the other side of the wall, we'd giggle as we heard the amazon grunting as she got firebolted. ^_^ So she says "I know what you're doing" and goes back to town, most presumably to get some fire resistance equipment. Hehee... Big mistake on her part. =D Well, my brother sees the townportal, so we teleport over there and he literally FILLS the area with hydras. He cast them constantly. (And considering they last 14 seconds, and he can cast them constantly until his first few disappear before running out of mana, that's a lot) The second the amazon returned, they all fired once in unison, I'd say at least 30-40 hydras, each dealing 10-20 damage each. Never knew what hit 'em. ^_^ Then the sap left immediately. Never heard from 'em again, but we still whisper them everynow and then. Their account name is iwin1mule. When we're bored, we usually hop through all the channels saying we have an extra 'soj', but we need a 'tarnhelm', 'wormskull' or 'frosties', so if anyone has a trade they should whisper iwin1mule for offers. =D Spams him good. ^_^ |