Davies

Has it occurred to anyone that Hands aren't really selected for loyalty? They're selected for competence in their fields, and achieve success in their endeavors through being ruthless. Loyalty is not really part of the package. Overt treachery is punished, sure, but in Avadon anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught.

It's still pretty illogical if the player mysteriously doesn't even have access to these kinds of magical protections. I have like 20,000 gold, can't I summon a team of invincible demons to spam AoE effects while shields reduce 90% of the damage I take?

Nope, that costs 200,000 gold per use -- a significant fraction of several generations of accumulated wealth, and more money than is available in the game. It's totally logical that he has access to it, and totally logical that you don't.

I would only know if he is somewhere the party can reach him after he fled through the portal.

Once he departs through the portal, he is gone from the game. Reporting back to Envoy Jamie ends the quest and gets you a reward.

The logic of his defenses being so good is that he has enough money to spend on magical defenses that you, even as a Hand of Avadon who collects all sorts of bribes, will never have enough money to afford or the opportunity to purchase. Next time, he will probably be a bit more hard up, from having spent all that money in both this game and the last one, as well as the fact that everything everywhere is going to pot.

Or alternatively, how much are you willing to do to earn the loyalty of those around you, and what will you do with that once you have it?

I'm sure you'd have to do some pretty good political maneuvering to pull it off.

In other words, the correct answer to Dheless' question is "Yes, it can happen ... but probably not in our lifetimes."

It doesn't shift when the Tinkermage Construct it's inhabiting is hit; in my last attempt at this, I believe it was shifting every four rounds. (I had brought the target to a full red bar when it happened. It was very annoying.) Your mileage may vary.

Okay, thank you. I'll try that.

Okay, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do here.

1) I've read the other post, about luring the Bound Infernal into the circle, but it doesn't seem to be working. Whenever I try it, the imp it summons up knocks me back and the thing just walks out of the circle and starts healing again. What do I do to stop that from happening. (Note: I'm playing as a shadowwalker, if that helps to frame the solution.)

2) Assuming that the fight with the Bound Infernal is optional, how do I get out of there and past Vardegras? Do I have to fight the ridiculously more powerful dragon alone or what?

My personal canon is going to be that my PC in Avadon 2 is my PC from Avadon -- having had his/her mind complete erased after pissing off Redbeard and then dumped in a remote outpost where he/she can't do any harm ... which turns out to be the place where the action of Avadon 2 starts. Admittedly, this is going to be difficult to rationalize for Tinkermage run-throughs ...

...for Nathalie, see screenshot 4 of 8 here: http://www.spiderweb...don2/shots.html (wait! who is that cloaked figure?!!??)

Um, the blonde with the staff is not Nathalie, she wears her hair differently. The blademaster in that picture does look a bit like the PC blademaster, though. (The cloaked figure is probably just someone walking guard beside the corpse wagon.)

Um ... three points -- first of all, I think that calling this "near some old areas" is ... well, crazy, given that it's quite a ways to the west of the area of the Kva that was explored in the first game. (Note the "contested territory" marking, which was present on the original map as well.) Secondly, the lava screenshot is explicitly marked as being in the Corruption, so I don't think that's a dragon's weyr. And finally, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have to give us any screenshots at all.

He's pretty clearly described as insane throughout the fight and its finale in A:EftP. Garzahd even refers to him as the madness that directs the Empire -- although he's not exactly all that well-balanced himself.

 

 

Remember, you don't start with a point in the first-tier middle column skill, so it's actually only 3 spare points.

Agh, you're right ... <embarassed> ... well, you can still get all the 1st tier skills to 7 points with that, or two of them and their dependent second tier skill. (A good build for a razordisk focused Shadowwalker in my view.)

There are more or less exactly enough skill points to both max out lockpicking and get to 6 points in one of the top-tier skills by level 30, if you don't waste skill points anywhere else.

You're overstating the problem a bit. It takes 50 points to unlock the 6 point ability in one of the top tier skills. (5 points in each of the 1st tier of leveling abilities, then 7 in each of the five above them.) Spending 3 points to max out lockpicking still leaves you, by 30th level, with 5 points that could be put into anything. (29 level ups x 2 points per level up = 58 skill points, total.) That might not sound like a lot, but it's enough to put all of your 1st tier skills to level 7 or 8 (BEFORE bonuses for specialization and items), if you're minded.

Excalibur, did some digging and found a post by Mr. Vogel confirming that this is a software problem he can't do anything about. That said, apparently, if you play the game in a window rather than in full screen mode, you should be able to switch windows with Command+Tab.

I don't know what the technical term is, but I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be water, dropping from the cave ceilling. Avernum is pretty damp.

Don't use paper, use your computer's Notepad or other text editor. Save the file under a memorable name.

My strategy would be, if not playing as one of the lockpicking classes, to get both Nathalie and Shima to 4 points in that skill as soon as possible, and have one of them in my party at all times that I'm not alone. If I am playing a lockpicker, I would definitely do my own lockpicking and save their points for other things.

Shoot. Well, G3 runs fine, I can at least report that. There's no emulator software that I could use to trick the game or something like that?

(So I can play the start and the end of these series with no problems, but not the middle? Boy, you really do have to check your sanity at the door here.)

You'd have to delete the character to avoid having them automatically resurrect when you enter town. And then you'd lose any equipment they were carrying, wouldn't you? It'd be a bummer if they were carrying the Orb of Thralni ...

 

Edit: I guess you can bend the rules a bit and let them resurrect in town, drop the orb, and then delete them.

You can't transfer the Orb between characters in the party? Strip the body of all useful gear as soon as feasible.

But I can get Avernum 6, Avadon and Avernum: Escape from the Pit working just fine on it! I purchased the last one and am planning to purchase the other two as soon as possible.

Downloaded, installed, but when I try to run it, I just get a warning telling me that my screen isn't set to the proper resolution. Then NOTHING. Not even a strange error message like with Avernum 4. I would be happy to let it adjust my monitor as it suggests if it would just do so!

You're losing potential sales here.

What resolution is your screen? Also what GPU (video card) does your netbook have?

1024x600, and it has an Intel GMA 3150, not a separate video card.

Even when I change the resolution to exactly 800x600, the program still won't start.

I downloaded the demo version of this game, installed it. When I go to run it, I get the Avernum requires the monitor to be set to 16-bit color etc message. After clicking okay, I get this:

Unhandled exception: c0000005

At address: 0040293e

And the program closes.

I'm using a Windows 7 running netbook. What should I do?

Well, I got my medal by finding the cache hidden behind a tree in the Northern Isles. Since the medal requirement is for forty caches, and it doesn't make a lot of sense for there to be more than that, I'm about half-way convinced that the Southern Avernum cache is a hoax, and that you're all in on it. Whatever.