Kangaxx the Lich refuses to die (spoilers)

Kaitsuburi · Post by **Kaitsuburi** » Mon May 10, 2004 6:51 am

Sorry for the spoilers, if you don't wish to be spoiled, don't read on.

So, I came back from Spellhold last night, upgraded all those nifty items, equipped my whole party with uber items, walking the streets of Athkathla defiently at night luring those thug parties (not that many showed up, though).

I did some wicked planning and preparation (all wizard types have Chain Contingency now), queing triple Abi-Dalzims and what not, getting ready to do all the real baddies in Athkathla in one night (I had strategically left the Kangaxx-related liches as well as the Twisted Rune).

Beautiful battles, careful buffing, Spell Immunity and such, timestops, and the Twisted Rune were dead with no one losing more than 20% of their HP. No nasty chain contingencies were even activated!!! I dispatched with the liches in a similar fashion; one of them I slayed before his Tatoos of Power and crazy buffs could kick in (Mazzy is a Sytze-worthy archer now!). The nasties above improved Kangaxx in the Docks were nasty as usual (almost killed Mazzy), but nothing really spectacular.

And then the bug! I was ready for Kangaxx, my PC had a single scroll of protection from magic just in case, and we took on to bash Kangaxx the Lich, waiting impatiently for his other self to appear. But it didn't happen!! Don't you hate it when you get these unkillable characters! I didn't fake-talk, battle started normally but Kangaxxy wouldn't die, whatever I did !! OK, he finally ran out of spells, it seems, but I just kept pounding on him with 5 fighter-type characters and their uber-weapons. I think I did about 6000 damage to him because Chloe with the Water Scimitar of Cheese (Water's Edge) raised her HP to over 400! Cntl-Y I tried as well, but no effect, no damage taken!! I reloaded, CLUA-ed in the Ring of Gaxx, gave everyone 20000 XP and indignantly marched out of there.

Has anyone else had such an annoying thing happen to them? I don't know what is causing this, but it's got to be one of the mods (all are Weidu, nonetheless).

-kaitsuburi

Mr.Waesel · Post by **Mr.Waesel** » Mon May 10, 2004 7:16 am

Had the same thing happen to me. Minsc and Kangaxx had a boxing match

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Mon May 10, 2004 10:30 am

Aint it the same bug that used to happen to the Bhaalspawns?
The one fixed with the "deathscript=1" option on CLUA?
Cause Abazigal is such a bastard, and he used to drop to 1 hit point, never dying, even with ctrl y. Then I used the dscript option, and he fell on the next wack.

Could have been a Savy deathbringer atack, for fun, but anyone hitting it has done...

I think this was used to test the game, so that they'll see what will happen till the last minute of the fight, from the monster.

Hesperus · Post by **Hesperus** » Mon May 10, 2004 8:06 pm

I always get the same bug w improved Kangaxx, and so I have Tashia shapechange flayer and brain-drain him, heh, one of the sweet uses for that spell... I wait until after the dialogue where he used to turn into a demilich skull for what its worth.

And Chloe with Cheese's Edge is an absolute monster...

Kaitsuburi · Post by **Kaitsuburi** » Mon May 10, 2004 8:24 pm

Originally posted by Luis Antonio
Aint it the same bug that used to happen to the Bhaalspawns?
The one fixed with the "deathscript=1" option on CLUA?

Cool, this looks like the solution to this annoying problem

Thank you!

I wonder if cntl-y doesn't work in the no-die situation, stats-draining (like mind-flayer intelligence draining, strength draining through Torgal's dagger or wis draining through Kachiko's wakizashi) would kill the unkillable...

-kaitsuburi