Someone knows what kind of encounter is Alatar (if he is really an encounter)?
We're kind of newbies in 4th age games...
Rener
Alatar the Blue and Pallando the Blue are very annoying encounters
since they both teleport your character to a random place on the board
(usually quite a way away). Both of these characters carry nice
artefacts but you cannot get them by sending just one character in ...
you would need several and the poor character that gets the encounter
gets teleported. I used to think they would benefit neutrals but you
seem to get teleported no matter what allegiance you are.
Gavin
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Someone knows what kind of encounter is Alatar (if he is really an
encounter)?
We're kind of newbies in 4th age games...
Rener
Yep, these are the two Blue Wizards who wandered off into the East during the time of the War of the Ring and never showed up again... They, like Radagast, apparently hung around after the war. Neither is actually Neutral -- one is Good and one is Evil, I always forget which is which though. 
So their impact on a pop center loyalty will be determined by their alignment. Also, allegedly, when the one of your alignment teleports you, it is supposedly to the location of an artifact you can pick up, if you are lucky -- read the encounter text -- whereas if the one of opposite alignment teleports you, it is just to get rid of you, no nice prize hidden at the location you end up at.
Now, whether you can actually manage to find the artifact that you might allegedly get sent to, is a different matter -- as is whether or not you consider the attempt even worthwhile to make. That may depend on just what character gets sent and whether that character has more pressing duties to attend to.
-- Ernie III
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gavken@btinternet.com
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: [mepbmlist] Re: Alatar the blue
Alatar the Blue and Pallando the Blue are very annoying encounters
since they both teleport your character to a random place on the board
(usually quite a way away). Both of these characters carry nice
artefacts but you cannot get them by sending just one character in ...
you would need several and the poor character that gets the encounter
gets teleported. I used to think they would benefit neutrals but you
seem to get teleported no matter what allegiance you are.
Gavin
Someone knows what kind of encounter is Alatar (if he is really an
encounter)?
We're kind of newbies in 4th age games...
Rener
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Gavin Kenny wrote:
Alatar the Blue and Pallando the Blue are very annoying encounters
since they both teleport your character to a random place on the board
(usually quite a way away). Both of these characters carry nice
artefacts but you cannot get them by sending just one character in ...
you would need several and the poor character that gets the encounter
gets teleported. I used to think they would benefit neutrals but you
seem to get teleported no matter what allegiance you are.
Thank you very much. You have spared us of all the annoyance we could try.
Rener
Note -- since artifact numbers are scrambled for each 4th Age game, you would need to cast a Scry Character spell to find out the artifact numbers of artifacts specifically held by a given NPC.
One way to get those artifacts, if it is feasible, depending on where these guys show up, is to have an army move to their location, with an agent or two IN the army. Characters in an army are supposed to be immune to character encounters -- and though there is a bug in the program that sometimes sort of gives such encounters to such characters, the characters cannot actually successfully react to them. Anyway, the army moves to the location, there should be no encounter, and on the following turn the agent or agents attempt to steal an artifact from the NPC. (If your agent is really proud of his skills, of course, he could try a kidnapping or assassination in order to get all the artifacts at once, without needing to know the artifact numbers. Good luck with that...)
This doesn't work on NPCs that are army encounters -- but then, for an NPC that is an army encounter, you can just move the agent there and not worry about it.
-- Ernie III
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-----Original Message-----
From: renerdl@uol.com.br
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Re: Alatar the blue
Gavin Kenny wrote:
Alatar the Blue and Pallando the Blue are very annoying encounters
since they both teleport your character to a random place on the board
(usually quite a way away). Both of these characters carry nice
artefacts but you cannot get them by sending just one character in ...
you would need several and the poor character that gets the encounter
gets teleported. I used to think they would benefit neutrals but you
seem to get teleported no matter what allegiance you are.
Thank you very much. You have spared us of all the annoyance we could
try.
Rener
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Hi FPs in Game 14
The game has ended on turn 14 with victory for the DS, despite the FPs having both Corsairs and Harad on their side.
Care to tell us what went so wrong?
Tony
FK