Anthill

Why in the world would you dive into an ant hill?

Area Designer:

Labrat

Directions:

4s 11e 2s 2e s sw w s (from Midgaard Temple)

While standing in the room: "A Magnifying Glass", issue the following command:

> gaze glass

Zone Reset:

30 minutes (empty)

Story/History:

Somewhere to the east of Midgaard, there have been rumors of giant ants raiding kitchens, pantries, and nurseries. Rumor has it that some of these ants are large enough to carry off a full grown troll!  So beware if you go searching for this hidden lair -- greater warriors than you have never returned!

Mobs of Note:

Captain (Invasion Order, Captain's Insignia), Ant Champion (Queen's Favor), Queen (Queen's Egg), Drone Ant

General Zone Strategies:

As soon as you enter the zone, you're jumped by the giant baby.  Prepare for that.

Drone Ants make excellent tanks. Charm them and use them to lead your pet swarm force. Great for taking down Toykenstein in Andrus' Toy Land. Use the east door of the Lounge to lead them out of the zone and through the Kitchen in Welmar's Castle. Remember to make them stand after charming and have them drop their 10K gold before wandering them.

The bulldog ants can see invis and in the dark.  They are aggro! and !calm, so don't let them gang up on you as they are resistant to magic as well. Move to the safe room (on the map) and leave a cleric.  Use the safe room to summon your big W as you work your way down to the Captain, the Queen and the Champion Ants below.

The Captain defends an !magic room.  He cannot see in the dark. Use creative summoning to take him down.  Either a big backstabbing T30 or your power striking multi-remort S30.

The Champion is aggro!, has memory and can be debuffed by your invis, mirrored B30 runner.  

• • Remove lights and be invisible to transverse the ant ranks.  **

(Bring a naked big mage to curse/web, too!)  He's got a bunch of HP, will toss and pzar and other area stuff. If you have at least a 7 remort Sohei, skip the debuffs and strike the Champion down.

The Queen, one room under her Champion, is not aggro!, doesn't toss, has magic user procs, and has a billion HP.  Debuff her and be prepared for a long battle if you don't have a WK W27+ warrior.  Be sure to fumble her if you're going to double hit her down. With the advent of striking, multi-remort Soheis, however, you can skip to the striking part and summon/strike the Queen away.

The Invasion Order (Captain) blocks insignia load.

Equipment:

ITEM	TYPE	MOB	DISPLAY
antenna, broken ant	trash	worker ant	mL 0 !rests
Queen's Favor	arm	Champion	mL 12 !mctsb !n 5 ac 1 dam 5 hp
Captain's Insignia	neck	Captain	mL 16 !mctns 1 dam 1 cha
Invasion Order	trash	Captain of the Ant Army	mL 0 !rests
Queen's Egg	light	Queen	mL 13 !mtwanb g! 1 wis 6% mnR
whip, slave driver's	weapon	driver ant	mL 5 !mctwps 4D5 12.0 avg 2 cha

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