Kreador

No. Experience is on a sliding scale based on the relationship between your level and the enemy's level. Nothing to do with the difficulty setting of the game.

Is that a pickled herring?

Cahil shows you the pardon after that, but the events he was pardoned for were before that. My issue with that justification is that as soon as Hands showed up, Cahil and his people pulled out. He was only sticking with the job when it wasn't directly against Avadon. A bit of a grey area, for sure, and there are lots of opportunities in this game to lean to your preferred side of those greys.

In each of the companion side quests, you get a chance to do what the companion wants or what it appears that Redbeard wants. Your choice affects how your companions react to you later (at the end of the game when you head to the potential final battle/s).

Never tried an AIMHack, but I was a PnP gamer for years through grade school and high school. D&D, Traveller, GURPs, Heroes, etc. My user name actually comes from my favorite character from back in those days.

The one by the entrance to Zethron's Lair in the Kva is the one for telling the Wayfarer what Ryozo's purpose for talking to the dragon was, I believe.

That reward is in a box near the entrance to the zone with the second dragon (where you did the ogre quest).

The key from the shaman opens a couple other doors on that floor which will lead you to the fight you need to complete to get the key to the gate house.

If you mean the room with the four alcoves with the shielding spirits and the ghostly shadowwalker in the middle, you missed what Natalie says when you finish that fight. Go back up to the main floor.

He's standing in the throne room in front of his throne. It's down the hallway just past the magic workshop, west of the kitchens.

You can also just stick all of it in your junk bag and not worry. Also easier to sell all at once that way.

After you've spoken to the Watcher, just go to either of the gate houses and turn the wheel. The doors will be unlocked.

Have you gone around the back past the leaping lizards?

One and the same, yep.

And, while this wasn't much more than an annoyance on Normal difficulty, I imagine it would be one of those things that would be hell on Torment. Another reason I have no personal interest in playing that way. ;-)

It's funny. When I first downloaded the demo, I wasn't all that excited by the game. Then I played a bit more. Then I bought the game and now I've tried each character class and gone to the end with two of them. I find it a sufficiently entertaining game, but then I like to replay to test out different tactics and strategies. Playing with all magic users (remarkably easy on Normal difficulty until you start to hit too many magic-resistant foes), using the various knockback spells/skills to herd opponents into easy AoE death circles.

 

In the end, to each his own. If you think you should be able to breeze through the game on its hardest difficulty level and the game should make you feel like the high holy one for saving the world from ultimate evil, you're probably in the wrong place. I have only played Avadon and Avernum 6 from Spiderweb, and I find that Jeff isn't interested in making black-and-white stories. I also don't think of Avadon as the SS, since one of the revelations in the end game section puts an interesting spin on the most heinous series of missions.

Where the four statue things jump you in among the stalagmites there's an open corridor to the right with a sign at the entrance, rather than going straight to the next demon.

I went back to a save in that area with one of my play-throughs to test all of the wheels again, and discovered I'd apparently never taken one of the possible trap doors that led to an area I hadn't searched before. Oops.

It is funny that Sevilin reacts as if you'd talked to Cahil any time after that area (at least after the monster with the mining assistance that I won't spoil for people), despite having never seen him.

PS - Some very cool stuff in there that I missed.

When you went down the passage that smells like basilisk, did you search the nest?

I couldn't find anything about this on the forums. Has anybody else experienced dazing an enemy that normally has multiple actions, and they still get to act some of those times? I'm running Mac version 1.03.

I'm having the odd problem that I can't actually find Cahil in the mines after chasing him and killing everything there. The gates to the other sections don't open and I can't find any more secret passages. What am I missing?

 

The game acts as if I've found him and chosen to let him live, but I never had the option one way or the other.

In fact, if you're like me, you might have thought, "Weird to put this much work into a hidden temple and have nothing here."

You passed by the constructs at the back of the Loyalist's lair and went up the stairs and destroyed more constructs, and then down the other stairs--after getting Gladwell's last quest?

Gladwell only asked you to go to the door with the six ancient spirits. Once they've wandered off, you can go back to Gladwell with the mission complete. He gives you nothing for killing the other monsters in those tunnels.

 

You do get XP and some items, though. The shade construct, being undead, is best killed with priest spells and from a distance where his area attack won't get you. But you can save him for later in the game when you're a bit stronger, really.

You have become a skribbane addict. You either need to keep using the skribbane, or spend enough time not using it that the need goes away. Someone who's been through it would have to tell you how long that is, as I never touch the stuff. ;-)

You have to go back into the breeding grounds, through that gate by where you killed the guys who were meeting and the ones downstairs. You'll know because you get to a big gate that you can't get through on your own.