Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 I'm playing A4 for the fourth or fifth time, and for the fourth or fifth time I have killed Hrickis, and for the fourth or fifth time I cannot find anyone who gives you a quest to kill him. I've talked to the herbalist out there, and various farmers, and they all tell me about Hrickis, but there doesn't seem to be any quest. They do thank me, though. So is there an actual quest for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Toby-Linn Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 According to the Avernum 4 Gazetteer, it's given by Graham in Formello. As to where Graham is, I can't help you with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Graham is the guard captain in Formello and his office is just south of the west gate. The quest gets posted on the job board after you finish and claim reward for the rat quest, I think. It doesn't appear until after you've done most of the quests in the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 Originally Posted By: Randomizer Graham is the guard captain in Formello and his office is just south of the west gate. The quest gets posted on the job board after you finish and claim reward for the rat quest, I think. It doesn't appear until after you've done most of the quests in the area. Thanks everybody. That explains it, because I don't think I've ever completed that rat quest. I can never find enough rats. All Graham says to me is, "go away until you've done something useful, grrr blah blah shade." I'm at the Tower of Magi now, but maybe I will go back and try to find some more rats. Maybe if I do the Letter From Giscard quest, there are some more rats in those locations...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Toby-Linn Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 If you use the cheat "showmeall" then you'll see the red dots appear in the houses so you can kill more rats and complete the quest. Yes, they do reappear all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Originally Posted By: madrigan Thanks everybody. That explains it, because I don't think I've ever completed that rat quest. I can never find enough rats. All Graham says to me is, "go away until you've done something useful, grrr blah blah shade." I'm at the Tower of Magi now, but maybe I will go back and try to find some more rats. Maybe if I do the Letter From Giscard quest, there are some more rats in those locations...? Rats "respawn" to that area bit often so just keep opening storagerooms doors and getting away from that area helps too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 That was the problem. I went back to some of the storerooms I had already cleared and was surprised to find them re-infested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Originally Posted By: madrigan That was the problem. I went back to some of the storerooms I had already cleared and was surprised to find them re-infested. heh, yeah that's the point and some rats (or other monsters) also came from underground near Hrickis lair. I could almost bet that we see Hrickis in A6 too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Arch-Mage Solberg Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Originally Posted By: Earth2025 I could almost bet that we see Hrickis in A6 too. If I remember right, he is supposed to be dead. Really dead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Not necessarily. You do have the option of letting him go, so there's always the possibility he could come back as Hiricikis. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 How do we know that Hrickis and Hirickis were the same guy to begin with? Anyone can say that they were over by Formello, demanding tribute. Maybe it's sort of a Jango / Boba Fett thing. Hirickis is Hrickis's son, back to take revenge on the Avernites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Originally Posted By: Arch-Mage Solberg If I remember right, he is supposed to be dead. Really dead! and so? we killed garzahd way back in past and still he/it was at a4 and didn't we kill some demon at a2 who returned at a3? i wouldn't be surprised even if we saw erika again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 He's in A4 and clearly dead and miserable. That's very different from H(i)rickis, who is just still there. —Alorael, who wouldn't mind an essentially inconsequential but amusing recurring very bad mastermind of a villain. It would add character to the rest of the series. All one of it, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 . Originally Posted By: Earth2025 i wouldn't be surprised even if we saw erika again. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Erika returned eventually, probably as some kind of vengeful spirit. She certainly seems the type for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 Originally Posted By: The Mystic . Originally Posted By: Earth2025 i wouldn't be surprised even if we saw erika again. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Erika returned eventually, probably as some kind of vengeful spirit. She certainly seems the type for that. I vote for that! Maybe at the end of A6 we'll get a Return of the Jedi-style scene with the ghosts of Erika, Micah, and Patrick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Jeff has seemed committed to Erika's disappearance from the series, but I wouldn't mind seeing more of her either. She's one of the handful of characters who got some kind of development, and she's one of the central Avernites. —Alorael, who wants the series to end with a massive battle among Erika, Rentar-Ihrno, Grah-Hoth, Garzahd, and Prazac. Dorikas belongs in there for completeness, probably. And interestingly enough, they all really do represent different factions, except Grah-Hoth, who mostly represents the destruction of everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I keep holding out that X with his interest in necromancy in A4 is working on a way to bring Erika back. This game has shown that death isn't a barrier to returning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Originally Posted By: Randomizer This game has shown that death isn't a barrier to returning. nope, many avernum enemies have returned from death's land just to be sent back there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Originally Posted By: Randomizer I keep holding out that X with his interest in necromancy in A4 is working on a way to bring Erika back. This game has shown that death isn't a barrier to returning. Though, knowing X, he'd probably only bring her back so that he can continue his life's one true work! I really hope that, if X is around in A6, we finally get that spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Arch-Mage Solberg Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 You're right. I haven't played in so long, and everytime I met him I killed him anyway, that I forgot all about that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 What I'd like to know is if X ever finished his anvil-flinging spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 It's mentioned in Solberg's private research laboratory in A5, so it's still an ongoing research program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Feo Takahari Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Originally Posted By: The Mystic What I'd like to know is if X ever finished his anvil-flinging spell. I suspect that spell will be finished around the same time as the potion in A2 that was supposed to make you breathe fire. That is to say, it won't ever be finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Originally Posted By: feo takahari Originally Posted By: The Mystic What I'd like to know is if X ever finished his anvil-flinging spell. I suspect that spell will be finished around the same time as the potion in A2 that was supposed to make you breathe fire. That is to say, it won't ever be finished. yeah only "few" hundred years has passed between games so no big rush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I don't think even a century has passed. Even a few non-mage characters from A1 are still around. They're old, but they're around. —Alorael, who doesn't think X knows how to hurry. Or how to do most things. He's definitely an idiot savant of the wizard world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Archaeolagent Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Internal evidence suggests, but does not prove, that about 53 years have passed since Avernum 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Originally Posted By: Redundant Magic Object of Redundancy Alorael, who doesn't think X knows how to hurry. Or how to do most things. He's definitely an idiot savant of the wizard world. I say he's just nuttier than a sack of almonds, with enough power to claim that he's not nuttier than a sack of almonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I think we agree. He's clearly a gifted mage, and he's at least presumably a gifted researcher and creator of spells. His ability to actually interact with the world he lives in is rather limited, though. He's been through most of the major crises of Avernum's history, but he hasn't done anything. —Alorael, who is even more suspicious of what would happen if he did succeed in hurling anvils. What would a man like X do? More importantly, what wouldn't he do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Originally Posted By: Custom PDN I don't think even a century has passed. Even a few non-mage characters from A1 are still around. They're old, but they're around. —Alorael, who doesn't think X knows how to hurry. Or how to do most things. He's definitely an idiot savant of the wizard world. then dragons were killed quickly between a3 and a4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 The dragons weren't killed - the just live underground on the surface now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Originally Posted By: Custom PDN Alorael, who is even more suspicious of what would happen if he did succeed in hurling anvils. What would a man like X do? More importantly, what wouldn't he do? Maybe once he masters the anvil-flinging spell, he'll then modify the spell and learn to juggle using the anvils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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