TheFerventPeasant

In my slooow stroll through the Avernum series, I find myself fairly early in A3 cluelessly wondering where I might have missed Move Mountains level 3. Minor Spoiler alert: After finishing the Filth Pit and standing there ready to detonate my Egg o' Doom, I hesitate, miffed that I couldn't get past a couple of mossy boulders in that area, knowing I wouldn't get another chance once the fiery egg brought the whole house down. So I stow the egg and leave the pit to explore further, hoping I can make it back with MM3 before the roaches start destroying things. The clock ticks on as I travel, but no MM3, so I reluctantly google for a hint, only to discover it's apparently back in Ft Emergence in a place I'm pretty sure I already searched. So I rush back to home base, return to the formerly warded area I'd already been in, re-look at the two tomes within, and am reminded that while MM is in fact there, it's only MM2, which I already knew from my first visit. And yet google tells me it's there. So, what am I missing? I don't want any spoilers, per se, but I'd appreciate the vaguest of hints to let me know where I might refocus my search. Thanks!

I recently started Avernum 3 and am rather confused by a couple of encounters. Minor spoilers ahead. In the Wolf Warrens, after barging into the chieftain's quarters and expecting an epic fight (by goblin standards), all the baddies in the room just stood there hurling taunts as I maneuvered for combat. I moved around them, but they didn't move at all. I looked at each of them to confirm they were 'hostile', and they were. When I moved adjacent to one, it smacked me, but even after moving away (as a final test), they still didn't move. Weird. Then in the Slime Pit, the same thing happened. Although most of the slimes pursued me, I encountered a few who showed as 'hostile' and attacked if I moved adjacent to them, but otherwise didn't move at all. Still weird. Later in the Slime Pit, a different frustration... When I made it to the room of bloated corpses near the stairs going down, and became diseased, my cleric's Cure spell failed to cure it. Death came quickly. I had only level one Cure at that point, and I figured maybe the disease was too virulent for a level one Cure. So I loaded a previous game, paid a greedy priest to raise Cure to level two, then tried the Slime Pit again, but still the gods denied me. Maybe it's an alien disease that can't be cured in the usual way? I'll try potions next. And a similar experience with Cure in the cave of the giant who captured the dryad. After poisoning myself opening his treasure chests, Cure failed again, and death came again. I guess I just need to go back later with a higher Traps skill. I'm not looking for any hints or spoilers here - maybe this is how things are supposed to be happening - but I am curious if these may be bugs...?

Hi all! Minor Spoiler Alert: So I've just started Avernum 2, just finished the Nephilim Castle, and just dispatched the Chieftain. I rushed down to the prison to free Arum, where he was supposed to be waiting in his cell after telling me he'd stay right there until the Cheiftain was no more. But the cell's empty. Maybe I left the door opened and he tried to sneak out while I was doing all the work? I looked all over the castle, exited the castle and revisted the prison hoping he'd respawn, but he's gone. Where the flip did he go? How now can I get the reputation point I hear he was supposed to give for saving him? PS: Spiderweb support, if I send you a copy of my game-save file to verify what I'm saying, can you tweek it to stick him back in his cell?

-POTENTIAL SPOILERS ALERT- That was fun. I'm looking forward to part two. But first... I tried not to miss anything, but clearly I missed a little, and I'm looking for some help. No spoilers or hints, just a yes or a no to my questions. I kept notes whenever I wanted to get back to something in the game. These are the things I never figured out by the time I finished: I was told to find a man named Miles near Ft Duvno about potions with mandrake. I found a Miles in Formello with potions, but nothing regarding mandrake. Was there another Miles somewhere? I was told to find a woman named Elizabeth near Silvar to let her know a man named Matthias was waiting for her in Ft Emerald. I didn't find her, but I did end up killing a witch with a few goblins digging a tunnel just south of Silvar. Was that her? At the Ancient Crypt, where two adventurers were camped trying to figure out a way to open the door, one of those adventurers, Yong-Mi, said she wanted some special arrows, and she had a recipe for poison she wouldn't give me. I tried bringing her those arrows, but nothing changed. Was there a way to trade the arrows to her for her poison recipe? I found the two bodies hidden within the wall in Cotra, and spoke to a suspicious assassin character there in the tavern. I also informed the mayor about the bodies, but nothing changed. Was there a way to solve that mystery? I found the strange cave near Erika's tower where the ancient race is buried and waits to return, with the force barriers that regenerate and prevent you from trying to pass deeper into the cave. I figured if I had some of the blue crystals with me (with their spirits inside?), I might be able to pass, but nope. Was it possible to get further into that cave? There's a dark alter in the demon Grah-Hoth's former fortress, Akhronath. Destroying it has a very bad effect with no obvious reward as with other dark alters you destroy in the game. Was it important in any other way? One of the big slith fortresses had a temple with an alter that could not be approached. Wind blew me back every time I tried to get closer. Could I get to it somehow? One of the attendants of the dragon Motrax named his cats after words he heard the dragon speaking, epsilon and delta. Those sound like passwords to something, but nothing I found. Were they important? In the dragon Khoth's fortress, there's a circular path of runes on the floor of one library. You cannot walk to the center of the path without being forced back. I tried walking the entire path from the far end to the center, crossing every rune one at a time, but that didn't help. Was there any way to get to the center? There were also two frozen creatures in another of Khoth's libraries. Was there a way to free/speak to them? Thanks for your time and comments!

Thanks for the quick and helpful replies. @TriRodent... I think I have a bit of the OCD thing too. No problem, though. I'm really liking the game anyway and appreciate the work that went into it in every way. Thanks for the workaround tip. @ Minion... As a matter of fact, I do keep handwritten notes, probably more than I use the journal. It's all part of the old school appeal. I also remember those blank pages at the end of older game manuals, and I still have several of those game manuals, though my OCD prevented me from ever 'defacing' the actual game manual by writing in it ;p

In tracking quests and other interesting bits of the story with my journal, I see after I delete entries blank pages between remaining entries. So, every time I save a new entry, it's sandwiched between older entries, which makes it harder to find what I'm looking for. Is there any way to consolidate or organize entries so there are no blank pages in between? If there's a simple key combo to do this and it's printed in bold letters in the game manual, I apologize for being blind Thanks for the help!

Thanks for your quick reply!

Hi. I'm several hours into the first game in the trilogy, and really enjoying it. Although I like to figure things out on my own without hints, I've got a couple of lingering questions about magic... 1. If a spell can target 4 enemies, for example, but there are only 3 enemies available to target, is there a way to activate that spell on just those 3 enemies, or is that spell useless unless I face at least 4? 2. The game docs indicate that spells may be learned from scrolls. I've looted several scrolls from defeated enemies, and I see how to cast those spells from the scrolls, but I don't see how to learn them. What am I missing? Thanks for your help!