Misc Staple

Certain low-level spells are disabled when you start a new party in E3, so that you can earn them as rewards. Fresh BoE parties have access to all low-level spells. Is there a way to change that, or is it too hard coded?

Pretty sure people have already tried remaking E3 in BoE. There's a puzzle with numbers that doesn't work in the BoE engine, and I'm sure there's other quirks. Who knows, though?

I've beaten the first one and IW. First one's terrific in so many aspects. IW is mediocre, unfortunately. HR is in my backlog.

Economic Left/Right: -7.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82

I don't know if this is useful, but there's a text FAQ on Dark Souls II (for the Xbox version, but it could apply for your PC version) on GameFAQs. You should be able to open it up using Notepad/WordPad, and it shouldn't take up a lot of your memory. Of course, maybe you've tried that FAQ already and dislike it...? Here's the link: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/693333-dark-souls-ii/faqs/69278

Nah, I just like to watch speedruns.

Hey curi, I was looking through your speedrun notes and wondered why you skipped the third victory condition: reaching the surface?

Oh, I've since beaten the chitrachs, and am going onto Erika's tower. Thanks, Lilith. My party stats are pretty good, the only thing I regret is wasting a lot of tool skills on my rogue--I didn't know that you should combine that with your mage.

My fighter has a parry of 15, my rogue has it at 9. Though the chitrachs usually head for my mage and priest, who don't have parry, and the fighters can't protect them well enough.

I've finished most of Avernum 4 (still have Erika's tower, Darkside Loyalists and Rentar to deal with). My problem is getting into Khoth's tower. I've got a four character party that's around level 30 (warrior, rogue, mage and priest), but I keep getting clobbered by the chitrachs that spawn all around me. I've tried clearing them out by fighting and attack spells, but most of my party members have died by the time I get to the barriers and I have to go back to town to recharge. And when I get back there, they spawn yet again. I've also used summons to distract the chitrachs, but that fails too--my summons only focus on a few chitrach. I also have some wisdom crystals left--which areas should I focus on? Endurance, hardiness, defense? And what's the best technique to defeating the chitrachs? Thank you!

Economic Left/Right: -7.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72 You can find an archived version of the community's compass at: http://web.archive.org/web/20100612000431/http://ermarian.net/services/statistics/compass/map

I dunno if you can fix this or whatever, but the Vahnatai map for Exile III is missing for me. http://www.harehunter.info/Exile3/Maps/MainMap3.html

Tyrion for me.

Economic Left/Right: -5.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

I finished reading Watchmen for the first time. ... yeah. Should've done that sooner.

What will the "Unused" button be? Quit? This page gives a suggestion from two years ago. Humor me if this has already been answered before, as I haven't gone through the nearly thirty pages of this thread.

Finally got my copy of Watchmen, started reading (there was a large backlog).

Originally Posted By: Necrophilius uhm... i meant, how to find em in game. Is it ever possible? I definitely remember seeing the Anaximander strip in-game (I wish I could forget), but I have no idea as to what triggered it (a bug?).

Originally Posted By: The Mystic Actually, all three have large worlds to explore, even in the demo. Well, I guess nostalgia crept into my response. I have fond memories of exploring Valorim. Not so much with underground caves.

I voted for Exile 3. The large world to explore appealed to me more than the other two.

I saved the first page of the Xian Skull thread. Here it is: Topic: Xian Skull! Inept Brigand Apprentice Member # 2070 posted October 12, 2002 05:24 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can anyone here justify why exactly the Xian skull serves any purpose? What is it for? I carry it around, as I have done since I found it at a ritual site surrounded by Ogres. The skull makes various out of character remarks as well as some useful bits of information which is understandable? Where would this skull go? Do I keep it indefinitely? Please help. -------------------- L TATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 1 | From United Kingdom | Registered: Oct 2002 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 05:47 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When you find the Altar of Takoma, you have to gravy the Xian Skull and then feed it to your donkey. Once you've dont that, just follow the prompts. If you have the Xian Shovel, your gravy skill will be at double strength, so hopefully you will have picked it up from the Tomb of Bothel. If you do it right, you should get a hefty bonus to your charisma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged Dragyn Bob Erudite Member # 14 posted October 12, 2002 05:50 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wait, it's actually given you useful information? When? That's very odd... -------------------- Dragyn Bob "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!"-The Divine Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 958 | From Maryland | Registered: Sep 2001 | IP: Logged Rider of Rohan Erudite Member # 1169 posted October 12, 2002 06:18 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yeah, it mentions some things about the library of Gale, and Judith, and how to find Foxfire. And besides that, it's hilarious. Why would you want to get rid of it? -------------------- "I live under the roof of the falling tiles."--Lesgles, Les Miserables Fear the wrath of the Grammar Wench, lest ye be cut down by the Glistening Scythe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 703 | From *sings* Phiiiiiiiladel-phi-a! | Registered: May 2002 | IP: Logged Sniper Spammer Member # 870 posted October 12, 2002 07:23 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I never thought he actually had a use for an altar! Although he's fun to carry so I bring him everywhere. -------------------- Visit Olly's exile pages at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/3134/ —SHAPER MASTER— Inventory: Black Pants—Black Sweater—Black Gloves—Black Boots—Ski Mask—Guardian Claymore—Creations—Atom Bombs—Nukes—Sniper Rifle—Skribbane—One of Alorael's Sniper Rifles—Flamethrower—Rocket Launcher—Shotgun—Pistol—Antimatter By: Shaper Master inc.™ ©2002 Shaper Master We Was Jim! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 2195 | From Shaper Base | Registered: Mar 2002 | IP: Logged Xian Rat Citizen of Exile Member # 1621 posted October 12, 2002 09:00 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ quote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally posted by the eyeball kid: When you find the Altar of Takoma, you have to gravy the Xian Skull and then feed it to your donkey. Once you've dont that, just follow the prompts. If you have the Xian Shovel, your gravy skill will be at double strength, so hopefully you will have picked it up from the Tomb of Bothel. If you do it right, you should get a hefty bonus to your charisma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I found the 'improve gravy' recipe book on Gasworks Island, but couldn't get into the tomb for the shovel. I followed the prompts and gained 2 points of edibility. Thanks to the Eyeball Kid... -------------------- If you lived here you'd be home by now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 126 | From the desert of NM | Registered: Jul 2002 | IP: Logged Sniper Spammer Member # 870 posted October 12, 2002 09:07 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ what are points of edibility for? -------------------- Visit Olly's exile pages at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/3134/ —SHAPER MASTER— Inventory: Black Pants—Black Sweater—Black Gloves—Black Boots—Ski Mask—Guardian Claymore—Creations—Atom Bombs—Nukes—Sniper Rifle—Skribbane—One of Alorael's Sniper Rifles—Flamethrower—Rocket Launcher—Shotgun—Pistol—Antimatter By: Shaper Master inc.™ ©2002 Shaper Master We Was Jim! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 2195 | From Shaper Base | Registered: Mar 2002 | IP: Logged Dareq unregistered posted October 12, 2002 09:42 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You need them if you go to speak with Rayan. He won't teach you the secrets of british cooking without that.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IP: Logged jwj442 Citizen of Exile Member # 461 posted October 12, 2002 10:04 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Plus, if you have at least 10 gravy points, then make some gravy and give it to Anaximander, he'll teach you how to make haggis (if you don't know what haggis is, look it up in the dictionary.) [ October 15, 2002, 01:15 PM: Message edited by: jwj442 ] -------------------- "If you held a weapon to Fwiffo's head, he would say anything you wanted him to. In fact, if you held a vegetable to Fwiffo's head, he'd say whatever you wanted him to." - Spathi high council, Star Control 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 194 | From Raleigh, NC | Registered: Dec 2001 | IP: Logged Dareq unregistered posted October 12, 2002 10:09 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And then find some cows.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IP: Logged Drakefyre Triad Mage Member # 7 posted October 12, 2002 03:00 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Although too many gravy points (15+) can result in 50% more damage from darkness breath, I find gravy points worth it when in Hawke's Manse. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Premier Avernum 3 Site (with a good BoE Section) The Omega Contest - You Know You Want To desperance.net - Kill Your Television Zeviz's A2 Page - If I Had A Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Someone Pay Schrodinger's Geneforge FAQ - Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 3435 | From the darkness, to the light | Registered: Sep 2001 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 04:16 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What good is the haggis, though? If you eat all of your other food and then try to rest, you eat the haggis and it makes everybody ill. Is there somebody you can give it to? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged Alorael Blademaster Member # 335 posted October 12, 2002 04:19 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Has anyone else noticed the bug where gravy is like Gymnastics in A1? If your party has over 22 points of gravy skill, you have a 110% chance of success in gravy-making. —Alorael, who sacrificed the haggis on the altar in the Tomb of Bothel to get the Extremely Weird Meat. Now, if only he knew what to do with it... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 3938 | From ashes to ashes | Registered: Dec 2001 | IP: Logged Drakefyre Triad Mage Member # 7 posted October 12, 2002 04:31 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Give it to the ghost in Colchis. He'll give you more points in Food Lore. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Premier Avernum 3 Site (with a good BoE Section) The Omega Contest - You Know You Want To desperance.net - Kill Your Television Zeviz's A2 Page - If I Had A Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Someone Pay Schrodinger's Geneforge FAQ - Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 3435 | From the darkness, to the light | Registered: Sep 2001 | IP: Logged Dragyn Bob Erudite Member # 14 posted October 12, 2002 04:38 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sadly, this topic has been horrible corrupted and mutilated. Anywho, if you have +25 gravy points, do the mushrooms turn into brain and kidney pie, or blood pudding? -------------------- Dragyn Bob "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!"-The Divine Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 958 | From Maryland | Registered: Sep 2001 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 05:04 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where can I get a kite for the guy on Gasworks Island who says he knows how to use the runes at the top of the hill? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged Mortimer Journeyman Member # 643 posted October 12, 2002 05:14 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I named my Xian Skull Phil (yes thats very off topic, but hey I love that little guy, never leave home with out him). -------------------- "I could use a hat. A nice hat. With feathers or something. Why dont you buy me a hat? If you were the skull and I was the dopey sword guy walking all over the place, I'd buy you a hat" - Xian Skull ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 72 | From New Zealand | Registered: Feb 2002 | IP: Logged Schrodinger FAQSELF Member # 3 posted October 12, 2002 05:30 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ quote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally posted by the eyeball kid: Where can I get a kite for the guy on Gasworks Island who says he knows how to use the runes at the top of the hill? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have you acquired the emerald turtle statue? Make sure you have both halves before talking with Gus on the isle of Maddok. Oh, and also make sure you have terror level 3 before trying to read the runes. Or else... -------------------- A few cats short of a kitten pot pie... Check out a great source for information on Avernum 2, Nethergate, and Subterra: Zeviz's page. Finally, there's my much linked-to Geneforge FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 1789 | From AZ | Registered: Sep 2001 | IP: Logged Rider of Rohan Erudite Member # 1169 posted October 12, 2002 05:49 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've never really found the gravy skill worth my while. I prefer to spend skill points on Bocci Ball Lore. It comes in handy for that special encounter in Fort Pickle. -------------------- "I live under the roof of the falling tiles."--Lesgles, Les Miserables Fear the wrath of the Grammar Wench, lest ye be cut down by the Glistening Scythe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 703 | From *sings* Phiiiiiiiladel-phi-a! | Registered: May 2002 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 06:12 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hear you, Rider. But if you don't have a high Bocci Ball Lore, you can usually get the key from that Bocci Ball nutcase if you offer him a pack of skribbane cigarettes. Of course you have to arm wrestle Lebowski in Woodinville to get those, and your strength has to be at least fifteen to win, so it's usually better to go with the Bocci Ball Lore if you want to get into the Smith Tower. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged Uranium-235 Adept Member # 1359 posted October 12, 2002 07:11 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This topic has become highly disturbing, I wonder how long it will last. -------------------- ~ $ø‹¡µm ¢ÿåñ¡‹ë ~ •NaCN says: Click here ==> * •Today's quote taken out of context: "Sweet zombie Jesus on a pogo stick! We're screwed!" (click the * link for more info) •visit a cool Half-Life site: I.AM/HALF-LIFE •Visit the official website of the Talking Heads! •DF-21 - Visit THE Dark Forces site ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 283 | From Across the street from Lester's Hedgehog Ranch | Registered: Jun 2002 | IP: Logged -Dark- Journeyman Member # 579 posted October 12, 2002 07:25 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ i'm enjoying it.. -------------------- When did this happen? o.o ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 92 | From Garzahd's Castle | Registered: Jan 2002 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 07:56 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I'm having trouble getting the second turtle thing. I got the one from the Mayor of Simpletown for killing his son-in-law. But I can't find the werewolf grove north of the Old Rock Candy Mountains. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged --Queen of the troubled teens-- Citizen of Exile Member # 431 posted October 12, 2002 08:32 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's this topic about? What's all this?? What part of this topic is true? It sounds like a lie to me... -------------------- ABSTRACT UNKNOWN GiRL ----------------------- QOTTT: I WAS ONCE bLuRrY! Everyone: WHO?!?!?! QOTTT: Nevermind... ------------------------ Mighty Boards... DESPERANCE!!! Marvel at the greatness... *POLARIS* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 240 | From A hiding place... | Registered: Dec 2001 | IP: Logged the eyeball kid Citizen of Exile Member # 1973 posted October 12, 2002 08:55 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What do you mean? I guess we have gotten a little off-topic. We were talking about the Xian skull and the Altar of Takoma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posts: 238 | From eye socket gultch | Registered: Sep 2002 | IP: Logged

Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins.

I upgraded Avernum 2 from 1.0.2 to 2.0, since 2.0 can supposedly work under my operating system, Mac OS 9. However, when I attempt to open a save file, nothing happens. No dialog box pops up. My old save files are now listed as "Documents". Should I revert to an older version of Avernum 2? All help appreciated.

I've played BoE since 2000 or so. I'm trying to beat Exile III right now, so BoE has been put on hold for the time being. I've got way too many scenarios that I haven't finished playing or creating.

I've nearly ended Exile III, with the same party that I mentioned in my previous post. However, there have been a few problems stopping me from finishing the game. 1) I have the activated Erika bracelets, but Erika isn't showing up to fight Rentar at all. Is this a bug, or have I forgotten to do something? 2) I've activated as many crystals as I can find on Level 2, even the crystals behind secret doors mentioned in the GameFAQs. Is it okay to push the crystals in twice? Am I missing any? 3) I've reached the control console next to Rentar-Irhno (not sure if I spelled that right) and have punched in the correct combination to destroy her creations. But the message tells me that I'm back to square one. I'm probably missing something really obvious here. Help would be appreciated. Thanks.