I've been playing the Xeen games and have happened upon Winterkill (I think the name was). Outside a yeti had broken all of my cleric's armor. On getting inside I had been tasked by the mayor to get rid of all of the ghosts. Now I'm not sure if it's because my cleric had all her armor destroyed or if it was simply because she was the party healer, but pretty well all of the ghosts I fought focused her until she was down. I didn't think much of it at the time and healed her between encounters for her to get focused down again. When I was finally done I got 500,000 exp (had 1,500,000 up to that point), thought "sweet!" and saved.

Of course, I hadn't noticed that my cleric had been aged pretty significantly. She had effective age of around 60 when I took a look in her stat page. She's got 6 or 7 in her strength, speed, and accuracy. Right now that's not too bad, but if something else ages her over 75 she would be getting dangerously low (from what I understand going down to 0 can kill you?). From taking a quick search for aging through a guide I found that there's a series of druid item exchanges that cure aging at the end, though I was wondering if there's any other way to do it, like the fountain in MM6. Or alternatively, if you run into all that many more aging creatures later on.

Thanks for the info. It's nice to know there is one and I think I'll just keep an eye out for it. As long as I pay more attention to that sort of thing it shouldn't turn too critical. Just was a bit of a surprise it added up to so much after just one area.

It turns out the fetch quests with the 4 druids was actually pretty close to the town and with mountaineering it was surprisingly quick to do. When I see a quest that involves visiting 4 locations in an RPG I usually assume it involves walking to the 4 corners of the earth.

Thanks for the tip though. I'll have to drop a beacon when I find that fountain just in case.