Scariest Monsters
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It was the music that they appeared with, along with the actual look of them. They do look heavily dated today of course, but the skulls actually looked pretty nasty.
Compared to the 'chattering teeth' S4 skulls and the S6 'stormgeists' which looked a bit silly (although had a fairly good sound effect), they do a lot more to scare you.
The sword, also from S3, had that nasty sound that accompanied it each time. It was the sound of danger, unlike chattering teeth...
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Yeah I think that's it. Rather than sounding scary, the later ones sounded scared.
It also didn't help that the later ones were usually found in chambers brightly lit by daylight flooding in through enormous windows, giving the impression that it was nothing more macabre than a special stately home episode of Through The Keyhole, but don't get me started on the whole "outdoors" thing or I'll be here for days.
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Oh yes, and the sword/axe spells from S3 were the scariest of all. I can honestly say they completely freaked me out back in '89, especially with that ethereal shimmering sound that accompanied them, although again it looks pretty cartoon-y in these days of Star Wars special editions.
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I think the original Pooka looked fairly good outdoors, and they had a nice sound to them, too.
Saying that, the daft carrot-like Pooka of S6 were....Simply daft, no other word for them.
The glum setting on S3 also helped, within deep, dark caverns, to be attacked by a nasty looking skull...rather than being sat in a bed of lavender and having a very cold sounding skull float around the brambles.
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You do? I was going to get a pet scorpion
and a corn snake and rainbow boa and pirahnas (theyre so cute) -
It was unsettling in S3, but a wasted room in S2 because of the careless geometry. All the team had to was get the dungeoneer to walk to the right wall and they'd be out of its reach all the way past.
In S3 they'd removed a couple of slabs from the floor, which made it a lot more awkward. However, even then it turned out not to be that big a deal. One team got hit by the tail and it took about three seconds off the life force clock. Practically harmless.
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Actually I was telling the truth. I like all scary animlas accept for certain spiders. The big hairy ones are nice, but I cant stand the slimy looking ones.
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Sigh Strom what are you afraid of?
Dont worry Skarry I'm not going to bring a scorpion here, just my pet boa and some pirahnas.
ps: Throws HStorm in a pool filled with pirahnas Its their feeding time
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Actually they said that you taste wors than a wilderbeast thats been in a compost for a month...
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