Juggernaut Destroyer, Grom Ulysses, Marshal of the Dawn says, "Ok, go."
3572h, 3718m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
say ok.. go
You say, "Ok.. go."
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
(0h, 75m, 0e)

Hyrtakos tells you, "Still up on Water?"
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
A dizzying beam of energy strikes you as your attack rebounds off of Grom's
shield.
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
You must regain equilibrium first.
concentrate
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
You aren't holding a tarot card with that image on it.
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
You must regain equilibrium first.
concentrate
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
A dizzying beam of energy strikes you as your attack rebounds off of Grom's
shield.
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-

You blur and slip through time as Grom approaches you.
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-
3572h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrx-

Grom's aura of weapons rebounding disappears.
With a focused look, Grom strikes at you with a flail of multitudinous heads.
You are crushed squarely in the nose, which bleeds profusely.
Your head spins as a sudden fit of dizziness overwhelms you.
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drink health
(-904h, 0m, 0e)

With a focused look, Grom strikes at you with a flail of multitudinous heads.
Your nose is savagely crushed and breaks, causing blood to splurt forth.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
(-1147h, 0m, 0e)
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1521h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-

You bleed 162 health.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p lrxp-
(-162h, 0m, 0e)

/=========================\\
{ Equilibrium Recovered }
\\=========================/
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stand
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-

You are no longer stunned.
*** NO MORE STUN! ***
*** NO MORE STUN! ***
*** NO MORE STUN! ***
*** NO MORE STUN! ***
wake
apply mending to head
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drink health
You already are awake.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
You take out some salve and quickly rub it on your head.
Your jaw clicks into place as the bones there heal.
1359h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
You take a drink from a beryl vial.
The potion heals and soothes you.
1977h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
(618h, 0m, 0e)
You strike out at Grom with your deadly tail, and sting him.
1977h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
You shuffle one tarot card with the image of the Aeon out of your deck.
1977h, 3793m, 4220e, 10p elrx-
You fling a tarot card at Grom, and a jester appears with a slack jawed
expression. With a mad jingling of his bells, the fool squirts water at Grom
from a large flower.
The bells of a jester continue to jingle madly.
You stand an Aeon tarot on your palm, and blow it lightly at Grom.
Suddenly Grom's movements through the time stream are slowed.
The Enigma still thrums in your being.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
(0h, -37m, 0e)
You must regain balance first.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You must regain balance first.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You aren't holding a tarot card with that image on it.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You must regain balance first.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-

You may apply another salve to yourself.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-

Your pipe has gone cold and dark.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-

Your pipe has gone cold and dark.
1977h, 3756m, 4220e, 10p elr-

Grom takes a drink from a moonstone vial.
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(0h, 75m, 0e)

Grom takes a drink from a garnet vial.
1977h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-

You bleed 204 health.
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-
(-204h, 0m, 0e)
sting grom
outd aeon
fling aeon at grom
ind aeon
sting grom
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You must regain balance first.
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You aren't holding a tarot card with that image on it.
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-
You must regain balance first.
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elr-

/=========================\\
{ Balance Recovered }
\\=========================/
1773h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elrx-

With a focused look, Grom strikes at you with a flail of multitudinous heads.
Your nose is savagely crushed and breaks, causing blood to splurt forth.
701h, 3831m, 4220e, 10p elrxp-
(-1072h, 0m, 0e)
stand

With a focused look, Grom strikes at you with a flail of multitudinous heads.
Your nose is savagely crushed and breaks, causing blood to splurt forth.
Your body judders with the final strike, and a dull snap echoes out as something
vital inside you is irrevocably broken. Your last sensation is that of falling
as the world goes black, your life ended strangely painlessly.
You have been slain by Grom.



His damage is insane.. this is with demonscales, draconis, AND putrefaction...

Nihilist damage defense buff please?

All I can say is.. combat and resilience? Seriously, that's what it took for me to stand up to warriors. That or mantakaya daggers.

Honestly there isn't much you can do against a high wounding warrior but try to hinder whore while contagion works its magic. Throw aeons inbetween the shackles and hangedmans and hope you can stick it long enough to wrack the bastard. Grim helped me a ton with it, I couldn't stand warriors without him it was so ..heh I can't say the word I am thinking.

Grom hits FAR too hard to put up with.. and stun on it.. also that is with putre as I said and stance and parry on head.... No way to save that one really.. and notice demon though on aggro and targetted to him... still didnt hit....

A timestamp would have been nice. I think the stun is around 2 seconds.. so how fast can he hit?

EDIT: I think curing and keeping up with health would be a lot easier if the stun didn't hinder you for two seconds each time.

Sparkleberry, healing scrolls. Should be better. Also use enfeeble on him as your first attack.

Remember that he has high-damage weapons. Probably runed too.

How good are your robes?

Seriously, Malarious. Could you just use the arena like everyone else? Seeing all that power wasted really pains me.

Edit: Ok. So just ten power wasted. Still pains me. Could've been saved.

I've never really understood why people spar outside of the arena.

A duel, fine, that's different...but anyway.

Grom has artifacted damage weapons remember. Make sure you have all the proofing on your robe and coat and you'll want at least 50/50 great robes, combat and resilience is very useful as well.

Forgot one thing.

Never start the duel yourself. He had the shield up, and attacked when you hit it. That made all your defenses go away. Not the way to do it - WAIT for him to attack first. Then, use hindering (WEB, not aeon - aeon never sticks in the first few seconds of the fight, so it isn't hindering but rather making sure you can hinder in the future), enfeeble, or just shield/timeslip more, letting the demon afflict a bit. Attack after the demon hits, with afflictions to compliment those of the demon.

Yeah, those are definitely damage weapons, rather than wounding. High damage, and artifacted people said. Nasty stuff. With the artifacts, I'd say they could be quite quick, but I'm not logged in to check Grom's race.

If it's a standard-speed race, 4-second balance isn't out of the question.

And that, kids, is why you always, always, ALWAYS parry head against bonecrushers.

Umm, he spammed head hits. You never parried nor stanced your head. Of course you aren't going to survive long Warriors are insane if you don't use the multitude of defence you are given to deal with warriors.

EDIT: You were not parrying, stancing, nor rebounding.

I was going to laugh at Shamarah and Shorlen for not recognising that these were crushes.

But then I re-read the log and it seems these WEREN'T crushes after all, but ordinary strikes.

I am ashamed now.

And yes. You didn't stance, you didn't parry, you didn't use rebounding. And you're surprised you didn't win?

EDIT: Also, since these weren't crushes, I wonder how come he broke your nose (heavy wounds) on the second strike with damage-heavy weapons. You sure you were wearing your robe and that its hood was up? (raise hood)

Last I checked putrefaction only protects against cutting damage.

If they WERE crushes, I would have pointed out that he should have noticed the crushes and moved to heal up, then returned to murder Grom while Grom had no power on his prompt.

Grom's damage is not completely unreasonable. I could usually handle him as a mugwump moondancer, mainly because of hindering abilities. You will have to parry head, and I would recommend stancing legs so you can try to run when you need to. Let him get the first hit, as has been said. It'll still hurt, but better than wasting an attack. I'd start with web, then use enfeeble. Keep web/shackles/hangedman whoring, and throw in some aeon for good measure. Curse scrolls also come in handy if you get him held down long enough and you're not sure what to do.

Also, if he hits you and it hurts that badly, it's okay to run to heal. When you can, leave the room and wait for him to come to you. Then you can begin again with web/etc.. You can't expect to stand toe-to-toe against a warrior unless you have very high resilience and more health than you have.

100% human error no scrolls, sparkle, stance or parry. You also didn't even try clotting. Nihilist have enough defense buffs you just went in unprepared. Might as well asked him to kill you...

I have no idea who this guest is, but I'm forced to agree with him. You weren't prepared.

Likely Grom.