a wrong turn in walz castle

[mindfray]

So i was running around walz castle hopefuly looking for tresure chests. i entered a strange hallway and was immediatly put into a radom battle with some demon looking thing called jackanapes (sp) it was a back attack on him so i thought this would be easy. he hits my knight for 200 damage, then hits my white mage for 500 damage? what did i run into?

this was in world one by the way, and even my monk could not even pass 0 damage on him.

what's the story with this monster?

[Darth Cid]

At your current level those things are trouble and are made random encounters to keep you from looting the room.

[rubah]

if you talk to the people in the castle, they will explicitly tell you 'stay out of the basement.' 'beware of jackanapes.'

[Vermachtnis]

LV5 Death is your best friend against those. Of course you don't have that on your first trip there :p.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Train a Thief until you have flee then use that. You can still loot the room quite easily.

[eestlinc]

it would be pretty funny if you spent hours and hours leveling up in the hopes of beating him.