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

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^ I remember being impressed by those animations.

Time sure changes things.

Animations still aren't all that bad. The apparent enlightened and delighted amazement of the two sovereigns when someone suggests "hey, guys, we could, like, draw the line in the middle", as if it's something only someone whose wisdom is beyond mortal comprehension could ever think of, is far more lulzy.

Kind of swamped between work and family at the moment, but as I wrote, all screenshots are taken, it's a matter of getting enough me-time to write the update and upload the pictures.
Once that is done, we can finally get to grips with the two different paths in this game.

and soon real fun will begin

Do you guys know how frustrating it is to have your writeup disappear on you, just because the wife decides to trim the hedges and accidentally cuts the powerline, thus causing a blackout in the entire house?
No?
Let me tell you, it is quite frustrating. There goes a lot of work. Nothing to do but start over, but if I seem a bit disenchanted for the first bit of this update, now you might now why.
...
OK. The votes were tallied, and our lightsiders and darksiders both, who until the conclusion of this update, are only light- and darksiders by name, not virtue, were about to set out to bring war to an end. In some form or the other.
You've already seen the videos and know the war will be concluded, and that our heroes play a large part in this. This update will illustrate the how of it.

So that's it for now. The powerout had me annoyed, but I felt I owed you this update before the week was out. I hope to get to play some more in the coming week, so the next update should hopefully not be as delayed as this.

I have to say, I don't really like the new colorings of the interface (especially the black and red one).

In the quests given to you by the monarchs, you're allowed to tell them that you've brought them a false plan/spy... but it results in instant death. Apparently, the game thinks that there's such a thing as being too devious !

Our being rulers of Harmondale becomes rather irrelevant in the second part of the game and I don't think whether or not it becomes an independent kingdom changes anything at all.

Azira

I feel your pain, brah. This is actually what caused me to abandon delay under further notice my SRance LP. From then on I always write my LPs posts in text editor, tapping Ctrl+S after each sentence.

I agree; it was done MUCH better in Heroes of Might and Magic 2, due to the fact it wasn't blindingly supercontrasted.

Done a crap-load of promotion quests and one plot-advancing one, need to sort through the 163 screenshots, maybe delete some of them, write up some commentary and leave you off with a vote.

Hope to do at least part of the writeup tomorrow, but not making any promises I might not be able to keep.

*awaiting next update with eager anticipation*

Finally!

We've now reached the point in this game where it branches out on either the light or dark paths.
I will start with the dark path, as the last update was largely done with the light-path party. Note, this will constitute a largely blind LP, as I've never actually done the dark path before. That said, the quest structure in this game is rather simple, and many quests bear a striking resemblance to the quests the light-siders will have to do as well.
Without further ado...

Sorry it took so long. Work and family again took precedence, and this is not likely to change. Rest assured however, that I am committed to finishing this LP, and we're more than halfway there already.
The next update will see the light-side party get to approximately the same point in the storyline. Only after that will we be going forward by doing errands for the advisors.

Bee looks quite happy. Wait, are these PINK eyes? Do male liches have red eyes instead?

:twirls moustache:

Do remember I asked you to vote on the Mr Stantley question.

A Acquiesce to his demands, or
B ignore him and kill his minions when they show up.

The Prosper Evil Choice is B.

B, of course. Even scores of goblins and swordsmen shouldn't be much of a threat anyway.

With epic looking armour and shield no less!

See, I was initially butthurt about you ingoring my request to make me a proper d0rf by giving me the repair skill. But this. This makes up for it

Go for it. But do put any spare points towards the unholy Dark Magic please.

Also B, of course. Who does this Mr. Stanley think he is?!

This Stanley is not a Bro and never will be! The chance to slaughter the enemies of the homeland is a reward, not a punishment.

About my skills, you can sink some points into utility skills (disarm / perception) if you're tired of getting blown up or fumbling for secret doors. Otherwise, after GM bodybuilding, keep buffing dodge and unarmed. Avoid magic. (Wooo, basic level proficiency! Any goblins we run into better watch out!)

I was always puzzled by the decision to make the warlock quest so disproportionately harder than all the others. The non-promotion reward is admittedly the best by far, but is the ability to grandmaster a total of 0 combat skills really that overpowering?

(The second archer promotion quest is maybe as difficult, combat-wise, but the game actively tells you to cheese it with invisibility . . . )

Yes, doing the same with the warlock quest really isn't possible. I tried sneaking past the behemoths in the tunnels with invisibility, but their models are large enough to effectively block the tunnels thus negating invisibility when you bump into them.

Can't really explain the developers' decision here.

A because B is not something lightsiders would do.

You do realise he orders the lightsiders to steal from their allies, the wizards in Celeste?

Yeah, you're right.

For the dark team A because A is not something lightsiders would do.

B for the team-light.

But that's the point, Light-siders must care about silly things such as honesty and keeping promises, so they'll have to do A no matter what.

Stealing shit from the king of lightsiders is hardly something any slightsider would do.