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Sergiu64

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Let's see if we can find that Cup!

We head out to the West as planned.

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And while taking a small detour - notice another dwelling behind a hill.

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Sigh... it is defended.

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These guys are strangely bunched up - probably due to the hill. Guess game tries to adjust battlefield based on the angle of approach. Advanced stuff!

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Owyn gets scratched.

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And Gorath goes to work hard.

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Seems like these guys have around 120 hp. So a flaming hit from Gorath and a smack from Owyn are enough.

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We're not in danger because they hit so weakly - but there are a lot of them, so scratches add up and there isn't much food on this planet.

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At least Gorath is being a tank as always.

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And Owyn is successfully mopping up.

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Another scratch.

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I wonder what this fight would look like in real time.

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Gorath and Owyn are quite the team.

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Almost there...

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I switch up the pattern that worked so well out of laziness.

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Gorath finishes off one.

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And lets Owyn rest while he finishes the other.

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This is pretty rare - one of them actually had viable rations on the body this time.

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So - we go to explore the dwelling. What is this staff?

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Sounds like Magic is back on the menu!

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So it says "Repariable" as if it was a sword. But a whetstone won't work on it...

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Well... it's no Guarda Revanche...

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But does hit harder than Owyn's old staff.

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And this is how you "repair" it. You drop the Crystalline Manna we've been finding everywhere on it.

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Just south of there - we find a road. Seems like the shield around the dwelling with Pug doesn't stop us from going south - so feels like we should go back East and continue down the coast.

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While doing that - we stumble into more Pantathians.

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Owyn definitely hits harder now.

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But, that doesn't stop him from being scratched.

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Gorath hits a bit less hard when I don't put his sword on fire.

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Owyn continues to work out with his new weapon.

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Sigh...

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Think Gorath missed here, but Owyn got another hit in.

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And then there were two.

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Awww - the new staff is a bit less accurate than the previous one.

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Owyn's guy ran - so Gorath finished it.

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And then started working on last guy while Owyn rested up.

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It took a few tries.

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And eventually the fight was over.

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We go back North when we reach the coastal road - to make sure we didn't miss anything. But eventually run into that shield again.

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So we go towards the south, gathering some Manna on our way.

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I wonder where that damned Cup is - I feel like I missed some clue somewhere as to where I should look.

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Oh! Perhaps its in that dwelling!

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Hmmm - guess not.

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Oh - so this is like an Ambush house - hence the Scouting increase.

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So we try again...

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Seems like we interrupted some sort of Snakemen family.

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And we can't seem to get a hit in on them.

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And they start getting scratches in.

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Oh come on...

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Finally someone gets a smack in.

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We are still getting scratched, but there are only 2 of them...

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Surprisingly Owyn's solid hit is not enough to finish this one.

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Gorath puts a gaping hole in the second one.

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There goes one...

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The other starts running. I rest up rather than waste turns chasing it.

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So... we check the house.

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Sigh... not much here. At least the rations were in a good state.

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We'll continue looking for the Cup next time!
 
abnaxus

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Great chapter, this. The Valheru literally raped and killed across the galaxy, riding on the back of dragons.
 
Sergiu64

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Yes, we could. But then we couldn't cast anything else.

Anyway - lets keep on searching!

We look at the map and there's a bridge to the West. Seems like a good target in our attempt to find the cup.

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Apparently all road lead to Rome here...

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But there are some goods in the way.

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Owyn's new stuff hits way harder than expected.

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And we can go to our old strategy of Griefing enemies and resting up!

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Gorath finally gets in range of one.

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Another one flees. So Owyn rests up and then Gorath finishes the grieving snakeman.

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The road seem to lead to another dwelling.

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Sigh... where is that damned cup, feels like the game either stopped holding our hand or we missed some hint somewhere.

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Huh, looks like there's a nearby road with more dwellings.

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Seems like another ambush in that one.

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Owyn's scouting is miles behind Gorath's but at least he's learning something.

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We try our usual strategy, but... the spell simply fails to work.

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Gorath's sword isn't on fire this time.

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Owyn tries to figure out why the spell didn't work, but this doesn't really show that information.

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Gorath can't get a second hit.

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We try the spell again, same problem...

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I guess that leaves Gorath to take care of the baddies while Owyn tries to recover from fruitless casts.

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Gorath finally finishes the first snakeman.

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And starts work on the second.

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I really should have put naptha on his blade.

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And then there was one.

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It spent all its time shooting pebbles, but now when Gorath was closing it - it charges Owyn.

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And manages to hold off Gorath for a second.

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But it's not going to last long.

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And it does not.

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Still not quite to Locky's level, but slowly getting there.

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Sigh, these ambush houses don't seem to be worth it. Hope Cup isn't in one of them, because I'm going to stop trying them.

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It's like a whole little snakeman village.

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And sure enough, as we approach it - we run into some.

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Just two.

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Or one really.

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Owyn continues to hit hard, feels like these snakemen take 2x the damage that the ones across the bridge did.

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Which makes melting them easier.

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Ok, time to check out these tent-houses.

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They all seem to be either empty.

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Or an ambush.

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Except for one with poor loot.

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We continue down the road to the south of the villages and run into more snakemen.

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Sigh, big group this time. Owyn starts the work.

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And gets a bug bite.

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Gorath joins the fray.

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Snakeman makes a casting motion but nothing happens. Feels like there's some bug in play.

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Anyway - we jump on the caster in case his next spell goes off.

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And he doesn't last long.

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Owyn needs to improve his martial arts.

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Gorath keeps hitting hard.

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Owyn finishes a snakeman.

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And Gorath finally takes one of the bugs down.

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The guy in the back is doing absolutely nothing. It's like bunch of civilian snakemen taking their beetle pets on a walk up in here.

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And the beetles are doing all the fighting.

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Oh well, lets get this damned fight done.

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That's the end of the bugs.

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We rest up and then start chasing the last guy.

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The new staff hits hard - but its a little less accurate.

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Gorath finally ends the fight.

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And Owyn does get better at martial arts.

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Search for the cup continues next time!
 
Sergiu64

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Can we find the Cup this time?

We look SE from our last battle and see another tent.

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Hmmm, this seems like a new type of a battle start text.

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Either way, gotta kill em - Owyn starts his work.

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And Gorath takes down one Snakeman.

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I like the Crystal staves on Owyn. He hits quite hard with them.

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Gorath ends a second enemy.

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Beetles still pinch hard.

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Gorath does what he does.

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And continues doing so with Owyn rests.

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That's the battle. Enemies are still milling about like they're not sure how to attack.

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So lets see if that tent finally has what we're looking for.

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Oh! Maybe it does!

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YES!!! Big relief here, felt like searching for a needle in a haystack.

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So we run all the way back to the north side of the island to the pillars and find the right one.

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Access to what Hall?

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Hmmm, Macros was Pug's teacher at some point. Some sort of extra mysterious extra-planar sorcerer.

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Ok, so we'll get Pug back, but he won't be the archmage we're used to, sigh...

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So we go back to his tent.

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Here we go!

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I guess it would make sense that we would be part of Thomas' party...

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Of course for some reason he was only able to send the two of us.

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I guess Pug is not all-knowing...

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It would have helped if he had given us some sort of token to make it obvious we came in his stead.

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R-E-U-N-I-T-E-D and it feeellls soooo gooood!

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Our friend is pretty unforgettable.

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Whoa... Please explain...

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So Delekhan is also being used my Makala, we suspected - but its good to know for sure.

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Hm... not sure how magical trinkets are related.

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Yeah, that would also make sense...

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Yeah, Pug is fairly wordy - but I suppose we have all the time in the world on this planet. Except for Pug's missing daughter I guess.

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Hmmmm, couldn't he have just gotten something similar looking forged?

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Oh cool, we're getting the list of 4 mages that could rival Pug.

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Hmmmm, I wanna know more about Nakor now.

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The money shot of a question.

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How do you... leave a dragon to guard something?

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I wonder if the dragon in question is the Oracle. Sounds like it fits.

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Yeah Owyn - it would be nice for Pug to go back so that you can actually complete your several chapter long quest but...

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Yeah, the cup...

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OK - so I guess they'll use the Cup to let Pug get some magic back.

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Interesting...

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OK - I guess Owyn had enough spellcaster knowledge to make the transfer take 2 days. Impressive.

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Pug's stats are... not.

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This is the background info we get by right clicking on his portrait.

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His low Stealth skill means Owyn gives him his mocassins.

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Which makes his stealth passable.

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He also doesn't have armor. Sigh... Gorath gives him his.

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I guess this was his staff before he ended up on this world without magic.

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It's pretty good. Think it's charges trigger Flamecast.

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We try his note.

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Oh wow, after exploring 60%+ of the island we finally get to see the map.

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I guess we'll try the bundle of roads near the river to see if that road into the mountain at the river-mouth leads anywhere. If not - we'll explore south side of the island.
 
Arrowgrab

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Two pieces of advice:

- Go check out
the southwest part of the island
before going into the cave. You'll be glad you did, and IIRC you kind of NEED to before progressing, anyway.
- I might be misremembering, but I seem to recall that using the cup a second time (maybe after a certain trigger, but before the end of the chapter) gives both magicians a new spell that Pug just remembered. Not quite sure about this one, though.
 
Sergiu64

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Well, it seems the game had similar advice - as we're all about to see in the next bit of the play-through:

Before we get into all that - we check which Spells Pug has - and it seems like the cup gave him everything Owyn knows:

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Well - we try to head back south but Gorath pipes in quite quickly:

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Right - we have to help Pug find his daughter - but where?

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Well, the island isn't THAT big - but after a random search for a Cup - I don't exactly want to repeat the experience.

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Oh? Back to the pillars then?

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Guess so...

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We get back to the pillars and are rewarded with a new conversation with the Lord of the Gates.

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Hmmm, sounds like we'll have to deal with quite a few more Snakemen.

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Well, as usual - the gods are of limited help at best.

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Hmmm... Hordes of Valheru? That sounds like an unpleasant group to encounter.

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Maybe he meant Hoards?

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So some sort of Valheru weapons to help us fight Makala?

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Hmmm, sounds like the area containing such hoards might have previously been protected previously.

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Tis true - other than Pug's own tent that is.

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Right - that narrows it a bit.

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And that narrows it further...

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Pug seems to be of the same mind as Arrowgrab!

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So - looking at the map - there's not much to the SouthWest - just a road pinned between mountains and the sea. I guess we'll head that way.

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At some point we run headfirst into some enemies.

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Owyn tries Grief again - and it fails yet again.

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Pug's accuracy is so good that he decides to switch to Fetters of Rime.

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It works - guess we'll switch strategy to that spell.

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Gorath finds out that pebbles the snakemen shoot at him hurt a bit more when he's unarmored (since Pug got his armor).

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Gorath also finds out he forgot to Steelfire his sword.

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It's so strange to see Owyn hit so hard.

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Pug fails to hit with his first try.

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And gets scratched instead.

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Gorath finishes the first enemy.

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While Pug continues to absorb hits.

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Go Owyn! Show Pug how to use that Staff!

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Apparently Owyn's lessons are not enough.

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These beetles hit harder than the snakemen.

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And seem to take about 2x the damage.

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Jeez - can Pug dodge anything?

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Owyn starts learning from Pug instead of the other way around.

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Sigh... Pug is about as useful in melee as Patrus was.

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At least Gorath is still erasing things.

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Owyn misses again...

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And well - no surprise there - so does Pug.

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I don't know what Gorath does to that beetle - but it finishes it.

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Pug and Owyn rest up until snakeman unfreezes and gives Gorath a gash.

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Gorath returns the favor.

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And ends the fight.

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One of the snakemen had a lot of good rations.

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We find a tent with another Crystal Staff. Guess Owyn could have had one much earlier if we tried going South from our starting point.

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We continue down our path and run into more enemies.

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Fortunately its just 2 beetles and I remembered to Steelfire Gorath's sword that time.

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OUCH! Beetles hit unarmored foes pretty darn hard.

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Gorath takes revenge.

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Well - we're approaching the South West - not sure what we should be looking for.

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We find a tent with some snakemen trying to ambush us.

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Strange how Owyn's been with us from the start of the game and still has poor scouting.

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We get into the Southwest quadrant and see some loose dirt. Usually they have a few manna crystals.

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Whoa... not this time!

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Oh, that sounds cool. Very welcome too - since we were down a suit of armor.

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Wow... Dragon Plate is only 55% I believe.

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And this spell steals strength. Something tells me we'll need it.

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We'll continue our journey next time!
 
Sergiu64

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We've got the Valheru armor, now to rescue Gamina!

But before we go - we look around the area to see if there are any more Valheru caches and find this hole.

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A second suit of that great armor! And another scroll of Drain Strength - so now both of our casters have it.

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We can't find any more caches so we head East along the coast and run into some Serpent men.

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Owyn starts the fight by freezing 2nd guy from the left.

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And Gorath takes another one out.

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Followed by the last moving guy.

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Then Owyn rests up and Gorath finishes the job.

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Gorath keeps hulking up.

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We reach the place where we can start going north. We'll try for that leftmost bridge.

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There are bunch of tent houses around, but they seem empty.

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We do see some free serpent men - so we attack.

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And surprise them!

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I remember to check out the new spell. It's mostly useless - as why would a caster want more strength when they can just freeze everyone? But seems like game wants this spell to be important in this chapter.

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Anyway - Owyn turns a Serpent Man into a popsicle.

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And Gorath puts a hole in another one.

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Whoa - first use of a spell by the Serpent Men?

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Pug freezes the caster just in case he's got more useful spells.

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While Gorath runs over Hocho's Heaven's shield and rest of Serpent Man's hp.

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Then downs another.

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And lets everyone rest up before finishing the job.

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It made him take a step towards catching up to Locky's melee accuracy.

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Sigh... more of these guys ahead.

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We did not surprise this time, but there are only 2! Pug freezes one.

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While Gorath runs over another.

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Then lets Pug rest and finishes the fight.

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We find an occupied house which raises Owyn and Pug's scouting. Turns out Pug's scouting is actually higher than Owyn's - by a single percentage point.

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We cross the bridge and follow the road to some sort of cave entrance.

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I wonder who he expected to answer to his greetings? Gamina?

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We end up in some sort of a mine?

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We go ahead and way splits in opposite directions. There are Serpent Men to the left.

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And Serpent Men to the right.

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We choose the right.

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Owyn tries to freeze one - but his bolt misses!

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Pug's does not. So we've got 3 active serpent men.

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Make that 2.

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And 1...

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Seems like these guys can only cast that ineffective shielding spell.

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It seems out of place in a chapter this late. Gorath just hits too hard for those shields.

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Anyway - same drill, rest up - finish fight.

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This mine turns out to be really terrible game design. It's got these visible dead end shafts appear over and over....

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Yes - all of those were such shafts. Sigh...

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But! We finally find something different! A door!

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As soon as we walk through it - we seem to stumble into Gamina and some sort of a fight!

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Whoa... What are those... Let's try that special spell on them - didn't one of the pillar gods mention some sort of creatures that could only be hurt by something special?

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The spell shoots out these colored lights - that hit the enemy and then return. No damage appeared over the demon - but it collapsed after 1 cast.

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Unfortunately - the second demon is blocked by Serpent Men - so Pug freezes one instead.

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While Gorath downs another.

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The demon shoots some sort of tornado towards Gorath!

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And it HURTS!

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But at least line of sight is no longer a problem.

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This demon survives a cast from Owyn - but NOT a cast from Pug.

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Gorath takes down last active enemy.

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And ends the fight after Pug and Owyn rest.

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Yay! We found her!

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Yeah - go show off your muscles!

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Eh... this seems unsafe!

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Jeez - guess he's got a lot of faith in his ability to stop the sword just past the shell.

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Either way - the crystal shatters.

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While Gamina dances under the hail of shattered glass.

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Seems like she's unhurt. Gorath should have probably given her a chance to duck and cover herself with her cloak or something.

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As a father... yeah I can't imagine rescuing your child like this.

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Unfortunately for Owyn - I believe Gamina ends up marrying James (somehow they don't ever meet until a later book - i.e. they don't know each other yet).

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And with that - this chapter is over. See you in the next one!

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Well - here we go with the last chapter!

Which appears to be named in a dramatic fashion.

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Sounds like we're back with Locky and James for this one.

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Some on-field therapy is interrupted with some new magic attack!

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Or... is it our friends coming back from their journey from another world? I wonder how many exotic new pathogens they just brought to Midkemia?

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Amongst other things...

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Given James's exciting life - he likely HAS been more relieved to see a friendly face in the past...

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I gotta say - the whole conspiracy to deceive Pug in the first half of the game is fairly masterful - Makala is a worthy villain.

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Is it just me - or is Pug a big fan of his chest hair? Just lets it all hang out there as he considers world changing possibilities...

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These Moredhel sure sound like they're easy to deceive...

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It's like they're trying to start a war to rescue their version of Napoleon, seems like a stretch. But I suppose with unexpected portal magic - some sort of a rescue heist could be plausible.

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Right - what business does the Tsurani Great One with all this mess?

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OK - so seems like we're with Pug and crew instead.

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I guess he's got some control of his previous magic now - just teleporting people around at will.

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Would be nice if we could take everyone..

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So - Arutha's dash to Sethanon should end up being something of a Mop Up.

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And we'll take the brunt of enemy's magic defenses.

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What... is a Lifestone?

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As soon as we pass a few steps - we find out.

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Lifestone's purpose is "of great destruction"? Great...

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How many Murmandamus' were there?

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Freaking Snakemen. So why hasn't this Lifestone been moved to the middle of the deepest ocean or something?

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I dunno if I would trust that Makala would not be able to figure it out indefinetetly.

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What? What in the world is this thing? It can destroy the world and has souls of those demigod creatures in it?

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Great... a psycho Great One...

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Well, he seems to have gotten quite a head start...

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Or why take these guys along anyway? Aren't there more powerful magicians Pug could have picked up from Stardock?

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Hmmmm, hard to believe - but the Oracle Dragon suggested something similar. One does wonder why Macros decided this would be the way things have to roll.

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Well... all we can do is go forward and see how things shake out.

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We enter a room straight ahead and see a dog.

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Yeah... this is what I want my Realm's chief Archmage do - charge forward into enemies.

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We're off the limited mana world and back to fighting normal enemies - so we go back to Grief.

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And immediately take the goblins out of equation.

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While Gorath starts working on the dogs.

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Seems like they can't do much to Valheru Armor.

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And fall just as easily as before to Gorath's super sword.

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And we're down to two grieving goblins.

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Gorath takes care of one...

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And then the other.

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I wonder if there's any point to continue looting...

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Apparently - yes!

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A unique key. I wonder why we get to learn it's name despite it coming from a somewhat prehistoric time.

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The large room we're in has 3 exits - two to the West - and one directly to the North.

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We try the Southmost West exit - it takes that special key.

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And turns out to lead to two dead ends.

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We try the other West exit. One branch is a dead end but the other...

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Leads to more enemies - ones that we will face next time.

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