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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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Lets continue exploring the mines below Sethanon.

Our attempt to sneak up on the opponents from last session fail.

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Opponents miss - and Owyn does not. Not bad for a mage.

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They can only scratch Gorath's valheru armor.

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Unfortunately the truck that is Gorath misses his first attempt.

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Owyn continues to do well.

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And they still can't really hurt Gorath.

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Ok, first enemy is down.

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Pug's defense skill is so low - he still gets hit fairly hard even in Valheru armor.

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Owyn beats a dude to death.

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The scratches continue.

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Gorath takes down another foe.

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Which gives Owyn a chance to grief one of the enemies.

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And that grieving moredhel is now the last enemy alive.

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His life continues until we're rested up - and not a round longer.

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This equipment use to give us trouble - no longer.

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I wonder if these were the weapons hitting Gorath for 1-2 damage.

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Or maybe this?

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Nothing interesting on these foes.

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Just generic decent to great equipment that cannot stand up to our amazing one.

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This is the state of the map at this point - we continue ahead.

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And after a fork in the road - reach some giants guarding a box.

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The giants prove perceptive.

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But slow and vulnerable to Grief.

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The non-grieving giant takes a lot of damage and keeps standing.

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Owyn figures he might finish the creature - but his attack fails.

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Gorath's second hit does the job.

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Pug checks what exactly we're dealing with. A lot of health - but what else?

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He even smacks it after Owyn rests up.

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Gorath ends the fight though.

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Nothing much here.

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Or here.

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The chest turns out to be locked - with an easy lock.

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The rope will be useful - we were down to 7 charges.

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We go to check out the other fork in the road.

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And find a door.

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With a hard lock!

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Turns out the Virtue Key works on it though.

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The room behind holds a moredhel lock. The options are:

OHDE
PLER
SRPD
CIST

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Answer and loot:
Sometimes it fairly obvious what the answer is - but finding the exact word for the subtype of objects that match the hint isn't immediate.

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As you might recall - the necklace has charges of that fireflies spell that does 60-90 damage.

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On the other side of the room - a doorway.

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Would have been nice to know the exact sequence so that we would head straight here...

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But we found the way down now...

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OK, lets see what's next.

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This level looks different.

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And starting room has two moredhel chests. Options for this one:

CLIW
PHAT
SEOP
TRSY

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And:

BATI
TELS
CREL
OUST

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Answers and loot:

Glad it was another doable one.

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Antidotes only thing useful here.

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Don't pitchforks generally have 3 prongs?

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We don't even need restoratives these days, but whatever.

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We continue forward - and see some kind of shadow ahead. We'll challenge it next time!

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Onward!

We sneak up on the shadow ahead. Apparently it's strange.

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Ah, one of these. It dies in a single cast of Strength Drain.

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We keep trying leftmost forks and run into a sign... It's kinda strange that the Tsurani Great Ones decided to put up a post in the middle of this ruin making their presence obvious.

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Anyway - after taking left turn just past the sign - we run into some drakes.

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And sneak up on them.

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Owyn griefs one.

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Pug the other.

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And Gorath beheads one.

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Making the fight trivial.

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Good stealth really helps.

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We move forward and see some enemies ahead.

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Ah - guess we found one of The Six.

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Owyn tries to grief the Great One - but apparently it ineffectual.

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Pug would try frost bolt- but damned Demon is in the way - so a cast of strength drain it is.

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Gorath gets nailed in the back by the demon.

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Owyn tries Strength Drain on demon this time. It stays up!

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Pug tries a Frost Bolt on the Great One.

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It works! But the demon is still loose!

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In fact it survives a 3rd Strength Drain. I wonder if it heals itself when it lands it own spells or something.

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Fourth one finally works!

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We had a lot of resting to do - which allowed Great One to unfreeze. Pug reapplied the condition.

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Finally - Gorath goes in.

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And takes two strikes to finish the fight. Great Ones are no joke.

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It's equipped with a Greatsword. Go figure.

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Room past him contains two chests.

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We try the first trap.

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And find a lot of hands...

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Next trap... does not go so well.

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In fact its instant game over!

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We check our stats after reloading - not only did it beat Gorath's 89% Lockpicking - it also beat his 122 health/sta!

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We skip it and find some drakes in next room.

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They appear to be guarding a chest. Owyn griefs one.

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And Pug the other. Game is so much easier with two spellcasters.

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After resting - Gorath goes to work.

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And finishes the work promptly.

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Fight improves Pug's stealth!

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And Gorath's accuracy with a blade.

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The chest turns out to be a puzzle one. Options are:

JARMLAY
PLSITTE
BRASWSS
CEOTIET

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Answer and loot:

At first I though it was plunder or something - but only first two letters worked.

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Hmmm, nothing particularly useful as we're good on anti-venom. I guess Gorath was low on lockpicks at least.

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Update one the map - seems like we're in a series of middle sized rooms now.

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Next room has something in it too.

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Another strange thing.

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Whoa... what is THAT?

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A Servitor of God of Death? Looks like it hits hard.

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Suspecting that such a creature cannot feel grief - Pug tries a frost bolt.

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It works!

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Making the fight a non-issue.

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It's giant health pool is gone in two strikes.

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It has nothing - but there's yet another box.

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It's unlocked - and only has this.

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We'll be looking for the rest of The Six - and more importantly - the Lifestone in the next session.
 
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About the trapped chest that killed you:

I actually posted a warning about this some three chapters ago. If you get somebody's lockpicking up to 100% (needs at least one Amulet of the Upright Man, which you could last buy in the chapter when you went to Elvendar), you can disable the lock, and it contains
a copy of the Staff of Macros, so both Pug and Owyn can have one.
But a bit too late for that now, anyway.
 
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Interesting! My memory of the game does seem lapsed in some points - for some reason I thought a second Staff of Macros was available somewhere way before the last few chapters. I also seem to have missed Flamestorm scroll somewhere. Oh well.

Anyway - next session is here:

There's an exit on the east side of this room that we take.

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And first left fork there leads us to a chest and a dead end.

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This chest's trap was not as deadly.

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Oooohh, what scrolls are these?

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Well, we already have this painful fireflies spell.

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And... what does this do???

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after learning the spell - we go exploring the other fork in the road.

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And come to a room with lots of somethings.

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We surprise them.

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And find out that last chapter gives us this useless spell... What in the world...

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Quite a few somethings. Owyn makes one grieve.

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And Pug does the same to another.

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Uh... Gorath gets blinded. Apparently these guys can cast?

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An incoming fireball confirms that fact.

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Fortunately it only seemed half charged.

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Owyn gets a chance to make another caster grieve. Two casts and a fireball to the face get him pretty low.

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Pug locks down another one.

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While the last guy unleashes Unfortunate Flux on Gorath.

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Ouch!

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Pug disables the last enemy. Man... 5 casters are hard to fight!

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Gorath finally comes too and starts putting them down.

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One...

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By...

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One.

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After resting up - Owyn checks one out. I wonder what those Ogres do in the Highlands to all learn magic?

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After everyone is topped off - Gorath ends the battle.

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These lockpicks are useful. Gorath was never the main lockpicker - so I never got him enough of them.

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These torches will save some heath as we've been forced to rely on Candle's Glow spell.

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No need for anymore antidotes. An earlier chapter had poisoned blades every fight - but doesn't seem to be the case here.

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No way to spend the gold, but at least it doesn't take up space.

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Rubes do however. So get left behind.

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Next room has some beetles.

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And a Tsurani Great One!

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We sneak up on him and Frost bolt puts him out of action.

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Hmmm, game calls them Spellweavers - aren't those the elven casters?

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He appears to be tougher than Highland Ogres.

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But - that just means taking an extra hit.

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There was a body in this room as well - it's emerald is not particularly useful though.

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These spellweavers sure like Greatswords.

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Next room has some sort of creatures.

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Which are surprised to see us.

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Wyverns - vulnerable to grief.

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Which means two of them are out of commission before they can act.

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But last one gives Gorath a breath.

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Which kinda hurts, but not that badly.

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So Gorath goes to work.

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And quickly...

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Ends the battle - well, after everyone is topped off that is.

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Exiting that room - we run into another Spellweaver in the hallway.

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He is surprised so - this goes easy.

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They really should have some guards to slow us down and not be wondering the halls on their own.

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It's a fatal mistake.

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Somehow his corpse levitates.

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Maybe he had a Red Bull.

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Anyway - we'll look for the rest of the six next time!
 
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Continuing on:

When last we left our heroes: we found half of the six and... presumably 3 more are in the way?

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We're forced to backtrack here to find a next unexplored area.

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And run into a chest!

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It was trapped!

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But we don't get blown up this time.

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After moving forward some more - we spot another spellweaver.

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As usual - Frostbolt to the face takes him out of action.

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Making it a fight of.

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Two strikes from Gorath.

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They sure use a lot of greatswords for spellweavers.

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Update on our current location. That path turns out to be a dead end.

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So we retreat this way instead:

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And find number 5.

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Hmmm, life is easier when we can sneak up on them...

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Fortunately he wastes his turn draining Gorath's strength.

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And takes a frost bolt in return.

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Gorath doesn't hit as hard with his strength drained.

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But it doesn't really matter.

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I guess the higher quality armor also explains Gorath hitting less hard.

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We seem to be running out of places to check.

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Find this area - but it's empty.

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We go way towards the entrance and find a side path with a chest.

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Options are:

THACK
DRTTE
RESHY
COUEH

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Answer and loot:

I couldn't figure it out for a while - then the last part of the puzzle with the vindictiveness of the moredhel gave me enough of a clue to put it all together.

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Well... naptha doesn't help much anymore - but it doesn't hurt either.

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We find another side path here:

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Which leads us to Mr. # 6.

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Apparently Mr. Eagle Eyes as well.

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Somehow Owyn still goes first.

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Which means that we do discover the truth of it...

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He cannot win!

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Nothing special on him either. What was the point of these six?

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His room has 2 chests:

CONS
BLEE
GRSK
IEOT

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And:

TEFBT
SAAMS
IHOKY
RTLEE

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Answers and loot:

More valuable than wine? Depends on the wine...

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Oh? What's this?

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Something we already know...

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Took me a while to figure this one out.

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Don't really need any of it.

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Well... we seem to have explored all of this level.

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So... I guess we have to go back to the previous level since we skipped most of it - maybe these six were blocking something up there.

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That... would be a disappointing end to Pug's story.

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We'll have to explore this level again - next time.

 
Sergiu64

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Let's find that Lifestone!

We back out to about here and start exploring some pathways we skipped last time.

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And run into some moredhel.

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Sneaky-sneaky!

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This seems like such an ordinary encounter considering the enemies we faced in the lower level.

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Two moredhel are grieving.

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And the third one is dying.

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Gorath gets bitten - but the bite is so ineffectual...

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A dog does down.

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But second dog dodges Gorath's strike.

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And bites him again. At this rate it would take the dog a very long time to maul Gorath to death.

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Gorath doesn't give it any more time.

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And the grief...

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Stops as well.

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Gorath gets even better at sneaking.

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Dragon Plate does not help these guys much.

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It's no better than this elven armor.

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Yeah. 1 hit from our awesome sword in either case. Of course it was under the effect of Steelfire.

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We keep exploring and run into these guys.

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And sneak up on them as well.

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These giants grieve just as well.

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Trivial....

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Gorath downs one dog.

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Gets scratched by another.

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And downs it as well.

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The giants survive the first hit.

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But not the second.

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Just one left.

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I don't quite understand why numbers show up in blue when enemies are almost dead and get hit hard. Normally blue is a healing color.

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Anyway, Owyn gets better at sneaking too.

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And Gorath is cosplaying Conan.

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One of the Hill Giants had nothing - but the other one had this.

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We continue past and... run into a dragon!

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Ah, remember this guy from that statue near one of the southern towns?

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Man, Makala really played this thing as well as one can imagine. Something to take Pug out, something to take the Oracle out, something to distract Prince Arutha...

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Interesting - I suppose it would be kinda freaking to be able to see one own's end coming from millennia away.

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Gorath - the guardian of the Wyrm!

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Would suck to lose an oracle cause it's basically disabled and unable to defend itself.

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But yeah... Gorath would be useful in the fight ahead!

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That's ominous..

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So... just Pug and Owyn to face the end boss?

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Statues of moredhel? Or did the Valheru look like the moredhel?

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Makala looks like one of those old Chinese Kung Fu movie villains.

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And... what is that sword? A Valheru weapon? Is it stuck in the Lifestone?

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So.... the Tsurani are not gentle...men.

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As a father... I'd be seeing red if a dude that stole my daughter was standing in front of me.

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Yeah! A villain's confession would be nice to hear now.

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So - at least a sizeable part of the Assembly don't want none of Pug.

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And sent this fool to his fate.

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I gotta say - this conversation is a bit more civil than one would expect considering everything that has transpired. How many Kingdom soldiers will never return to their families due to this dude's actions?

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Recap of the book preceding this game.

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I'm not really following how this jurisdiction thing works. Imperial soldier goes somewhere - now all of the Assembly has rights to the place?

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This is what happens when you forbid something - people want to do it even more!

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I don't know if they're throwing so many SAT words into this conversation because these guys are magicians or what...

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So... that's what it's all about.

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Feels like a "You don't want to know the TRUTH!" moment - Makala didn't deny it much, did he?

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I don't recall why Pug chose to involve the Empire in the events 10 years ago - but in retrospect it does seem like maybe Kingdom should have handled it all on it's own.

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Yeah, motivation is clear - and it's not like Pug was going to yield any other way - Makala was quite effective at acting out on his plan.

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Hmmm - so Pug's solution is to keep it hidden... why not throw it in the deepest part of the ocean instead? Stones sink...

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I wonder if Makala knows Pug is weakened?

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So now that Makala knows about the stone he wants to...

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Destroy it? Wait... that actually sounds reasonable.

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Ok... so Pug is sure that even attempting to investigate the stone would cause a disaster.

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And Makala is not buying it. Guy does seem to have a lot of faith in his magic.

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I feel like if the two dudes really put their heads together they could have come up with some compromise.

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But... it wouldn't be a game without an end boss.

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Good game, it's nice to see a villain with some complexities to his character. Makala is acting logically and is consistent with his beliefs.

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Game dumps us out of conversation with Makala straight ahead. We'll face him next session!

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Sergiu64

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Just trying to pace myself! Here's the final battle:

We rush towards Makala and the fight starts.

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It seems like it's just him and a giant sword in a rock.

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But 2 demons suddenly rise up from the ground.

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Demons spend their turns moving about - while Makala assaults Owyn's mind with some kind of spell.

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Fortunately it only does 22 damage.

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I decide that we're not going to be able to stand toe to toe with this many casters - so we need Skin of the Dragon to tank their damage.

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Seems like it cannot be casted on oneself - which is why it's helpful that we have two casters.

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Just in time! Demons start unleashing Fireballs.

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Which do nothing to us thanks to the Skin of the Dragon.

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They try lightning too. Same effect.

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Makala seems to throw fireballs too - but they often hit the stone before even getting to us - I'm not sure if he's trying to destroy the Lifestone or just trying to hit Owyn behind it.

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Owyn has to top off.

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Meanwhile Pug starts trying to drain one of the demons.

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Demons try Unfortunate Flux but it can't get through skin of the dragon either.

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This is a flashy fight.

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Really glad I casted that Skin of the Dragon.

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Owyn starts working on draining demon's strength.

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Pug continues the good work. Damn thing is still up.

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We continue trying to bring it down.

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So many casts and it's still up - maybe Strength Drain is not the way to hurt these?

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All these casts are making Pug tired too.

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Owyn tries to switch targets to Makala - but his Unfortunate Flux does nothing to him.

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Demon misses. Is it low on health?

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Pug has to top off.

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Owyn is kinda trapped behind the Lifestone so direct fire spells are blocked. He decides to Assess Makala. Nothing particularly useful here.

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Pug tries to fireball a demon since Strength Drains seemed useless. But this spell does not seem to have any effect either.

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It was low due to miss - maybe another Strength Drain? Nope... it's still up.

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Owyn tries to figure out what's with the demons... Hmmm... "Dread"?

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Pug tries Unfortunate Flux on the hurt "Dread" - no effect.

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Even Makala misses now. At this point it's starting to look like we might just win by waiting for them to kill themselves via their spells!

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I scour the spellbooks and find this spell... maybe a trap will work where other spells fail?

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We put it down in front of one of the demons.

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It moves forward on it's next turn and triggers it.

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And takes 90 damage! That's enough to make it disintegrate.

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So we start trying to catch the other demon.

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When not topping off.

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Second demon runs into one of our "Gambits" and disintegrates as well!

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Owyn tries to see how Makala is doing... Sta is great, but would be nice to see Health.

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Pug's Flamecast does nothing.

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Owyn tries to get an update - but it doesn't have Health either.

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Owyn tries Thoughts like Clouds spell - supposed to affect Mages... does nothing in this case.

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Pug tries the instant death spell. Does nothing as well.

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Finally a Health Update - Makala is almost done - but our spells seem useless!

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Owyn tries a Frost Bolt since Fire did nothing and we haven't tried this yet.

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Makala takes no damage but DOES get frozen. Guess we could have don that a long time ago.

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Pug was almost dead to his own casts.

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Seems like an opportune time to try this necklace.

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Sounds like... it might make spells more effective?

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OK... but what to choose? We already tried everything. Gambit seems like it's hard to place to get him to walk over it.

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Pug just chooses a spell that is supposed to do damage. It does not.

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Out of ideas we try melee... And it works. Makala goes down. Despite Pug's claims that Gorath would be useless in this fight - seems like Gorath would have been super effective!

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That's it. We won. We won the game!

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I'll post the epilogue later though. Sorry!
 
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Did you ever use summoning items at all? I remember dogs making that fight easy. But can't remember any details of how I fought it besides that, could be they were just for tanking hits. Or maybe they were just useless but it was an easy fight regardless. All I remember is using the dog-summoning item, as there'd be no need to save them for later anyway...
 
Sergiu64

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Yeah... that battle was super confusing with enemies immune to everything but a trap spell and melee. I was thinking of trying Mirrorwall - but figured they'd be immune to their own spells too. Worked out I suppose. Dogs... seemed so useless against us in the late game that I didn't even think of taking up inventory space with their horn.

Anyway - here are the end slides - thanks for sticking with this play-through everyone!

Wow, this makes it sound like we beat him to death with spells - but we had to wait for him to exhaust himself and smack him with a stick...

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Razor like fists? Is Delekhan some sort of martial artist? Also - why is he alone?

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Oh, oh... seems like a dangerous artifact to reach for...

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It seems to light them up in some sort of magic field.

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They struggle about - unable to let go!

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Ugh... why didn't Pug just bury this damned thing a decade ago?

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Understandably - Owyn is not eager to kill his friend and companion.

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As the two figures struggle - with their capes billowing away from the stone - it seems their fate is sealed.

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Pug springs into action.

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And waves his stuff with purple light.

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Owyn does the same with blue light.

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Which causes rays to come out of their staves and..

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Blast the two Moredhel trapped by the Valheru spirits.

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The two mages stay at it for a few moments - with the blast from their spells increasing and decreasing. Why ARE their magics different color anyway?

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The screen goes purple, then dark, then... it is done.

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That's a good question - considering Pug has left this nuke sitting around protected by some dragon instead of dropping a metric ton of rock on it and calling it a day.

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There are plenty of loving and generous people out there - that can't be the only requirement to get trained by the greatest magician in the land...

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Mysteriously some rocks fall off the lifestone.

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And it sparkles... Could it's wards have been damaged?

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That question is left unanswered as we seem to switch focus to the battle above - in Sethanon proper.

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Hmmm... this seems dire - but... how is Delekhan alive? And... they're making it sound like Murmandamus is back - but I thought that guy was one of those snakepeople? Something is amiss.

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What in the world is happening?

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This is some proper theater isn't it?

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It seems no love is lost between Moraeulf and his father. Nor does he seem to care much for the demise of Murmandamus.

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Makes sense. Oh well, at least this guy doesn't sound likely to go back down to the Kingdom.

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Hehe... this guy again. I wonder if he gets shanked by someone too. Just to keep this going...

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Ok - so yeah - it was all some sort of Pug illusion.

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I beg to differ - morale failure tended to end medieval type battles. And seeing one's leader slain tends to have a negative impact on one's morale.

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Owyn sure moved up from some minor noble child to rubbing shoulders with the Prince of the Kingdom and the chief magician of the Kingdom - hasn't he?

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Somehow I doubt Prince meant for Pug to silence Owyn in some permanent manner.

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It is sad that we didn't see more of Owyn in Feist's books. He's a great character and overall - I do believe the writers of these game did Feist's setting justice.

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That is the final slide. Betrayal at Krondor is over - after nine Chapters - different worlds seen - many fantastic creatures met - and slain. And... sadly after losing two characters in the process.
This is one of the greatest games out there. The sequel of Return to Krondor was completely different and - mediocre. All I can say is that I'm thankful this game was made.
 
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