springacres

I've had an Avadon 2 fanfic floating around in my head since I started playing it, and I'm finally getting around to writing it in blog format. Might take awhile, though. I'm still writing the first chapter

Like any good traveler does. Unfortunately putting it over my face does not seem to stop the wretches or ogres from attacking.

You need to use it as a weapon, then. Soak it in water and it's guaranteed to hit 42.

I know... but my characters and I can still dream.

...I just read "trowels" as "towels." Three times.

-springacres, who knows where her towel is.

That kinda plays into what I said above, too, that I feel like relationships are tolerated as long as they don't interfere with your duty to Avadon. Higher rank, more duties; more duties = less time to spend with family, especially family far from the Black Fortress. (Which actually makes me wonder how Alcander got conscripted in the first place. Personally, I suspect someone in his family pulled a few strings.)

Doesn't stop me from wanting to have more relationship options for PCs and the option for them to settle down somewhere quiet, though.

Mmmm, yeah, that's true. I guess maybe there's only enough to give every wretch alcohol poisoning.

I'm tempted, but I spend WAY too much time on Avadon as it is, so I think I'll pass for now.

Quick question, though - do your remixes work on a Mac at all?

Two houses are better than one, then you have ghosts you are not forced to kill, go downstairs, cry at them and run upstairs. Try this, it's fun.

Having two houses also provides opportunities for safe houses, places for fellow Hands to stay when they're headed to that area on leave... and my chaotic neutral, hedonistic, not-into-the-whole-commitment-thing shadowwalker plans on taking advantage of having two houses in other ways.

I always kind of wondered what Avadon's position on relationships and sex was. It's clear that it's not totally forbidden (Miranda and her husband were recruited to Avadon together; when Callan muses on the possibility that Redbeard has a wife and family somewhere, she doesn't seem to think this is a betrayal of his duties), but almost no one in Avadon's employ seems to be romantically entangled. Interesting little world building question that I wish Jeff had dealt with at some point. Ah well, the series isn't over yet.

Maybe I've been reading between the lines too much, but I got the impression during this game that it was tolerated as long as it didn't interfere with anyone's official duties. I think it likely, though, that anyone in Avadon's employ who has a romantic interest outside Avadon is wise to keep it as secret as possible, given the number of enemies Avadon has.

oh, I see what you're saying. I *think* wine and ale have some effects like lowering dex and raising str in those games, so it's sort of like being drunk - but I need to play them again myself to jog my memory.

On a related note, from what I've seen, there might be enough alcohol in Avadon 2 to give every ogre and titan alcohol poisoning. Or at least a really, really nasty hangover.

Had romance been an option in Avadon 1, you could have bought the wizard's tower and settled down with Nathalie. An ostentatious tower and the chance to burn creatures to a crisp periodically would, I am sure, have been the way to her heart. Maybe in the Avadon 1 remake in ten or so years.

Even if Nathalie weren't a teenager still, none of my characters would have been interested in settling down with her. My blademaster doesn't like arrogant sorcerers, and my shamaness and sorceress are both straight. (I think they both had crushes on Shima.)

Yeah, I probably could have done that, but I'd rather have just bought the copy from the developer in the first place instead of having to wait for Steam to patch. And with a game as enjoyable as Avadon 2, I certainly don't mind paying a little extra

Mine have also been collecting bottles of wine and ale for celebrations and such.

Earth Empires - it's possible in Eschalon I and II if you play those.

I think Charm is considered a mental attack, not a curse, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

As for Lilith's question, that depends on the type of skill build you're going for. If you're doing a left tier build, the third skill in that column is linked to the second skill in the center column, so if you want to boost the left tier to 7 or 8 you'll have to raise both skills. Not sure if that's what you meant by buffing skills though?

In Avadon, I collected plants and other decorative items, and used them to decorate my characters room. After I thought it was sufficiently decorated, I started to decorate my companions rooms to thank them for their service...

You've inspired my characters to do similar things in Avadon 2. My blademaster now collects forge items and iron, my shamans are of course big on potted plants, and I haven't yet decided what my sorceress should collect...

Yeah, Jeff needs to put a "warning" on his website about the price.

Only if Steam et al. are also required to state that the version you get from them may be outdated and that you should go to the developer's site to get the latest version.

(Incidentally, this needs to apply to ALL their games. Avadon 2 is not the first where I've had to buy a separate copy from the developer because Steam apparently couldn't be bothered to patch.)

Ah, but if the scrolls were in a locked room, doesn't that suggest that only certain people had access to them?

Actually, Odil was Kellem, but otherwise I agree with Lilith's reading of Silke/Rainer's character. Dedrik makes similar statements, although to his credit he seems more hesitant to kill when meeting certain enemies face-to-face.

I assumed, for all practical purposes, that going to the Tawon Empire for the Final Hunt was pretty much the point of no return. (Of course, by the time I realized I'd screwed up my builds and needed more consumables, I was in the final FIGHT and had to start over.)

Yoshiria strikes me as being too honorable to be a true double agent. Besides, she's Holklandan. Given the depth of animosity between Holklanda and Kellemderiel at the end of Avadon 1, why would an elite group of Kellem mercs risk their prestige, and their secrets, by hiring a Holklandan shadowwalker two years later?

I suppose it is possible that she's a double agent, but I just have a hard time reading her character that way.

Well, Khalida was never involved with the Grey Raptors in any way (that we know of) so her lack of reaction makes sense. However, given that you took Yoshiria with you to wipe out the outpost after completing her side quest (at which point she thought she had discharged her debt to the Grey Raptors) I can understand why she'd be upset with you. She may not be upset with you for wiping them out so much as she is that you took her along and thus opened her up again to retaliation. If they didn't care that she was acting under orders when she killed the wealthy man's son, why should they care that she was acting at your instigation to wipe out their outpost

That IS a bit odd, but I suppose Kennedy's explanation makes sense. If you don't like that idea, then maybe it's an issue for Yoshiria because she sees you as having gone back on your word to let them live?

Congratulations, Alorael!

Perhaps because he or she is therefore that much more loyal to you personally and thus has fewer issues accepting your decisions.

(On a semi-related note, I would really like to see an endgame option where you somehow make Alcander and Nicodemus work together for the rest of their lives, just because it amuses me. But that may be the sleep deprivation talking.)

^THIS. I would have liked Avadon 1 even more if it had mentioned the fates of, at the least, my individual companions. Did Jenell ever get the chance to see her Wyldrylm soldier again? Was Shima's banishment lifted? Little things like that make a game or series that much more memorable.

I always buy the game through the site, later on I buy it from gog and thats it. I usually buy through spiderweb because I like to talk to Mariann and Jeff when getting on the phone. I wanted to get into game design so Jeff and them are all like my heroes. Ive only spoken to Jeff twice and he's awesome. Also I guess it might be useful to have it from the main site.

It usually is. I bought it off Steam when it was on sale for $8, but there's a patch out now which their version has not yet gotten, so I had few qualms about plunking down another $20 to buy it through Spiderweb's store. This way, I have access to patches as soon as they're released, rather than waiting for Steam to get the patch.