Emperor Tullegolar

Quote: Originally written by Spidweb: I will, however, keep the roamer icon as a clawbug, though, because I think it looks cool. I know you used the roamer icon as the hellhound and the clawbug as the chitrach, but what do you mean by using the 'roamer icon as a clawbug?'

What's this? You don't want Demonslayer?!? Look, you can defeat demons without it, but you really should get it anyway, otherwise you're missing out on an important Avernum tradition. The pommel is not in the Nephilim Fortress, but the 'Underground Fort,' which is indeed West of Fort Duvno. It's full of nepharim, not nephilim. Far Northwest corner of the fort, search the sarcophagus. Do it! Otherwise, how are future adventurers supposed to have access this most famous of blades?

No. Don't worry, it works.

Quote: Originally written by CharonX: The movement time (in reality) has remained the same, but going to the next city should be a farer than just walking through a couple of city lengths of wilderness... Or, in some cases, no city lengths of wilderness. I wasn't really that attached to the outdoors screen. I realled liked the seamlessness in Avernum 4. The only problem was that since the world had been designed with the outdoors system in mind, some cities were too close together for the seamless world to work. That shouldn't be a problem if most of Avernum 5 takes place in new caves.

I suggest playing through from the begining for maximum enjoyment and understanding of the story. Kelandon is also correct, though, if you play backwards, the game will probably become more annoying as you go because you will be moving backwards in technology or whatever as well. Technology is probably the wrong word but you get the idea.

The Turabi Gate quest, in which you need to scout the defenses of the gate, can be completed as follows: one way is to just rush up to it, and eventually a message will appear that says you see the defenses and can report back now; while the other way (which is not my style, and thus I've never done it) is probably to sneak up without alerting the patrols, getting just close enough to see the message. Not sure what the 'spy points' you're refering to are. You can get caught and still complete the quest, but someone who's more inclined to that style should give you more info on that.

By the time you finish Avernum 3, you should have a pretty good idea. I don't really think it was supposed to be a mystery.

I just voted you 5 stars. I suspect that should average you out to 2 now. I always vote 5 stars to noobs that piss off the oldbies. For the Conclusing Resolution.

Quote: —Alorael, who thinks... sometimes you shouldn't be able to kill one monster, leave, and come back to very slowly clear an area. I actually liked that there were almost no repawnable monsters. I made me feel like I could, you know, complete the game... completely. In one game where I successfully picked up every item in the entire world, the only flaw in my plan was those respawning slimes that sometimes dropped bones or trash. This is probably just the OCD part of me talking.

Oh, so that's why you have one star.

I like being able to click where I want to go. It allowed me to travel across the map at record speeds, since it navigates you aroung obstacles automatically. I love that. I can't imagine traversing a forest or swamp without that ability, even though I did it all the time in the older Avernums. I would really miss it if it were gone now.

It's control-click! Control-click! Not that it matters to me, it's not that hard to find a two-button mouse for a mac.

Quote: Originally written by Quickfire: If you use a mac and you haven't heard of EV Have too. The only reason I don't play it anymore is because, unlike Jeff, they don't send you a new key when you lose your old one. I'll never forgive that bastard Captain Hector.

Bump, because someone PMed me for the link the other day. Micawber\'s Site .

It's still far more than they deserve.

Right, what about for a Mac?

Quote: The Mystic: And for additional fun, you could borrow from the Star Trek universe and give your Shaper or Agent a tricorder. Original Series tricorder, or Next Generation? Serious question: what's the best program for editing graphics?

A Trakovite victory? Sure, that would mean the end of war as we know it in the Geneforge games. But it would result in the equivalent of dark ages earth. With no powerful Shapers or any other shaping wielding sect to maintain order, society would crumble. There would be barbarians everywhere. Not just human barbarians; with no essence minded individuals to keep creations in check, various species would run rampant, breeding out of control. Drakons might even have enough power infused into their race to be more powerful than humans by that point, anyway. Without shaping to maintain balance in the war, they will probably try to whipe out the human race. That's a Trakovite victory in a nutshell.

Go to where you killed Shaper Monarch. If you got the key somewhere in Northforge, then you can enter the black door you will find there.

Nonsense, the Sholai would want the war to continue so they could sell goods to both sides. Sholai scum, they are next, after the Rebels, of course. I don't know if I could ever see Shapers and Drakons sitting down at a negotiation table together. More likely, also more interesting, would be if the Shapers were forced to ally with the serviles and rebel humans to stop the mad drakons. I can see no happy ending with them in it.

Oh, now I have to find a new source of Palpatine quotes...

That idea, my good rackrmnn, gets my Emperor's Seal of Approval™.

Power wears a black cloak and hood, everyone knows this.

Me and Drakey have already decided that he's doing it on purpose. The final tell was when he said something like 'snivelization.' Sometimes his misspellings are too good to be true.

Quote: Alorael: Traditionalist Shapers, Shapers who don't abide by the rules anymore, rebels, Drakon rebels, human rebels, rebels who think maybe this was a bad idea, Trakovites who aren't in the shadows anymore, and I'm sure the list can go on. This is why there needs to be a 'yourself' faction. What better way to end the series than having the PC gain an impossible amount of power by using the device the game is named for? The ending itself would then be based on whether or not you were nice to serviles, and whether or not you helped proliferate shaping technology.