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I am wondering if anyone has experienced a bug where items disappear. This has happened to me twice, early on in Fort Draco, later in Olgai. In Olgai I lost important stuff, Magery crystal, Orb of Thralni, Blessed Plate Mail, and loads of armour from the Ornotha Ziggurat that I was hoping to turn into cash. Does anyone know why this happens?

How do I control into which slot a creature gets captured? I have the two middle slots free, but when I try to capture a new creature, it saves it over one of my older creatures. I have an Ur-basilisk and a Haakai, and am trying to capture a Naga.

Is there a reliable place to get a Priests braclet. Like getting the Mage's braclet from the soldiers wandering around the castle for example. EDIT: (After getting the grey pass!) Also, do the random item sellers' stock ever change, and if so how often. Sometimes their stock is good and sometimes it's lousy. I got two blessed cloaks at the beginning from the wandering merchants around Formello. I tested how many blessed studded armor's Waldby had and he had about 6. In a previous game, Brantford(?) in Magi tower had two Mage's braclets at 900c apiece. How is this stuff worked out?

Immature names like Destroyor, Anxietor, Horifficor, Painor, Dementor etc. I call my mage and priest , Mage and Priest.

On reflection, it might the turn-based combat system. Not that I would ever want it to be in real-time.

I just finished Avernum. Hurrah. Now that I've finished, I want to ask: 1. Despite mega stats, enhancing equipment, Alien Blade etc, I was unable to achieve more than 99 damage in one go, (Excepting the extra damage when using the Flaming or Icy Longsword) , so I assume that this is the limit. Does this change in Avernum 2 or 3? 2. Did anyone use use potion-making much? I only ever used Health and Energy. Potion-making actually turned out to be a good way of making quick cash later on. The best potions were the ones I couldn't buy, Knowledge brew and Resistance. (Or can you buy them?) 3. Did anyone find it easy? About halfway through the game I rarely bothered fighting my outdoor battles manually, I just used shift-A. I also found that in most dungeons, I rarely entered combat mode, simply pushing in the appropriate direction with the arrow keys. The amount of Battle-enhancing, magic-resistant items I found was enormous, so that I hardly ever took damage from magic, and my enemies almost consistently missed. When battling Hawthorne for example, I got hit by melee attacks 11 times in total. Magic did little or no damage whatsoever due to special items. Although I took pleasure in watching my team laying waste to my enemies with such little effort, it was more satisfying when battles had to be carefully calculated and considered. Is this the case in the sequels? (I realise that the difficulty can be changed, however, I like to play a game as it was "intended", at first anyway). Despite these observations, I have to say, best game ever. I own the Trilogy so I'll be continuing shortly. I posted alot of questions in the forum when playing this game, thanks for all the replies.

No worries! I got it!

My second problem in the last 12 hours. Looking for the Demon Slayer parts. I've got the iron key, and I get all the way around the perimeter upper Slith temple, and I reach a dead end jusrt past the bottom right-hand corner. I've tapped the walls a million times. What am I doing wrong? I am exasperated! Many thanks.

A Billion Thanks, my tension has subsided.

Avernum 1. The hint book says Almaria. I have looked hard. but I can't find it. Could someone please tell exactly where and how to get it. Spoil it completey, I'm at my wits end. Thanks a million.

Study the instructions carefully, and often. Play the to about the limits of the demo, learn, and then start the whole game again. Ignore the classes, create custom characters. Concentrate skill points, don't spread them thinly. Give every character two positive character traits according to their function. Search every town/dungeon/outdoor area carefully by tapping against every wall for secret areas. Leave nothing unexplored. Talk to everyone to thoroughly, always buy a drink. Loot every town and dungeon thoroughly, on principle. Steal stuff from barrels/crates by moving them into a safe place. Once you've reached the gold cap,create supply caches so that you've always got plenty of stuff to sell. Don't sell or use anything unusual, wait and see. Make notes of everything of interest. The list could go on and on.

The hintbook tells me that Pathfinder is to found in Fort Dranlon, and that Anatomy is to be found in the Magi Tower, (On completeing a quest). I can't find anybody to teach them. I have completed all quests in Dranlon, I have completed all quests in the Magi Tower. I have not killed the Haakai lord. My reputation is high, 32. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Is it limited by the bow and type of arrows used, or is there anything else that affects this. Thanks.

Have you moved the Geneforge application outside the main folder? If so try, putting it back.

This advice is based on using Geneforge 1, on a Mac. In your Geneforge folder, check in the Geneforge files. There should be 16 save folders, named Save0, Save1, etc, to Save15. Make sure they're all there. When I deleted some/all of the folders, I got the same error message as you describe. Hope this helps.