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Originally Posted by Gold & Appel Inc
Once one of them is severely injured, you can get them to do all kinds of crazy stuff if you dangle some healing potions in front of them.
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Ah, yes!
I remember when the sorcerer Abadas 'I Just Get These Headaches' Hussein and Rasul Khamsin Mubtasim, the Martial Artist From Hell*, were trying to get away from an enemy fortress during an incursion of fiends**.
Abadas decided to stop in the gatehouse, where any relief force was sure to pass through and where fiends were likely to gather for defence, so he could search for healing potions on the bodies of some champions he'd slain.***
Of course, searching for healing potions led to seeing all the nice and shiny valuable loot on the champions. Glowing magical weapons, orichalum armour, amulet pulsating with magical energy, etc.
Long story short, he stopped there until he'd stripped the bodies of everything valuable and in the meantime, Rasul desperately dodged spells from wizards who could collapse castles with their magic and wondered why the sorcerer who was going to teleport them away wasn't coming.
*He literally spent the last century in Hell, serving as a commando leader and working himself up to dark general in the eternal Blood War between the fiends of Law and Chaos, due to a minor lapse of attention when reading the small print on a contract with a devil.
**Summoned by Rasul, but not all that friendly to anyone.
***He had received a barbed glaive through the rear of the Groin hit location. Even with enough healing to allow him to stand up again, he was far from okay.