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The final battle is close...Moar!!!

Fire Dungeon

Finally had the chance to put out this update!

So here is the fabled fire dungeon!



That's indeed the right place





Our first random encounter, came quite quickly!



And our first set encounter





And another random encounter, can't make more than a few steps before being attacked



Almost all the enemies feel superior here



A different encounter, frost giants and their minions



That might explain why this place stinks



Or maybe that's the reason





And now, it's the turn of the earth elementals, this place does exude very strong magic...



More trolls





And this time water elementals...



...who also move with an air of superiority. Never expected elementals to have an ego... at least not in this setting



This place is indeed uncomfortably hot



Ettins



Wind elementals, now we've seen them all



After all these encounters, we find a locked door



Or rather a series of locked doors, I guess these are prison cells





This last door wasn't locked



This seems indeed like a prison area



Confirmed



The jailor is a thunder giant?!



He was keeping something





As expected



So let's check all these cells one by one



And in one of the cells





That was my uncle! I will avenge him

In another cell



Our first secret door!



And another one right after



Close by





Immediately followed by





What did the captain have?







Let's get back to the door





Nice pets



Another secret door



And our first trap!



Another secret door



That was just a side corridor

We find stairs leading down





And another set of stairs leading down close by



And while finishing exploring this level





Destruction spell from the mage



Another set of stairs





We decide to go for the first set of stairs



We'll explore the rest on the next update!

Going deeper

Luckily, I've advanced enough for another update

So this is the second level of the dungeon



The random encounters have a more... demonic quality to them it seems



Exploring a bit around, we quickly find stairs going down again





Let's leave it for now and see if we have more stairs to look for

Going through a door, we find a trap



One step forward, and another trap



And another one!



The whole corridor was full of traps one after every single step



Interesting





It was indeed my stepfather and not my uncle. Anyway we did find his message





Let's see what that weapon is!





200 damage factor... that's the highest I've seen!



Let's compare it's to hit ratio to that of the backstabbing dagger



Much better



This weapon very good, I would rate it at the same level as the death knight's sly sword. The sly sword has only 75 in damage factor but is still more accurate by a big margin

We're getting close



These levels are huge



Fire giants





And close by





First time I see this monster

He's berserk and not feeling superior...



Missing a picture, I went through a secret door to find this tunnel





Of course he would feel superior



He had nice equipment



So let's take that stair he was guarding... we find a door with a question



There is a secret door just next to that door



so there is an alternative way for those who didn't find the cell



3 way door



We don't find much of interest around



Exploring further



We meet a general



second door fully explored



And behind the third door





So this is where I am now. I explored fully this level, but didn't find Variz yet. Will be checking the other stairs.

So here we are, finally had the chance to post these updates. I haven't had the chance to check every single wall for secret doors, as it increases the already very high rate of random encounter.

Whisper

Can you tell me if you found Variz around here?

Variz

Finally found him, I had missed a secret door somewhere it seems



Behind a door





I noticed that all enemy mages are berserk



First let's kill off all 'normal' mages with my +25 elven arrows that I saved just for the last fight



Variz is unlucky enough to face my warrior wielding the sword of sharpness



Didn't last long



At that stage, even the hell hounds were scared



We cleaned up all the remaining giants. I also found out that storm giants have spell casting abilties and can hide



We did a thorough job





22 platinum only? He probably spent everything on the upkeep of his massive army



He only had normal cloth...



Victory pic!



There is a 'you are victorious text' but it flashed too quickly for me to catch

So this is it! This is the end!

On a side note, this is where the secret door is:





When I reloaded the game, the encounter didn't happen. So I had to exit dosbox and relaunch it to be able to replay the final fight. a 'Wrath of god' spell at level 5 will obliterate everybody.

After you finish the game you can still move around.

That's it? No over-the-top speech? No transformation into an horrible tranny/angelic/eldritch abomination? Truly these were different times. In any case, congrats. What about the other ending?

Yep these were better times

No need for big theatrics, just get on with it and annihilate your enemy. I do miss those times...

I found out how to lead an army, but there is nothing to attack. I've already conquered all the cities by killing the reagent or finishing the quests. I could attack the cities that said they would support me, but I don't see the point. And I can't attack the final dungeon, I can only attack cities at the head of an army.

Nice! I missed the first "Unity" door and +40 two-hander. But i "won" last fight by wraith of god anyway.

What spells Variz cast in combat?

Good job on finally finishing this one

Bit disappointing that leading the army doesn't change much though. I expected it would let you get to the ending in a different way.

Thanks!! Finally done with it. That was one of the games I wanted to finish a long time ago

Winning by strategy allows you to finish the game without going to the final dungeon ass far as I know. But leading an army allows you to attack only cities, I tried attacking the fire dungeon but it didn't work. I'll load an old save and try conquering the Rathadonian capital to see what happens.

Whisper

Variz had the spell that speeds all of his allies and a damage spell (I think it was ice storm) before I killed him.

Thanks, it took about 7 months, but I finally managed to finish this game
It was one of the 'to complete' games I had in my list.

Some of the encounter pics are animated, and this one looks even better when you're playing the game!