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Masquerade

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  1. Which quest do you need the wine and sugar for? I'm up to the final major quest and I've yet to find these quest.
  2. You do find crystals in the skull piles from time to time so its worth looking.
  3. I don't want to sound like a winger, but can someone please tell me where I can find a trainer of the "dispel barrier" spell. I've been looking for one all afternoon and I'm starting to pull my hair out. I have already read the areana web and the book by khoth on the subject.
  4. I was completing the "Dranlon's Vengeance" and I stumbled across an option that both disturbed and confused me. In the slith cave there is a nursery containing the sliths eggs. You are given the option to either ignore the eggs or smash them all, killing the unborn sliths and drawing the rage of the slith chief. If you ignore the eggs then absolutly nothing will happen, which is understandable. If you smash them you are rewarded with xp and a seriously awesome suit of chainmail which increases your action points. This chainmail suit is perfect for spell casters and gave me a huge advantage in battle. The problem however, is that the only way to get it is to kill the defenseless, harmless, innocent slith eggs. Jeff wants me to KILL BABIES What the heck? The game doesn't even acknowledge the gravity of this slaughter of innocents, its just smash, kill the chief and then on with the show, never a hint of morality to be found. You don't even loose reputation points for it. Sure, the sliths may be at war with humans, but that doesn't excuse a crime of this magnitude. Just imagine what would happen if the sliths did a thing like that to a human village, the people of Avernum would be enraged and rightly so, but in reverse its ok? How is killing a bunch of babies going to be of any help to the war? Now don't get me wrong, I don't think that the option should be removed entirely, its a good role playing oppertunity for all those psychotic, killing machines out there. But there should be other ways to interact with the eggs and get that chainmail. Personally I want to kiddnap the eggs and take them to Gnass or lost Bhassikava where they could be raised as productive and peaceful members of Avernite society, it's non-violent but it would give enough incentitive for the chief to attack you, thus allowing you to take his stuff.
  5. I used the same party that I've always used. I have two melee fighters; one sword warrior, startng with a shield and sword and then grabbing demonslayer, and another warrior wielding pole weapons. The pole warrior takes the endurance traits is typically the "soak" while the sword warrior is my damage dealer with the traits of backstab, sure hands and mighty hits. I then have a hedge mage. He has access to the first 5 priest spells but apart from that is a pretty generic pure mage with every point available sunk into intelligence. In the original games I would usually give my mage the natural mage trait and a few points in strength so that I could slap a suit of chainmail on him, but in this game armouring isn't really necissary until towards the end game, if at all, so I only used the first level of sword mage and spent the excess on blessing and elemental focus. My priest is a standard priest, just with a couple of levels in archery attached due to her constantly running out of mana. This build works fine on normal difficulty, but I don't think it would hold up on torment. I also had a few levels of tool use and cave lore scattered throughout the characters when I discovered that "unlock" wasn't a spell anymore and that some of the secret doors required cave lore.
  6. Originally Posted By: RCCCL Or you could just take my method, be a really, really big guy. Course, that kind of depends on genetics, so, genetically enhance yourself to become a really, really big guy. Why stop there though, how about some retractable claws! trust me bub, you don't wanna go there
  7. "We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians" -Paul McCartney
  8. That is why I'm glad that im friends with two guys from the medieval society, not only can they woop *** in hand to hand combat, but they can stab people with swords too!
  9. Originally Posted By: Dintiradan This week the trend... is making postcount threads? Given all this discussion, I think the theme of the week (or perhaps just these forums in general) is to go wildly galavanting off topic at the slightest provocation. So how bout this weather we've been having? pretty hectic huh.
  10. Quote: Well, that's a big step to go from collecting elements to trying to break them up. Maybe he wanted Technetium so bad that he decided to produce it himself (Technetium is a low proton element which cannot be found naturally in nature, but can be produced through Uranium fission (At least that's what wiki says (and yeah nested parenthesis are truly fun))) Its a bracket, in a bracket, in a bracket... Inception
  11. "thats the thing see, everyone wants our rocks" those two guys from the abc news that i cant remember the names of "beep, beep, beep" sputnick "we are young ones! we do what we want, when we want, where ever we want! *bus then falls of cliff*" "i have devised a cunning plan" Baldrick
  12. Originally Posted By: Erasmus Did the dodo ever exist? You only have hear say of its existence just like you have of the loch ness monster. It all comes down to what belief is acceptable enough for you to believe in it. do the many stuffed and mounted dodos and historic documents containing studies and drawings of dodos not constitute as proof for some reason?
  13. i found a source and it looks like the jokes on me, after 5 years of debate they have decided that is was either a meteorite strike or earthquake, most probibly the former due to a huge fireball reported by witnesses. *is sheepish*
  14. Originally Posted By: Cairo Jim Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity I reckon Canadians may have got you beat, there. I dunno about that. Australia has the lowest population density in the world. About 3 people per square kilometre, or so I've heard yep thats pretty much it, 90% of the coutry is desert where noone but farmers, miners and the ocasional aboriginal want to live , in fact the outback is so vast and unpopulated that a bunch of anarchists tested bombs (rumoured to be nuclear in nature, but the book didn't specify)in the desert and nobody noticed till weeks later when they reviewed the seismatic data.
  15. all this fighting about the merits of living in large countries versus living in small countries is making me glad that i live in a country where 80% of the people live in 10% of the space, thus rendering all your arguments invalid *trollface*
  16. While were on the topic of birds meet my babies, Their names are Cranberry and Roast Epic running shot GO!
  17. its just telling me that the page can not be displayed
  18. Originally Posted By: Unbound Draykon By 2016 China will surpass America as the economic superpower. The end of "The Age of America" im sorry but all that that made me think of was the song "the age of Aquarius" and now its stuck in my head. Thanks a bunch.
  19. lol, i have the sudden urge to march over to the bioware forums and start plugging, but i don't think that would go over too well
  20. I think our papers have pretty good comics in 'em with the likes of the far side, for better or for worse, zits and beyond the black stump, but this being Australia they are probibly all being recycled over and over and will be for decades onwards.
  21. Thanks for letting me rant guys, i feel much better now. I should really stop using these forums as a dumping ground for my insubstancial gamer rage, please stop me if i do this again its turning into a bad habit, as if i need more
  22. Originally Posted By: Master1 I hope this was a single unfortunate occurrence. nope, on tuesday (4 days after the issue started) bioware finaly stated that the issue was due to their server mafunctioning, thousands of people and almost every person who bought the ultimate addition had this problem, and despite the pc peeps being fixed, that mac games still arn't working. At least ill have the time to finally finish avernum 2 after all these years
  23. well im sorry if im a bit stressed, some of the things she said made no sense and id already been trawling through help forums for 2 hours and a good deal of time yesterday afternoon and had already tried the fix she offered me, i was trying to be polite and i apologize if i come across as mean or exessivly angry.
  24. I have bought Dragon age origins, it is an awesome game but, unfortunatly, it is ridden with bugs that break it, and the services availible to fix these bugs are shot through as i discovered after contacting the technical support provided by ea. Originally Posted By: ea technical support livechat Kally: Hi, my name is Kally. How may I help you? 2275090059: hello 2275090059: i still have the unauthoised dlc issue on my mac version of DA:O ultimate Kally: Okay 2275090059: ive tried the 1 to 0 fix but that dosent work, neither does logging in and out and leaving it logged in overnight Kally: Do you play on x-box or on pc or on ps3? 2275090059: i told you already im on a mac Kally: Oh, Sorry. 2275090059: i checked my account and everything is registered correctly online but it still apears as being unauthorised on the dlc screen, it has done since last friday i think 2275090059: are you still there? Kally: I am here. Kally: I am providing you some steps, I hope that that this will help you to resolve your issue. 2275090059: thankyou Kally: Please try the steps listed on this link: http://help.dragonage.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2247 Kally: I hope that these steps will help you to resolve your issue. 2275090059: im on a macintosh and i can not do that because the mac version works differently, please give me some mac specific advise Kally: Yes, I though that this will work on MAC. Kally: In this case, You have to reinstall your game , and this will definitely be resolve your issue. 2275090059: will i loose my saves? Kally: You have to back your saved game files. 2275090059: how do i do that? and furthermore the people on the forums insist that reinstalling borks the game more, is there anything else i can try first? Kally: May I share your desktop? 2275090059: i beg your pardon? i dont really know what you're refering to Kally is requesting to view the desktop on this computer. If accepted, the agent will be able to view, but not control, this computer. Kally: Please accept my screen sharing request. Initializing and connecting screen-sharing session... The screen-sharing session has started. 2275090059: ok, should i minimise the window or something now? Kally: Before you uninstall the game we back up all season. Behavior Positions: You must copy the folder to a safe place, "Sims 3 ", located in HardDrive-Users / / Documents / SIMS third After re-installing the game, the whole folder "The Sims 3" to copy again in this place, where he was previously. After this operation, the progress of the game is restored. Kally: Please go through the steps. 2275090059: wait, what does the sims 3 have to do with dragon age working? 2275090059: and whats with the grammar? it looks like you fed through bable fish, doesnt really make much sense 2275090059: *fed it through bable fish The screen-sharing session has started. Kally: Yes Kally: I can see your desktop. Kally: May I use your desktop mouse? 2275090059: alright, but no going through my collection of abandonware and branding it piracy, its not piracy if they dont sell it Kally: Okay. Kally: Sorry. * ten minute pause, the mouse jiggles a bit* The screen-sharing session has ended. 2275090059: hello? Kally: Yes, I am here. 2275090059: then what am i supposed to be doing Kally: You can find it into document. 2275090059: um, grammar? you don't happen to live in India, do you? Communication with the RightNow Chat service has been lost. Please wait while attempts are made to restore the connection. Disconnection in 240 seconds. Connection resumed. Kally: yes 2275090059: what am i supposed to be finding in documents? Kally: there should be a folder named bioware> 2275090059: yes but what do i do with it, i know that it is there Kally: * Slect the BioWare folder. * Select the Dragon Age 2 folder. *Right-click the Characters folder and select Cut. * Right-click on your desktop and select Paste. * To restore your Dragon Age 2 save games, move this folder back into the Dragon Age 2 folder. Kally: These are the steps to back your saved game files, before uninstalling your game. 2275090059: what about all the other stuff? like the profile folder? 2275090059: and im asking about dragon age origins not dragon age 2 2275090059: are you still there? Kally: Click on the Start button and select My Documents. Open the BioWare folder. Open the Dragon Age folder. Right-click on the Characters folder and select Cut. Right-click on your Desktop and select Paste. To restore your Dragon Age saved game files, move the folder mentioned above back into the Dragon Age folder. Kally: These are the steps to back the save game files of the game DAO. Kally: Actually, we have to handle multiple chat at the same time. 2275090059: you said that already but should i or shouldn't i save the profile folder also Kally: That's why we are not able to respond in the timely manner. Kally: Yes, You should save it as well, if you don't wish to recreate the profile. 2275090059: alright, should i reinstall the whole dragon age package or just use the dlc installer that comes in the game file Kally: Yes. Kally: Exactly. Kally: Is there anything further I may assist you with today? 2275090059: yes i should use the complete reinstaller or yes i should use the dlc installer? Kally: You may try to reinstall , the DLC un installer and then check for effect. Kally: If it still doesn't work, then you may try for reinstalling your game. 2275090059: ok, thankyou, i think. lets hope this works Kally: I hope so. Kally: Is there anything further I may assist you with today? 2275090059: no, thankyou Kally: Thank you for your participation. Have a wonderful day Kally: Good bye and take care Kally has disconnected. Save to say reinstalling acheived absolutly squat diddly. I mean yeah, she was polite enough and she probibly is trying to fix the problems of ten other people at the same time but thats kind of the problem, why on earth does ea employ people to solve problems when they clearly dont have much of an idea of what to do themselves? i mean its a bit counter productive to employ people to do something ineffectivly when simply apointing one experienced programmer to go to the forums and actually talk to the people there would be much more efficient and cheaper that emloying a legion of cheap labourers? its very irritating because i can not access any of the content i forked over an extra 20 buck for, and im not going to mention the bandwidth costs of downloading 23 gigs of data, some 7 of which i cannot use. thankyou very much ea. I will not be buying from ea anytime soon, and i deffinatly wont be shopping at game tree again. *sigh* i know im ranting and you guys at spiderweb really dont need to lisen to me, in fact if my mother was lisening she would be sobbing melodramaticly into an invisible tissue and playing a tiny invisible violin so ill just end this rant right now by stating what i have learned from this experience. Small companies always offer better customer service, when i had issues with my games my emails were responded to promptly by the person who actually designed/programed the game and hence knows what they are talking about. Thankyou jeff and so long EA, im gonna go back to my old faithfuls and kick some empire butt
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