Completed Let's play Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

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A fireball wand we don't really need in exchange for an unspecified debt due whenever it pleases him. And people call me a thief . That's no way to do business, Mr. Malwick, so fuck you very much, nay.

Of course we need it. Or, rather, Azira needs it - even with wand killing the dragon is a huge chore, and without it it'll take what? An hour, I guess, and I'm sure that this hour will be better spent on something other than running in circles around stupid monster with occasional stops to turn around and press attack button four times.

Take the wand. The "debt" just means more experience!

All due respect to Azira, but if he doesn't have an hour to waste running around a dragon/doing whatever, he chose an odd game to do a double LP on.

At any rate, I have actually played this game start to finish twice, once for each path, way back when it was first released. This is a nostalgia LP for me, and since I already known the plot/the monsters/the dungeons pretty well, I decided to LARP, to add a bit of flavor. So minmaxing power-gaming arguments are simply irrelevant to me during voting, even though I understand and accept that's the way Azira wants to play (heck, that't the way I always actually play my games, no judgement here).

I hope this clears up my point of view. In short, a street-wise thief would never take a such a shitty deal in real life, so neither will Great0ldOne in this vote.

Well then. Voting closed. I will now proceed.

Bumping for great glory!

Yeah, I know. I've played enough that I should be able to put up a proper update soon. I've just been busy celebrating my 33rd birthday, and as a gift to myself, I bought Heroes of Might and Magic VI..

I will leave you with this, to tide you over until I can get a proper update done though:

Dude, I think it's up to your friends/family to get you shitty gifts you don't like.

Game was on sale, 60% off, and so far I don't regret the 20€ spent.

I have neglected this thread for too long. I've had the screenshots ready for more than a week, I've just been too lazy to produce the actual update.
I blame my birthday and the gift I got for myself.
Anyways what is done is done, and I'd better get on with this LP, lest I be accused of abandoning it.

And that's it for this update! Sorry for taking so long, though I cannot promise the next update will be any faster.
The next update will be seen through the eyes of our light-siders, though at this point, there's not much difference. I guesstimate that we're about 4-5 updates away from the point where the paths split.
Any questions? Comments?

I approve of you getting off your ass and updating!

Not wanting to ruin your parade, but Yoruba is actually pretty awful - +25 en quickly looses its oomph (especially for the light-sided party) and protections from conditions are irrelevant as you'll be relying on protection from magic anyhow. So in the end it's little more than best plate mail +6 AC which is not much at all. But then, artifacts & magic items are generally mediocre in VI-VIII so it's not a big deal.

This is true, at least when I get to cast grandmaster protection from magic. But until then, it rocks.

Cool update, but why am I using a dagger? I was hoping to punch dragons to death.

You will be punching (and using a staff, as grandmastery of staff allows it to be used in conjunction with unarmed), rest assured of that. Right now though, you've got a vampiric dagger. This has two benefits, one is that its current base damage output is higher than your unarmed damage output, and 20% of the damage dealt is converted into healing energy for you. As your unarmed skill increases, the dagger will be left behind. And eventually I'll get you a kickass staff to go with your unarmed attacks.

That's the power of the Dark Side.

I vehemently object! The presence of the Dwarven Twins Kayters and Storyfag means Harmondale is actually beholden to the Dwarf King! The elf and the man should learn their place

I played a bit last night. I had let this game take a back-seat and played HoMMVI, and for some odd reason, EV Nova.
Last night however, the light-siders got some loving caring attention, and I managed to clear out the dwarven burrows. Why this is a big thing, you'll get to see when I finally have enough material for an update.

and here I thought it was an update ...

Then you're going to be disappointed with this reply too.

But seriously bros, this is just to let you know that I've played quite a bit further, and I will soon reach the point where I feel the next update should be concluded. Once I do that, then it's just a question of doing the actual writeup.

The next update will feature 5 dungeons, one of which is actually 16 mini-dungeons! It will feature 3 promotions, 2 honorary promotions and also a restored castle! Plenty of content, to try and make up for the delay.

The light siders have reached the stopping point for the next update!
Got all the screenshots ready. Or so I thought..
For some reason FRAPS crapped out on me for part of the game, so I missed about 25% of the screenshots I wanted. I am now getting the dark side team up to the same point, and will get the missing screenshots with them.

This means the update will happen, but it will be slightly delayed. Dark siders are currently working their way through the dwarven burrows, they're about halfway. A tentative guesstimate says the update could be ready in the start of the next week. I have stuff to do in the weekend, so I probably won't get much done then.

Didn't you have missing screenshot problems in the M&M VI LP as well? Sounds like you need to raise your fraps skill - and no, that's not an excuse to delay updatan

Just do a video and screen cap the stuff you want after you're done.
That's what I did for my ME3 LP anyway.

ZDSoft's Screen Recorder program works much better for the Windows M&M games than Fraps does.