Post by PotatoJedi on Apr 7, 2020 20:21:08 GMT
Some of you may have already encountered a Viking looking guy with a large axe in leather armour. This is the Sandman, sent by the Blue Mage to retrieve his Genie lamp thing. He always seems to appear in the 1950s Burlington 2.0 and always around Main Street. You can tell he is in the area by the sound of a car horn going non-stop, as someone has passed out and hit their head on the horn.
When we (myself, Mildred and Colburn) originally encountered him, he demanded that we return the blue mage's lamp, or that we send a message to whoever has it to do so. It looked as if things were going okay until Colburn charged at him because he wanted his axe. Miraculously, Colburn didn't immediately fall unconscious after getting closer than 10m to the Sandman, able to resist the effects momentarily, and swung at the Sandman's axe trying to disarm him. Unfortunately, he failed. Long story short Colburn was able to escape, leaving Mildred and myself behind. Mildred fell unconscious and I was able to resist the effects momentarily. Ran to a vehicle instead of trying to pick her up (in my mind, staying near him was a bad idea) and after a lot of back and forth with Mildred eventually getting up, falling down, running away, me doing similar things, it came to moment where I managed to drive a car directly into the Sandman, dealing a hefty blow. Unfortunately it wasn't enough and I also fell unconscious at the wheel, the car continuing on after hitting him. Regrettably Mildred did not make it and the Sandman killed her – I woke up too late to do anything further. I managed to escape and we eventually reconvened after a bit of… saying sorry a lot… and some other things. Anyway.
Not long after that we encountered the Sandman again, this time me, Rock and Colburn. As soon as the Sandman saw us he said that the blue mage was very angry and that we were all to be killed. Colburn ran in one direction while me and Rock got into cars. Fuelled by our vengeance for our fallen Mildred, we eventually managed to run him over with both cars and Colburn diving off the hood of one of the cars and doing a human-torpedo straight into him. This killed him (we think) but his body disappeared, so we're not sure if he is a DORA or what. We found a broken rune of Aduush underneath his armour which Kinley later deciphered as a rune of travel to a water plane/zone, so we believe that is how he is able to get back home. Colburn took the axe which is slightly magical but nothing crazy. The armour we have not been able to fix so we do not know what it does. Colburn has it currently.
We encountered him again when Kinley and I were in Burlington, but we managed to completely avoid him as soon as we heard the car horn, so we do not know what he has now. We are assuming it is still him and that he has all of his stuff again but we cannot confirm.
So, to summarise:
Getting closer than 10m to him will cause you to instantly fall asleep unless you are able to will yourself to stay awake, but this is VERY difficult. He has a two-handed axe. He seems tired all the time. He does not seem to have any ranged capabilities. Staying far away from him seems to be the most effective way in dealing with him. We do not know if guns etc are effective – have not tried.
I am currently trying to formulate a plan to get rid of him permanently, but there's a lot of variables I cannot predict without a bit of testing first. If anyone has any ideas on how to deal with him, please share.
PS: we have not encountered him in Old West Burlington. He may not be aware that it exists. Please, if you encounter and run away from him, try not to tip him off on how to get there (touching the glowing hitching post to the West of Main Street is how you do it).
When we (myself, Mildred and Colburn) originally encountered him, he demanded that we return the blue mage's lamp, or that we send a message to whoever has it to do so. It looked as if things were going okay until Colburn charged at him because he wanted his axe. Miraculously, Colburn didn't immediately fall unconscious after getting closer than 10m to the Sandman, able to resist the effects momentarily, and swung at the Sandman's axe trying to disarm him. Unfortunately, he failed. Long story short Colburn was able to escape, leaving Mildred and myself behind. Mildred fell unconscious and I was able to resist the effects momentarily. Ran to a vehicle instead of trying to pick her up (in my mind, staying near him was a bad idea) and after a lot of back and forth with Mildred eventually getting up, falling down, running away, me doing similar things, it came to moment where I managed to drive a car directly into the Sandman, dealing a hefty blow. Unfortunately it wasn't enough and I also fell unconscious at the wheel, the car continuing on after hitting him. Regrettably Mildred did not make it and the Sandman killed her – I woke up too late to do anything further. I managed to escape and we eventually reconvened after a bit of… saying sorry a lot… and some other things. Anyway.
Not long after that we encountered the Sandman again, this time me, Rock and Colburn. As soon as the Sandman saw us he said that the blue mage was very angry and that we were all to be killed. Colburn ran in one direction while me and Rock got into cars. Fuelled by our vengeance for our fallen Mildred, we eventually managed to run him over with both cars and Colburn diving off the hood of one of the cars and doing a human-torpedo straight into him. This killed him (we think) but his body disappeared, so we're not sure if he is a DORA or what. We found a broken rune of Aduush underneath his armour which Kinley later deciphered as a rune of travel to a water plane/zone, so we believe that is how he is able to get back home. Colburn took the axe which is slightly magical but nothing crazy. The armour we have not been able to fix so we do not know what it does. Colburn has it currently.
We encountered him again when Kinley and I were in Burlington, but we managed to completely avoid him as soon as we heard the car horn, so we do not know what he has now. We are assuming it is still him and that he has all of his stuff again but we cannot confirm.
So, to summarise:
Getting closer than 10m to him will cause you to instantly fall asleep unless you are able to will yourself to stay awake, but this is VERY difficult. He has a two-handed axe. He seems tired all the time. He does not seem to have any ranged capabilities. Staying far away from him seems to be the most effective way in dealing with him. We do not know if guns etc are effective – have not tried.
I am currently trying to formulate a plan to get rid of him permanently, but there's a lot of variables I cannot predict without a bit of testing first. If anyone has any ideas on how to deal with him, please share.
PS: we have not encountered him in Old West Burlington. He may not be aware that it exists. Please, if you encounter and run away from him, try not to tip him off on how to get there (touching the glowing hitching post to the West of Main Street is how you do it).