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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?

Jerakeen, thanks for taking the time with this!

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..

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.

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?

I did not kill him, no. Now i'm thinking maybe I should've!

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.

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.

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?

Ok, doing Crypt of Drath, is level 3 dispel necessary to complete it?

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!

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?

`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?

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.

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.

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.

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?