Aiding Eliza and Shaftoe

[Feo Takahari]

Eliza and Shaftoe each give quests to remove distractions and problems that are keeping them from working at full efficiency. If you complete those quests, then try to kill one of the two, will the ensuing fight be tougher than if you hadn't helped them?

[Lilith]

Nope.

 

Anyway, you obviously can't kill them and then complete their quests, so if you're trying to milk them for all the rewards they're worth, helping then killing is the way to go.

[Aran]

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Eliza and Shaftoe

Whoa, has Jeff been reading Neal Stephenson?

Edit: He has, apparently. And now I need to actually play the game, because I still didn't get around to even downloading it.

[Feo Takahari]

I'm curious: who were Eliza and Shaftoe in Neal Stephenson's writings? I haven't read much of his work.

[Alorael at Large]

Jack Shaftoe and Eliza are central characters in the Baroque Cycle. Later generations of Shaftoes (Douglas MacArthur and America Shaftoe) appear in Cryptonomicon. Moseh is a less important character, but he appears later in the Baroque Cycle.

 

—Alorael, who originally thought only Shaftoe was a reference, as he was reading Cryptonomicon when he first started Geneforge 4 and the Shaftoe surname reappears in that book.