Hehe...that's something else for ya eh? lol@ cowled enforcers...i hope you tried to fight on at first tho, nothing more heroic than taking wave after wave of enemies. With my bard-party I got mugged by a pair of thugs (not so hard to dispatch of course, but low-lvl bards tend to get hit), then had a few cowled bastards gate in, beat them and because of a bug there gated ANOTHER party in. I survived with just my main char left, near death. That was a freaking massacre, whole lot of civilians and beggars got wasted too because of the cowled wizards' area damage spells.

Anyhoo, glad you fought Kuroisan and had fun with him. He's truly an example of superb scripting eh? Of course, he does "cheat" a bit with his acidic backlash katana, but a guy that can take a well-balanced party on his own is pretty pwnage. Now onwards to the improved twisted rune J.

Lol i was thinking about twisted rune, but i went to the next chapter already. I`m allergic to liches, didn`t want to take a lich and some friends on yet. Bodhi`s gonna chase me now, i`m curious since i read that they improved (as in made harder) bodhi`s gauntlet and the asylum.

And yeah that Acidic Backlash, yesterday i was experimenting a bit how it works (since i have it now), it really seems overpowered. I got surprised by Perth the Adept on Brynnlaw (2 horrid wiltings the bastard), but my acidic backlash hurt him, so i think it bought me the time to dispel his invisibility and his protections.
That fight where he got some unexpected backup was over pretty fast, he caught me by surprise when i returned from my stronghold (d'Arnise) and wanted to rest in an inn. He blew my mages into chunks in a few seconds, started ripping apart my other partymembers, he didn`t really need much help from the cowled ones.

Kuroisan ran away on me before i killed him btw, when i started hurting him, he just fled into a house, so i had to chase him there, he ran back out, i was afraid he was going to run around the whole map. But as my mages noticed, his scripting is excellent. And the death fog is pretty annoying as well, aaaargh.