Ok, it's my first time going through BG, with a party of the three duos, with me as Inziladun LE Dwarf Ftr/Cleric. We've cleared the Cloakwood mines uneventfully, but we're pretty much beat - full health, but no heals left, Dynaheir hasn't got a single spell remaining, and the priests have just a few: dispel, silence, hold, animate dead, maybe a couple more.
Anyway, amazingly enough I manage to find and disarm the traps without incident, though we trigger Daevorn aggro on disarming the third. He proceeds to kick our asses pretty handily - to no one's surprise - no buffs, Dynaheir only has the wand of lighting out. Anyway after a couple of tries, I decide before we set up a spell/potion/gear lineup & rest, that I'll just screw around a bit, so here's what I do:
Imoen sneaks through the trap, taking the relatively trivial damage. Daevorn says his little bit, but doesn't do anything except cast mirror image. Imoen scouts out the floor, and returns to the party unharmed. I summon my skeletal pals, and send them in to play with Mr.D while Imoen keeps an eye on things.
I thought he'd toast them shortly, but they might strip some buffs, and it's not like they weeren't dead already. To my huge amazement, they actually do some damage to him, merrily chasing him around his little teleport route. He never even summoned his pets - I don't know if they interrupted the cast, or what. At the end, he's hitting them with his freaking quarterstaff!
He does, however, kill them all, but has taken some damage, and is showing no buff effects whatever at the end. Minsc swaps into leather, and sneaks in to join Imoen. They start beating on him, and as far as I can tell, he never even attempts to cast. The rest of the party follow in, and in very short order, he's doing the dirt dance. If he hadn't been backed into the wall, I think Imoen could have assasinated him solo.
Anyway, I was amazed at the performance of my skinny pals, and just wanted to share it with you all. If you've gotten this far, thanks for your patience in putting up with yet another "There I was, no ****..." story.
Cheers, everyone!
