Sassy is a keystone to several Cobrahn quests, but requires an extremely strong party and flawlessly executed hunt plan to defeat it.

Barbarians find its fur especially comforting as it bestows +200 hits on the wearer and 0/7 combat adds.

The fur can also be used to enhance the power of a titanium shield, transforming it into the "Easter Egg" shield: +200 hit points to the wielder.

On rare occasion, Sassy drops such random loot as a +10 combat ring and an elemental scroll used to convert certain forged weapons into artifacts of great power.

sas1.jpg A powerful and well organized party gathers below the stairs to the Deathsasquatch lair. Most of these warriors had participated (and died!) on multiple Sassy hunts. Terrel__KAM reviews the battle plan in an IRC chat room while healers and mentalists cast protection spells in the game. This is not a lair for the casual or uninitiated hunter.

sas2.jpg The battle is joined in a corner of the lair. Sassy's minions lie in wait behind counters all about the lair, hoping to psionically crush any who blunder out of the corner. On occasion, Sassy will run through the lair and call on BlobPopes to heal it, so part of the hunt strategy must deal with this event. In this pic, you can see Relic__SIN wielding the Easter Egg shield.

sas3.jpg Sassy is defeated. Darkair holds its corpse, anxious to convert its hide into an Easter Egg shield. In the center of the lair you see the remains of the deathpiles of fallen warriors. As players fell in battle, brave souls dashed to the center and pulled the gear into the corner for resurrected players to regear in the middle of the fight!

This particular hunt had but three casualties, and was notable for the heroic baiting job done by Popeye__KAM. Part way through the battle, Sassy turned its full fury onto the healer, but through sheer force of will (or blind luck?) Popeye stayed alive until just before the killing blow was struck on the lair beast. For his extraordinary baiting of Sassy, all the barbarians made him an honorary barbarian and taught him the secrets of frothing at the mouth. Ask him to demonstrate his drooling skill next time you see him.

First DeathSasquatch Fight: This was a fighter type and wielded a club. So many players were on the hunt that at one point the DeathSasquatch was knocked down against a wall and fumbled its club. At that point it started using the nasty rapid punching MA skill.

Second DeathSasquatch Fight: It spawned as a barbarian type, but the game authors mistakenly thought there were level 50 barabrians present for the battle. Players got a taste of the true power of a high level barbarian: DeathSasquatch was nearly unhittable. The hunt was abandoned and the lair was reset.

Third DeathSasquatch Fight: This was another fighter type that also dropped its club. It picked up the forged axe of a slain player and starting using Palading FOCII: multistrike and maxstrike. This is a screen shot of Hoss after being one-shotted by a 2000+ maxstrike by the DeathSasquatch. The critter was eventually defeated.