On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) wrote:

> But most casting desert or island madmen (or Derv's) that con green are
> fairly dangerous for me for some reason. They never seem to run out of mana,
> they never seem to get interrupted by me successfully hitting them while
> they're casting and they simply refuse to die. I don't even want to talk
> about the ones that sit there and heal themselves while I'm hacking their
> body parts off. If you get into trouble with a caster, you're simply SOL
> because you can't seem to outrun their spell range fast enough. (By trouble
> I mean down to the last bubble or so)

The key to outrunning spellcasters is to equip your drum.
With your drum they should be able to tag you with one spell.
Without it they can get off two or three.

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John H. Kim
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