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  • [evilhack] What makes Medusa die?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 10:44:11 2023
    Reached Medusa's level in EvilHack in visible shape with a shield of
    reflection worn and (paranoid) an additional mirror for good measure.
    A couple surprises...
    No instant stoning from shield. Applied mirror does also not work.
    Got slowed down despite a worn blindfold. I threw Skilled enchanted
    spears from distance. The artifact Sword of Annihilation was also
    quite ineffective, i.e. did not disintegrated her. Medusa stepped
    into a mine which doesn't hindered her following me. I needed quite
    a couple bites from my lizard to stay alive since her first attack.
    And at some point it seemed that she rested some turns. And a few
    turns later she just died without any further action.
    Is Medusa now dying slowly? What are the exact conditions for her
    to get killed? (It's not that obvious what happens here, compared
    to Nethack or Slashem.)
    Would it be possible to just run away (while in line-of-sight of
    Medusa) to have her die from her reflected image in due time?

    Janis

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  • From Mobi Leuser@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 06:24:08 2023
    Medusa can avert her eyes. Sometimes she doesn't manage that in time and then she turns to stone. The closer you are, the bigger the chance she will turn to stone (I don't know the precise odds). She also has extra stoning attacks from the snakes in her
    hair. She can also be killed with ranged weapons or in melee.
    She is vulnerable to fire.
    You can run away and have her die from her reflected image in due time, but remember that she can fly.
    Stoning resistance is (of course) very nice to have when fighting her (from yellow-scaled armor or wielded Sword of Kas).

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Mobi Leuser on Thu Apr 13 16:06:08 2023
    On 13.04.2023 15:24, Mobi Leuser wrote:
    Medusa can avert her eyes. Sometimes she doesn't manage that in time
    and then she turns to stone. The closer you are, the bigger the
    chance she will turn to stone (I don't know the precise odds). She
    also has extra stoning attacks from the snakes in her hair. She can
    also be killed with ranged weapons or in melee. She is vulnerable to
    fire. You can run away and have her die from her reflected image in
    due time, but remember that she can fly. Stoning resistance is (of
    course) very nice to have when fighting her (from yellow-scaled armor
    or wielded Sword of Kas).

    Thanks for the detailed information. The odds must be quite low,
    though, since I was quite often adjacent to her (with all those
    negative stoning effects on me). I had no stoning resistance, or
    at least not that I know of. It seemed that my ranged attacks and
    melee weren't very effective; she must have had a lot of HPs, I
    suppose. With that experience it seems it would be the best means
    to run away and wait for the incidental reflection-counterattack.

    Janis

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