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Thanks, I must have missed it.

How do I get into Aram Peaks? I've finished every area I can find on the rest of the map. I know there's a secret entrance somewhere, someone in Ice Gate told me so, but I can't find it. Any hints would be appreciated!

Oh sorry - I'm quite a way beyond that, but thank you for the tips. It's not that I'm not making progress, I am - it's just incredibly slow and frustrating: I get the maps of the slith fortress, and then I can't even hit the sliths who ambush me on the way out - let alone defeat them. And with a lot of the missions to defeat enemies on the outside of cities, I get killed before I even get a chance to miss them.

I could do casual, but my ego finds it humiliating. And I haven't found very many easy delivery and collection quests!

I never thought I'd say this, but this game is too hard. I've played half a dozen Spiderweb titles and generally found them too easy. I figured this'd be the same, so I started on "Hard" difficulty. Well, that was pretty close to impossible - after 15 or 20 hours of play, I was stuck, so I turned the difficulty down. But it's still frustratingly hard - I can never make it through an entire mission, I have to do part of a mission, run away, search for another mission that won't kill me, do part of that, run away, do part of another, go back to the end of the first mission, get killed, look for another that I can manage. I've never quit a game before, but I'm close to it with this one.

You know, I tried that - and I can't really get it to work. Unless when you say damaging the shades you mean the under 10 damage I can occasionally do.... I'm finding this one a bit tedious.

Yeah - I end up generally sacrificing characters - so I'll do some damage with my figthers, let them get killed, and have the priest run around the corner and revive them. Pretty tedious.

Cool thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the replies. At least I'm not missing something obvious! SPOILERS BELOW On another note, I'm currently stumped by the Cackling Demon and the slith spy. I made the cackling demon disappear twice, but now I can't find him again. (I'm much farther in the game, I've already finished Formello.) It's sort of like the reverse of the slith spy - I keep sending him over the edge of the chasm, but he keeps coming back in exactly the same spot. I don't necessarily need solutions here - for instance, if I'm going to run into the cackling guy again eventually, or if eventually the slith spy will stop jumping into the cavern and just die, I'll keep plugging away at it. But maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Hey I've played all the Geneforge games, but this is my first Avernum. I'm finding it pretty fun - I set the challenge level higher than normal 'cause I normally find the games too easy, and I'm definitely challenged! There's one thing I'm feeling too challenged by though, and that's the lightning - where three lightning bolts appear next to my character and continue to cause damage for a number of rounds. The issue I'm having is that nothing seems to reliably cure this, including the priest divine curing and cure elixirs. The only thing that works - mostly - is a purging crystal, and I don't have that many of them lying around. Am I missing something? Or is this just a killer attack? It's making life very hard, particularly as the game goes on and more and more enemies use this attack. (It's interesting the comments about how hard the game is and party optimization - I'm finding the game quite hard, and I think it's because my party isn't well optimized - but without doing quite a bit of research, I don't know that I could have done much better - which is daunting for a newbie.)