OUCH! I was playing my Javazon in HC Hell Maggot Lair with Bongo's
sorc. We are ripping the place to shreds - without cheese I might add.

Jabber whispers me and I sadly end up hearing the story from him about
his death in HC. It was not his fault. It should not count. He deserves
better. Kids! You gotta love them. Now why did I throw that one in
there.

Poor Jabber. His son Andrew unplugged the mouse on him while he was
kicking a.s in the River of Flame. OUCH!

boydoisuck was killed by mouse eating child.

You have died

Your deeds of Valor will be Remembered.

The deeds of your children shall live on in the blah blah blah.

Jabber I will surely remember your deeds on this character despite not
partying with her much. That is great that you made it to the River and
a little further and someone could have come and kicked Diablo's a.s
with you and you would have been soaking up the sunshine in act 5.
Nightmare would have been just around the corner.

This death does nto count. Unfortunately we can't tell that to Bnet but
I want to make sure that everyone here pays homage to your deeds. You
do have the talent to make it far in the game. I do believe it. You are
quite resourcefull when it comes to figuring out the tools of the trade
that can get you there in style as well as with a fun style of play.

Jabber, next time, just to let you know try this. Hit esc and the
up/down to toggle the pentagrams to the middle choice and you might be
able to exit the game in time before the monsters kill your mouseless
character. Hopefully the mercs and minion can survive you long enough
for that exit. Perhaps you did try it.

I have another possible escape route myself. The wireless relay sits on
top of the PC I mostly use and I can reach up and unplug
the conenction and hope that Bnet loses the connection and save the
character before death. On my other PC if I am fast enough I can reach
in back of the modem and shut it off.

I am also tempted to pop off the Windows key with a butter knife while
I play HC. Although I have been fortunate enough not to have
accidecntally pressed it in HC I have done so in SC and would not want
to experience a HC death due to that.

Before we lost track of each other last night you were asking about
gear. We still have a somewhat shallow amount of gear packed away on
the mules. We are still quite at a early stage in our HC endeavors.
Cripes I never even looked at the gear there. I would suggest muling
gems like crazy and cubing them up to perfect. Eventually you will have
a stockpile available for trade. Except chippies - I use chippies to
make small purps. Purps are extremely valuable in HC and fortunately we
are doing a good job and even end up with too many on our chars and
havign to stash them away or give some away to others who actually
refuse because they are also loaded.

If you post an idea of what type of character you are looking at some
of us can tell you what we have. I have a lot of decent non-uber items
that can help. I just try to concentrate on dual resist items or one
good resist plus other mods. We don't nearly have all the unique gear
available that we had in SC.

Harcore Mantra:

Live Forever or Die Trying... or When Your Young'un Unplugs the Mouse.

Oron Ryder