Carnivorous Trees

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Carnivorous Trees

Postby Thoul » Sat Jan 26, '08, 8:34 pm

You remember the Carnivorous Trees, right? In PSIV, we had to rescue Kyra from them when she went off to Garubek Tower on her own. It's an endless battle because no matter how many of the trees you cut down, more grow in their place.

During that battle, how long did you keep fighting before you finally gave up and used the Run command?
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Postby Celeith » Sat Jan 26, '08, 8:45 pm

I think I actually killed over 10,000 trees before finally giving up my first time.
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Postby Fogeltje » Sat Jan 26, '08, 10:18 pm

I spent quite a lot of time since I kept on fighting until I could go no more. I had exhausted my skills, tp's and healing supplies, my hitpoints were very low and I simply couldn't have survived for two more rounds. I had figured they were boss enemies so I thought running was no option. I accidentally hit retreat and look...I retreated...and the game progressed. I was pretty angry since I had spent an eternity fighting those trees.
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Postby SparkyIII » Sat Jan 26, '08, 11:50 pm

I can't remember what we did. I think we figured out that they just woudn't stop and we thought we needed to do something before we came back so we ran. But thats what I only guess. We'd have probably died fighting rather than trying to retreat, thinking it was a boss, and we couldn't.
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Postby Tsunami » Sun Jan 27, '08, 2:04 am

After seeing my older brother play the game before, I already knew to run. :D But I have fought them before for awhile, though it got boring.
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Postby Thoul » Sun Jan 27, '08, 4:45 am

I fought them for a long time the first time as well, until I finally realized there was no winning the battle. Once, I later went up there and fought for as long as I could, just to see if it might be something like Re-Faze. I thought maybe it would end eventually, but that was a no go.
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Postby hugues » Sun Jan 27, '08, 2:35 pm

I didn't fight them too long.. after about 10 I figured there was some item I was missing or something else I had to do first.

In related news, the carnivorous plant isn't such a far-fetched idea: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/22/2143809.htm
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Postby Thoul » Mon Jan 28, '08, 1:51 pm

Huh, interesting. I've never heard of a plant big enough to eat something other than an insect. I'm glad the location is being kept secret. I'd hate to see the mishaps that could happen from someone trying to import that as a new form of pest control.
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Postby SparkyIII » Mon Jan 28, '08, 11:08 pm

lol, well I'd be pretty safe, my mom works at a pest control place.
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Postby Atlinsmere » Wed Jan 30, '08, 5:32 am

I defeated about 4 waves before I ran... and about that plant... Wow, just wow.
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