Micawber

Well you said "Deactivate a power spiral (even if you don't want to destroy it)", which made me think this was necessary to outrun him, somehow.

Places to buy mage spells in the demo:

 

Your best value option appears to be Sara in Shayder, her prices are pretty average.

 

Also, Arion in the Inn of Blades sells them, but they are expensive.

 

Erika also sells early mage spells, although her prices are exorbitant. She's in Upper Avernum. You can reach her if you found her rune in the slime pit.

Q: When is the game coming out?

A: Not soon enough.

 

To my knowledge, Spiderweb doesn't usually give an actual release date; the game will be ready when it's ready and that's when it'll be released. In the past we sometimes were told which month (and experience shows it could come out on the 2nd of the month or equally the 29th) but that's as precise as it gets.

"secluded" for "excluded"?

 

I think -X- has already been got at by the Thing. Cue scary music...

I assume that 5) deactivating a spiral is a necessary part of the procedure, or you wouldn't have put it in. Can you explain why?

 

Plus, that spoiler warning should perhaps be in the topic title.

Neither.

 

Khyryk does in fact mention a victory parade, but it is never followed up in the game-end sequence (not surprising, considering the state shaper society is in when you reach the mainland). I'm sure the reference is just there for colour.

On the PC I think you need to use the menubar: More Help -> Status Window Help

Yup, I ripped through the shaper crypt with terror vlish.

 

I guess I'll just have to wait and see about GF4...

Yes that's a point, is it still the case that vlish are over-powered in GF4? They are ridiculously effective in the trilogy.

That's all very well, but involves leaving a quest uncompleted. The obsessive types among us find that rather difficult.

What, as in "Ever wonder how Vlish get a round of drinks"?

 

Maybe one of their tentacles doubles up as a credit card - one can always hope.

I think it's worthwhile trying to pump mechanics to 20 (including items, so actually maybe 14 or 15 without items) because that makes the final zones a little easier. The skill point cost is not too great.

I think all that - Sucia Isle's barring and the origins of the Shapers - was already adequately covered in Geneforge 1.

Bah, don't apologise, the search function is pretty useless at the best of times. Not only that, but since a certain recent piece of sabotage, searches have become even less reliable.

 

Also, you do get a certain amount of credit for being French. In fact the genius combination of croissant and coffee for breakfast gives you a LOT of credit in my book. Mmm, croissants.

I don't think the E1 character editor has that option - there's only leave town, which is not much use in this particular case. Unfortunately there's no Word of Recall spell in E1, either.

 

However, having looked at that screenshot I see a not unfamiliar situation, which I've encountered myself and out of which I managed to get. I'm confident the eyebeast will move around if you wait. Try resting; you have plenty of food.

Motrax, Rita, Dharmon, Crystal Souls.

 

The first three are all marginal decisions (could have chosen Formello instead, for instance). The last one is a head-and-shoulders-above dead cert.

Drayk kebabs - a forbidden delicacy, and all the better for it.

Yes! Everyone in the street must have heard me cheer when I read that.

That removes the single thing that bugged me most about geneforge. Makes GF4 sound a lot closer to being the perfect game.

The only problem I have with range is accidentally clicking next to a character rather than on it, wasting action points by running around, which is my own stupid fault.

 

The hints about Geneforge 4 have been very encouraging. It sounds like it will be an excellent game.

I think one of the enhancement effects does slow enemies, but it's not one of the better ones imho. As Nioca says the effects are only slight. The effects of e.g. steel spine are more noticeable.

 

Edit; sorry, sorry, got that name wrong again.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say it's not possible to read that book.

On all 3 of the Windows PCs where I have played Avernum 1, left click always moves 2 spaces while right click always moves 1 space. I have the Avernum 1.0.2 update, which I believe is the latest version.

In Avernum 1, on Windows, Left Click moves 2 spaces, Right Click moves 1 space. Seeing as how right click is already used for moving, you can't use it for looking as well.

 

The same goes for Nethergate.

Interesting. Your rule has been my exception. When I play as a Shaper I pump shaping stats early and I can use all creation types as soon as the ability becomes available. I frequently get to the third level ability before my earlier creation has leveled more than a couple of times, and so the equation works the other way. So many different ways to play...

a3

 

Knowledge Brew - Mandrake, Graymold, Toadstools, Energetic

 

Tyran: You also need Graymold for Heroic Brew