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Completed Let's play Dark Heart of Uukrul! -- Dead and done!
- Thread starter Crooked Bee
- Start date
zenbitz said:
I can't. :/
Really, I hold each and every one of my character's stats too dear to tolerate that kind of thing. A permanent decrease in any of the stats is, to me, the most horrible thing to happen in an RPG. Silly, I know.
This is an awesome (not DA2-awesome) game. This thread just inspired me to get back to it!
My PCs were around level 5 IIRC.
I probably won't be able to finish it without cheating though, let's say this LP might serve as a... hmmm... reference
Good job, you corrupted apidae.
My PCs were around level 5 IIRC.
I probably won't be able to finish it without cheating though, let's say this LP might serve as a... hmmm... reference
Good job, you corrupted apidae.
Tramboi said:
Thanks for the hug, but I hope bees are not a vector of plague.
Anyway... BEYONG!
I just got to the crossword, and as a non native english speaker, I'm beginning to feel the urge to cheat a bit (I only found ASH for now
but I will have time at work to think about the rest)
Anyway... BEYONG!
I just got to the crossword, and as a non native english speaker, I'm beginning to feel the urge to cheat a bit (I only found ASH for now
but I will have time at work to think about the rest)
dextermorgan
Arcane
SO I finally take the time to catch up with this LP and...
... It's totally worth it. Riveting read Bee, keep it up!
... It's totally worth it. Riveting read Bee, keep it up!
dextermorgan said:SO I finally take the time to catch up with this LP and...
... It's totally worth it. Riveting read Bee, keep it up!
I will keep it up, sure. I've finally beaten the dungeon of the Great Engineer and reached URQOL, by the way; will post an update in a couple of days.
On the other hand, the next dungeon is... is... OMG.
Oh my god I just passed the crossword and diamond/square puzzle and it would have taken me 20 years of meditation to solve it by myself. Some of the word definitions were pretty wicked!
And I wouldn't have thought of praying in front of the mirror, as I read the manual quite fast.
Nasty, nasty, evil game!
And I wouldn't have thought of praying in front of the mirror, as I read the manual quite fast.
Nasty, nasty, evil game!
The game is nasty and evil indeed!
I don't have the time right now for typing a long, long update covering the Great Engineer dungeon in one go, so I'll break it in two. Here's Part 1. Expect Part 2 to be up tomorrow.
25: Great Engineer, Part 1
In which we crawl through long corridors and get flooded.
Last time we climbed atop the Pyramid with its numerous torture chambers and received another stone heart, now it's time to be moving on -- the dungeon of the Great Engineer awaits!
We exit URZHUT via the eastern door.
Entering narrow clay passages now.
They are pretty well-guarded.
Four samurai here.
Their swords are poisoned!
Kalos invokes DROM to boost up our party's melee attack power.
And then NULAMIR to prevent the samurai from casting spells (iirc they have some spells at their disposal).
Finally, after a few turns of hacking and slashing, spekkio's KUNLAZAR strikes the remaining foes down.
We receive some nice exp.
And a fair amount of coins plus a breastplate.
Looking at our party profiles, I notice we're close to being overencumbered. That's because I forgot to visit the shop earlier. Oh well, let's head back for a while.
We sell Lord Rocket's current Battle Shield and give him the Warshield we found in the Pyramid:
As he equips it, Rocket's AC increases from 27 to 28.
We also identify the newly-found breastplate at Sagaris and sell it for 73 coins. Now we're free to be movin' on.
The corridors to the east of URZHUT are long and mostly linear. This room has two exits, however, a northern and a southern one. We head north first.
Two samurai assault us. Fools.
Samurai are easy to kill yet they land good experience.
As well as good loot. Kewl.
After a pretty longish crawl, we reach a dead end.
Well, at least we're rewarded with a scroll. spekkio picks it up.
Now on to the southern passage.
Clay, clay all around.
Parchment?
Well, Kalos picks it up.
More samurai to slaughter!
Not bad. But we're exhausted so return to URZHUT to rest.
Then we teleport to Sagaris, have the two scimitars and parchment identified...
...and sell them at the shop.
As we visit the Circle of Magicians, spekkio receives a new ring:
So what are the platinum spells in the Arkana of Fire?
Nice! A new archival passage is available, too:
A carriageway? River? A spoken word? Okay, if you say so.
Oh yeah, by the way. The scroll we found is that of LUQMAR:
And it frees a character from being stunned, which may be useful in a pickle.
Continuing our exploration of the long, long clay passages in the beginning of the Great Engineer dungeon, we come across...
...a treasure chest, yay!
Our party's getting richer!
Oops.
An undead thingie.
It is a Hag. She's alone, so we kill her (?) easily.
Not much experience, but meh, whatever. This fight is in fact respawned every time you cross the room. There are several such fights in these corridors, all against a single Hag, so they aren't worth covering here. Just be aware that we have to slay several undead hags on our way.
Hags and samurai aren't the only enemies in here though.
Trolls try trolling us.
Two trolls can't troll a mighty party of four, however.
Bye bye, nasty trolls! (The exp we get is through the roof!)
Hmmm, this statue looks intriguing. I wonder what it is.
A totally awesome object, totally.
Red clay becomes wet as we go along. Are we by any chance inside a ... nevermind.
More coins for us to hoard!
Water, water all around. We must be near the underground river the 12th archival passage spoke of.
Evil robed men rush at us! :twisted: Notice that the room is well-constructed. We're getting closer to Eriosthe's engineering halls.
Five wizards. Mean.
It's four Shamans and two Sorcerers. Their spells aren't too deadly, however; our spells are much, much deadlier.
One of the nastiest things the wizards can do is silence our poor spekkio-kun.
Another nasty move of theirs is to lower Bee's hit maximum.
Nothing helps them much, though. Aware of the situation's direness, a shaman makes a run for his life.
And soon we are victorious.
We loot some kind of wizard robes. Hopefully spekkio will have a use for them.
The fabric has a strange feeling to it. I wonder if the robes are any good.
Beyond the room full of wizards we find a pointed magic hat. spekkio grabs it.
I'm seeing stars!
Let's head back to URZHUT to have the new clothes for spekkio identified. A nasty encounter hits us along the way:
Three monks and three samurai. Oh oh.
Nah, nothing too hard.
Good.
And here we are in Sagaris' study. First we identify the strange statue for 300 coins:
Hmmm, so carrying this statue around will boost up Kalos' Call elemental abiltiy? I sure hope so.
Next we have Sagaris look at the robes for 120 coins:
Yay! And now the pointed hat:
Kewlity kewl. Let's now equip the robes and the hat on spekkio:
spekkio's AC goes up from 8 to 12!
Back to our exploration now.
The corridor seems endless.
And water's dripping from the ceiling.
Everything looks extremely unstable. And now we're dirty, to boot.
The river must be somewhere very close by.
As we enter the next room...
...the path back is blocked! No way to go but forward.
The clay corridors end here. We must have reached the engineering rooms!
There's a secret door in the southern wall.
As we enter it, the path back is blocked again.
This is, it seems, a corridor leading back to the clay corridors. Oh well.
Yup, indeed. So there is a way back. Good to know.
Now onwards to the engineering rooms!
The controls are vandalized. Too bad.
Another non-functioning control room. Oh well.
We turn south now.
Vandalized, too. I wonder what the inscription says.
We apply UMESH several times.
Huh?
In the next random encounter we meet a new kind of enemy: Morszahni, the Frost Spirit. Kalos summons a Fire elemental to our aid, and we dispatch the foe easily.
The southern room is explored, and we head east.
A secret door! ALTIS opens it.
Inside lies a key that we pick up.
We find some money, too.
The random encounter rate is getting a bit too high, so we get Kalos to invoke MORPETH to reduce it.
A storage room -- with smouldering embers! They reduce our HP if we step on them, so we explore this room as quickly as possible and leave.
The only way to take is further east.
A vision of Mara appears! She tells us we have two tasks ahead of us: restarting the carriage -- she probably means the carriageway we saw mentioned in the 12th archival passage -- and fetching the black hammer. Okay, duly noted.
The vision disappears, and we locate a secret door right behind it. Two ALTIS spells suffice to open it.
We find ourselves in yet another control room.
A teleporter! Yay for random button pushing!
Pressing 1 leaves us in place. Pressing 2 teleports us to a room with a gem lying on the ground:
Bee greedily grabs the gem and then we press 3.
One more destroyed room. Exciting!
Nothing of interest in this area, however. We go back to the teleporter and press 4.
The corridor we find ourselves in must be pretty close to the river. The hum of turbines is heard.
We come across a drawing further down the corridor:
Hmm, so this must be the path to the carriageway. We have no idea what "A" and "B" mean yet, but let's keep it all in mind.
We're getting closer to the rushing water.
Closer and closer.
And closer still. The floor becomes wet.
We translate the inscription with NGOSLAZAR and UMESH. Too bad it makes no sense.
The passage ahead is flooded! We can't get to the carriageway. Must be a puzzle, then, but it is solved elsewhere, as there is nothing we can do here. Let's head back to the teleporter.
I try to get back to 1 via 2 or 3 or whatever, but I can't. Many buttons are broken. I persevere for about half an hour, but nope: it seems we can't go back to the engineering rooms. Meh.
Oh well. We press on, pushing the 5 button in the 4th teleporter.
A hole or pit!
Whatever awaits us next? We'll find out soon enough.
I don't have the time right now for typing a long, long update covering the Great Engineer dungeon in one go, so I'll break it in two. Here's Part 1. Expect Part 2 to be up tomorrow.
25: Great Engineer, Part 1
In which we crawl through long corridors and get flooded.
Last time we climbed atop the Pyramid with its numerous torture chambers and received another stone heart, now it's time to be moving on -- the dungeon of the Great Engineer awaits!
We exit URZHUT via the eastern door.
Entering narrow clay passages now.
They are pretty well-guarded.
Four samurai here.
Their swords are poisoned!
Kalos invokes DROM to boost up our party's melee attack power.
And then NULAMIR to prevent the samurai from casting spells (iirc they have some spells at their disposal).
Finally, after a few turns of hacking and slashing, spekkio's KUNLAZAR strikes the remaining foes down.
We receive some nice exp.
And a fair amount of coins plus a breastplate.
Looking at our party profiles, I notice we're close to being overencumbered. That's because I forgot to visit the shop earlier. Oh well, let's head back for a while.
We sell Lord Rocket's current Battle Shield and give him the Warshield we found in the Pyramid:
As he equips it, Rocket's AC increases from 27 to 28.
We also identify the newly-found breastplate at Sagaris and sell it for 73 coins. Now we're free to be movin' on.
The corridors to the east of URZHUT are long and mostly linear. This room has two exits, however, a northern and a southern one. We head north first.
Two samurai assault us. Fools.
Samurai are easy to kill yet they land good experience.
As well as good loot. Kewl.
After a pretty longish crawl, we reach a dead end.
Well, at least we're rewarded with a scroll. spekkio picks it up.
Now on to the southern passage.
Clay, clay all around.
Parchment?
Well, Kalos picks it up.
More samurai to slaughter!
Not bad. But we're exhausted so return to URZHUT to rest.
Then we teleport to Sagaris, have the two scimitars and parchment identified...
...and sell them at the shop.
As we visit the Circle of Magicians, spekkio receives a new ring:
So what are the platinum spells in the Arkana of Fire?
Nice! A new archival passage is available, too:
A carriageway? River? A spoken word?
Okay, if you say so.Oh yeah, by the way. The scroll we found is that of LUQMAR:
And it frees a character from being stunned, which may be useful in a pickle.
Continuing our exploration of the long, long clay passages in the beginning of the Great Engineer dungeon, we come across...
...a treasure chest, yay!
Our party's getting richer!
Oops.
An undead thingie.
It is a Hag. She's alone, so we kill her (?) easily.
Not much experience, but meh, whatever. This fight is in fact respawned every time you cross the room. There are several such fights in these corridors, all against a single Hag, so they aren't worth covering here. Just be aware that we have to slay several undead hags on our way.
Hags and samurai aren't the only enemies in here though.
Trolls try trolling us.
Two trolls can't troll a mighty party of four, however.
Bye bye, nasty trolls!
(The exp we get is through the roof!)
Hmmm, this statue looks intriguing.
I wonder what it is.
A totally awesome object, totally.
Red clay becomes wet as we go along. Are we by any chance inside a ... nevermind.
More coins for us to hoard!
Water, water all around. We must be near the underground river the 12th archival passage spoke of.
Evil robed men rush at us! :twisted: Notice that the room is well-constructed. We're getting closer to Eriosthe's engineering halls.
Five wizards. Mean.
It's four Shamans and two Sorcerers. Their spells aren't too deadly, however; our spells are much, much deadlier.
One of the nastiest things the wizards can do is silence our poor spekkio-kun.
Another nasty move of theirs is to lower Bee's hit maximum.
Nothing helps them much, though. Aware of the situation's direness, a shaman makes a run for his life.
And soon we are victorious.
We loot some kind of wizard robes. Hopefully spekkio will have a use for them.
The fabric has a strange feeling to it. I wonder if the robes are any good.
Beyond the room full of wizards we find a pointed magic hat. spekkio grabs it.
I'm seeing stars!
Let's head back to URZHUT to have the new clothes for spekkio identified. A nasty encounter hits us along the way:
Three monks and three samurai. Oh oh.
Nah, nothing too hard.
Good.
And here we are in Sagaris' study. First we identify the strange statue for 300 coins:
Hmmm, so carrying this statue around will boost up Kalos' Call elemental abiltiy? I sure hope so.
Next we have Sagaris look at the robes for 120 coins:
Yay! And now the pointed hat:
Kewlity kewl. Let's now equip the robes and the hat on spekkio:
spekkio's AC goes up from 8 to 12!
Back to our exploration now.
The corridor seems endless.
And water's dripping from the ceiling.
Everything looks extremely unstable. And now we're dirty, to boot.
The river must be somewhere very close by.
As we enter the next room...
...the path back is blocked!
No way to go but forward.
The clay corridors end here. We must have reached the engineering rooms!
There's a secret door in the southern wall.
As we enter it, the path back is blocked again.
This is, it seems, a corridor leading back to the clay corridors. Oh well.
Yup, indeed. So there is a way back. Good to know.
Now onwards to the engineering rooms!
The controls are vandalized. Too bad.
Another non-functioning control room. Oh well.
We turn south now.
Vandalized, too. I wonder what the inscription says.
We apply UMESH several times.
Huh?
In the next random encounter we meet a new kind of enemy: Morszahni, the Frost Spirit. Kalos summons a Fire elemental to our aid, and we dispatch the foe easily.
The southern room is explored, and we head east.
A secret door! ALTIS opens it.
Inside lies a key that we pick up.
We find some money, too.
The random encounter rate is getting a bit too high, so we get Kalos to invoke MORPETH to reduce it.
A storage room -- with smouldering embers! They reduce our HP if we step on them, so we explore this room as quickly as possible and leave.
The only way to take is further east.
A vision of Mara appears!
She tells us we have two tasks ahead of us: restarting the carriage -- she probably means the carriageway we saw mentioned in the 12th archival passage -- and fetching the black hammer. Okay, duly noted.
The vision disappears, and we locate a secret door right behind it. Two ALTIS spells suffice to open it.
We find ourselves in yet another control room.
A teleporter! Yay for random button pushing!
Pressing 1 leaves us in place. Pressing 2 teleports us to a room with a gem lying on the ground:
Bee greedily grabs the gem and then we press 3.
One more destroyed room. Exciting!
Nothing of interest in this area, however. We go back to the teleporter and press 4.
The corridor we find ourselves in must be pretty close to the river. The hum of turbines is heard.
We come across a drawing further down the corridor:
Hmm, so this must be the path to the carriageway. We have no idea what "A" and "B" mean yet, but let's keep it all in mind.
We're getting closer to the rushing water.
Closer and closer.
And closer still. The floor becomes wet.
We translate the inscription with NGOSLAZAR and UMESH. Too bad it makes no sense.
The passage ahead is flooded!
We can't get to the carriageway. Must be a puzzle, then, but it is solved elsewhere, as there is nothing we can do here. Let's head back to the teleporter.
I try to get back to 1 via 2 or 3 or whatever, but I can't. Many buttons are broken. I persevere for about half an hour, but nope: it seems we can't go back to the engineering rooms. Meh.
Oh well. We press on, pushing the 5 button in the 4th teleporter.
A hole or pit!
Whatever awaits us next? We'll find out soon enough.
Fowyr said:
Oh well, I dunno. I haven't used it yet.
I just assumed it might work the way a Cross does, but I'm probably wrong.I hate one use items though.
So what does a Plane Nexus do? It simply summons an elemental?
Edward_R_Murrow
Arcane
I'm surprised trying to open the door didn't result in death by drowning. Is the game letting up a bit?
Or is the "Cube" anything like a certain Wizardry game's Cosmic Cube?
Or is the "Cube" anything like a certain Wizardry game's Cosmic Cube?
kazgar
Arcane
More Uukrul! today is a good day.
torpid
Liturgist
Crooked Bee said:
Three monks and three samurai. Oh oh.
Nah, nothing too hard.
I take it most fights are pretty trivial at this point?Crooked Bee said:
Kalos: "you work for me now."
I have to admit, I'm slightly disappointed that even with walls of red clay, the wall textures are exactly the same as before :graphicswhore:
While the entire Codex is salivating over the new twitcher, I'm here for you, dear readers, updating my Uukrul LP. 
26: Great Engineer, Part 2
In which we slay a dragon and a fearsome demon, find the obsidian hammer, and repair the carriage.
Alright, so last time we made it through passages of clay to the engineering rooms, and then teleported to the, uhm, area #5.
We're facing a pit now:
Let jump over it to see if the inscription ahead of us has anything useful to say.
We make it over safely. The inscription is in #$!^?, so we translate it with two UMESHes and three (!) NGOSLAZARs:
Predictably enough, we're told to retrieve a hammer, which is just what Mara's vision told us in the last update.
Funny thing is, we are advised to take a medal with us after we've been stuck in here with no means of getting out but using a medal. Talk about trolling.
Good thing we're carrying a couple of ropes with us. We tie one of them to a crag to descend.
In a familiar manner, Uukrul's agents steal our rope. Bastards.
The area feels evil. :twisted:
Two more pits here, one right in front of us and the other one at the end of the corridor.
We descend the nearest pit first. And I think we're out of ropes now.
This is a cross-shaped area with yet another pit. I'd better make notes lest we get hopelessly lost.
The climb may be quite tricky, you say?..
Indeed. Lord Rocket and Kalos slip and fall.
This is a small corridor-ish area.
Oops! I think this is a stone giant's lair.
The giant looks scary, but we're just too good to be true.
We receive a good deal of experience + a rope, which is sure to come in handy in this area.
There is a quite ordinarily-looking sword on the ground here. I wonder if it's magical or something. Anyway, Bee is overencumbered, so Kalos picks it up.
This particular area seems to hold nothing of further interest to us, so let's climb back to the previous level.
Kalos ruins our attempt at making it one level up.
And then Bee does, too. :/
Our third attempt is successful. BUT. In order to explore this level further, it seems that we need to climb back down and then up via a different wall...
Yeah, that's what I mean. We can now jump over this pit and explore further.
Pits everywhere!
We climb down. This room looks a bit different (as far as this game's level of graphics allows).
Hmm, I wonder what's up there...
We approach it and...
...are teleported somewhere!
Meh, we find ourselves back in the first corridor, near the #5 teleporter.
We climb down again, and then again -- going for the second pit this time.
Money, yay!
Meanwhile, the evil presence grows. :twisted: We seem to be getting closer to... something.
Another pit -- and down we go!
And one more time, boy! (The round hole = hole in the ceiling; the square hole = hole in the floor.)
We keep slipping and falling.
Yet another pit in here. Gosh, will this ever end?
Yay! Another vision of Mara, she tells us we'll need the hammer to fight Uukrul. Fair enough.
And "cry Darnuth", you say? Duly noted.
Facing a secret door...
...we speak DARNUTH and the door swings open.
A supremely evil demon!
We engage in some demon diplomacy...
...but to no avail!
Okay, you demonic thingie, we'll just attack you, then!
Kalos invokes DROM, and spekkio casts SELAKIM.
The demon casts a Fire spell greatly damaging Bee. Uh-oh.
Bee collar-grabs the demon!
Kalos calls forth a Water elemental (assuming the Fire demon is vulnerable to water and stuff like that).
Thanks to DROM, Lord Rocket strikes at the demon for whopping 109 hp.
Next turn spekkio's SEHKLAZAR greatly damages the demon, and then the Water elemental seals the deal:
We get some exp...
...and the hammer we've come here for!
BUT. This game, as you should already know by now, has a funny exploit. If you don't pick up the looted quest-related item, the battle will respawn, allowing you to grind for some more exp.
So we leave the hammer be, exit the room, and then enter it again -- with the Daemon appearing again, too! And we slay him again... five times.
spekkio almost dies in one of the attempts, though:
But we prevail in the end.
And then we finally grab the hammer!
Yay!
The hammer is an obsidian one, and it's broken. Which means we'll need to identify AND repair it.
No way out of here but via using a Medal of escape.
Back at the sanctuary, our whole party levels up!
And we've still got a long way ahead of us!
We pay a visit to the Circle of Magicians where spekkio obtains his next ring:
No new rings for Kalos, however. :/
At Sagaris, we identify some gems, but also the newly-found sword...
...which turns out to be not quite ordinary! And the hammer:
900 coins!? This is an outrage!
Until the moment we forge our future? Mysterious!
At the Forge, we repair the Greatsword...
...as well as the Hammer:
The smith even has some unique lines to say. Nice.
And it looks like Lord Rocket can equip the Hammer now and wield it as a normal weapon. Hmm, I wonder if that's worth it.
We can't equip the Soul cleaver yet, though. Oh well.
And now we have to crawl ALL the way back to the engineering rooms through the red clay passages.
We're finally there! Let's go south past the teleporter now, to the not yet explored area of this dungeon.
We open the grate using the key we found in the previous update.
Wow, this rooms seems to be intact. No signs of damage here.
The drawing in front of us is a map of this area. Nothing too useful, really.
And here's the turbine layout. We must apparently stop the water from flooding the room we couldn't get in last time. Cutting a long story short -- and I spent quite a lot of time figuring this shit out -- we'll need to close the valves A and B yet keep the valve C open. The valve C must be kept open so that the turbine could power the carriageway. Go figure.
I guess that must be (kinda) evident from the above drawing combined with the following one we came across earlier:
Not exactly evident, though. Trial and error FTW.
But I digress. Going to the west we find a scroll:
spekkio grabs it.
Nothing of further interest here.
The next drawing we come across tells us the words we must speak to call the carriage. Again, that wasn't obvious to me at first glance.
Here's the control panel. We speak STRIYA.
But the turbine isn't working at the moment, and so the carriageway is inactive.
The above drawing depicts, I think, the valve C and the way the water powers up the turbine. We must open the valve to let the water flow through it.
The light here is shining red; no power.
And here are the control valves.
The valve A is open, but we close it.
The valve B is already closed, as is C. Let's open the latter:
The turbine is powered now, good!
The indicator light is blue now, I guess that means the power's on.
We speak STRIYA at the carriageway control panel. Success!
Then we teleport to #4 to access the corridor leading to the previously flooded area.
The water has drained now!
That was the conduit flooding this area.
A bell? Is it in any way related to the carriageway?
The carriageway waiting room.
Or, in other words, the terminal. This is apparently the Striya station, Eriosthe Central Carriageway.
We enter the carriage door.
Looks like we're being ... carried!
And here we are!
The Nuziln terminal.
The passage is ... growing warm?
Hmm, large, warm, and breathing. What could that be?
A dragon!
The dragon is a Fire Drake.
It likes breathing sheets of flames, stripping us of nearly half our HP.
spekkio cast LENTIIS to stretch the time and slow the dragon down a bit.
The dragon nearly slays spekkio with its fire spell.
Kalos invokes NULAMIR and now the dragon can't say no spell any more.
After some hacking and slashing, the dragon lies slain.
We get some moneyz and... an ancient book?
Fearsome!
Movin' on.
A sanctuary!
This is URQOL, "The Sanctuary Beneath the Cube". We activate it.
At the temple of Ufthu, Kalos is awarded...
...a Crystal ring!
Crystal rings and the most rare and powerful ones.
Kalos has grown most powerful in the eyes of Ufthu.
Kewl.
At Sagaris, we identify the ancient book for 400 coins:
Hmm, sounds nice. I wonder if it's a one use item?
We also identify the scroll we found, which turns out to be a scroll of silence.
Next time: theCosmic Cube! Oh my gosh. See you in a month, I guess.
26: Great Engineer, Part 2
In which we slay a dragon and a fearsome demon, find the obsidian hammer, and repair the carriage.
Alright, so last time we made it through passages of clay to the engineering rooms, and then teleported to the, uhm, area #5.
We're facing a pit now:
Let jump over it to see if the inscription ahead of us has anything useful to say.
We make it over safely. The inscription is in #$!^?, so we translate it with two UMESHes and three (!) NGOSLAZARs:
Predictably enough, we're told to retrieve a hammer, which is just what Mara's vision told us in the last update.
Funny thing is, we are advised to take a medal with us after we've been stuck in here with no means of getting out but using a medal. Talk about trolling.
Good thing we're carrying a couple of ropes with us. We tie one of them to a crag to descend.
In a familiar manner, Uukrul's agents steal our rope. Bastards.
The area feels evil. :twisted:
Two more pits here, one right in front of us and the other one at the end of the corridor.
We descend the nearest pit first. And I think we're out of ropes now.
This is a cross-shaped area with yet another pit. I'd better make notes lest we get hopelessly lost.
The climb may be quite tricky, you say?..
Indeed. Lord Rocket and Kalos slip and fall.
This is a small corridor-ish area.
Oops! I think this is a stone giant's lair.
The giant looks scary, but we're just too good to be true.
We receive a good deal of experience + a rope, which is sure to come in handy in this area.
There is a quite ordinarily-looking sword on the ground here. I wonder if it's magical or something.
Anyway, Bee is overencumbered, so Kalos picks it up.
This particular area seems to hold nothing of further interest to us, so let's climb back to the previous level.
Kalos ruins our attempt at making it one level up.
And then Bee does, too. :/
Our third attempt is successful. BUT. In order to explore this level further, it seems that we need to climb back down and then up via a different wall...
Yeah, that's what I mean. We can now jump over this pit and explore further.
Pits everywhere!
We climb down. This room looks a bit different (as far as this game's level of graphics allows).
Hmm, I wonder what's up there...
We approach it and...
...are teleported somewhere!
Meh, we find ourselves back in the first corridor, near the #5 teleporter.
We climb down again, and then again -- going for the second pit this time.
Money, yay!
Meanwhile, the evil presence grows. :twisted: We seem to be getting closer to... something.
Another pit -- and down we go!
And one more time, boy! (The round hole = hole in the ceiling; the square hole = hole in the floor.)
We keep slipping and falling.
Yet another pit in here. Gosh, will this ever end?
Yay! Another vision of Mara, she tells us we'll need the hammer to fight Uukrul. Fair enough.
And "cry Darnuth", you say? Duly noted.
Facing a secret door...
...we speak DARNUTH and the door swings open.
A supremely evil demon!We engage in some demon diplomacy...
...but to no avail!
Okay, you demonic thingie, we'll just attack you, then!
Kalos invokes DROM, and spekkio casts SELAKIM.
The demon casts a Fire spell greatly damaging Bee. Uh-oh.
Bee collar-grabs the demon!
Kalos calls forth a Water elemental (assuming the Fire demon is vulnerable to water and stuff like that).
Thanks to DROM, Lord Rocket strikes at the demon for whopping 109 hp.
Next turn spekkio's SEHKLAZAR greatly damages the demon, and then the Water elemental seals the deal:
We get some exp...
...and the hammer we've come here for!
BUT. This game, as you should already know by now, has a funny exploit. If you don't pick up the looted quest-related item, the battle will respawn, allowing you to grind for some more exp.
So we leave the hammer be, exit the room, and then enter it again -- with the Daemon appearing again, too! And we slay him again... five times.
spekkio almost dies in one of the attempts, though:
But we prevail in the end.
And then we finally grab the hammer!
Yay!
The hammer is an obsidian one, and it's broken. Which means we'll need to identify AND repair it.
No way out of here but via using a Medal of escape.
Back at the sanctuary, our whole party levels up!
And we've still got a long way ahead of us!
We pay a visit to the Circle of Magicians where spekkio obtains his next ring:
No new rings for Kalos, however. :/
At Sagaris, we identify some gems, but also the newly-found sword...
...which turns out to be not quite ordinary! And the hammer:
900 coins!? This is an outrage!
Until the moment we forge our future?
Mysterious!At the Forge, we repair the Greatsword...
...as well as the Hammer:
The smith even has some unique lines to say. Nice.
And it looks like Lord Rocket can equip the Hammer now and wield it as a normal weapon. Hmm, I wonder if that's worth it.
We can't equip the Soul cleaver yet, though. Oh well.
And now we have to crawl ALL the way back to the engineering rooms through the red clay passages.
We're finally there! Let's go south past the teleporter now, to the not yet explored area of this dungeon.
We open the grate using the key we found in the previous update.
Wow, this rooms seems to be intact. No signs of damage here.
The drawing in front of us is a map of this area. Nothing too useful, really.
And here's the turbine layout. We must apparently stop the water from flooding the room we couldn't get in last time. Cutting a long story short -- and I spent quite a lot of time figuring this shit out -- we'll need to close the valves A and B yet keep the valve C open. The valve C must be kept open so that the turbine could power the carriageway. Go figure.
I guess that must be (kinda) evident from the above drawing combined with the following one we came across earlier:
Not exactly evident, though.
Trial and error FTW.But I digress. Going to the west we find a scroll:
spekkio grabs it.
Nothing of further interest here.
The next drawing we come across tells us the words we must speak to call the carriage. Again, that wasn't obvious to me at first glance.
Here's the control panel. We speak STRIYA.
But the turbine isn't working at the moment, and so the carriageway is inactive.
The above drawing depicts, I think, the valve C and the way the water powers up the turbine. We must open the valve to let the water flow through it.
The light here is shining red; no power.
And here are the control valves.
The valve A is open, but we close it.
The valve B is already closed, as is C. Let's open the latter:
The turbine is powered now, good!
The indicator light is blue now, I guess that means the power's on.
We speak STRIYA at the carriageway control panel. Success!
Then we teleport to #4 to access the corridor leading to the previously flooded area.
The water has drained now!
That was the conduit flooding this area.
A bell? Is it in any way related to the carriageway?
The carriageway waiting room.
Or, in other words, the terminal. This is apparently the Striya station, Eriosthe Central Carriageway.
We enter the carriage door.
Looks like we're being ... carried!
And here we are!
The Nuziln terminal.
The passage is ... growing warm?
Hmm, large, warm, and breathing. What could that be?
A dragon!
The dragon is a Fire Drake.
It likes breathing sheets of flames, stripping us of nearly half our HP.
spekkio cast LENTIIS to stretch the time and slow the dragon down a bit.
The dragon nearly slays spekkio with its fire spell.
Kalos invokes NULAMIR and now the dragon can't say no spell any more.
After some hacking and slashing, the dragon lies slain.
We get some moneyz and... an ancient book?
Fearsome!
Movin' on.
A sanctuary!
This is URQOL, "The Sanctuary Beneath the Cube". We activate it.
At the temple of Ufthu, Kalos is awarded...
...a Crystal ring!
Crystal rings and the most rare and powerful ones.
Kalos has grown most powerful in the eyes of Ufthu.
Kewl.
At Sagaris, we identify the ancient book for 400 coins:
Hmm, sounds nice. I wonder if it's a one use item?
We also identify the scroll we found, which turns out to be a scroll of silence.
Next time: the
torpid said:
Yup, which is unsurprising given my powergaming (read: grinding) instincts.
The puzzles, however, are not.
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Actually, these days I'm playing Divinity 2: DKS, a quite fine game. About the new twitcher, I'll wait for the Enhanced Enhanced Director's Super Cut edition before getting it.
Oh, and
for the update, too bad that it seems you're approaching the endgame...
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glorious dungeon romping.
killed a devil and a dragon, extreme.
killed a devil and a dragon, extreme.
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