In Progress Lets Play: Shannara

[Darth Roxor]

He half-breed

 

[Double Ogre]

Dayum! The graphics are unbelievably good!

Does it run under XP?

 

[Andhaira]

@Darth Roxor: Jak Ohmsford, the main character is descended from elves thus he is thought of as a half breed by some.

@OgreOgre: Yes, and it also runs under Vista! You just need dosbox for both.

 

[SCO]

Dayum! The graphics are unbelievably good!

Does it run under XP?

You're going to regret it.

Hey can you stop the play-through in that place?

 

[ghostdog]

Never played this one. Visually it's awesome.. Keep it up , but use a spell check of some kind. Word has one, firefox has one.

 

[Andhaira]

Now we need to find a way to remove the wall of flames barrier from around the vault where the sword i kept. Since the barrier AND the undead appeared at the same time, we can guess that the events are related. Someone, or something does NOT want us to find the sword.

We start our search in the royal library. In a secret compartment only we could find, there is an ancient, magical tome of an old sorceror who once lived here. He betrayed the king at that time, and within his tome are his spells. He also communicated with someone using a magic mirror in the castle so we decide to check that out.

Well well, its Brona himself! Apparently he is behind the magic causing the barrier.

Will you now?Let us see about that!The evil sorceror whose book we found has instructions on a spell to summon his shade, should there be need. Yes, he was a very helpful evil spirit. We decide to summon him to see if he might be able to help us destroy the barrier.

We find all the requisite items, or regents by solving certain riddles.

Voila! He is summoned! He instructs us to make a potion that will destroy the barrier, giving us more riddles on how to make it. We shall have to solve those riddles to make the potion. In return, we will forever banish his spirit so that he may find rest. Finally we make the antidote and destroy the barrier by spilling the potion onto it. The Sword of Shannara is then recovered and placed in Jak's inventory!

We must travel to see the elves now, for they hold another item that we sorely need; the Elfstones!

The dwarf we met earlier now joins in our noble quest. He seeks a legendary hammer andwants to bring it back to his people. He feels that with great puzzle solvers such as us with him, he will be able to find it.

The domain of the elves! Lets talk to that babe in the tree.

She is a guardian and tells us whats going on. Apparently the king is very busy. There is trouble brewing as a bunch of elves have gotten into a tussle with Trolls. The elvish and trollish kingdoms seem to be on the verge to war. How...appropriate for Brona. (in Shannara, Trolls are actually good aligned)

The great elven gardens.

A strange rock. It will come in very handy later as we use it to solve the puzzle to find the elfstones.

This scholarly elf tells us some more about the elfstones. He also tells us none have been found in elvish hands since many, many years!


What will the heroes do now? To be continued...

 

[someone else]

Sword of Shannanara, Elfstones. What else? A singer of the song? Talisman?

Is there an Elven Queen?

 

[RK47]

HAHAHH I can't believe that garden of life vine sign. That's just so corny.

 

[Andhaira]

Mighty Mouse, the elves currently have a king whom we shall meet very soon.

 

[ElectricOtter]

MOAR


NAO

 

[Andhaira]

coming soon

 

[Andhaira]

We now move to have a meet with the Elven King.

We inform him of the situation, but he regales us of issues with the trolls and how there is an elven war party headed there with the king himself.


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[ElectricOtter]

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[Brother None]

That was the worst LP update ever.

 

[pipka]

That was the worst LP update ever.

 

[Andhaira]

Blame photobucket not me. However, a better update is coming soon.

 

[Andhaira]

We begin our search for the elfstones of the elves, which are rumored to be hidden in the elven city. We being our search upon the roof tops!

We also search the library and have a talk with the elven scholar shown here.

Progress! Every location has a mysterious sigil we must 'capture' somehow. On the rooftop we use a tile to do this, using heat to enscribe the sigil onto a tile.

Having collected all the symbols we put them into the alcove in the gardes of life. This activtes a mechanis theat makes the alcove open to reveal the buried elfstones of shannara!!! The elven scholar is so delighted he joins our quest, a good thing as he is the only one who can use the damn things.

Collecting the elfstones we now need an item from the trolls. So now we head on over to where the trolls and elves are having a confrontation which is about to spill over into battle.!

The troll king and his court. Here we solve a series of riddles and reconcile the differences between the elves and the trolls and tell them of the deception of the warlock Brona. Finally they agree to cease hostilities if we continue our quest to rid Brona.

One of our characters is poisoned by an evil creature. Only the goblin healers of a mystical lake have the ability to cure him. But whats this? The magical waters of the lake have been poisoned too!

This foul creature is responsible for this. We have no choice but to fight it!

Kill it we do after a pulse pounding battle! Now that our companion is healed, we need to make our way to get the last remaining item, the magical hammer of the dwarves!

Here, the magical hammer is stolen just as we arrive! jaks companions are jailed on suspicion, nad its left for him to solve the mystery of who stole the hammer.

Solve the mystery we do. Apparently one of the dwarves in the city was in league with Brona. We 'out' him and the magical hammer is given to us and our companions freed!

We tarried too l ong. A massive army of greenskins is on the opposite side of the river, ready to attack! We need to help the denizens of the city. Our elven scholar has a plan; cant a powerful spell and cast the waters of the river to rise up and destroy the bridge! That will prevent the army from crossing and attacking for a while.

We did it! The bridge is destroyed!

Now time to move along to the hadeshorn lake where Allanon will reforge the sword of shannara and then we can destroy brona.

Allanon! But he is acting strangely...maybe if we move over?

What are you doing Allanon? No wait its not Allanon! Its the evil gardner from earlier who turns out to be a shapeshifter!! He has taken the guise of the druid Allanon to deceive us. He gets ready to fire a blast of sorcery at us...

And hits Shella!

if Shella is allowed to die by the witchfire of the shaeshifter she will become a shade under control of Brona. So we have to KILL HER ourselves and then use the ritual of release on her!!!

NOOOOOOOOOO!!

(To be continued)

 

[someone else]

Nooooooo! Sheila!

 

[Andhaira]

This was a very surprising and adult twist in the game. Shell is not only dead, she is forced to be KILLED by JAK (aka us) otherwise she will be a haunted spirit doomed to wander the world.

TO make it worse you can actually heal her by using a special one use item that you later need to defeat Brona; if you use it on her she is alive and well, and you both get married. But then Brona eventually conquers the world and kills you both anyway.

 

[JarlFrank]

This was a very surprising and adult twist in the game. Shell is not only dead, she is forced to be KILLED by JAK (aka us) otherwise she will be a haunted spirit doomed to wander the world.

TO make it worse you can actually heal her by using a special one use item that you later need to defeat Brona; if you use it on her she is alive and well, and you both get married. But then Brona eventually conquers the world and kills you both anyway.

Wow, talk about Choice and Consequence. That's some pretty awesome C&C right there.

 

[CarnivalBizarre]

When I played this game as a kid this tore me up inside, Digital Fake love is a cruel thing, haha. I wanted to stop playing after this but could not...

 

[Tramboi]

Agreed, her death was about the only thing I remembered of this game

 

[ghostdog]

Hey that was an interesting twist. Damn it, you shouldn't have told us the exact consequences. This should be a codex choice.

 

[Andhaira]

First, here is the alternate ending if you save Shella but doom the world.

Ok after we finsihed Shella off with a dagger through the heart and used the ritual of release on her, we were taken prisoner by goblins. Jak was imprisoned separately from the others.

The goblin camp. The trapdoor is where Jak's equipment and companions are imprisoned.

The head goblin shaman whom we tie up. Doing this we inadvertantly help his subordinate apprentice...

Who proceeds to help us if we give him an item we found in the goblin shamans tent. Its a powerful magic item and using it this goblin can become head of his tribe. He agree's to help us if we give him the item later.

With the goblin's help we locate our companions as well as a secret way out of the goblin campsite. Then its off to the Hadeshorn, location of the druid spirit called Bremen (Allanon's father) who will remake the shards of the sword of shannara into a new sword.

The hadeshorn where the spirit of bremen is located. A grim place.

Allanon (the real one) meets us here and we summon Bremen.

The sword is remade! Now off to Brona's fortress to slay him once and for all.


To be continued (only one more installment of this LP left)

 

[Wyrmlord]

Waiting for one more instalment...