The "Pass It On" Tournament

[jiansonz]

Something fishy is up. If you look at post #857, DontFret asked for crazy_bear´s address, so he could send characters to him. Then, in post #859, it looks like crazy_bear is expecting Abarr to come to him. This was not too long ago, just about a month. After that, I can´t see that crazy_bear has played Abarr.

On july 28, skunk pointed out to DontFret that he shall indeed send his characters to crazy_bear.

So I wonder if crazy_bear eventually received Abarr, or if he´s still by DontFret...

 

[skunkbelly]

I've PMd crazy_bear, and we'll get it sorted out.

@DontFret: if crazy_bear doesn't have the file, do you still have a copy? I hope so...

 

[DontFret]

Yes I do if need be ....

DontFret

 

[crazy_bear]

I never received Abarr, I don't even recall when I should have received him.

Anyway please send him again DontFret.

Thanks
CB

flyingplatypus30 [at] yahoo [dot] ca

 

[DontFret]

Well, I looked and do not have the abarr file.... not even a file being sent to me... weird I guess. What to do? I have kept all files sent to me and all files sent out so that means I havent seen him since round 1 ? I dunno ....

 

[skunkbelly]

Hmm. Weird. I sent him to you on July 16th, so it's been a while, but I've just re-sent him to you. Please confirm when you receive him, and also if you received Geisha yesterday. Remember that you'll have to play Abarr FIRST... if you've started Geisha, please stop until you've completed Abarr.

 

[skunkbelly]

OK, I heard from c_b... he never received Abarr, which makes sense now... somehow, my email of Abarr never reached DontFret.

SO... DF, please play Abarr, then pass him along to crazy_bear. We should be all set.

In the meantime, I'm working on Wightie. He's so weak that he can't play on the players setting I'd like, but he's humming along nicely at players 3, and has rescued Anya and defeated Nihlathak. Next up: Ancients. We'll see how it goes... should be OK, but I have my doubts.

One thing that is helping quite a bit... I piled on the strength charms, and now Wightie is wearing my most prized possession: Skullder's Ire, socketed with a perfect ruby. It was my merc armor, but without a decent merc weapon, Wightie's doing most of the killing (especially with CE), so now they can both get the bonus. So he's wearing about 130% MF, which isn't terrific, but certainly better than the 40% or so he had before. I'm noticing many more sets and uniques, though all have been junky low-level items. But perhaps that will change soon... we'll see.

 

[skunkbelly]

LIVING PLAYERS (IN ORDER):
DontFret
crazy-bear
jiansonz		04084370 AT bredband.net
jgreg7
hoop76         		[email protected]  


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LIVING CHARACTERS (IN ORDER)
Abarr 		(Barbarian)
Pastyface 	(Necromancer)
Queenie 	(Amazon)
Ravenous 	(Druid)
Trueheart 	(Paladin)
Geisha 		(Assassin)

Well, the demons of hell won't have Wightie to kick around anymore. He died to his own stupidity on the summit of Mount Arreat.

It was one of my more embarrassing demises, actually. I employed Bone Prison against the Ancients, which worked very well against two of 'em. But silly Wightie got himself trapped in his own prison along with Madawc. That was nothing a TP couldn't have solved... but Madawc wasn't hitting hard at all, and so I decided to keep him decrep'd and Spear him while I waited for the prison to fall. The prisons around Korlic and Talic fell, and I assumed mine would any second... in the meantime, all I needed to do was re-prison K & T. Therein was my fatal mistake... instead of imprisoning them, I just re-imprisoned myself while they ran up to help Madawc. Couldn't quite get the TP up in time.

Oh well. He wouldn't have stood a chance in hell anyway, with such a lousy build. Good luck to all still standing!

 

[Hoop76]

sorry to hear that skunk. I agree wighty sucked. I had to go slow with him. Thats part of the reason it took me so long to send. Guess i send to Dontfret now. Hopefully trueheart will be sent later.

 

[crazy_bear]

Oh no, that is terrible news Skunk, though unfortunately it was bound to happen to someone at the ancients. He might have been the weakest of the remaining living chars and ancients is always tricky even when you aren't expecting it.

Here's hoping we live on to avenge him!

CB

 

[Billybgame]

Sorry to hear about that, Skunkbelly. Hadn't seen a Deeds post in awhile, so it was bound to happen sooner, or later.

 

[purplelocust]

Sorry to hear about the death of Wightie! Bone prisoning yourself in with all three ancients is one of the more inglorious ends, ouch! I'm not playing in this tourney but I am curious about how the characters are ending up getting built, so if it isn't much trouble it would be wonderful to know what the skill and stat allocations were on those characters which have died- have there been some real hot potatoes passed along? It would also be great to maybe have some idea of what kinds of things people are holding in their toolchests. Thanks!

 

[skunkbelly]

Well, to give you an idea, Wightie was a bone spear necro... but he was also given a point in every summoning skill and nearly every curse... he had four points each in skeleton mastery and raise skeleton. In other words, at least a third of his skill points were completely wasted, in terms of a traditional bonemancer build. Eek.

He was worse than most, though... and some of the most awful characters didn't make it out of normal difficulty, of course.

 

[Brak]

Just wanted to say this is really awesome idea. I've just finished reading this thread from page 1, and have re-registered on the forums and am currently beating normal on single player to enable HC just so I can compete in the next round. Now I only have to figure out ATMA and I'll be ready to go.

Congrats to all those still alive, and Skunk, sorry to see you got stuck with a bomb for one of the hardest legs of the game.

 

[Hoop76]

I kind of feel like i set you up. He sucked so bad i just went through at players1 and killed only what i had to, and sent him to you.

Oh yeah i need Dontfrets email to pass on trueheart. Just leave a pm, or dontfret can email me at [email protected]. Or if you read this first skunk, you could let me know in a pm or email.

 

[crazy_bear]

Just posting to hope for an update on Abarr. Hopefully you are close to finished with him DontFret?

I haven't received anything if you have already sent him.

Anyway, I hope everyone else is progressing well,

CB

 

[Hoop76]

I still dont have an email address to send my chars to. Just wanted to bring this back towards the top to get noticed.

 

[Hoop76]

still cant pass yet. I guess since skunk got killed it seems like this tourney died also.

 

[Hoop76]

OK i checked my email, and fount out the email address. Ill be starting to send some chars to Dontfret soon

 

[crazy_bear]

I don't know what has happened... you should be sending to DontFret and he should be sending to me, however he seems to have disappeared for the moment.

I checked his postings, his last one was the one in this thread, though his status also said he was active today.

I'm sure Jiansonz is just waiting patiently for his next char.

So to sum it all up I have no idea what is going on.

Perhaps if DontFret has gone MIA we will need to have you send to me? What were the last couple of chars you sent on? Do we have enough chars left to leave the ones that were with DontFret out?

Skunkbelly, are you out there?

CB