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Can skeletons talk?

August 3, 2020

I think so, but the first time around I had no idea if the skeletons would know the answer.

Anyway, I was playing through a bunch of levels where I would always get trapped in a door I couldn’t break. So I looked at some walls that might be good targets, and they just sort of… stuck there. There was nothing about them to hint that the skeleton was in there. I had to dig around.

First I went into a room where some skeletons were hanging out, where I was expecting to find them eating. Not a single zombie came out. I figured since the walls were always sticking, it must be some sort of special effect. So, I tried digging further to find another room with a wall that had a skeleton hanging out of it. I got him right away, and the sound I heard when he died was… the kind you’d expect from a skeleton (but a big one, like 20ft tall), but it was just his bones. I put him down, and decided I’d been a bit unlucky. I couldn’t go home that day due to a very long weekend and no money. So, I went to bed and woke up to be in a small town…

The other thing that I noticed was that some of the monsters actually had a name; they were calling themselves skeletons. It was funny at first, but I think I eventually figured it out. I had played a few skeletons before and figured it out. I guess I never got to learn their name.

Anyways, I went to bed and woke up just as the sun came up. I had an idea. I was going to wait until dusk, and then try to wake up a skeleton. When I’m doing quests in a place like this… it gets tricky. There are usually some skeletons that are just too annoying to deal with. I was still in a big place, which means it’s easy to get surrounded or overwhelmed. In my defense, the walls and floors had been pretty hard to kill, so it wasn’t that hard to take out a skeleton.

I played it for several hours the next day, and when my skeleton finally woke up, he was dead. He’d been waiting for me to come down off the ledge to fight him, and so it was now or never. So, I had to walk up there and take it out.

First I decided to just attack him, but he just rolled away. Then I tried to hit him as he moved