Day 5, Hour 19: Rakshasa are dumb

We were able to get through the fight with Jafir largely unscathed. He would normally be quite a challenging opponent as far as solo, unprotected mages go, because he can take a lot of hits and it doesn’t seem to be possible to interrupt his spells no matter how furiously you whack him.

For some reason, however, he didn’t seem to want to cast anything. Instead, he just went straight for Vespero and started attacking him physically.

Odd.

In light of this, the battle basically became a matter of “Who’s going to run out of hit points first?” Since Vespero got all of his from levels in Fighter and a constitution of 19, and since he had five party members backing him up by wildly swinging their enchanted weaponry, you can probably hazard a guess as to whom it turned out to be.

Sadly you can’t actually kill Jafir, as he teleports away once his hit points get too low. Luckily, however, he does surrender the command word to you before leaving. God only knows why, though; if he was able to escape so easily then he could have just done so without telling you anything and left you gnashing your teeth in frustration, which appears to be exactly the sort of thing that Rakshasa have to do in order to GET AN ERECTION.

With the command word planted firmly in our heads, we are now advised that we can use the lamp via a quick slot. I think you know what’s next.

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