Triumph

If you go...

 

English-Greek-English-Russian-English-Japanese-English-German-English-Spanish-English-French-English-Chinese-simple-Chinese-traditional-English-Portuguese-English-Korean-English-Dutch-French-Italian-English

 

...you get:

 

I guaranteed the circle that is to this newest one cliché.

Dude. Selos will be OVER...on May 11? That's, um, three days from now! Wow. But cool. Very cool.

 

It's also good to see how Selos has asserted their superiority over Bloodmarsh in punctuality, calendrical matters, number of levels, and general coolness.

I seem to recall that Excalibur voluntarily decided to penalize himself by not receiving a level-up for a session that he missed. Classy choice. So I think it's not a mistake.

Lanrezac, the historian (Level 7)

 

 

Also the current HP/STA and inventory:

 

LOL! Source of knowledge? With...one successful history check? Heehee...



Oh noes! You mean I actually have to roleplay to use this perk???



Cool! It's actually really appropriate, given Lanrezac's general role as a sort of support character. I like it. From a mechanical point of view, does this just offer a bonus on another character's next role, whatever they do, or do I have specify "Nixak's next Diplomacy role" or something like that? To use do I just say something like "'blah blah blah' (Words of Wisdom bonus to so and so)"? Also, does belittling Vitze's plans qualify as an inspiring phrase?

Ooh, two very nice/fitting perks!

 

And an intriguing penultimate session for Bloodmarsh. Now I'm pondering where the portal could have taken them...

Age of Empires 2 is a STRATEGY game, not an RPG. It's not really relevant to this discussion, methinks...

Dyen Dawes seems to be missing some skills...

I've got say I'm impressed (although also sometimes confused) by Monroe's image-based...ah, communications.

You've got a PM! I found the dissertation, but the not the thesis...

Let's see...if you've got to kill the queen then you're playing as the Celts. Yeah, from the area where the "civilized" Fomorians live, you kind of follow a loop up into the upper level where you kill the queen and then go back down into the lower area. At different points certain doors may lock or unlock. But somewhere along the way should get to a point where you'll be move freely through the different areas (possibly not until after you've killed the queen and been given permission to leave) when you get lug stuff to the entrance.

 

I think.

Eventually, after you complete the mission, the only part of Goagh-Nar you'll still be able to reach is the entry cavern, the cave area where you first appear when you enter Goagh-Nar. From that cavern you either go down a secret passage to the west (if Celt) or into the front door (if Roman). If I'm not getting mixed up (which is possible) that's where's you've got to try to pile stuff before you exit Goagh-Nar. Once you leave the zone, the secret door and the front gate both close and you can't get back in.

And interestingly, even though this is an exceptionally religious party so far, it's also an exceptionally unperceptive party...

I hope Sarachim has your party get ambushed from behind a lot.

Ooh, kudos on trying out the 1-strength character, and for using ABJURATION!!!!!

 

 

Seriously, I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

My new theory on what is going to happen in the Bloodmarsh:

 

 

Since it's come up, WHY is it that some like Nethergate more than N:R? What are the differences between them that make one better than the other?

YES. Even if the games never explicitly said this, I liked the fact that the games at least implicitly offered this rationalization for leveling. It's not a big deal, but it is a nice touch when "leveling up" and becoming extremely powerful can be made to make sense within the gameworld. (I think Morrowind was like this as well: the reason the player can become as powerful as a demigod is because...the PC actually IS a minor demigod).

As for the Geneforge being weakened...I always figured the drakons did that on purpose. By G4-G5, the only source for transmitting knowledge of the Geneforge was the drakons - and they were pretty focused on self-shaping themselves. Building a couple low-power Geneforges for the human and serviles was may have seemed like a practical step to further the war effort and please their allies, but the drakons definitely weren't wanting to power up humans and serviles into demigods. They want that for themselves. And the G5 forge was apparently based on intel about the rebel forges. Danette spent years perfecting the original Geneforge and maxing out its power. Even though the general technology/magic remained known to the drakons (ultimately it must have been passed down by Ghaldring), they didn't know all the details of the original, presumably, and in building new human Geneforges (to which they added servile compatibility) they just never bothered to try to unlock all the power that Danette's orginal forge could.

/overthinking

Dikiyoba FTW.

No, it's just that the madness of the drakons, who have been continually reshaping themselves (similar to canister junkies) for years of war means there are many such powerful, power-mad, magic-and-shaping-capable beings running around. A PC canister junkie is not nearly as unique a phenomenon in G5 as in G1 or G2 (even if most of them are non-human).

Well, if the "translation" ends up as weird foreign words that don't get translated, it's not very entertaining. What's entertaining is having a final translation that is in English words, but which says something bizarre/strange/silly.

I tried this one, and couldn't come up with anything interesting. All translations were either very, very similar to the original, or suddenly and precipitously descended into untranslated garbage.

I think...tentatively, that I could be around to sub.

Boregloaf just gets mightier and mightier. Yay for Selos!

 

Also, yay for taking the shopping trips out of the regular sessions! Good call.

I'm going to be busy toward the end of this week and most of next week and probably not on here as much, so I hope to confirm this soon. Can I be pretty sure Selos will meet again the evening of Friday, May 7? Just want to make sure to plan to be available. Thanks.