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Re: Spiders, time, mad myrks, etc.

Posted By: SiliconDream (anton-mates.hip.berkeley.edu)
Date: 11/12/1999 at 4:24 p.m.

In Response To: Spiders, time, mad myrks, etc. (duckyjo)

: Simple solution to this one. Kind of. The summoner
: summons a myrk giant or two and gets soulblighter to
: tame them. The giants were leaders of the normal
: myrks, so since the summoner had control of them, he
: basically had generals to keep the troops in line.
: The summoner summons a myrk really quickly and throws it
: straight at a group of spiders. Spiders die while the
: summoner gives the myrk giants some time to either
: kick the myrk's butt so they will obey the giant's
: orders. Quick, simple, and relatively painless. If the
: myrk got out of hand, the giant could kick it's ass
: and the summoner could resurrect it again, hopefully
: with better results. Or he could use his teleport
: spell to throw it somewhere else in the tain. The myrk
: would be too busy killing spiders and trying to find
: its way around to try to attack the summoner.

: If the summoner did things this way, and the time
: difference between the outside and inside was nil,
: then he could still raise quite a large force of
: myrks. Certainly not a few billion, but he could at
: least get half a million off in those months. That's
: still a lot of myrks.

Well, sure. I wasn't saying the summoner couldn't possibly have resurrected a few million or billion or zillion myrks; I was just trying to explain the fact that, apparently, he didn't.

: Huh. THe part about the time in the broken tain I have no
: idea about. But the spiders and stuff... Well, the
: spiders were extremely abundant. The Tain has a hell
: of a lot of space inside of it, even if it is
: shattered. Those spiders could have a hell of a lot of
: breeding grounds that the myrks don't know about. The
: spiders constantly attack myrks to defend their home,
: which doesn't work, and guess where the bodies go?
: Well, myrks are flesh-eaters, and they've got to eat
: sometime. Spiders can't taste all that bad.
: You will probably think something like: but with all
: those myrks running rampant in the tain, wouldn't all
: the spiders eventually be killed off? Or wouldn't they
: get to be too much for the Summoner to control?
: Of course. Soulblighter is not stupid. He probably
: thought of that a long time ago. That's why he's
: constantly shipping live myrks out of the tain, and
: dead ones back into it. That gives the summoner a nice
: supply of myrks to raise, and a low number of myrks
: that insist on kicking each other.

But after thirty thousand years, wouldn't even spiders learn not to attack myrks? I mean, there's a pretty strong evolutionary impetus here. Attack myrks and you die. Most earthly animals have learned to fear humans in less time than that.

: If undead couldn't be controlled by the being that raised
: them if he was out of the tain, then why were there
: thrall in the tain in TFL? There weren't any fallen
: lords in there. I think I know why the thrall weren't
: kept in the tain, though. What do myrks eat? Dead
: people. What are thrall? Dead people. Who would win in
: a fight? Myrk.
: If you were soulblighter, would you send a bunch of
: thrall into the tain just to be eaten by a bunch of
: bloodthirsty, recently awakened myrkridia? No. 'Nuff
: said.

Soulblighter was apparently willing to send a bunch of fetch into the Tain, and I can't see why Myrkridia would attack thrall and not fetch. They may be made out of energy, but their skins must be tasty and their lightning barely singes a Myrk's whiskers. 'Sides, thrall are half-rotten dead people and there must be a limit even to what a Myrk will eat. Double 'sides, there are lots of levels with both Thrall and Myrkridia. You never see them eating one another (it would make the game a lot easier, though...)

--SiliconDream

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