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The black dragon breathes a disintegration blast!
Croesus is disintegrated! The orc-captain is disintegrated!--More--
The orc shaman is disintegrated! The bugbear is disintegrated--More--

He shouldn't have kept such a dangerous pet around.

-K
 
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Kremti wrote:
> The black dragon breathes a disintegration blast!
> Croesus is disintegrated! The orc-captain is disintegrated!--More--
> The orc shaman is disintegrated! The bugbear is
disintegrated--More--
>
> He shouldn't have kept such a dangerous pet around.
>
> -K

Who, the bugbear?

Actually, the dragon was acting as a free agent in this case, and was
no one's pet. For as we all know, pet dragons lose the use of their
breath weapon.

- John "Really wishes pet dragons would *breathe* once in a while* H.
 
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John H. wrote:
> Kremti wrote:
> > The black dragon breathes a disintegration blast!
> > Croesus is disintegrated! The orc-captain is
disintegrated!--More--
> > The orc shaman is disintegrated! The bugbear is
> disintegrated--More--
> >
> > He shouldn't have kept such a dangerous pet around.
> >
> > -K
>
> Who, the bugbear?
>
> Actually, the dragon was acting as a free agent in this case, and was

Precisely the reason why one shouldn't keep them in your own throne
room...

-K
 
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Kevin Wayne wrote:
<snip>
> I think Kremti was thinking of the black dragon as Croesus' pet. This

> evidently happened in Ludios.

Um, I think he knew what I meant. "Who, the bugbear?" line made me
think he was talking in tongue and cheek...

I've had a good luck with those black dragons. One time, there was a
Titan in the Castle who summoned, among which there was a black dragon
who promptly disintegrated the Titan himself with a great bank shot.

-K
 
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John H. wrote:

> Actually, the dragon was acting as a free agent in this case, and was
> no one's pet. For as we all know, pet dragons lose the use of their
> breath weapon.
>
> - John "Really wishes pet dragons would *breathe* once in a while* H.

There is a pet breath patch around:
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/mazewest/nh-patches/petrange.diff
but I don't know if it still compiles.

Lars
 
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On 5/2/05 12:53 AM, John H. wrote:
> Kremti wrote:
>
>>The black dragon breathes a disintegration blast!
>>Croesus is disintegrated! The orc-captain is disintegrated!--More--
>>The orc shaman is disintegrated! The bugbear is
>
> disintegrated--More--
>
>>He shouldn't have kept such a dangerous pet around.
>>
>>-K

I think Kremti was thinking of the black dragon as Croesus' pet. This
evidently happened in Ludios.

--
Kevin Wayne

"I came to Casablanca for the waters."
"Waters? What waters? We're in the desert?"
"I was misinformed."
 
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"Kremti" <kremti@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1115032973.441855.198230@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

>
> John H. wrote:

>> > The black dragon breathes a disintegration blast!
>> > Croesus is disintegrated! The orc-captain is
> disintegrated!--More--
>> > The orc shaman is disintegrated! The bugbear is
>> disintegrated--More--
>> >
>> > He shouldn't have kept such a dangerous pet around.
>> >
>> > -K

But how do you get the black dragon out of your throne room once it
takes residence?
 
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Jacobs wrote:
<snip>
>
> But how do you get the black dragon out of your throne room once it
> takes residence?

I dunno 😀 I think the key is to leave him outside your throne room to
begin with, like the rest of the dragons residing outside the castle
around the moat.

-K