Arch-Mage Solberg

Originally Posted By: Spidweb

The four joinable character in Avadon are like Greta and Alwan, but much more so. They have lots of dialogue, banter, issues, etc. I'm enjoying writing them.

- Jeff Vogel

Originally Posted By: Spidweb

Thank you for your understanding. We've never made it a secret that we are a small company with limited resources, doing the best we can to make a sort of game the game industry doesn't provide.

- Jeff Vogel

Originally Posted By: Tirien, Master of Bacon

Dont forget about the cannibals. Everytime they eat someone, there's one less person to eat your meat.

Originally Posted By: Artemis~

This is probably 100% rumor, but i've heard around that meats actually took away from your life span.

Originally Posted By: BerryPolter

I'm playing Avernum 4 and whenever I press escape in order to access the mai options durin the game the game freezes for 5 seconds before executing every comand RELATED to the options screen DURING the game.Why is that?

Originally Posted By: Dantius

Nonono, they have to be reluctant badasses with a tormented past, possibly involving an overly simplistic backstory where the Empire killed their father/son/daughter/spouse. Sheesh, get your tropes right!

Originally Posted By: Lenar Labs™

Obviously, one is an assassin sent for crimes not committed, one is a reluctant badass who has been orphaned by the cruel Empire, one is the heretic who got what they deserved, and is repenting, and one just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Originally Posted By: From Jerry Bush's Computer

This is the story of the group of adventurers commonly known as Hawthorne's Assassins!
They are a group of four people who through a series of bizarre circumstances, achieved great power and fame and changed the course of the young nation of Avernum. We begin our story by introducing the group.
These four (and two others named Jenneke and Frodue) were gathered up, taken to the portal, and thrown in. They arrive inside the walls of Fort Avernum. They are told by Andrew to visit Tor for meager supplies and Tharl for information. Tor gives them each a Stone Shortsword, crude helmets, poor leather shoes and 10 gold. Tharl just gives them the basic rundown of life in the caves, the nearest cities and forts, and the government.
After they have done this, they go over to the bar to await the next caravan to Silvar. They meet another group also waiting. They talk and decide that together they should be tough enough to make the trip to Silvar. So they head out.
Along the way, a band of goblins and Nephilim ambush them. The humans fight hard and win, all but four falls in battle. Here is their story.
Karkin was a young warrior who lived in the tiny village of Boluk located about 150 miles from Solaria (the capitol of The Empire). He was out hunting for food when bandits set upon Boluk. One survived to run to the next town to tell the news before succumbing to his injuries. When Karkin got back from the hunt, he found his village destroyed. He used his woodsman skills to find out which way the bandits had gone. You can say that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time because right when he found the bandits hideout, so did a local militia. The bandits knew they were outmanned and surrendered. Karkin tried to plead his case but to no avail. No one knew who he was and he was found right outside a bandit hideout. The bandits and Karkin were sent to the local magistrate for a trial. Banditry is punishable by death under Empire law. No evidence whatsoever was given to prove that Karkin belonged to the bandits. The magistrate, being unusually kind at the time, did not sentence Karkin to death. Instead, he was taken to Solaria to wait to be teleported into the underworld.
Bortha was an apprentice mage at the Imperius School of Magic at Imperius. She was given the task of categorizing the schools library. She had some talent in the art of magic and actually been able to learn a few spells. During her task, a jealous rival (name unknown), went behind her back and switched some of the books and scrolls around. Not enough to be noticed, but enough that when Icarcerous (one of the schools Triad) asked Bortha to find certain book, it could not be found. However, it was not lost, just not in the right place. Bortha was accused of light sabotage and lying to a member of the Triad. Her punishment was harsh. She was to be teleported to the vast caves beneath the surface.
Jeriko was a lowly acolyte with some alchemy skill in a new religion called Church of the Divine Lucre. They believed that magical might, political power and extreme wealth go hand in hand. Jeriko was sent to a village called Shadyvale, located about 50 miles north of Solaria, to convert the village and build a temple. The people of Shadyvale took him to be an evil priest and had him arrested under sedition. He was tried and sentenced to teleportation to the caves.
Stecklidge was your common variety petty thief. He lived in Solaria and stole a little here and there to survive. Along with being a thief, he was a fairly good bowman. One day, he was walking though town and went into a shop. A politician was in there shopping. Stecklidge went about his business and pocketed some apples when he thought no one was looking. The politician confronted him and asked him why he was stealing. Stecklidge, not one to hold his temper, told the politician to mind his own business. Stecklidge was arrested (not for stealing the apples, but for talking that way to the politician) and sentenced to be teleported into the caves.
The surviving four search the goblins and Nephilim along with the fallen humans to scavenge up some more supplies. They come away with 73 gold, a bronze Shortsword, a cavewood bow, seven pairs of poor leather shoes, four scrolls, 3 healing and 2 curing potions, and a Wand of Firebolt. They continue the trip to Silvar where they sell the stone weapons and poor leather shoes and buy better armor and weapons, train to better their skills, and buy other supplies to continue their journey.
They ask around town about odd jobs to do but with a regular flow of people coming through all the time, there are not any jobs at the time. They head off to the bar to wait a caravan to Mertis when the middle-aged bartender named Gary. He tells them that since they did all right on the way over to Silvar from Fort Avernum, that they should consider becoming adventurers. He even suggests that they travel north to Fort Duvno to offer their services to Commander Johnson. They thank him and discuss it. Adventuring is hard and potentially fatal, but it does have some advantages. They decide to give it a shot. They pack up their stuff and head towards Fort Duvno.
Along the way, they were caught in three ambushes of goblins and Nephilim and were also attacked by bandits. Having had fought before on their way to Silvar, they now have a kind of knack for fighting together. They laid waste to the goblins and Nephilim with better ease than before, but their challenge was with the bandits. Having been from the surface, they have a sickly feeling about attacking another human. But then again, it was the bandits or themselves and they did not want to die just yet. Once the bandits were dead and their corpses picked clean of anything of value, they continued to Fort Duvno.
When they arrived, they sold the stuff they didn't need from the ambushes, bought some better equipment, went to see Carol the Healer, and then headed toward the Inn to rest up a bit before seeing Commander Johnson.

Originally Posted By: terra

Is ther any to remove quests, from the Quest Lists, ones that can no longer be completed.

Originally Posted By: Internet Forum Zombie

Solberg speaks in third-person? He must be trying to steal the gimmicks of Alorael and Dikiyoba.

Originally Posted By: Dantius

By far the best dungeons were the end labs in G1/G2. Nothing in the Avernum series even remotely compares.

Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel

Yes, but then he also asked this:

Originally Posted By: Snail

I'm playing Avernum 1 on a PC laptop. I therefore don't have a proper numpad, so I use an external usb numpad for certain games. Its been a while since I played Avernum 1 so I don't remember what keys used to work when I had a normal keyboard.

Anyway, with my current comp, I can only move with the proper arrow keys on it, and not with what would be the keys 1,3,7,9 on a numpad.