Reguarding Mammoth, he's part of a quest, he ate some ranger's kid and you
bring him back his remains or something to get a faction adjustment and i
dont know what else, he was ment to be aggressive, to all...
You were lucky you had those songs memorized or you might have been yogi
food
Minkin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kim [SMTP:kim@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 1:56 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Warning about Accelerando
>
> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> There are mobs that can keep up with you with Accelerando
> *with* a drum.
>
> I (L18 bard) was visiting Surefall Glade for the first time.
> All the NPCs gladly told me about the poacher problems so I
> happily jaunted into the caves to rid them of the poacher
> scourge. All the bears were green and threatening to me, but
> didn't attack. I finally ran across a huge bear - Mammoth -
> who was yellow and threatening. He immediately attacked me
> (hey, thanks for the warning - real funny sending me on a
> quest where the thing I'm supposed to be protecting attacks
> me).
>
> Mammoth is fast. Very fast. With Accelerando (my running
> song) and a drum, I can (slowly) outrun druids and shamans
> with Spirit of the Wolf.
>
> I couldn't outrun Mammoth.
>
> He whacked me down to two bars of life (around 150/399, so
> it's not like I tried to outrun him for just a few seconds - I
> was doing a pretty good imitation of the pod race scene in the
> Phantom Menace going through those caves at warp speed for a
> good 20-30 seconds), at which point I knew there was no way
> I'd survive a trip to the zone with Mammoth in tow. I figured
> my best chance was to jump off a ledge and hope I'd land in
> water, which I did, and which happened. This was my first
> time in Surefall so I was now completely lost, with a mad bear
> I couldn't outrun presumably pathfinding his way through the
> twists and turns of the caves in the shortest possible
> computer-generated route to decapitating me. So I ran in any
> old direction and ended up in a dead-end cave with a pool of
> water.
>
> Not wanting to backtrack, I jumped in the water and swam.
> There was a small underwater passage. I figured the chances
> that Mammoth, whom I'd left far above, had somehow gotten
> *below* me were slim, so I took the passage. After a good
> deal of swimming (my skill is around 85) I was about to start
> drowning and realized this passage was not meant for mere
> mortals. Fortunately, I just happened to have the Aquatic
> Ayre memorized, so I started it - end of drowning problem.
>
> The underwater passage went on for a really really long time -
> I'd guess about 4-5 times the time it normally takes you to
> start drowning. Finally I saw light and popped up in a room
> behind the waterfall. I kicked in Accelerando again and got
> the Hell out of Surefall.
>
> Don't go in the caves unless you're a druid or ranger. :-)
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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