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If you place a powder keg next to the nest and attack it, it will speed up that quest considerably. There should be one just NW of the nest when you first enter that map. Many people have complained about the quest, rightly so, but it would be ridiculous to release a patch just to fix one quest that isn't really 'broken'. The Eschalon games are not quite on par with Avernum/Geneforge to me, however they are the most similar that I have been able to find thus far. I would recommend them.

 

Edited for clarity.

Really wasn't meaning to spam, thought it was a great deal and wanted others to know about it.

So GoG has all the old D&D games on sale with a stacking discount, so the more games you buy the bigger the discount up to 65%. If you buy all 9 it is right about $30. The sale includes: Baldur's Gate 1&2, Icewind Dale 1&2, Planescape Torment, NWN Diamond, Temple of Elemental Evil, DemonStone, and Dragonshard. Sale is good for 3 more days.

Oh absolutely, I wasn't meaning to just give it bonuses with no deduction of some type. I think XP bonus would be reasonable as both Slith and Nephilim have XP penalties to offset their bonuses.

Slightly off topic, I would like to see a trait or race where you could choose Nephar with some STR and END bonuses or something.

That was my first experience outside of canonical Holmes stories and I really enjoyed it. I felt like it really kept with Doyle's style except for the subject matter of the ending was definitely out of character, it was definitely a surprise for me, I really wasn't expecting it.

Recently finished:

Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell

Wild Thing - Josh Bazell

The House of Silk; A Sherlock Holmes Novel - Anthony Horowitz

 

Currently reading:

Running With the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind - Sakyong Mipham Rinphoche

Really enjoying A6 right now so I'll go ahead and finish it out, I was only an hour or two into A5 before I got turned off and posted. I would really have liked to played the games in succession, Escape from the Pit was my first run in the Avernum series and I immensely enjoyed it. I tried to move on to A2 afterwards to avoid spoiling story lines and such but found the engine to be just a bit too primitive for me so I'm waiting on the rewrites.

Ah ok thanks

I guess I didn't explain myself well, I wasn't so concerned with people being hateful towards the characters in terms of gameplay. I just wasn't looking forward to reading the same loathing throughout the whole game. I've put it on the shelf for now and started up A6, just finished A4 and don't really feel like I'm missing out on much story wise by skipping A5 for now.

I get it, I'm an Empire soldier in Avernum...not exactly a welcome guest. Is the loathing experienced early on in the game indicative of the rest of the game?