Irene, the Infirm

[MongoJerry]

UP NEXT: THE DEATH SCREEN

Let's see, now where were we? Oh, yeah.

But as Irene raced toward the doorway to the entrance room, Andariel started up a second poison gas cloud attack. The clouds screamed toward Irene. They were nearly on top of her when she was less than a yard away from the door,...

...and then the poison clouds reached the limit of their range and dissipated just before they struck their mark. Irene bolted through the doorway to the entrance room, ducked behind the wall, started up a townportal, and returned to town. *Whew!* (No, I didn't make this up. This actually happened. *pant* *pant*).



Irene revived Aliza, replenished her supply of potions, took a deep breath, and then returned to the Catacombs.



Irene continued to bait Andariel while allowing Aliza to shoot safely at Andariel as much as possible.



However, her near-death experience caused Irene to be more cautious than before. She kept her distance which meant that Aliza often had to take the brunt of Andariel's attacks. She had to be revived frequently.



In fact, when Andariel's life bar had been whittled down to the middle of the "N," Irene noticed that their stores still had 22 high quality healing potions left, including all nine regular healing potions. This prompted her to let Aliza do almost all the tanking and fighting. Irene, meanwhile, stood back, fed potions to Aliza (including high quality healing potions), and townportaled to town whenever Aliza got in trouble. This may sound cowardly and cruel on Irene's part, but in fact Aliza died less often during this period with Irene focused entirely on serving Aliza's needs instead of her own. Also, the regular healing potions healed Aliza very quickly. They might as well have been full rejuvenation potions as far as she was concerned.