Carioz
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- Dec 8, 2002
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Korak said:St. Proverbius is right. There are all sort of metaphorically ways in which you can view paper as "harder" or at least "more powerful," but I think one great thing that this riddle sets up is the very literal mindedness of Thaumaturgist. By and large they're extraordinarily down to earth. It's basically a discipline like hard core science or engineering. Note the spell names, "Harden Armor" etc. They're ain't no poetry or metaphor there (and don't think that we couldn't have come up with some if we wanted it-- tee hee)
Ohhh. That's just awesome. I am stunned. Now everything does fit right in. Well that settles the riddle quest for me. It is just exceptional.
And speaking of the ncklace quest I think there should have been a "fight your way to freedom" option (I really don't think any speaker could convince any man that he was standing just right there next to his wife alone when she choked and died, expecially when said man is under the influence of Rolucia), once the mayor's wife died.
Otherwise I am with the devs: it is true you have actually two chices and (maybe) a warning when you are looking at sleeping beauty, but, if you are not completely blind over the clues scattered everywhere you notice:
a)Rolucia is unnaturally charming and probably they gray power behind the mayor, and enjoys the status quo of the town
b)Rolucia doesn't want you to pick up too many informations on the necklace (he lies rather blatantly when confronted with a question about where you bought it)
c)Rolucia for sure gave the necklace to sleeping beauty
Now, if Rolucia wanted to just kill the wife, why couldn't have he just done it (a fine meal from the barrier, maybe)? He maybe needed her to be in the situation which the player stumbles upon. Why? I don't know, but one can pretty much hear many people say sleeping beauty opposed Rolucia pretty vehemently.
Now, thinking of Rolucia as an Evil Master Mind (TM) who has had at least the Evil 101 course, it doesn't take too much effort to imagine he would have prepared at least another already trademarked B Plan, if someone tried to mess with the necklace (trying to bring back to full activity his worst enemy): and such plan is "If someone removes the necklace (which has -cause of the sleeping enchantment written all over it-, my enemy dies, and meanwhile, I kill the artificier). So messing with the necklace, which is magical (either you get it from game text, or you guess it through the effect it has on the mayour's beloved one), and is the key for the power of Rolucia, looks like a bad idea to me.
Obviously you need to think a bit to figure it out, but were we not the ones screming for "No more Fed-Ex!"?
This said, I think it should have been a better solution had the devs put a "fight your way to the door after you screwed-up" possibility.