Feo Takahari

Originally Posted By: pitchblack *Pitchblack does some quick mental arithmetic... Wow. This thread is almost 350 posts long... Jeez. Someone should make it go explody and start a new one. Thinks awhile... Suddenly jumps up and raises hand. While jumping up and down, I shout "Me! ME! I wanna make it go explody!" How about this: post that you're reading a book whose title will get the topic locked. The question is what would work. I think this forum would even let us get by with admitting to having read "Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO." P.S. Real book. It's about the tabloid industry.

Decided to join the Anama in an alternate saved game, get what advantages I could from them, then have Shafrir remove the geas. Did so and didn't seem to get any negative effects, so I saved over my main game. Only then did I find out that my mage had lost eight points of Mage Spells and that a lot of the spells I taught her were gone. Rather than restart the frigging game, I decided to use the character editor to restore her skills to normal. Is this bad for my immortal soul or whatever? (I didn't actually buy any of the magical training from the Anama, but I did buy three wisdom crystals, and I used a spellbook that I could only get to with the Anama key.)

Should these be attached to the strategy central?

Should these be attached to the strategy central?

Uh . . . Crystal field quest? There are quests for mined crystals in Harkin's Landing and Thalants, and two competing crystal-related quests in Muck and Highground, but I never heard anything about a quest for a crystal field.

I guess if anyone cares what I was talking about, this was stuff I said during an argument about ethics. I described "the stuff that ripped off Tolkien" as having a strong us-versus-them element, in which that "them" cannot be negotiated with and must instead be destroyed. Example: "I don't consider myself a murderer. Goblins don't count." Just seems a little like not considering yourself a murderer for killing blacks or something. P.S. Not that I am comparing blacks to goblins, thankyouverymuch. And a little note to Evynissen (I am spelling that correctly, right?): when Hecate posted and said hi to everyone, someone else provided a link to a list of unofficial Spiderweb rules. One of them said that the UBB tends to randomly eat posts after about 20 good-length posts on a single topic. If this has somehow been fixed, then never mind.

I posted . . . then realized how rude I just sounded. I scrambled to delete the post . . . then found that it had already been read. I humbly ask repentance . . . and await your answer. Oh, and Neb? A clarification: just because I hate the books doesn't mean I have anything against you. After all, given how much I hate, I'd have to have something against the whole world. Again, I'm sorry. P.S. Actually, when I was younger these were my favorite books ever written, if it counts for anything. I shifted to the opposite upon rereading. P.P.S. Also, if it counts for anything, I tend to offend everyone around me. I just screw these things up.

Uh, Neb, hate to tell you, but when I was talking about the "people who ripped off Tolkien," the authors of Dragonlance were those I were referring to. If you recall what I said about Tolkien, apply it to Dragonlance times ten.

Reread The Scarlet Letter for school. It really was as irritating as I remembered it. (I hate most of Hawthorne's works, for reasons of both philosophy and simple taste.) P.S. I think we need to start a new topic again. This one's getting long enough that the buggy UBB might start randomly deleting posts.

Cracked lobster: please do not insult the moderators. Delicious vlish: please do not lock a duplicate thread when the original thread was locked but a duplicate thread would work perfectly well. Me: please do not actually post this, lest I get in serious trouble. Wait a minute, what's my hand doing?

I've heard a bit about how grim the endings of G5 are, too. Maybe Jeff does need to lighten up . . .

I definitely do not miss the old thahds. Depending on the angle at which they were standing, you could get quite a view (ahem.) P.S. By the way, if you haven't spotted any nudity in older Spiderweb games, look very, very closely at either the creatures (early Geneforge) or the illustrations (early Avernum.) I also noticed a bit of violence that slipped by in Blades of Avernum--severed body parts in the corner of an illustration for Diplomacy with the Dead , and a head-splitting-open graphic when you kill a zombie. One wonders how many innocent little children were scarred for life

I'm getting reminded quite powerfully of the speculation that the androgynous mimic in Final Fantasy VI was in fact the missing, presumed-dead ex-girlfriend of the albino gambler. In other words, all of this is fairly pointless.

If you manage to get out of the dungeon or whatever and you still have some artifacts, they'll continue to disappear, so I guess there must be a rather large area within which they disappear if you enter it. (It's probably the same for the Stones of Victory, though I care less about those since they're not worth any money.)

As advised, I sent the giants against Muck for Highground's reward, then killed the giant queen for Muck's reward. (Came out well--not a single denizen of Muck died.) Then I went to Thalants and got the "expel muck" quest. Now I find that Berko is unwilling to leave unless killed. Was I supposed to tell him to leave while the giants were still attacking? If so, and if I now have to kill him to get the reward, is there anyone in the game besides the potionmaker in Muck who'll make Knowledge Potions for me? Also, was this the quest that was supposed to provide a free point of Melee Weapons? (I was counting on that free point so my mage could learn to use Well-Aimed Blow without further expenditure of cash or skill points.)

Originally Posted By: The Mystic What I'd like to know is if X ever finished his anvil-flinging spell. I suspect that spell will be finished around the same time as the potion in A2 that was supposed to make you breathe fire. That is to say, it won't ever be finished.

Originally Posted By: Thuryl Originally Posted By: Slarty Most CRPGs do not have difficulty settings. This is particularly true of those in the "classic" genre, which Jeff's games fall into. The games we grew up loving to play did not let us play them on Torment, and they were probably better off for it. If they were easier, that's just as well. Which CRPGs do have difficulty settings, anyway? Might and Magic II does (as does World of Xeen), Diablo II does, Fallout does, all of the Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment) do, Neverwinter Nights does (actually, pretty much all of BioWare's games do)... Actually, Neverwinter Nights specificially warns you not to change the difficulty settings lest you make the game virtually impossible. I think the same must necessarily apply to almost any true RPG, since there's no way to make your characters "better" when their stats are determined by skill points rather than skill. Tactics can only get you so far . . . And regarding the Pole of Punishment: I found that extremely easy. Not sure what I did differently (you did haste your healer, right?)

One thing worth mentioning: Torment is not the difficulty to play on if you want to maintain your sanity, as Jeff has to keep happy those people who want the game to be virtually impossible. Fighting at Normal difficulty, I found the game to be pretty much fine. (Indeed, I can't even see how the game is beatable on Torment. The capability of "improving" your playing is absent by definition from RPGs, since whether or not an attack hits is not based on whether or not you can aim.)

2: this is a recurrent bug around since at least Avernum, often exploited for quite a variety of things. I think it was fixed around A4. D: If you're talking about the bridge where you see blood if you're playing Celt, when playing Roman you help some Celts fight off a group of goblins there. E: In the original Nethergate, at least, you couldn't get all the spells when playing Roman.

Myself, I don't side with the Darkside Loyalists because they keep trying to kill me . . .

Now that you mention it, I suppose this game is a grind. I hadn't noticed because I'm used to games that are even worse in that respect. (On a side note, if you ever consider playing the early FF games, don't.) As for comparing this game to A4, I think it's far less of a grind in the sense that there's actual strategy involved in the combat. In A4 all I had to do was keep hacking and healing and everything went down if given enough time. I actually felt relieved when I decided I didn't have to finish it just because I'd spent money on it.

Also, one thing I didn't learn for a while: to purify a shaped item, you put together the Mandrake Tincture and Demon's Bile,then use the finished product on the shaped item. Mandrake Tincture + Demon's Bile + Shaped Item does nothing.

Originally Posted By: Thuryl Natural Mage and Pure Spirit also give you free Mag Eff. Hmm . . . Natural Mage neglects to mention that in its description, and it has the same EXP penalty as Pure Spirit, which does mention it. Then again, maybe the latter provides more points of magical efficiency--my character with Natural Mage is the one who has 8 points; my character with Pure Spirit has 11.

What's interesting if you think about it is that this might not be irrelevant to the real world. When one "makes" a computer program, it is in theory under one's absolute control, but bugs tend to slip in. Apply some of this speculation to a true AI (which I, for one, think we're likely to develop sooner or later), and we could be in a whole lot of trouble depending on how cautious we are.

Originally Posted By: Slarty And frankly, they are not likely to do less damage than Firebolt, which is really the only spell cheap enough to use constantly. Not if you have an 8 in magical efficiency! And no, I'm not entirely sure how I did it without any items or invested skill points, but I can figure up to 3 bought in Exodus, plus one from Lark, plus one in the Golem Factory.