Bestiary/Meer Captain

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Meer Captain

General
Type	Meer
Category	Juka, Meer & Chaos Dragoons
Alignment	Good
Karma	5,000
Fame	2,000
Behavior	Attacks evil creatures and players
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	96–110
Dexterity	186–200
Intelligence	96–110
Hit points	58–66
Stamina	186–200
Mana	96–110
Damage	5–15
Armor	28
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Meer Captain leads Meer warriors: a crossbow archer with master Archery and Swordsmanship that heals its troops and protects itself with a magic shield. The Meer (a Lord Blackthorn's Revenge race) 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 captain
• Corpse: a meer corpse
• Behavior: it attacks creatures and players with negative karma (evil) on sight, ignores everyone else, and fights at range with a bow or crossbow (archer AI), keeping its distance.
• Bard skills: it can't be provoked, calmed with Peacemaking or discorded.
• Notoriety: it shows as innocent (blue). Whether attacking it affects your own standing hasn't been checked.
• 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.
• Archer: it uses the archer AI with a crossbow, and also carries a random sword.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	96–110
Dexterity	186–200
Intelligence	96–110
Hit points	58–66
Stamina	186–200 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	96–110 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	5–15
Armor rating	28
Fame / Karma	2,000 / 5,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Magic Resistance	91.0–100.0
Tactics	91.0–100.0
Archery	90.1–100.0
Swordsmanship	90.1–100.0
Wrestling	80.9–89.9

Special behaviors

• Spell shield. Whenever it's fighting and its shield has run out, it raises a magic reflection shield worth 5–7 points. Spells cast at it bounce back to the caster until the points are used up (higher-circle spells use up more), then it renews the shield.
• Heals meer warriors. Every 10–15 seconds it heals every injured friendly meer warrior within 8 tiles by 20–30 hit points (not if the warrior is poisoned or mortally wounded).

Loot

Every meer captain carries:

• Gold: about 30–75 in total (from its "Meager" loot)
• two bundles of 10–20 crossbow bolts
• a bag of 10–20 reagents
• its crossbow and a sword (longsword, cutlass, broadsword, katana, scimitar or viking sword)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 2 chances, from about 1% down to 0.2% each)
• A musical instrument (about 0.1% or less)

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Tips

• Mages: expect your first few spells to be reflected back at you.
• Kill the captain first to stop the healing.
• It shows blue (innocent), and it has +5,000 karma, so killing it costs karma.
• Bard skills don't work on it.
• It rummages through corpses, so loot your kills before it reaches them.