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Completed Let's play Realms of Arkania: Star Trail HD - Part 71: Phex Temple 15 - WTF Ending
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Jews are the target audience.
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Don't worry, I'll make sure you collect a german title in every town we pass through, so your "Handel abschließen" will soon be unstoppable!
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Wow, this will quite an eventful update!
I also need your decision on something. One of the Codexians has died in battle. What should I do?
Options:
1. Replace him with another volunteer.
2. Try to get him ressurected (unlikely anytime, since we are poor, I'd have to exploit hunting to raise money for donations to the temple to get a decent chance)
3. Reload an earlier savegame.
I also need your decision on something. One of the Codexians has died in battle. What should I do?
Options:
1. Replace him with another volunteer.
2. Try to get him ressurected (unlikely anytime, since we are poor, I'd have to exploit hunting to raise money for donations to the temple to get a decent chance)
3. Reload an earlier savegame.
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R.I.P. ---> 1. Replace
if boreale, 2
if not boreale, 1
if not boreale, 1
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At least it was a quick death...
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Hey! Not my fault you wussed out on going full Crime and Punishment on her!Some old woman just scammed us out of all of our money.We are officially broke.
I blame Nevill. His "handel abschließen" wasn't strong enough.
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Part 8: We've Lost a Party Member (Also, an old lady robbed us)
While on the way to that miller, we get another encounter.
Just one ent-thing.
Anyway...
Of course, we continue forward!
I don't know why it says Boreale's leading us, when MicoSelva is in the first place.
We get a random encounter with some spiders. Reinhardt tames one and makis it devour it's friend.
I like his red leather armor, looks pretty! Anywy, we've come to avenge him!
"We know what you must have gone through."
But it's pretty easy to get out of Limbo, just open up your map and travel somewhere else!
Also, Gashok is already in Limbo, so I guess fire is the only other thing that allows someone to leave that place, other then our travel map. Or maybe it's in Nine Hells? Maybe we aren't in Aventuria after all! We should investigate further!
Alright, it seems we have to take care of someone in Gashok to bring our fashionable elvish friend some closure. Sounds easy enough!
On the way back to town, we meet this... lovely lady. Who looks just like that herbalist in Gashok.
Wait, I thought she would open up a store interface. What's this? Can we just take everything for free?
Let's try that!
Ok, guess not, but damn, is that a ridiculous amount of money. I doubt that all of that stuff costs even half of that. Maybe I'm wrong, but really.
Ok, let's return all of the merchandise...
Hey, there are no girls here!
I really can't remember everything we took from her, I think we still had that sleeping bag and some waterskins or something, but I couldn't find the right item.
Also, the price she gives you appears to be random. Obviously, she's mastered the ancient german art of "handel abschließen", so we're doomed!
Well, we have to pay, since I couldn't be bothered to search for that random thing we "bought" and Nevill couldn't "handel abschließen" a lower price. Nor could he use Seduce.
She takes almost all of our money, leaving us with little over 10 Ducats and now we are dying of thirst :D
Near Gashok, we get ambushed by some thugs.
Anyway...
Leader down!
I've turned on 100x speed autocombat to take care of the rest, I had to momentarily pause the game to trigger the increased speed, since it ran on the default one at first.
We get some nice loot, like leather armor. Both MicoSelva and Nevill could use it, but I game it to MicoSelva, since Nevill mostly avoids combat anyway.
We return to the herbalist to get info on the suspects.
First, we visit this guy.
First option.
First option once again.
Well, he just ripped us off and Nevill "handel abschließen" either. Nor could he use seduce.
We visit one of them.
Notice that Nevill can Persuade, but he can't "handel abschließen". Nor can he use Seduce.
Ok, Nevill thinks he is innocent. I've tried the other options off-screen and it seems he really is innocent.
But I'm pretty sure this one is guilty!
Notice that Nevill still can't "handel abschließen". Nor can he use Seduce.
Anyway, MicoSelva brainwashes him with Be my Friend (Bannbaladin).
We'll hand him over to the beadles, whatever that means. I guess guards.
Pffft, typical!
His house has a lot of unused space.
Anyway...
Wow, he actually survived that!
He and Nevill have an epic duel to the death! By which I mean he keeps kicking Nevill's ass and MicoSelva has to save him.
MicoSelva finishes him off with Fulminictus.
Wow, nice!
This would've been a godsend if we'd actually had a Warrior.
In true RPG fashion, the evil schemer had incriminating documents in his house.
Reinhardt completed another ritual
!
Also, this is the time I've discovered the bug with unlimited meditation/healing combo.
Simply heal the character with Treat Wounds skill, then meditate with the healed character.
After he finishes meditating, you can heal him once again, without needing to rest like normal.
You can't meditate if you have full Astral Energy, so just cast some random spell to deplete it, so that you can meditate again and get another healing attempt.
It's actually less powerful then I've feared, since the amount of healing is random and you could actually end up with less health then you've started with. And you still need to eat and drink, so you there's a limit to how far you can push it. Still, it's handy to quickly refill Morkar's AE, but I won't be using it.
And you can't meditate if your LE is too low, which is another limitation. It's not an easy way to get unlimited AE, but it still should be patched.
While testing that bug, Reinhardt actually managed to max out his dagger :D
Anyway, after we go to sleep and get another cutscene. I couldn't manage to grab any screenshots of the first half, but I have screens of the second half.
So, the first half:
It opens with Nevill sleeping in a bed. Yes, this time, it's actually Nevill sleeping in that bed, not some random redhead. Then, we get a nice view of a door to our room, then we hear some people running upstairs and their dialogue suggests they want to capture us. Then, two randomly generated villagers crash into the room, (seriously, I've watched it a bunch of times, and each time they looked different). One is a man, who bashes the door open, the other is a woman doing some sort of cheerleader pose behind him. Shame I could get a screenshot of that :D.
Anyway, after that, we switch to a scene outside, where the first two of our party members (Nevill and Reinhardt in the screenshots I've decided to use) stand atop some wooden platform (I guess they want to hang them?) and there's a lynch mob that wants their death, because they have them for murderers after the death of Deregorn. Their leader calms the crowd, accuses Nevill and Reinhardt of murder and asks what they say in their defense.
Then this happens.
Yes, someone randomly decides to go through our stuff and finds the "incriminating evidence".
Well, I guess everything's okay then. Everything's written in those papers, he was an evil guy who kicked puppies. No need to look any further into it!
Well, that takes care of that, we just need to return to fancy red armor elf.
On the way back, we encounter the woman again!
Sadly, her "handel abschließen" is to strong, so we can't attack her.
And Nevill STILL can't "handel abschließen", nor can he use Seduce.
This time, we'll take one pointless item and see how much she charges for it. We take 1 Licorice!
I don't know is she just gave it away for free, or if we'll lose some money.
This time we take some green gems in addition to the licorice. Well, the green gems are obviously expensive, so it doesn't seem that far off. Mayb she isn't that much of a scam artist after all and I'm just dumb.
Still, somehow it's Nevill's fault. He needs to "handel abschließen" already!
Just before Artherion's shack, we get attacked by some spiders, I think there were three of them. Anyway, I didn't feel like fighting them manually, so I've turned on autocombat on 100x speed again.
Well, hopefully, soon they will be finished and-
I guess he should've gotten that leather armor. Maybe it would've saved him.
I couldn't interrupt the journey to camp and try to save him, since we were so close to Artherion and we've arrived to him pretty much nanoseconds after I've dismissed that victory screen.
So now, we get to have a nice, long chat with Artherion, while our Rogue is slowly dying.
He doesn't really have many interesting things to say.
As soon as we ask enough questions, he gets impatient and gives us our quest rewards.
No one here uses swords, Boreale and Jimmious use axes and Nevill had his fancy rapier. If we had a Warrior, that would be a different matter entirely.
Still, MicoSelva can try out that bow.
Farewell, Nevill, our Rogue companion. May you master the art of "handel abschließen" in the next world!
While on the way to that miller, we get another encounter.
Just one ent-thing.
Anyway...
Of course, we continue forward!
I don't know why it says Boreale's leading us, when MicoSelva is in the first place.
We get a random encounter with some spiders. Reinhardt tames one and makis it devour it's friend.
I like his red leather armor, looks pretty! Anywy, we've come to avenge him!
"We know what you must have gone through."
But it's pretty easy to get out of Limbo, just open up your map and travel somewhere else!
Also, Gashok is already in Limbo, so I guess fire is the only other thing that allows someone to leave that place, other then our travel map. Or maybe it's in Nine Hells? Maybe we aren't in Aventuria after all! We should investigate further!
Alright, it seems we have to take care of someone in Gashok to bring our fashionable elvish friend some closure. Sounds easy enough!
On the way back to town, we meet this... lovely lady. Who looks just like that herbalist in Gashok.
Wait, I thought she would open up a store interface. What's this? Can we just take everything for free?
Let's try that!
Ok, guess not, but damn, is that a ridiculous amount of money. I doubt that all of that stuff costs even half of that. Maybe I'm wrong, but really.
Ok, let's return all of the merchandise...
Hey, there are no girls here!
I really can't remember everything we took from her, I think we still had that sleeping bag and some waterskins or something, but I couldn't find the right item.
Also, the price she gives you appears to be random. Obviously, she's mastered the ancient german art of "handel abschließen", so we're doomed!
Well, we have to pay, since I couldn't be bothered to search for that random thing we "bought" and Nevill couldn't "handel abschließen" a lower price. Nor could he use Seduce
.
She takes almost all of our money, leaving us with little over 10 Ducats and now we are dying of thirst :D
Near Gashok, we get ambushed by some thugs.
Anyway...
Leader down!
I've turned on 100x speed autocombat to take care of the rest, I had to momentarily pause the game to trigger the increased speed, since it ran on the default one at first.
We get some nice loot, like leather armor. Both MicoSelva and Nevill could use it, but I game it to MicoSelva, since Nevill mostly avoids combat anyway.
We return to the herbalist to get info on the suspects.
First, we visit this guy.
First option.
First option once again.
Well, he just ripped us off and Nevill "handel abschließen" either. Nor could he use seduce
.
We visit one of them.
Notice that Nevill can Persuade, but he can't "handel abschließen". Nor can he use Seduce
.
Ok, Nevill thinks he is innocent. I've tried the other options off-screen and it seems he really is innocent.
But I'm pretty sure this one is guilty!
Notice that Nevill still can't "handel abschließen". Nor can he use Seduce
.Anyway, MicoSelva brainwashes him with Be my Friend (Bannbaladin).
We'll hand him over to the beadles, whatever that means. I guess guards.
Pffft, typical!
His house has a lot of unused space.
Anyway...
Wow, he actually survived that!
He and Nevill have an epic duel to the death! By which I mean he keeps kicking Nevill's ass and MicoSelva has to save him.
MicoSelva finishes him off with Fulminictus.
Wow, nice!
This would've been a godsend if we'd actually had a Warrior
.
In true RPG fashion, the evil schemer had incriminating documents in his house.
Reinhardt completed another ritual
!Also, this is the time I've discovered the bug with unlimited meditation/healing combo.
Simply heal the character with Treat Wounds skill, then meditate with the healed character.
After he finishes meditating, you can heal him once again, without needing to rest like normal.
You can't meditate if you have full Astral Energy, so just cast some random spell to deplete it, so that you can meditate again and get another healing attempt.
It's actually less powerful then I've feared, since the amount of healing is random and you could actually end up with less health then you've started with. And you still need to eat and drink, so you there's a limit to how far you can push it. Still, it's handy to quickly refill Morkar's AE, but I won't be using it.
And you can't meditate if your LE is too low, which is another limitation. It's not an easy way to get unlimited AE, but it still should be patched.
While testing that bug, Reinhardt actually managed to max out his dagger :D
Anyway, after we go to sleep and get another cutscene. I couldn't manage to grab any screenshots of the first half, but I have screens of the second half.
So, the first half:
It opens with Nevill sleeping in a bed. Yes, this time, it's actually Nevill sleeping in that bed, not some random redhead
. Then, we get a nice view of a door to our room, then we hear some people running upstairs and their dialogue suggests they want to capture us. Then, two randomly generated villagers crash into the room, (seriously, I've watched it a bunch of times, and each time they looked different). One is a man, who bashes the door open, the other is a woman doing some sort of cheerleader pose behind him. Shame I could get a screenshot of that :D.Anyway, after that, we switch to a scene outside, where the first two of our party members (Nevill and Reinhardt in the screenshots I've decided to use) stand atop some wooden platform (I guess they want to hang them?) and there's a lynch mob that wants their death, because they have them for murderers after the death of Deregorn. Their leader calms the crowd, accuses Nevill and Reinhardt of murder and asks what they say in their defense.
Then this happens.
Yes, someone randomly decides to go through our stuff and finds the "incriminating evidence".
Well, I guess everything's okay then. Everything's written in those papers, he was an evil guy who kicked puppies. No need to look any further into it!
Well, that takes care of that, we just need to return to fancy red armor elf.
On the way back, we encounter the woman again!
Sadly, her "handel abschließen" is to strong, so we can't attack her.And Nevill STILL can't "handel abschließen", nor can he use Seduce
.
This time, we'll take one pointless item and see how much she charges for it. We take 1 Licorice!
I don't know is she just gave it away for free, or if we'll lose some money.
This time we take some green gems in addition to the licorice. Well, the green gems are obviously expensive, so it doesn't seem that far off. Mayb she isn't that much of a scam artist after all and I'm just dumb.
Still, somehow it's Nevill's fault. He needs to "handel abschließen" already!
Just before Artherion's shack, we get attacked by some spiders, I think there were three of them. Anyway, I didn't feel like fighting them manually, so I've turned on autocombat on 100x speed again.
Well, hopefully, soon they will be finished and-
I guess he should've gotten that leather armor. Maybe it would've saved him.
I couldn't interrupt the journey to camp and try to save him, since we were so close to Artherion and we've arrived to him pretty much nanoseconds after I've dismissed that victory screen.
So now, we get to have a nice, long chat with Artherion, while our Rogue is slowly dying.
He doesn't really have many interesting things to say.
As soon as we ask enough questions, he gets impatient and gives us our quest rewards.
No one here uses swords, Boreale and Jimmious use axes and Nevill had his fancy rapier. If we had a Warrior, that would be a different matter entirely.
Still, MicoSelva can try out that bow.
Farewell, Nevill, our Rogue companion. May you master the art of "handel abschließen" in the next world!
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Because he's a Commander, duh. Says so right there on his char sheet.
RIP Nevill, he couldn't handel abschliessen himself out of that one
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I knew it was something dirty!Well, he just ripped us off and Nevill "handel abschließen" either. Nor could he use seduce
And I will take no part in degeneracy, thank you very much. My superior seducing skills are gender-locked!
The apathy of my comrades astounds me, chatting up some prosperous abomination while I bleed to death! For this indignity alone I will haunt your party as a vengeful mercantile spirit, driving up the prices wherever you go!
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Because he's a Commander, duh. Says so right there on his char sheet.
RIP Nevill, he couldn't handel abschliessen himself out of that one
Thorwal folk have high orientation skills. Maybe his skill is higher than Micos and the game picked the one with the highest value automatically instead of taking the leaders skill?
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Boreale has 3 Orientation, MicoSelva has atleast 12. I think Reinhardt is better at Orientation then Boreale.
Anyway, we need a replacement for Nevill. Also, to make it more interesting, we won't take duplicate characters or a Rogue (since we've already had one) and try out the other ones.
So, if anyone's interested in joining Team Codex, you can choose from:
Warrior (there's a shiny new sword in it for you!)
Hunter
Witch
Silvan Elf, Ice Elf (if you really think this game needs more elves)
Juggler (if you want to troll me)
Skald
Hopefully we get atleast one volunteer, but if we happen to get more, I'll choose one at random and the others will be replacements in case we lose someone else.
Anyway, we need a replacement for Nevill. Also, to make it more interesting, we won't take duplicate characters or a Rogue (since we've already had one) and try out the other ones.
So, if anyone's interested in joining Team Codex, you can choose from:
Warrior (there's a shiny new sword in it for you!)
Hunter
Witch
Silvan Elf, Ice Elf (if you really think this game needs more elves)
Juggler (if you want to troll me)
Skald
Hopefully we get atleast one volunteer, but if we happen to get more, I'll choose one at random and the others will be replacements in case we lose someone else.
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If it is like in BoD you can choose between both, old and new songs.
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Ok. In.
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Part 9: Nevill Haunts Us (and he hates Reinhardt)
With his dying breath, Nevill curses the party for abandoning him to his fate in favor of talking to Artherion. Just after they go to sleep, they are suddenly attacked by a group of orcs! Coincidence? I think not!
Anyway...
The orc is dead, as you can see here, because we can move on his tile. Glitched out again. Oh well, it's just a graphical glitch Better then BoD HD, where at launch characters could fall off the battlefield :D
After killing the orcs, who had 72 arrows for MicoSelva, we continue back toLimbo Goshak, but on the way we meet another scam artist merchant. I actually buy that useless thing, because I'm a moron and accidently clicked yes. 
This woman in front of the Temple of Phex in Goshak keeps walking into this guy, but he doesn't want to move out of the way, so she just keeps walking in place. Sometimes, she manages to push him a little bit to the side, but it's still not enough for her to move past him.
We go to the temple of Phex, tutelary deity of Nevill and donate 1 ducat to the temple, because that's how much he's worth to us. Besides, Nevill already wasted enough of our money when he was alive and we prefer money more then Nevill anyway
.
Ok, we will pray just once. Maybe a miracle will happen!
Guess not. Well, that's ok, we didn't lose anyone important, only Nevill.
Also, for whatever reason, this line is voiced by that "voiceover guy" from Blade of Destiny HD.
At the temple, the group meets ERYFKRAD, Nevill's stronger, faster and overall superior older brother. Here are his stats after I've minmaxed them by raising his negative attributes.
I've pumped all points into Strength and got lucky, as I've succeeded in raising it every time. However, almost of of my attempts to decrease his negative attributes have failed.
As you can see, ERYFKRAD has all of Nevill's important skills and is actually better in the Language (German) skill. Surely his "handel abschließen" will be much stronger them that of his late brother!
Then the group loots the late rogue's corpse, but Nevill gets the last laugh, as he carried most of our money and there appears to be no way to take it back!
The Codex Party dumps Nevill's corpse in the Temple of Phex, welcome ERYFKRAD into the party and gave him that Masterly Two Hander as a welcome gift. ERYFKRAD starts telling everyone stories of how he used to pick on Nevill when they were kids. Everybody laughs and they all talk about how they've never liked Nevill that much, except Reinhardt, who is busy writing sad poetry in a dark corner. Nevill's spirit is furious and swears terrible vengeance!
The group exits the temple, now led by Nevill's brother ERYFKRAD and continues past the still-glitched woman. Luckily, today is Praios Day, so we can visit the market!
At the market, the group sells their loot at Weapon Booth and ERYFKRAD fails at "handel abschließen" two times, thus we don't get a better price. Well, it was much harder haggle when you sold or bought multiple items in Blade of Destiny, so maybe "handel abschließen" works the same way.
But it seems his "handel abschließen" isn't strong wnough even when we attempt to sell one axe. Where's Nevill when you need him?
Alright, let's try the minimal markup this time.
Well, seems ERYFKRAD just plain sucks at "handel abschließen". It might be because of his low Charisma and Cleverness. He has high Courage, but the game checks for the other two stats too and I guess he keeps failing the Charisma and Cleverness tests.
Or it might be because Nevill's spirit haunts us and uses his "handel abschließen" to weaken our own and perpetually keep us broke. Yeah, surely that's what happened. Curse you, Nevill!
The general goods booth sells a nice Alchemy Set for Morkar. But it's pretty expensive, so ERYFKRAD brushes up his German and tries to use the "handel abschließen".
Unfortunately, he was possessed by the spirit of Nevill and failed 3 times in a row.
NEVILL!
Fortunately, the next stand also sells an Alchemy set. This time, we don't "handel abschließen" to avoid Nevill's malevolent influence. We also buy some sleeping bags and a fancy robe for Morkar to boost his AE regeneration. This leaves us with just a few silver pieces. Well played, Nevill!
We also spend a night at the inn and this time, we actually get a normal room instead of being banished to outer space. Maybe it's due to that patch they've released today.
We leave Gashok and continue south. MicoSelva now brings back a lot less surplus food then before we got to Gashok and now he brings back mostly 0 to 2, occasionaly he gets lucky and brings back 11 supply packs, so it does get harder depending on location. Still, they still need to limit that hunting somewhat, since you can just try again and again without needing to rest.
During rest, we are ambushed by a group of orcs.
But Reinhardt looks at them with eyes of a man that braved the deepest, darkest pits of the RPG Codex and lived to tell about it. The orcs flee as obviously, they stand no chance against such madman! For this, we gain the Pacifist archievement.
But the shadow of Nevill looms over them and promises our brave heroes much sorrow...
(btw. this gives us the Expert archievement)
Jimmious, why? First, you get Reinhardt sick (no doubt due to Nevill's influence) and now you can't figure out what's wrong with him when it should be obvious?
Fortunately, MicoSelva is more competent then Jimmious and-
Wait, no know cure...
And we can't even treat him, as we don't have Donf stalks.
We send the sick Reinhardt to gather herbs a bunch of times, but he doesn't find any Donf stalks. Nevill, what did poor Reinhardt ever do to you? Why do you keep picking on him?
Fine, seems we need to get back to Gashok and get him to a healer before we lose him like Nevill.
As we turn back to Gashok, we get attacked by someone.
Turns out, it's a bunch of Aventurians. They are apparently a hivemind, since each "Avanturian" is instead called "Aventurians", indicating that this is just a human shell controlled by dozens of alien microorganisms. Well, we fear no aliens!
And if my DSA lore is correct, then the continent we are on is called Aventuria, so this is like if we were playing an RPG set in medieval France and we were attacked by some enemies named Europeans.
Reinhardt takes revenge at Nevill for his sabotage and enslaves his spirit with his emo brand of druidic necromancy. Furious Nevill tries to break free, but can't, now he must serve us for a while and serve as a meatshield.
Also, ERYFKRAD proves to be a worthy addition to the group, as he outmatches Boreale's fighting prowess despite being lower level.
We eventually win, but Reinhardt almost dies, seems Nevill's "handel abschließen" is stronger then we've thought and he can use it to hinder our progress even when he's our minion.
After the battle, Nevill's spirit disappears and promises Reinhardt that another terrible tragedy shall befall him for enslaving his spirit. Hmm, wonder what terrible fate he has in store for Reinhardt...
Ah, of course!
We get to the healer, but there's no health insurance in Aventuria and the healer wants money. He charges an outrageous sum due to the spirit of Nevill and we are almost broke due to all that crap we've purchased at the market.
What to do now, surely Reinhardt can't last much longer. Is this the end for our emo druid? Will he join Nevill in the afterlife? Do we need another brave Codexian to join our cause?
Fortunately, the group manages to foil Nevill's evil scheme. They return to the temple of Phex, drag the rotting corpse of Nevill back to the healer and pay with the money Nevill'd hoped to keep out of our hands (maybe it was to be used to pay for his funeral). Your move, Nevill.
We also leave Jimmious behind in the temple for a moment to think about what he's done.
We also get the Church Mouse archievement :D
We dump Nevill back in the temple and take Jimmious along, hopefully he's learned his lesson. On the way, we get another event.
We of course put the antelope out of its misery and also because it would be a shame to waste that meat. But turns out, it was a trap set by Nevill and we are ambushed by lions!
They are strange, white lions with black mane. I guess that's a DSA thing? They take up four squares.
Anyway...
The lion actually died, but the model glitched out again and thus he remained standing. Here he is up close.
I didn't actually realize that he was dead, so I've sent Jimmious to fight him and planned to do the same with Boreale.
Eventually we win and gain 14 packs of food!
But soon after, we are ambushed by another group of orcs. Atleast Reinhardt got his strength back. He had a -2 modifier to it and I've fear that it's permanent.
That's a lot of orcs! We could flee, but that would be cowardly. To battle!
Anyway, magic prevails. Reinhardt summons Nevill's ghost, Morkar summons a Heshthot and a skeleton, Micoselva brainwashes an orc with Be my Friend and for the next few rounds, Morkar and Reinhardt cast Horriphobus and Evil Eye on the orcs and some of them flee, but some keep fighting on, as the spell wasn't strong enough to make them flee. I've turned on autocombat after a few minutes, on 8x speed this time, so that I could intervene in case the computer decides to use Reinhardt as a tank. But the AI proves to be surprisingly effective. It debuffs the orcs with the spellcasters and the fighters finish them off afterwards. I guess.
But if you don't allow it to use magic, it keeps sending mages into melee.
We get some nice loot and money, so we are no longer poor as a church mouse.
Later on, the Hivemind sends some more "Aventurians"s againt us. This should be an easy battle, surely nothing noteworthy will happen-
Maybe it's not because Nevill hates Reinhardt, maybe he actually likes him and thus wants him to join him in the afterlife and troll our team from the grave? I mean, why else would he target Reinhardt of all people. He just summons ghosts, gathers herbs and writes crappy poetry. That's all he ever does.
Fortunatelly, there's no Artherion to talk to this time, so as soon as we finish this battle, we set camp to save Reinhardt from Nevill's clutches.
What the hell Jimmious, I thought you've learned your lesson. And now you just stand in the corner and yawn while Reinhardt is in grave danger?
That's it, from now on, you are the new Nevill of the group!
Fortunatelly, once again MicoSelva saves the day, no thanks to Jimmious, who fell asleep from boredom. Nevill is furious that he won't get to reunite with his only friend, Reinhardt.
Aww, a cute little otter is trapped. We have enough food and MicoSelva is a hippy, so we free him!
We try to heal him, but unfortunately I haven't trained the Heal Animals spell on MicoSelva, so he fails.
Well, hopefully that's enough.
Also, ERYFKRAD leveled up.
We raise his Ancient Languages skill, as maybe that's the one that covers German, so his "handel abschließen" might get stronger from that!
Soon, we arrive at Hilltorp.
The weather is bad, so it's very windy.
We visit the local blacksmith to to repair Jimmious's axe and this time, we actually manage to "handel abschließen" a 5% discount! Who needs Nevill?
Unlike in Hillhouse, Kvirasim and Gashok, the boundaries here are properly established, so we can't wander off into places we aren't supposed to. I guess.
This shows up a bunch of times, but it seems to be just fluff text.
Yay, another whooping 5% discount! Nevill must be busy or something.
We chat with the inkeeper to learn something about these mountains, then we continue on our way.
On the road, some jerk interupts our sleep.
Oh, it's Reinhardt's buddy!
Sounds believable. Ok, you can stay!
Sure, why not. Sounds delicious!
Of course, he is a druid, there are no evil druids, right?
(Reinhardt doesn't count)
That old man was nice, he even made us dinner. But why did he just cook the soup and then leave-
...figures. Alright, no strangers allowed to the camp anymore. Thankfully he didn't steal anything.
I'm not sure if this actually helps us travel through the mountains faster or what.
Great, we have stalkers.
Nevill!
Next, we are attacked by a group of goblins.
The goblins prove surprisingly dangerous and almost kill Reinhardt and MicoSelva, but luckily, they only fell unconcious, so they are in no danger of dying. Nevill must really want to bring Reinhardt onto his side, but for now, he failed.
Short break and they are as good as new!
Aww, a mountain goat! Want a Supply Pack full of food?
Fine, want an herb?
We were just trying to be nice! Ok, you've asked for it...
Defeated by a goat...
Also, is that 1 supposed to be a name of some party member?
We are then attacked by harpies, that again almost kill Reinhardt.
And also MicoSelva...
We can't cast Evil Eye, Be my Friend or Horriphobus on them, because they aren't humanoid.
But with the help of demonology and necromancy, we prevail! We also gain the Patron archievement. We don't actually kill any harpies, as they all flee as soon as they get low on Life Energy.
This should be the right place!
Who could it be?
Just some Robbers. Shame Morkar is low on AE, now I can't oneshot him with Ignifaxius.
We get some money from them, which is desperately needed!
Also a Crossbow for MicoSelva, that's better then the bow from Artherion.
Finally, we've arrived at Finsterkoppen! What adventures avait us there? Will we manage to find the Salamander Stone? Or will the spirit of Nevill stop up with his evil powers of "handel abschließen"? Find out next time!
Anyway...
The orc is dead, as you can see here, because we can move on his tile. Glitched out again. Oh well, it's just a graphical glitch Better then BoD HD, where at launch characters could fall off the battlefield :D
After killing the orcs, who had 72 arrows for MicoSelva, we continue back to
This woman in front of the Temple of Phex in Goshak keeps walking into this guy, but he doesn't want to move out of the way, so she just keeps walking in place. Sometimes, she manages to push him a little bit to the side, but it's still not enough for her to move past him.
We go to the temple of Phex, tutelary deity of Nevill and donate 1 ducat to the temple, because that's how much he's worth to us. Besides, Nevill already wasted enough of our money when he was alive and we prefer money more then Nevill anyway
.Ok, we will pray just once. Maybe a miracle will happen!
Guess not. Well, that's ok, we didn't lose anyone important, only Nevill
.Also, for whatever reason, this line is voiced by that "voiceover guy" from Blade of Destiny HD.
At the temple, the group meets ERYFKRAD, Nevill's stronger, faster and overall superior older brother. Here are his stats after I've minmaxed them by raising his negative attributes.
I've pumped all points into Strength and got lucky, as I've succeeded in raising it every time. However, almost of of my attempts to decrease his negative attributes have failed.
As you can see, ERYFKRAD has all of Nevill's important skills and is actually better in the Language (German) skill. Surely his "handel abschließen" will be much stronger them that of his late brother!
Then the group loots the late rogue's corpse, but Nevill gets the last laugh, as he carried most of our money and there appears to be no way to take it back!
The Codex Party dumps Nevill's corpse in the Temple of Phex, welcome ERYFKRAD into the party and gave him that Masterly Two Hander as a welcome gift. ERYFKRAD starts telling everyone stories of how he used to pick on Nevill when they were kids. Everybody laughs and they all talk about how they've never liked Nevill that much, except Reinhardt, who is busy writing sad poetry in a dark corner. Nevill's spirit is furious and swears terrible vengeance!
The group exits the temple, now led by Nevill's brother ERYFKRAD and continues past the still-glitched woman. Luckily, today is Praios Day, so we can visit the market!
At the market, the group sells their loot at Weapon Booth and ERYFKRAD fails at "handel abschließen" two times, thus we don't get a better price. Well, it was much harder haggle when you sold or bought multiple items in Blade of Destiny, so maybe "handel abschließen" works the same way.
But it seems his "handel abschließen" isn't strong wnough even when we attempt to sell one axe. Where's Nevill when you need him?
Alright, let's try the minimal markup this time.
Well, seems ERYFKRAD just plain sucks at "handel abschließen". It might be because of his low Charisma and Cleverness. He has high Courage, but the game checks for the other two stats too and I guess he keeps failing the Charisma and Cleverness tests.
Or it might be because Nevill's spirit haunts us and uses his "handel abschließen" to weaken our own and perpetually keep us broke. Yeah, surely that's what happened. Curse you, Nevill!
The general goods booth sells a nice Alchemy Set for Morkar. But it's pretty expensive, so ERYFKRAD brushes up his German and tries to use the "handel abschließen".
Unfortunately, he was possessed by the spirit of Nevill and failed 3 times in a row.
NEVILL!
Fortunately, the next stand also sells an Alchemy set. This time, we don't "handel abschließen" to avoid Nevill's malevolent influence. We also buy some sleeping bags and a fancy robe for Morkar to boost his AE regeneration. This leaves us with just a few silver pieces. Well played, Nevill!
We also spend a night at the inn and this time, we actually get a normal room instead of being banished to outer space.
Maybe it's due to that patch they've released today.
We leave Gashok and continue south. MicoSelva now brings back a lot less surplus food then before we got to Gashok and now he brings back mostly 0 to 2, occasionaly he gets lucky and brings back 11 supply packs, so it does get harder depending on location
. Still, they still need to limit that hunting somewhat, since you can just try again and again without needing to rest.
During rest, we are ambushed by a group of orcs.
But Reinhardt looks at them with eyes of a man that braved the deepest, darkest pits of the RPG Codex and lived to tell about it. The orcs flee as obviously, they stand no chance against such madman! For this, we gain the Pacifist archievement.
But the shadow of Nevill looms over them and promises our brave heroes much sorrow...
(btw. this gives us the Expert archievement)
Jimmious, why? First, you get Reinhardt sick (no doubt due to Nevill's influence) and now you can't figure out what's wrong with him when it should be obvious?
Fortunately, MicoSelva is more competent then Jimmious and-
Wait, no know cure...
And we can't even treat him, as we don't have Donf stalks.
We send the sick Reinhardt to gather herbs a bunch of times, but he doesn't find any Donf stalks
. Nevill, what did poor Reinhardt ever do to you? Why do you keep picking on him?Fine, seems we need to get back to Gashok and get him to a healer before we lose him like Nevill.
As we turn back to Gashok, we get attacked by someone.
Turns out, it's a bunch of Aventurians. They are apparently a hivemind, since each "Avanturian" is instead called "Aventurians", indicating that this is just a human shell controlled by dozens of alien microorganisms. Well, we fear no aliens!
And if my DSA lore is correct, then the continent we are on is called Aventuria, so this is like if we were playing an RPG set in medieval France and we were attacked by some enemies named Europeans.
Reinhardt takes revenge at Nevill for his sabotage and enslaves his spirit with his emo brand of druidic necromancy. Furious Nevill tries to break free, but can't, now he must serve us for a while and serve as a meatshield
.Also, ERYFKRAD proves to be a worthy addition to the group, as he outmatches Boreale's fighting prowess despite being lower level
.We eventually win, but Reinhardt almost dies, seems Nevill's "handel abschließen" is stronger then we've thought and he can use it to hinder our progress even when he's our minion.
After the battle, Nevill's spirit disappears and promises Reinhardt that another terrible tragedy shall befall him for enslaving his spirit. Hmm, wonder what terrible fate he has in store for Reinhardt...
Ah, of course!
We get to the healer, but there's no health insurance in Aventuria and the healer wants money. He charges an outrageous sum due to the spirit of Nevill and we are almost broke due to all that crap we've purchased at the market.
What to do now, surely Reinhardt can't last much longer. Is this the end for our emo druid? Will he join Nevill in the afterlife? Do we need another brave Codexian to join our cause?
Fortunately, the group manages to foil Nevill's evil scheme. They return to the temple of Phex, drag the rotting corpse of Nevill back to the healer and pay with the money Nevill'd hoped to keep out of our hands (maybe it was to be used to pay for his funeral). Your move, Nevill
.We also leave Jimmious behind in the temple for a moment to think about what he's done.
We also get the Church Mouse archievement :D
We dump Nevill back in the temple and take Jimmious along, hopefully he's learned his lesson. On the way, we get another event.
We of course put the antelope out of its misery and also because it would be a shame to waste that meat. But turns out, it was a trap set by Nevill and we are ambushed by lions!
They are strange, white lions with black mane. I guess that's a DSA thing? They take up four squares.
Anyway...
The lion actually died, but the model glitched out again and thus he remained standing. Here he is up close.
I didn't actually realize that he was dead, so I've sent Jimmious to fight him and planned to do the same with Boreale.
Eventually we win and gain 14 packs of food!
But soon after, we are ambushed by another group of orcs. Atleast Reinhardt got his strength back. He had a -2 modifier to it and I've fear that it's permanent.
That's a lot of orcs! We could flee, but that would be cowardly. To battle!
Anyway, magic prevails. Reinhardt summons Nevill's ghost, Morkar summons a Heshthot and a skeleton, Micoselva brainwashes an orc with Be my Friend and for the next few rounds, Morkar and Reinhardt cast Horriphobus and Evil Eye on the orcs and some of them flee, but some keep fighting on, as the spell wasn't strong enough to make them flee. I've turned on autocombat after a few minutes, on 8x speed this time, so that I could intervene in case the computer decides to use Reinhardt as a tank. But the AI proves to be surprisingly effective. It debuffs the orcs with the spellcasters and the fighters finish them off afterwards.
I guess.But if you don't allow it to use magic, it keeps sending mages into melee.
We get some nice loot and money, so we are no longer poor as a church mouse.
Later on, the Hivemind sends some more "Aventurians"s againt us. This should be an easy battle, surely nothing noteworthy will happen-
Maybe it's not because Nevill hates Reinhardt, maybe he actually likes him and thus wants him to join him in the afterlife and troll our team from the grave? I mean, why else would he target Reinhardt of all people. He just summons ghosts, gathers herbs and writes crappy poetry. That's all he ever does.
Fortunatelly, there's no Artherion to talk to this time, so as soon as we finish this battle, we set camp to save Reinhardt from Nevill's clutches.
What the hell Jimmious, I thought you've learned your lesson. And now you just stand in the corner and yawn while Reinhardt is in grave danger?That's it, from now on, you are the new Nevill of the group!
Fortunatelly, once again MicoSelva saves the day, no thanks to Jimmious, who fell asleep from boredom. Nevill is furious that he won't get to reunite with his only friend, Reinhardt.
Aww, a cute little otter is trapped. We have enough food and MicoSelva is a hippy, so we free him!
We try to heal him, but unfortunately I haven't trained the Heal Animals spell on MicoSelva, so he fails.
Well, hopefully that's enough.
Also, ERYFKRAD leveled up
.We raise his Ancient Languages skill, as maybe that's the one that covers German, so his "handel abschließen" might get stronger from that!
Soon, we arrive at Hilltorp.
The weather is bad, so it's very windy.
We visit the local blacksmith to to repair Jimmious's axe and this time, we actually manage to "handel abschließen" a 5% discount! Who needs Nevill?
Unlike in Hillhouse, Kvirasim and Gashok, the boundaries here are properly established, so we can't wander off into places we aren't supposed to.
I guess.
This shows up a bunch of times, but it seems to be just fluff text.
Yay, another whooping 5% discount! Nevill must be busy or something.
We chat with the inkeeper to learn something about these mountains, then we continue on our way.
On the road, some jerk interupts our sleep.
Oh, it's Reinhardt's buddy!
Sounds believable. Ok, you can stay!
Sure, why not. Sounds delicious!
Of course, he is a druid, there are no evil druids, right?
(Reinhardt doesn't count)
That old man was nice, he even made us dinner. But why did he just cook the soup and then leave-
...figures. Alright, no strangers allowed to the camp anymore. Thankfully he didn't steal anything.
I'm not sure if this actually helps us travel through the mountains faster or what.
Great, we have stalkers.
Nevill!
Next, we are attacked by a group of goblins.
The goblins prove surprisingly dangerous and almost kill Reinhardt and MicoSelva, but luckily, they only fell unconcious, so they are in no danger of dying. Nevill must really want to bring Reinhardt onto his side, but for now, he failed.
Short break and they are as good as new!
Aww, a mountain goat! Want a Supply Pack full of food?
Fine, want an herb?
We were just trying to be nice! Ok, you've asked for it...
Defeated by a goat...Also, is that 1 supposed to be a name of some party member?
We are then attacked by harpies, that again almost kill Reinhardt.
And also MicoSelva...
We can't cast Evil Eye, Be my Friend or Horriphobus on them, because they aren't humanoid.
But with the help of demonology and necromancy, we prevail! We also gain the Patron archievement. We don't actually kill any harpies, as they all flee as soon as they get low on Life Energy.
This should be the right place!
Who could it be?
Just some Robbers. Shame Morkar is low on AE, now I can't oneshot him with Ignifaxius
.
We get some money from them, which is desperately needed!
Also a Crossbow for MicoSelva, that's better then the bow from Artherion.
Finally, we've arrived at Finsterkoppen! What adventures avait us there? Will we manage to find the Salamander Stone? Or will the spirit of Nevill stop up with his evil powers of "handel abschließen"? Find out next time!
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Part 10: Underground Rain
We are now in dwarven city of Finsterkoppen. Notice that it's raining, this will be important later.
Although this is a dwarven city, the furniture is human sized and you can barely see the innkeeper behind the bar.
Oh, I'm sure there we'll have no problems! You, on the other hand...
Jimmious gets into a drinking contest with some dwarven woman and it appears to end in a draw, but not for long...
Ok Jimmious, you've officially redeemed yourself. You're no longer the new Nevill!
The fierce rain is so strong that it seeps though the mountain and continues to fall underground. Seriously, those dwarves should fix their damn ceiling!
Those racist dwarves don't want MicoSelva in the inner city. They seem to have no problem with Reinhardt however, even though from what I've read, Druids and Witches also weren't allowed inside in the original. Guess they've changed it.
We turn MicoSelva into either an Eagle or a Wolf to trick the dwarves.
Now we don't have to split our party!
As you can see, the city is very vulnerable to the elements, despite being situated inside a mountain. Those damn dwarves can't build anything right!
We continue to explore the underground city in spite of the heavy rainfall and visit a nearby Temple of Ingerimm after a recommendation by one of the citizens that the local priest knows everything about the mines here.
It's guarded, eh? Well, we shall have to take it by force-
Well, that was easy!
It's still raining.
We camp on the street and heal ourselves a bit.
Here's the entrance to the Dwarven Pit, but first, we'll go to the tavern and eat a bit to ensure we don't die of thirst inside that dungeon.
Someone should probably turn the lights on.
Gah! Who is this? Where is she? I can't see anything!
Well, we eat in complete darkness. Hopefully the darkess will end once we leave the tavern.
Guess not.
Maybe we are just tired and need to rest for a bit.
Nope! We should get out of this hellhole before we die of thirst.
Our trusty map saves us once again!
Unfortunately, we have to go back to that cursed place.
Atleast it's not raining anymore.
That little brat actually dealt way more damage then that assassin in Gashok!
Pfft, like you can talk. You should plug those holes in your ceiling already!
Let's go inside!
We are now in dwarven city of Finsterkoppen. Notice that it's raining, this will be important later.
Although this is a dwarven city, the furniture is human sized and you can barely see the innkeeper behind the bar.
Oh, I'm sure there we'll have no problems! You, on the other hand...
Jimmious gets into a drinking contest with some dwarven woman and it appears to end in a draw, but not for long...
Ok Jimmious, you've officially redeemed yourself. You're no longer the new Nevill!
The fierce rain is so strong that it seeps though the mountain and continues to fall underground. Seriously, those dwarves should fix their damn ceiling!
Those racist dwarves don't want MicoSelva in the inner city. They seem to have no problem with Reinhardt however, even though from what I've read, Druids and Witches also weren't allowed inside in the original. Guess they've changed it.
We turn MicoSelva into either an Eagle or a Wolf to trick the dwarves.
Now we don't have to split our party!
As you can see, the city is very vulnerable to the elements, despite being situated inside a mountain. Those damn dwarves can't build anything right!
We continue to explore the underground city in spite of the heavy rainfall and visit a nearby Temple of Ingerimm after a recommendation by one of the citizens that the local priest knows everything about the mines here.
It's guarded, eh? Well, we shall have to take it by force-
Well, that was easy!
It's still raining.
We camp on the street and heal ourselves a bit.
Here's the entrance to the Dwarven Pit, but first, we'll go to the tavern and eat a bit to ensure we don't die of thirst inside that dungeon.
Someone should probably turn the lights on.
Gah! Who is this? Where is she? I can't see anything!
Well, we eat in complete darkness. Hopefully the darkess will end once we leave the tavern.
Guess not.
Maybe we are just tired and need to rest for a bit.
Nope! We should get out of this hellhole before we die of thirst.
Our trusty map saves us once again!
Unfortunately, we have to go back to that cursed place.
Atleast it's not raining anymore.
That little brat actually dealt way more damage then that assassin in Gashok!
Pfft, like you can talk. You should plug those holes in your ceiling already!
Let's go inside!
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