10-05-2003, 02:41 AM
While herding Achmel's minions, a "jailbreak" broke out among the bosses and champions parked in the upper left-hand corner. Their bone prisons had long since fallen and they saw me as I passed, so they came charging out. I coaxed them back into the upper left corner as best as I could and bone prisoned them in again. However, I didn't coax all of them as far back as I would've liked and knew I'd have to be careful when going near that area again.
When I returned to the main chamber, I made a disturbing discovery. Colenzo had wandered back up to the top of the chamber. Argh! Oh, well. I needed to take care of Achmel first.
He also turned out to be a lot easier to coax out of the room than I thought he would be. By keeping him on the edge of my screen, I was able to quickly move him around to where I had parked the other bosses and champions. I was starting to run out of room on the left side, though, and even the normal monsters had the look of wanting to stage a "jailbreak" at any moment. I might try to park a few more monsters on the left side, but I would need to start using the empty areas on the right side and near the entrance soon.
I walked back into the main chamber and again tried to coax Colenzo down to the bottom of the chamber. It took a lot longer this time and at one point he actually walked to the very top corner of the chamber. I tried various tricks to get him to move toward me, but none of them other than the "keep him just barely on screen" trick seemed to work -- and it worked only very slowly.
However, he did come down eventually to the bottom of the chamber, and I bone prisoned him. "This time, stay there!" I thought. Baal laughed again, and Bartuc The Bloody came out.
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