Let's play WIZARDRY 8 with a CODEX GANG

[Darth Roxor]

Get RFS-81.

Do as you see fit with the rest

 

[Rude Dude]

What does that dragon mean? It's on every character's menu but the leader's one.

The dragon is a placeholder for special abilities, like iron will(100 piety).

 

[Wulfstand]

That dwarf psyonic had better not die! He's so far the most awesome character in the group.

 

[Cenobyte]

I'd say to recruit the RPCs as usual.

 

[Nickless]

Could you explain how the personalities work a little more? Is there dialogue between PCs and NPCs, and is that dependent on the personality? Is the game mostly combat? Is there C&C? I have no experience with this game whatsoever.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Could you explain how the personalities work a little more? Is there dialogue between PCs and NPCs, and is that dependent on the personality? Is the game mostly combat? Is there C&C? I have no experience with this game whatsoever.

The personality basically boils down to in-game character voices and flavour banter. Characters comment on pretty much all stuff: finishing some quests, when engaging in combat (few different ones for various levels of challenge the encounter will pose), when finishing combat, when suffering from a negative condition, when someone dies, when they score a particularly good kill, etc. Depending on the personality, they get different lines. It's all flavour dialogue, but it manages to flesh out the characters spectacularly.

Yes, the game is mostly combat. As for C&C - there are a couple of factions in game and there are a few different ways to work for them.

 

[Cenobyte]

Yes, the game is mostly combat. As for C&C - there are a couple of factions in game and there are a few different ways to work for them.

And it should be noted that the game is designed to allow the player a lot of freedom in interactions with NPCs.

You can kill any and all NPCs in this game, if you like. And none of the factions are necessary to complete the game, they are all optional. Last but not least, because of the dialogue system, you can ask NPCs whatever you like, and sometimes you get surprising answers for silly questions.

 

[DraQ]

Could you explain how the personalities work a little more? Is there dialogue between PCs and NPCs, and is that dependent on the personality? Is the game mostly combat? Is there C&C? I have no experience with this game whatsoever.

The personality basically boils down to in-game character voices and flavour banter. Characters comment on pretty much all stuff: finishing some quests, when engaging in combat (few different ones for various levels of challenge the encounter will pose), when finishing combat, when suffering from a negative condition, when someone dies, when they score a particularly good kill, etc. Depending on the personality, they get different lines. It's all flavour dialogue, but it manages to flesh out the characters spectacularly.

Yes, the game is mostly combat. As for C&C - there are a couple of factions in game and there are a few different ways to work for them.

There are also carry-over C&C from Wiz 6-7, but the game is mostly an unashamed dungeon crawler.

 

[hoverdog]

sorry for the delay, i *could*'ve posted yesterday on time, but I thought it'd be better if i cover the whole lower monastery in one sitting.

it'll be online in a few hours.

 

[hoverdog]

another delay, sorry for that

PART ONE: FIRST BLOOD, AND LOTS OF IT

Well, nothing we can do about it. Let's explore the crashsite. Wonder what's in the chest.

4000 gold

Well, whaddaya know. This trip might be profitable after all.

a few meters later...

Ugh. Mudcrabs. Horrible creatures. I avoid them whenever I can.

Thor give me strenght!

It seems Thor likes us more.

Damn that ship. If one ain't gotta wings, he shouldn't fly!

So, mister Fairy, maybe you can fly up to the nearest city and get some reinforcements?

Fuck off, bastard.

Be careful! My meta-gaming sense tells me something terrible is near!

That's fuckin' great man. What's goin' to fall now?

Mudcrabs. Horrible creatures. I-

Shut up, FFS

Be careful. He's got extended range, so he can attack our second ra-

FFS!!!!!!

-nk.

Did it occur to you that you could tell us about it sooner?

Poor Volourn, May he dine with Odin in the great halls of Valhalla now.

DIE, BITCH!

Urq? Wasn't this guy supposed to be dead?

Well.. um... maybe I haven't got enough ranks in Metagamic knowledge after all.

We recruit Urq.

Not only we've got a furry as our leader, but now a fuckin' wookie? This sucks big time.

And what's the point of a fairy ninja. I don't think they're selling nunchakos of this size.

Oh, he will be powerful. In about, let's say, fifteen arbitrary levels.

Provided he'll be more lucky than Volourn here.

We return to the monastery.

Thor's might!

Greedy and chzr make short work of them.

We get up and into a library. A big slime awaits.

Nothing a rogue+valk can't handle.
Greedious and van Dex go up a level.

We find a useful amulet.

Now to the south.

Some more cannon fodder. Greedy and Jack kill the bats.

Hoverdogs ups a level, changing his class to lord.

Chzr also gains second level.

Ahhh, I feel strangely more powerful now. And I suddenly remember a very useful spell. SUMMON MEATSHIELD!

Who- where- What is this place? Who dared to summon the allmighty Ulminati?

Don't you remember? You signed an agreement.

Oh crap, it's you. I was drunk as hell then, I renounce the deal.

Well, I can't teleport you back to another plan, now can I?

I'll kill you, you know that.

Then we'd better find another king crab, let's go!

We explore further, when suddenly...

Fellow humans! Maybe they know a way out!

Anyone knows how to sooth-say from human innards? Har har.

Greedy kills the last one too.

Azira gets a levelup.

(forgot to take a screen of his ability raises)

I presume we couldn't drop in at least a little less infested place?

Bastard probably knew all along. Meta-gaming knowledge my ass.

I honestly thought this would be a massacre. Three spirits all lvl3 with 40-something hp each. We got a bit lucky, fortunately.

(strange shot, dunno what happened)

One kill for Greedy, one for chzr, one for Hovery.
Greedious and Jack gain another level.

Jack also get a nice fur hat.

We find some loot in a prison cell

There was a fight with some more spirits, screens vanished.

Ulminati is level 2

and learns energy blast, a basic damage spell (he also knows sleep and terror, basic croud controls, which of course won't work on undead)
After securing the prison, we come upon a locked door. Another king crab awaits inside.

Thanks for the trip, Ulminati.

Another king crab inside, then?

What's the deal with those crabs, idiots?

Oh, it's nothing important. Just a little joke.

Another metagaming check spectacularly failed. Good job, Hovery.

Fucker tried to run, but stopped just before the stairs.

Guess who killed him.

another level for chzr

We omit the stairs and come across a bridge and a waterfall.

some stuff.

More bats. Greedy kills four out of five.

Azira gets up

We dive into the river.

Resurection powder awaits.

Anyway, now back to the stairs.
GREGOR awaits.

Odin's beard! That's a nasty beastie!

Who the hell gives names to big bugs?

It's an old blood ritual, moron, but what can you know, you can't even grasp the basics of two-ways teleportation!

Hovery gets paralyzed. The rest beat Gregor up pretty well, but...

... to no avail. RIP Hovery

HEY! That was my part!

But we've helped ourselves to some resurection powder, remember?

Greedy finishes the job.

Three levelups.

Greedy

Jack

Ulminati

+ missile shield.

more bats

Another four frags for Greedy.

A big chamber with some coffins. We open them of course.

A flying head! They're a nuisance, a lot of spells like sleep and, what's worse, insanity.

Greedy kills it.

Another room.

We press the skull a get a safe key.

Easily killed.

Lvl for Hover

The next screens are all screwed up.
We get more resurection powder from the safe

We then find a trader, get some loot, kill some spiders and open the way to upper monastery.

Fuck greenshot. It's shit. Sorry for that. Following updates will be better.
Next - tomorrow

 

[Darth Roxor]

Pfff, rez powder?

 

[chzr]

Pfff, rez powder?

well, it's only for that turd our glorious leader for his fucking quest nobody cares about. and it's our duty to kkep him alive!


Poor Volly, why did Odin let him die?

 

[Azira]

Pretty, pretty, decaying princess..

 

[hoverdog]

Greedy is a monster. Half of all party's kills is his. Awesome damage and high hit rate.

 

[Jack]

Very entertaining LP so far.

 

[Tigranes]

Wizardry always looked fun but the idea of first person tactical party combat with turns always weirded the hell out of me.

In any case, finally a good old RPG LP on here again

 

[Ulminati]

Damn Gregor, stealing my kills

 

[juggernaut]

I don't remember a level 5 Mook RPC there, I assume that's the mod? Or is there some of that type of randomness to original Wiz8? Been a while...

 

[hoverdog]

Yeah, probably the mod.

 

[Cenobyte]

It's definitely the mod, Urq is normally in the Mook stronghold in Arnika. I was also quite surprised to see that much loot in the first chest.
Gregor is btw a reference to Kafka and his metamorphosis.

@ hoverdog: Great LP so far, but we need moar updates :D

 

[ghostdog]

Yeah, Urq being there is from the mod. (edit: ah cenobyte was fater)

Also:

I'd say to recruit the RPCs as usual.

carry on

 

[hoverdog]

The second level of monastery has much more changes then the lower.

I've run into some problems with editing saves (yes, there has been another death), all is well now, but I still have to use two editors and a resurrection powder everytime someone dies. Strange, there was no problem with Ulminati's conjuring.


first half of my screenshot got deleted somehow. WHAT THE FUCK

 

[hoverdog]

Hoverdog cannot into screenshots.

I salvaged what I could. However, I was not able to recreate the first few fights.
Here's what happened: upon entering, we were assaulted by two talking heads. Due to overwhelming insanity, Urq the Wookie died. Then...

PART TWO: THE ENDLESS NOT

Where- What has just happened? Where are we?

And, more importantly, where is that little sneaky fairy? He didn't run away with all our gold, did he?

Nope. His body lies right here, just beside that of an old man in robes.

By the gods! We've been tricked by the evil Loki!

Poor Azira. I've almost started to enjoy his company *ahem*. Still no idea what happened?

Wait... I'm beginning to remember... We entered a new level of this dungeon, fought some beasts, and then met a strange man...

And then he attacked us! Azira must have fallen in battle.

May he forever dine with Odin in the halls of Valhalla!

That explains it. Now, hurry up and summon another brave adventurer to help your- I mean our cause.

Wait! You aren't telling me you're going to do the same thing again! Two versus four - odds are against you!

Yeah, whatever.

Rest in pieces, Azira

Schalam-badam!

Eh- Greethings to thee! Me name is Lord Phallus. I shall assist thou on thy holy quest, oh Av- Chosen One. May the Virtues be with us!

I will be honored. (who the hell is that?)

(oh, bullseye! you've found a friendly soul at last, dickhead)

Be I hearing voices? Oh mighty spirits, unravel thy mysteries!

It's just the wind, mate, just the wind.

We backtrack from that room to the sleeping quarters

and down the stairs

Havent got a key for that lock yet

We can buy spellbooks from this guy here

Microwave set to max...

Back into the main chamber (the one which had flying heads)

And to the other corridor, another sleeping quarter

and then (END OF RECONSTRUCTION)

A lot of enemies, and one very tough, however a 30-lvl psionic helps us

Easy-peazy.

Got some levels.

Up the stairs...

Pretty comfy.

A key! For the door in the library.

These heathens canst stand before our might!

Yup, pretty much.

Another overloading, this shatters all the glass on the level.

Back to the main hall, up the stairs

Another easy fight, level

Why do you want us to fall from here?

Pah! 'Tis part of our destiny!

I'd rather call it 'artifact sense'.

The hall with bandits

In unmodded version there was a samurai armor here, now there's something else

Yet another easy fight, chzr ups a level (gets her first spell)

See, we must stop Dark Savant!

Oh yes, confirm his dreams, confirm. Way to go, android.

Your destiny is death by my hands, remember that, fool.

I told you. We've got nothing on these guys.

He wants to become a god? And be equal to Odin and Thor? This... this can't be! We must stop him at once! Do you hear me, men! AT ONCE!

Oooh. Now we're proper fucked.

I've reconsidered. I think we'll start from this. Savant can wait. A bit.

This can't be! Have you just arbitrary improved your intelligence?

Back to the comfy room.

We're finished here, guys. Let's grab some fresh air.



I promise the updates will be better from now on. fuck greenshot, fuck internal wizardry's screensaver.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Get Ultima Online Screenshot Utility. I use it for all my LP purposes and it has never failed me.

http://www.brothersoft.com/uo-screensho ... 32985.html

 

[hoverdog]

BROthersoft. Thanks.