Bestiary/Meer Eternal

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Meer Eternal

General
Type	Meer
Category	Juka, Meer & Chaos Dragoons
Alignment	Good
Karma	18,000
Fame	18,000
Behavior	Attacks evil creatures and players
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	416–505
Dexterity	146–165
Intelligence	566–655
Hit points	250–303
Stamina	146–165
Mana	566–655
Damage	11–13
Armor	34
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Meer Eternal is an ancient Meer archmage with 250–303 hit points, 150–200 Magic Resistance and a powerful life drain that can strip away most of a group's health at once. The Meer have good karma and fight only the evil: they attack creatures and players with negative karma and leave good-karma players alone.

Overview

• In-game name: a meer eternal
• Corpse: a meer's corpse
• Behavior: it attacks creatures and players with negative karma (evil) on sight, ignores everyone else, and fights like a spellcaster (mage AI), mixing spells with melee.
• Bard skills: it can't be provoked, calmed with Peacemaking or discorded.
• Notoriety: it shows as innocent (blue).
• Rummages corpses: from time to time it takes a random item from a corpse within 2 tiles (*rummages through a corpse and takes an item*). Loot your kills quickly near one.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	416–505
Dexterity	146–165
Intelligence	566–655
Hit points	250–303
Stamina	146–165 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	566–655 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	11–13
Armor rating	34
Fame / Karma	18,000 / 18,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Magic Resistance	150.5–200.0
Evaluating Intelligence	90.1–100.0
Magery	90.1–100.0
Meditation	90.1–100.0
Wrestling	60.1–80.0
Tactics	50.1–70.0

Abilities

Magic

It fights with the mage AI: it closes to melee range but casts between swings. Its Magery is 90.1–100.0 and its Evaluating Intelligence 90.1–100.0.

• Damage spells: Magic Arrow, Harm, Fireball, Lightning, Mind Blast, Energy Bolt, Explosion and Flame Strike.
• Other spells: about 1 cast in 8 is Poison (only if you aren't poisoned already). It may also Bless itself, curse you (Weaken, Clumsy, Feeblemind or Curse), drain your mana (Mana Drain or Mana Vampire) or Paralyze you.
• Healing: it cures itself when poisoned, and sometimes heals itself (Greater Heal when badly hurt), more often the higher its Magery.

Poison immunity

It is immune to all poison, so poisoned weapons, the Poison spell and poison potions do nothing to it.

Dispels summons

Any summoned creature that can be dispelled is destroyed instantly when it hits the meer eternal in melee or the meer eternal hits it. Blade spirits, energy vortexes, summoned elementals and daemons are wasted against it.

Life leech

Every 10–15 seconds, if its target is within 12 tiles, it drains life:

• Focused leech (3 times in 4): it says one of "Thine essence will fill my withering body with strength!", "I rebuke thee, worm, and cleanse thy vile spirit of its tainted blood!" or "I devour your life's essence to strengthen my resolve!". About 1.5 seconds later its target takes 20–30 damage and it heals by the same amount.
• Area leech (1 time in 4): it warns "Beware, mortals! You have provoked my wrath!". 5 seconds later every enemy within 6 tiles loses a share of their current hit points: 75% if there's only one, 50% each for two, 25% each for three or more (give or take 5). It heals by the total and says "If I cannot cleanse thy soul, I will destroy it!". If no one is in range by then, it says "Bah! You have escaped my grasp this time, mortal!"

Loot

Every meer eternal carries:

• Gold: about 804–1,300 in total (from its "Filthy Rich" ×2 loot)
• 2 magic scrolls from circles 4–7. With Necromancy enabled on New Bradford, necromancy scrolls can show up too.
• 2 8th-circle scrolls (with Necromancy enabled, Vengeful Spirit or Vampiric Embrace scrolls can show up too)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 8 chances, from about 33% down to 5% each)
• A musical instrument (about 4% or less)
• A level 4 treasure map (1% chance)

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Tips

• When you hear "Beware, mortals!", get more than 6 tiles away within 5 seconds.
• Fighting it alone is worst: a lone target loses 75% of their current hit points to the area leech.
• It can dispel summons, bard skills don't work on it, and it's immune to all poison.
• Big loot: two Filthy Rich packs, 2 circle 4–7 scrolls, 2 8th-circle scrolls and a 1% chance at a level 4 treasure map.
• It shows blue (innocent) and has +18,000 karma, so killing it costs a lot of karma.