Line #12 Awesome/LoneWolf


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4	For a series of RPG novels, the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' gamebooks win at these. There is at least one every book, but these are a few of the highlights.
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6	* In the second book, you wipe out a Darklord by merely drawing your [[InfinityPlusOneSword sun-powered blade.]] And you can do it again in the twelfth book.
7	* In the third book, when Lone Wolf finally faces Vonotar, he summons a hideous undead EldritchAbomination to fight you. Provided Lone Wolf has a certain item, he can take control of the beast himself. Vonotar's OhCrap reaction when he sees his own Akraa'Neonor about to capture him with its slimy tentacles? ''Priceless''.
8	* Book 4: "For Sommerlund! For Sommerlund!"
9	* In the fifth book, you can steal a giant bird from the castle you have been captured in and ride it to safety. Until it gets shot. And then you are rescued by a ''giant flying ship'' powered by a wizard. A ship crewed by ''dwarves''. Who drive off a flock of Kraan with ''guns'' in a medieval fantasy setting. And depending on choices made earlier, they perform a maneuver where the skyship ''does a barrel roll''; the enemy boarders are thrown off, but the dwarves ''hang on to nets'', shouting "Blood for Blood!"
10	* In Book 6, one of the first things newly minted Kai Master Lone Wolf does is drive off an entire band of bandits ''without a combat encounter or even a Random Number pick'', and the narration describes it thus: "They demand your gold but all they receive from you is a harsh lesson in the powers of a Kai Master". Later, Lone Wolf stops an evil young noble from killing an old man in a tavern by shooting an arrow into his hand in the blink of an eye. You don't even have to pick a Random Number; Lone Wolf is ''just that badass''.
11	* The denouement of BigBad Gnaag's EvilPlan at the end of Book 10 is a rare Crowning Moment for the Darklords. To elaborate: Gnaag captured the remaining three Lorestones, using them to bait a trap for Lone Wolf... and it ''worked''. Lone Wolf is exiled to the Daziarn, and it is later revealed that this moment heralded an end to all Darkland defeats, swinging the war for Magnamund back in their favor. By the time Lone Wolf escapes the Daziarn and returns to Magnamund, six years have passed, and the Darklords have so thoroughly overwhelmed the forces of Good that Lone Wolf is once again the only hope.
12	* Book 11: Lone Wolf [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills the Chaos-master]]. Before ''that'', though, when the Chaos-master first makes his appearance, every one of Lorkon Ironheart's soldiers (sensibly) flees... but not Lorkon himself. With the biggest pair of brass balls in all the Daziarn, he stands his ground and challenges the giant, evil god to single combat. The Chaos-master responds by laughing and [[TelephonePolearm uprooting a tree to use as a club]]. The resulting fight has the two of them playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, leaving a swath of destruction in their path. Granted, Lorkon eventually stumbles and would have been killed if Lone Wolf hadn't jumped in at that point, but it's a great show of badassery for a guy who isn't even a Sommerswerd-wielding Kai Master.
13	* Book 12 has to be elaborated. If Lone Wolf uses the Sommerswerd to kill Gnaag, it unleashes a burst of sunfire that reduces Gnaag to a '''''scorch mark on the floor'''''. It's implied that having hidden its power so long inside enemy territory where merely drawing it will kill you, the sword is just itching for its chance to flip out and burn Darklords.
14	* In book 14, Banedon has been captured by the enemy, and you immediately embark to free him. After you've reached him and you're both desperately trying to escape, he casts a spell to save you from the enemy. As Banedon is a wizard (and by this point the head wizard of the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star), this may sound about par for the course... until you remember that magic in this world is explicitly powered by physical stamina, and Banedon is pulling this off despite being ''barely conscious'' after his brutal captivity and torture by the bad guys.
15	* Captain Prarg averts Lone Wolf's tendency to get his companions killed in Book 15 when he escapes from captivity [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]] and shanks an evil wizard who has Lone Wolf dead to rights. That's right, the ''MauveShirt'' saves ''TheHero''.
16	* One for a sufficiently well prepared Lone Wolf (who has completed previous books in the series) comes at the start of book 17. When Banedon offers him an amulet of protection, a weapon capable of slaying a being of immense power, and a way to hide such a weapon's power... well, if you already ''have'' a Platinum Amulet, the Sommerswerd, and a Korlinium Scabbard, Lone Wolf waives it all aside with the equivalent of a simple "Way ahead of you, old buddy".
17	* The GrandFinale of the Grand Master series has Lone Wolf go through the many kingdoms of the Plane of Darkness before invading Naar's castle at the very center, killing his [[TheDragon Dragon]], stealing back the Moonstone, rescuing the trickster demigoddess Alyss, and escaping. Not only that, but when he breaks out the Sommerswerd, Naar, the nigh-eternal [[BigBad dark god]] at the very heart of his domain, '''hides''' rather than fight Lone Wolf himself! He lets Kekataag do the grunt work and when he falls and Lone Wolf opens a shadow gate to escape, he ''still'' doesn't budge!

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