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EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster

Posted by simoniker on from the cheetos-used-up-entirely dept.

Thanks to Got Game? for their posting discussing the in-game slaying of Kerafyrm, aka The Sleeper, in PC MMO EverQuest. This event, commemorated with a screenshot on the site of one of the guilds involved, is notable because the players "...killed what Sony Online Entertainment intended to be unkillable. But rather than actually make it untargetable, Sony just gave it a hundred billion hitpoints. For those non EQers out there a reference scale: a snake has about 10 hitpoints. A dragon has about 100,000. A god has 1-2million." So, it took "close to 200 players almost 4 hours to beat the thing down into the ground", after an earlier failed attempt where the guilds "beat it down to 27% and then it mysteriously disappeared. Without dying. It seems that one of the Game Masters at SoE reset the zone because 'they thought the encounter might be bugged'."

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  1. Everquest players.... by quandrum · · Score: 5, Funny

    Proving they have too much time on their hands one unkillable monster at a time.

  2. All I can say is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would like to be there when they try to use their 15 minutes of fame to get laid at a bar.

  3. so they beat the unbeatable character by musikit · · Score: 4, Funny

    how long until it gets solo-ed?

  4. Re:Kinda like the Matrix... by SamBeckett · · Score: 5, Funny

    if i hear another friggin matrix analogy i am going to kill myself... and have trinity kiss me to wake me back up..

  5. Re:Unkillable by Tofino · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yes. Basically, Kerafyrm was supposed to be the doer of the end of the world, opening the door for the EQ2 storyline. After getting extremely annoyed about something or other, Kerafyrm blows everything up, including complete destruction of the moon, and buggers off somewhere. Years later, civilization redevelops, only in much higher resolution and with better textures and less clothes.

    No Kerafyrm, no moon blowing up, no mass destruction with a T-25 Space Modulator.

  6. Sure you can by stardeep · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Can't attack dead things, eh?

    Something tells me you haven't played many fantasy RPGs...

    Look out! There's a lich behind you!

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  7. Ebay!! by More+Karma+Than+God · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I buy the corpse on Ebay?

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  8. Re:Unkillable by oman_ · · Score: 3, Funny


    It's just a classic example of security through absurdity.

    When will people learn that THIS NEVER WORKS.

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