Saturday, 14th June 2014, 05:21 by SchwaWarrior
I've been having fun with my new friend The +7+7 Singing Sword lately. For those of you who don't know, this is a Fixedart Bastard Sword that frequently chats to the player, but when you get into battle, it starts shouting at the enemies and lightly damages every single enemy in LoS every turn. (The enemies "recoil from the noise" and take damage.)
This is a great ability in a lot of situations. It tears apart things like Slime Creatures and Starcursed Masses, for instance! And almost the entire way through Vaults it does wonders against everything you fight basically.
But, here's some situations I've found over my last two long games where this little guy stops being such a delight.
The Royal Jelly, in Slime:6. Every turn the Singing Sword's screams cause TRJ to take a tiny bit of damage and to spit out more jellies, over and over, never stopping. ;_; When what you want is burst damage and nothing else, this isn't a good effect! I ended up going Jiyva because I couldn't figure out how to kill that thing and I was already badly mutated.
And the other thing? Don't worship Zin while using the Singing Sword. If you put a Sanctuary up, and the Sword starts screaming at enemies who are running away, they will take damage and Zin will get very angry and revoke your Sanctuary instantly as well as a big chunk of your piety. x_x I'd imagine TSO does the same thing if the screams damage a paralyzed/confused enemy too, but haven't tested.
Oh and a minor, third thing? Singing Sword is NOT compatible with Spectral Weapon. This makes me sad.
As cool as Singing Sword is, after this last game, as a HESk where I got seven Runes and then died in mortal combat versus Lom Lobon (down to the wire, but juuust didn't quite make it), I think I'm going back to normal weapons for a long time. <:) Boy that was a great game though, and a fantastic death.
P.S: If anyone would like to hunt down and kill my "Intangible HESk" ghost in Pan somewhere on the CSZO server, I'd really appreciate it!
--Schwa, your local muse forever and long-time High Elf fangirl ^_~
(also the master of Quadri-Birds)
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