From
TES issue 19 (January 2003)
Series 8.
Level 1/2/3.
SKELETRONS
These skeletons were introduced to the
Dungeon in series 8 to guard
trapdoor chambers, clue rooms and the corridors of Linghorm and
Marblehead. From the information snippets about skeletrons given by
Treguard and
Lord Fear throughout the series, we learn that the computer-generated skeletons were made from old bones by Lord Fear: Skeletrons are sort of reconstituted warriors. You might call them undead, but Im not convinced they ever lived. Treguard. They had spooky glowing eyes and most carried
swords with which to dispatch intruders. Skeletrons were not very intelligent creatures, and could not see very well, which made them quite easy for
dungeoneers to outwit. There were various ways to cross a skeletrons path safely. In the level one trapdoor room, Daniel used a magic ring to disintegrate one while Nathan took an invisibility
potion before walking briskly past the patrolling skeletron guard. No one was killed by a skeletron because it was usually quite easy to pass them.
Apart from their mundane guard duties, Lord Fear twice used skeletrons as part of a more complicated plan. During Nathans quest in level two, Lord Fear unleashed a skeletron that had been made to look like
Sidriss with the intention of using it to kill Hordriss. Nathan warned
Hordriss, who disintegrated the skeletron or bimboid as Fear called it when the two met it in the trapdoor room. Then, during Mikes level two, a skeletron went haywire and had to be destroyed. Lord Fear told
Lissard the ingredients for a
spell called
FILLET, which eradicated bones. Mike made the spell and cast it at the rogue skeletron, which promptly disintegrated.
Apart from these two incidents, skeletrons simply guarded exits, and didnt really do it that well from Lord Fears point of view. However, it was nice to see a traditional old supernatural threat so late in
Knightmares run.
Fear Factor: 7 Threatening, with eerie glowing eyes.
Killer Instinct: 1 A bit too slow and stupid.
Humanity: 6 The bones must have held humans together at some point.
Gore Factor: 5 We can only imagine the unnatural processes Lord Fear used to reanimate the bones.
