River and Leaf Help

[Robsta]

As a newish member of BoE, I'm playing through some of the scenarios. In River and Leaf, I've run up against a wall that I can't seem to pass, and the walkthrough on TrueSite for Blades doesn't seem to be working.

In Ingusi Lv2, there is a conversation with a barrier in front of the door, and you’re told to find a good place to listen. I’ve searched the entire area, and the only thing I’ve found is a bookshelf with a password I don’t know. What do I do?

[Ishad Nha]

There is a sign with a few words, one of them is the password.

 

As for the Walkthrough, I have had no luck there either. Maybe you need to be registered with Game FAQ? From what I can see, the search engine seems to cater for individual games, not scenarios. You could always email them if you can find the address.

[Robsta]

Thanks, I'd tried most of the words on that sign, but not that one.

[Robsta]

I've run up against another tought spot, (King) Scyld tells me "Go to Sweon and alert the guards. Then see if you can investigate the outpost." When I go to Sweon and talk to Ongen (the commander), I can't alert the guards.

What do I do?

[Ishad Nha]

River and Leaf is tricky, when I ported this scenario to the Blades of Avernum world I added a lot more clues for the player. I guess that it was hurriedly written to meet a contest deadline, hence a lot of the many puzzles are not well explained.

 

Sweon: you can't alert the guards. So simple. What you can do is look for a town that is suddenly visible, to the SE of Sweon.

 

At some point after this town you will hit the next two hassles.

 

You will find a door that requires a password to open. On the same level, you will chase somebody around, he will say "w**", you must say "uu**" or "vv**" to the door. (Here ** stands for two letters.)

 

Then later on, the game will appear to hit another dead end, you must get a log translated in one town, then go to a certain town.

[Robsta]

Thanks, I would have really gotten hung up on the combo lock puzzle.

The log puzzle was easy, I'd found a guy who told me he could translate things when I was looking for Aeschere.

[Robsta]

Now a riddle has me stumped. "Water on sand not under water." Any clues? (I know I need to note that the message comes by way of faint letters appearing) PS. I got the riddle about voices.

[Nioca]

Hint: What do people frequently see in the desert when they're extremely thirsty?

 

Answer: Move your mouse over this link and look at the url that appears in the status bar to see the answer .

[Ishad Nha]

The Realms of Mist has one riddle which has no clue that I can perceive. You are confronted with a hidden encounter ceasing to be hidden, then you are asked for a reply. (Maybe I missed something?)

 

That idea of an illusory url is a good one, Nioca, I will use it here.

Answer: Move your mouse over this link: url and look at the url that appears in the status bar to see the answer.

[Robsta]

Thanks, but the last one (I hope) still has me stumped “Name it, so break it”

(it’s possible I haven’t tried as many guesses for this as the others, since I get attacked each time I try something new)

[Ishad Nha]

The riddles are simple words, this one is:

web page .

[Robsta]

Wow, After all that it's a pity I couldn't beat the last battle without cheating. (I had played it through with only 31 spell points until the battle, for this battle I took 29 more and the spell protection, although I'll discard them again.)

A final Thanx for all your help.

[Ishad Nha]

For the final battle with Dracan I used a lot of Crystals of Shielding, this gave the party Invulnerability. Then I web page , after which I had to wait a bit.