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Re: Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

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Originally posted by Gateway103:

A Chalice can be made, GoH casted, or Faery Queen summoned. But if he's just going to get diseased again, might as well just forge a Ring of Regeneration, and keep the crippled pretender alive indefinitely doing nothing in a safe location.

Can a Faery Queen heal herself or will she have to worry about getting diseased also?

Re: Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

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Originally posted by Catquiet:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Gateway103:

A Chalice can be made, GoH casted, or Faery Queen summoned. But if he's just going to get diseased again, might as well just forge a Ring of Regeneration, and keep the crippled pretender alive indefinitely doing nothing in a safe location.

Can a Faery Queen heal herself or will she have to worry about getting diseased also? <hr /></blockquote>Good question, she will have to worried about getting diseased, since she's not immune. Never played Miasma yet, so I don't know if the chance to get diseased is 100%. If not, then she can heal herself though.

If it is 100% however, then it depends on how system is implemented. If curing phase comes before getting diseased phase, then she would likely be near full health most of time (chance to heal her own disease is 25%, but she regains full hp after curing...), but she'll always be diseased. If it is the other way around, then she can be a full health without the affliction at start of a given turn.

-Gateway103

Re: Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

So, say I am able to cure my Pretender of all his afflictions...if I make him undead (assuming that is possible) to stop his weakness to Miasma, is there any inherit drawbacks to having an undead Pretender?

Re: Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

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Originally posted by Kutulhu:
So, say I am able to cure my Pretender of all his afflictions...if I make him undead (assuming that is possible) to stop his weakness to Miasma, is there any inherit drawbacks to having an undead Pretender?

Supposedly, casting twiceborn on him and killing him off will bring him back undead. Not sure if it would be worthwhile, but it's an option. The downsides to being undead are:

1) You can't cure afflictions with a fairy queen (I think. Patch description is a little vague.)
2) You can be banished by preists (I wouldn't worry much about this if you have a decent magic resistance)
3) There are many spells/items that work especially well vs. undead.

Advantages are zero encumbrance, immune to disease, and maybe a few more.

[ April 18, 2004, 00:20: Message edited by: Yossar ]

Re: Very New to Game, is this a sound course?

In case any of you are interested in what happened...I forged a Ring of Regeneration and gave it to my ailing Pretender. This stopped is slow death. After casting Gift of Life, in about 20-30 turns, all FOUR aliments were gone and not a one has returned. He is back to his ***-kicking self, deftling handing Man his own backside.