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  1. Originally Posted By: Catoblepas Remember, if worst comes to worst, you can always use one of the healing scrolls, just try not to use too many, they can bevery useful near the endgame. Thanks, he ended up being surprisingly easy since I went back to an earlier sav and gained levels after finding him difficult the first time around. Guess I learned something about spiderweb games from playing Avernum first lol.
  2. Originally Posted By: Catoblepas The more advanced skills take two points for he first rank, are you sure you have enough points to buy the first rank? Bleh figured it out, thanks. I'm lacking one skill point for it SIGH hope I can get by the Onghror battle without group heal lol.
  3. So yeah, confused as hell by the skill tree..I expected something like Avernum. I don't understand how you unlock certain skills exactly, it seems like Jenell has both the requirements necessary for group heal, but group heal is unavailable..can someone explain concisely how new skills are opened, is it by level or what?
  4. Jerakeen, thanks for taking the time with this!
  5. Originally Posted By: Jerakeen Originally Posted By: bumbumpanks Originally Posted By: Jerakeen What quests, specifically? So far a lady in Blosk has asked me to kill a drake, a guy in Blosk has suggested I go see the scimitar guy in The Abyss, and the messenger south of Blosk who had his message stolen has asked me to deliver it, none of these shows up..though i'm not sure they should. To get the drake quest ("The Gap Drake.") from Sabrina in Blosk, you have to choose the dialog option "Smite? What was it?" To get the Scimitar quest ("The Scimitar.") from Royce in Blosk, you have to choose "And what have you heard?" I do not get that option anywhere in Sabrina's dialogue tree, with the Royce quest I choose "and what have you heard", and I get nothing in the log. The only thing I can see that might be linked is that I also have a scimitar quest for Bargha... Edit, i'm assuming maybe the Bargha quest is simply the same quest, so I already had it, I got a scimitar quest from someone much earlier in the game. With Sabrina, of note, she will not tell me about her adventures and simply says "i'd rather not talk about it". She will tell me about the drake however, just nothing in log.
  6. Originally Posted By: Raptor Originally Posted By: bumbumpanks Hmm weird, it's definitely not recording them then..guess I should try clearing some out and go back? Tried all the possible dialogue options on these btw.. I've sometimes missed seeing quests because I didn't scroll the list. No...I checked that first thing. Either it's an actual bug, or these three encounters don't put anything in your quest log.
  7. Hmm weird, it's definitely not recording them then..guess I should try clearing some out and go back? Tried all the possible dialogue options on these btw..
  8. Not sure why, but the stereograms literally never work for me, I can stare at them forever, and I do not see anything but maybe some slightly bumpy lines.
  9. Originally Posted By: Jerakeen What quests, specifically? So far a lady in Blosk has asked me to kill a drake, a guy in Blosk has suggested I go see the scimitar guy in The Abyss, and the messenger south of Blosk who had his message stolen has asked me to deliver it, none of these shows up..though i'm not sure they should.
  10. It seems like i;ve picked up some quests that have not gotten recorded recently, there is a possibility that they just aren't things that show up in the log. I was wondering, is there a limit to number of quests you can have?
  11. You guys are scaring me, I too feel like i've invested so many man hours in The Dark Tower that I should just finish it, now i'm not so sure. Also on the fantasy front, Gene Wolf wrote another whole series (8 books maybe) called The Book of The Long Sun which Is tangentially related to the New Sun series I think...I got most of the way through the first novel, it seemed good but slow. It's on my future to read list to go deeper into the series.
  12. Ha, funnily enough I too finished up the whole New Sun series, for the second time. They are still really fantastic but there were some glaring things that I didn't notice last time I read them..which would have been roughly 20 years ago. Namely, the main character/narrator Severian seems compelled to have sex with every woman involved in the plot. I guess this just made sense to me when I was 16:). Probably I hoped my own future would hold just this kind of luck. Now i'm reading Book 5 of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - hey..some of his books are actually pretty good, though I feel like the series hit it's peak in book 4.
  13. Originally Posted By: Randomizer You over looked something. All you need is level 1 dispel barrier to reach the wheel to open a gate to a boat. Thanks, found it..gotta say Drath was pretty tough!
  14. Unless i'm missing something, I cannot find any way to get to level 3 of Crypt of Drath without having to go through a level 3 barrier..are you guys sure I don't need it, or did I overlook something?
  15. Ok, doing Crypt of Drath, is level 3 dispel necessary to complete it?
  16. Ok, i'll come back later, glad to know i'm not the only one. If not, ill use the trick to run away. Thanks!
  17. Originally Posted By: Lilith They're guarding a quest objective for an optional quest, so you can avoid them until you're at a higher level. Alternatively, sacrifice a character or two to run and get what they're guarding and have any survivors run back downstairs before they kill you. I tried this, it simply won't let you go downstairs in combat mode, and you will be in combat mode if you open the chest...so, unless i'm missing something this isn't possible. Also to be more specific, it's the drakes double fire breath that's doing it, sometimes that results in an immediate kill. There is nothing else about them that seems very difficult, but i'm not sure how to get past that.
  18. Ok, so i'm playing on normal, just blew through the slith fort above emerald fort, quite easily. Then I go upstairs and get killed almost immediately by the two frenzied drakes there. Is there some reason these are so much harder than the entire rest of the area, and does anyone have some advice here?
  19. `I think that's his name, leader of the slith fort. Anyway, I keep almost winning, like serious hed be dead in a few turns, but then he summons an ungodly number of slimes, and things go south quickly. Is there some secret to this?
  20. Really starting to develop a love/hate thing with this game, I think I either to nerd up a bit and do some reading, give up and play casual, or just give up. I gained another level by going south, then tried returning to the slith places, I can almost beat both boss encounters..but only almost. So, just decided to yell at my monitor and call it good.
  21. For the record, the fights aren't hard exactly..it just seems like with boss fights I am usually missing some crucial component in terms of spells etc. that the game has simply not "pointed" me to..inasmuch as the game points you to anything. Either that or I just need a level or two to do it. So yeah i've cleared most of the little stuff in the beginning, i'm now working on the bigger Slith fort near cotra, the place across from fort Dranlon with Sliths for the Slith Arcana quest, and then sailing up to the Aranea dungeon..hopefully I can actually complete one without having to wander off somewhere else.
  22. I went and bought some spells, just the ice aoe and haste made a big difference. Still the same thing though, running around, clear out part of a dungeon to find I can't complete it...so i'm doing like 4 dungeons simultaneously really. Done most of the two of the Slith places, but can't quite manage the bosses, got past a difficult aranea battle though! Wondering if I should just play on casual lol.
  23. I think part of the issue is that I tend to be really anal about clearing out the quest log. Seems like you just can't really play avernum that way, correct?
  24. Originally Posted By: Randomizer There isn't a general guide because differences in playing difficulty and party makeup cause too much variation. The game is designed for starting in the Eastern Gallery, going north to clear around Formello, then south through Mertis and Tower of Magi, before heading west to the Great Cave, The best thing you can do is skip places that are causing trouble and head to the Tower of Magi for better spells and the Great Cave to do delivery quests. Gain a few levels doing easy stuff and then return. Welcome to Spiderweb Software. Please leave your sanity at the door. The beta testers did and because most of them are insane min/max power gamers you are having trouble. I've played these kinds of games for something like near on 20 years, from Ultima 6 on...it's fairly user friendly and intuitive so far even compared to early 90's commercial releases, I don't find it terribly hard, just somewhat..uneven I guess, where I can clear 90% of a dungeon, then two battles are impossible. I'll take your advice and just head to the tower of Magi, and follow things geographically thanks!
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