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Completed Let's play Realms of Arkania: Star Trail HD - Part 71: Phex Temple 15 - WTF Ending
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Part 37: The Fake D20
While in Lowangen, we dind one merchant in town who does sell boots. Everyone gets a pair.
Well, wait? Maybe something interesting will happen.
Within seconds, you are surrounded by the wretches of the streets. They harrass you, begging for scraps and for money. Those closest to you have started nestling your purse strings.
Aww, poor people, they are hungry! We'll give them something!
Specifically, 10 food packs.
The beggars start fighting amongst themselves for your alms. This gives you an opportunity to leave the market again.
But why leave? We are good samaritans, trying to help the people-
Suddenly, knives appear out of nowhere!
Well, it appears we have to slaughter them all, because they suddenly turned aggressive. They stand no chance against us!
I wanted to help them...
Oooh, Vindaria has the fake D20! We need that for our dice collection. We'll put right next to the real one!
Yes, why would anyone ever go to Blood Peaks and most of all, Blood Pinnacle, that place is literally hell.
...we have to go there.
Let's pay a visit to Vindaria.
Oh, she is shy. Well, no time to be antisocial now, Vindaria!
Weould be better if it was Morkar and Boreale, but whatever.
Some figures that were sitting around a table have jumped up to confront you.
She has friends over, how nice!
Let's play. Vazha greets one of her friends with a battleaxe to the face.
Morkar crits the other one.
Grimgravy bans him.
vazha then goes to greet Vindaria herself, who is very shy and kep avoiding us in favor of shooting poisoned bolts.
Then Morkar sends his regards and crits her.
Helly performs a noscope and a couple rounds later, we win.
Sure we do!
Yay! We have the fake D20 now! Wonder if those LARPers wanna steal this one too?
Yeah, nothing else to do in Lowangen. Time to leave!
...I miss Lowangen.
While in Lowangen, we dind one merchant in town who does sell boots. Everyone gets a pair.
Well, wait? Maybe something interesting will happen.
Within seconds, you are surrounded by the wretches of the streets. They harrass you, begging for scraps and for money. Those closest to you have started nestling your purse strings.Aww, poor people, they are hungry! We'll give them something!
Specifically, 10 food packs.
The beggars start fighting amongst themselves for your alms. This gives you an opportunity to leave the market again.But why leave? We are good samaritans, trying to help the people-
Suddenly, knives appear out of nowhere!
Well, it appears we have to slaughter them all, because they suddenly turned aggressive. They stand no chance against us!
I wanted to help them...
Oooh, Vindaria has the fake D20! We need that for our dice collection. We'll put right next to the real one!
Yes, why would anyone ever go to Blood Peaks and most of all, Blood Pinnacle, that place is literally hell.
...we have to go there.
Let's pay a visit to Vindaria.
Oh, she is shy. Well, no time to be antisocial now, Vindaria!
Weould be better if it was Morkar and Boreale, but whatever.
Some figures that were sitting around a table have jumped up to confront you.
She has friends over, how nice!
Let's play. Vazha greets one of her friends with a battleaxe to the face.
Morkar crits the other one.
Grimgravy bans him.
vazha then goes to greet Vindaria herself, who is very shy and kep avoiding us in favor of shooting poisoned bolts.
Then Morkar sends his regards and crits her.
Helly performs a noscope and a couple rounds later, we win.
Sure we do!
Yay! We have the fake D20 now! Wonder if those LARPers wanna steal this one too?
Yeah, nothing else to do in Lowangen. Time to leave!
...I miss Lowangen.
If needed, Helly's evil mirror twin brother Ylleh can join the party as a hunter 
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Part 38: Blood Pinnacle 1 - We Lose Our Stuff AGAIN!
Well, a lot of people mentioned Blood Peaks, so there has to be something interesting in there. Time to go!
On the way there, we have lot's of random encounters. In this one, Helly oneshots an orc.
Also, everyone keeps getting sick.
I guess it's because it's winter now.
Great, more stalkers.
This gnome hates Boreale's guts.
This isn't the place we're looking for. I travel all around the western part of the map before I finally manage to find it. Though not the optimal route.
Sometimes, we are attacked by huge groups of orcs.
Of course, they can't stand against our might!
Helly is about twenty paces away from the animal, when it suddenly lifts its head and looks straight into his eyes. Then it vanishes into the forest with some wide leaps.
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!
He rolled a 20, so it was autofailure.
Hide?
Once, Grimgravy thinks he saw a movement, but that seems to have been a mistake. No one else saw anything despite an intensive search. Even so, when you finally want to give up and return to the road, every one of you finds a large arrow stuck in their backpack. Peculiarly enough, these arrows do not have a head...
Well, fine, maybe shout and announce ourselves?
Smartass...
We walk on and nothing happens.
About one hundred paces into the wood, you come upon the corpse of an old man. Beside the body, you find a large, broken hammer of the sort needed to cold work soft metals...
We can bury him or continue on. We bury him.
You bury the old man and continue your journey with a clear conscience.
I think it raises our favor with Boron?
Much later, we learn that we can't get to Tiefhusen this way.
That asshole gnome really hates Boreale...
Then we fought some wolves and Helly got rabies. He had to wait 3 days, until someone finally managed to cure him.
Well, we have some sweets, right?
Ok, guess not...
"Would you mind if I warm up at your fire for a bit?" the visitor asks before you have a chance to get a better impression of him.
We ask him what he's doing here.
"Normally, this is a good time to catch weasles and similar game. You know, beasts with pelts you can sell for a good price. But I haven't had any luck so far tonight."
Ok then, you can stay, but you're not cooking anything!
The guy sits down by the campfire and starts telling you about his efforts with some very accurate descriptions of the surrounding area. But when his stomach starts to growl, he interrupts himself. "You wouldn't happen to have a bit of food for me?"
We have enough. What's he gonna tell us?
After you dig up something edible from a backpack, your guest digs in. While he consumes his meal with obvious delight, he continues describing the paths of the area. In doing that, he mentions the "great Thasch pass" quite often. Finally, he has fin ished his meal and sets off on his travels again.
Ok, nothing useful. But atleast he didn't poison us like that druid.
We get the option to donate half of our money.
When you throw half your coins into the river asking for the blessing of the gods, you notice a lizard sitting on a rock in the water. The rainbow above you seems to reflect in the green scales of the animal, and all of a sudden a feeling of physical well-being without equal rushes through your bodies.
Yes, that was related to Tsa, but it didn't seem to heal us or anything like that.
Well, let's not risk it.
After a while, a high-pitched shriek rends the quiet. The lynx has found its prey...
But the screaming has attracted two saber-tooth tigers, which in turn see you as pray…
Well, they are pretty weak and no one got rabies from them.
Yeah, we are still being stalked. Probably by vazha's fangirls...
Hey, here's one of them right now!
Ok, she's definitely crazy. Let's leave before she kidnaps vazha and forces him to marry her.
And here's vazha's fanmail! Will he finally be worthy of HER?
Since it's winter now, some paths can't be crossed without snowshoes. And we had enough problems locating normal shoes.
Now we have to cross this. Let's be careful! We don't want to lose anyone-
Well, after this, I wanted to save the game, but accidentally loaded it instead... Well, whatever. I guess we'll just continue like this. Hopefully this time we won't lose anyone-
...sorry vazha.
As you can see, everyone is devastated by his loss. Especially Boreale.
Hey, vazha's fangirls are here!
They seek to avengr his death and apparently, they blame us.
Some of them are under control of the aventurian hivemind.
Well, atleast they are rich.
We stop in Sibra to pick up our newest companion, Nevill's illegitimate son da_rays. Hopefully, he shall fare better then the last long-lost offspring that joined our party and his late father.
Nothing interesting either. No clue as to where we are supposed to go...
I guess this might be it?
...or not.
At this point, we need to try everything.
One of the Orcs, quite obviously the captain, addresses you: "You prisoners of Ugorzzih, you surrender or you're finished!"
Tbh, I think you get captured no matter what you choose.
The captain orders some of the other Orcs to tie you up. After that, the Orcs fall on your baggage and don't even stop with your clothes you're just wearing. Only when you tell the captain, that you feel yourselves humilated by your nudeness, he allows you to put on again some old rags. You also get some things back, of which he believes they will help you marching. After that, he lets his men blindfold you.
Because of the blindfolds, you cannot see what's going on around you. The Orcs are talking. Apparently they consider their next move. Suddenly, someone punches you: "You! This way!"
For hours, the Orcs march you through the mounains without another word. In the night, the blackpelts take a break. You are given bread and water. You are extremely tired and fall asleep.
You are wrenched from sleep by a kick in your side. Apparently, the Orcs are ready to march on. They manhandle you back on track, liberally interspersing their ministrations with strategic kicks.
Around noon, you hear water gurgling. For some hours, your involuntary trip goes along some stream. Then, you are forced into the water which goes halfway up to your knees. After reaching the opposite bank, you leave the stream behind.
Your involuntary journey takes you across the mountains. As you cannot see where you're going, you stumble and fall frequently, but the Orcs always get you back on your feet fast by kicking and manhandling you.
In the evening, the Orcs take a break. The last few miles were very exhausting, as you are back in the mountains. After scarfing down some bread and water, you fall into a deep slumber.
On the next day, the trek through the mounains continues. Finally, you reach a cave. After collecting numerous bruises from the stone walls of the corridors, you are relieved of the blindfolds. You hear a door being shut and locked behind you.
Slowly, your eyes grow accustomed to the dim torch light falling into your cell from the corridor outside...
Wait, what...
Please, don't tell me-
These are the only weapons we have, as they took everything, including our magic items.
Well, say goodbye to Nevill, everyone! He's not gonna last much longer...
On the way there, we have lot's of random encounters. In this one, Helly oneshots an orc.
Also, everyone keeps getting sick.
I guess it's because it's winter now.
Great, more stalkers.
This gnome hates Boreale's guts.
This isn't the place we're looking for. I travel all around the western part of the map before I finally manage to find it. Though not the optimal route.
Sometimes, we are attacked by huge groups of orcs.
Of course, they can't stand against our might!
Helly is about twenty paces away from the animal, when it suddenly lifts its head and looks straight into his eyes. Then it vanishes into the forest with some wide leaps.SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!
He rolled a 20, so it was autofailure.
Hide?
Once, Grimgravy thinks he saw a movement, but that seems to have been a mistake. No one else saw anything despite an intensive search. Even so, when you finally want to give up and return to the road, every one of you finds a large arrow stuck in their backpack. Peculiarly enough, these arrows do not have a head...Well, fine, maybe shout and announce ourselves?
Smartass...
We walk on and nothing happens.
About one hundred paces into the wood, you come upon the corpse of an old man. Beside the body, you find a large, broken hammer of the sort needed to cold work soft metals...We can bury him or continue on. We bury him.
You bury the old man and continue your journey with a clear conscience.I think it raises our favor with Boron?
Much later, we learn that we can't get to Tiefhusen this way.
That asshole gnome really hates Boreale...
Then we fought some wolves and Helly got rabies. He had to wait 3 days, until someone finally managed to cure him.
Well, we have some sweets, right?
Ok, guess not...
"Would you mind if I warm up at your fire for a bit?" the visitor asks before you have a chance to get a better impression of him.We ask him what he's doing here.
"Normally, this is a good time to catch weasles and similar game. You know, beasts with pelts you can sell for a good price. But I haven't had any luck so far tonight."Ok then, you can stay, but you're not cooking anything!
The guy sits down by the campfire and starts telling you about his efforts with some very accurate descriptions of the surrounding area. But when his stomach starts to growl, he interrupts himself. "You wouldn't happen to have a bit of food for me?"We have enough. What's he gonna tell us?
After you dig up something edible from a backpack, your guest digs in. While he consumes his meal with obvious delight, he continues describing the paths of the area. In doing that, he mentions the "great Thasch pass" quite often. Finally, he has fin ished his meal and sets off on his travels again.Ok, nothing useful. But atleast he didn't poison us like that druid.
We get the option to donate half of our money.
When you throw half your coins into the river asking for the blessing of the gods, you notice a lizard sitting on a rock in the water. The rainbow above you seems to reflect in the green scales of the animal, and all of a sudden a feeling of physical well-being without equal rushes through your bodies.Yes, that was related to Tsa, but it didn't seem to heal us or anything like that.
Well, let's not risk it.
After a while, a high-pitched shriek rends the quiet. The lynx has found its prey... But the screaming has attracted two saber-tooth tigers, which in turn see you as pray…
Well, they are pretty weak and no one got rabies from them.
Yeah, we are still being stalked. Probably by vazha's fangirls...
Hey, here's one of them right now!
Ok, she's definitely crazy. Let's leave before she kidnaps vazha and forces him to marry her.
And here's vazha's fanmail! Will he finally be worthy of HER?
Since it's winter now, some paths can't be crossed without snowshoes. And we had enough problems locating normal shoes.
Now we have to cross this. Let's be careful! We don't want to lose anyone-
Well, after this, I wanted to save the game, but accidentally loaded it instead... Well, whatever. I guess we'll just continue like this. Hopefully this time we won't lose anyone-
...sorry vazha.
As you can see, everyone is devastated by his loss. Especially Boreale.
Hey, vazha's fangirls are here!
They seek to avengr his death and apparently, they blame us.
Some of them are under control of the aventurian hivemind.
Well, atleast they are rich.
We stop in Sibra to pick up our newest companion, Nevill's illegitimate son da_rays. Hopefully, he shall fare better then the last long-lost offspring that joined our party and his late father.
Nothing interesting either. No clue as to where we are supposed to go...
I guess this might be it?
...or not.
At this point, we need to try everything.
One of the Orcs, quite obviously the captain, addresses you: "You prisoners of Ugorzzih, you surrender or you're finished!"
Tbh, I think you get captured no matter what you choose.
The captain orders some of the other Orcs to tie you up. After that, the Orcs fall on your baggage and don't even stop with your clothes you're just wearing. Only when you tell the captain, that you feel yourselves humilated by your nudeness, he allows you to put on again some old rags. You also get some things back, of which he believes they will help you marching. After that, he lets his men blindfold you. Because of the blindfolds, you cannot see what's going on around you. The Orcs are talking. Apparently they consider their next move. Suddenly, someone punches you: "You! This way!" For hours, the Orcs march you through the mounains without another word. In the night, the blackpelts take a break. You are given bread and water. You are extremely tired and fall asleep. You are wrenched from sleep by a kick in your side. Apparently, the Orcs are ready to march on. They manhandle you back on track, liberally interspersing their ministrations with strategic kicks. Around noon, you hear water gurgling. For some hours, your involuntary trip goes along some stream. Then, you are forced into the water which goes halfway up to your knees. After reaching the opposite bank, you leave the stream behind. Your involuntary journey takes you across the mountains. As you cannot see where you're going, you stumble and fall frequently, but the Orcs always get you back on your feet fast by kicking and manhandling you. In the evening, the Orcs take a break. The last few miles were very exhausting, as you are back in the mountains. After scarfing down some bread and water, you fall into a deep slumber. On the next day, the trek through the mounains continues. Finally, you reach a cave. After collecting numerous bruises from the stone walls of the corridors, you are relieved of the blindfolds. You hear a door being shut and locked behind you. Slowly, your eyes grow accustomed to the dim torch light falling into your cell from the corridor outside...
Wait, what...
Please, don't tell me-
These are the only weapons we have, as they took everything, including our magic items.
Well, say goodbye to Nevill, everyone! He's not gonna last much longer...
Fucking gnomes
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Part 39: Blood Pinnacle 2 - Boreale Fails at Hiding
Alright then, let's flee.
Nevill is now pretty much useless at using magic and keeps failing Foramen.
Our Rogue is useless for picking locks despite his 15 skill, because we don't have a lockpick and there are no alternatives to lockpicks in this game.
So, we mostly have to ram the doors instead with Boreale and Morkar. We can't open locked chests, because we can't force them open, there's no lockpicks around here and Nevill is on his deathbed.
In one of the other cells, we find another prisoner. Say hello to Praiodan, he'll accompany us here in this living nightmare. I give him that orc sabre we got, since he is the only one who has high skill with "Batons".
The other cells are mostly empty. Some have writing on the walls, but if that's relevant in any way to this dungeon, I haven't found a use for it.
This is how we keep opening all of those doors without Foramen.
Here, we found another potential companion. I'm sure that the 8 of us can get through this just fine-
GEEZ, FINE! Just stop crying already!
"I'm glad. You will not regret this", said Praiodan with relief.
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that.
You say goodbye to Thurazz.
Maybe we should've taken that orc along, he seemed way more badass. Well, too late now.
In the next cell, we find some potential loot, so... yes!
How do you know that, da_rays, you weren't there. Are you one of our stalkers? In fact, you've just joined the group moments before we found the Blood Pinnacle, after vazha's tragic demise-
Waaait a minute, I know who he is! He is a secret cultist of Borbarad, sent to recover the Salamander Stone after these idiots got captured and just blew his cover in front of everyone. Maybe vazha's demise wasn't an accident. Fortunatelly for him, the othe party members too stupid to notice, but I'm on to you!
The D20 is ours once again! Now, we just have to make sure da_rays doesn't steal it after his sudden, yet inevitable betrayal. So I give the D20 to Boreale, he should keep it safe and he is level 8 now. I taught him to read, so that he doesn't embarass us anymore.
This also happens from time to time.
The game only rolls for Boreale, so I guess it picks the character with lowest Hide skill. Boreale has -2 in Hide.
We can't go this way, since the game crashes everytime we go through this door.
On the way back from that glitched door, we encounter another patrol.
We have to fight them because of Boreale, but that's okay, perhaps they will drop something useful. Maybe even a lockpick!
...yeah, like that's gonna happen.
Praiodan and the agent of decline da_rays are the only ones who have weapons, but it's not like they do much more damage then everyone else, who has to punch orcs to death, since their weapons suck.
Nevill is useless, as he can't manage to cast Horriphobus or indeed, any spell. They also drop him in two lucky hits. Grimgravy is a godsend, since his banhammer is as powerful as ever.
Bows... well, atleast Helly can noscope again. Grimgravy takes the other one, but most of his time will be occupied by swinging the banhammer as usual.
We can't treat Nevill's wounds right now and I don't want to waste AE on a useless magician with Blue Cough (or whatever it's called now), so let's hope he doesn't die until we can finally heal him again. Grimgravy picks up Nevill's responsibilities and provides light, so that we have an automap.
Charming place. There's nothing in the coffin and the chest is the only thing we can interact with.
It's also one of those magical chests that can't be picked or opened with Foramen, so we can't do anything here until we find the key.
The secret agent of decline da_rays swears terrible vengeance upon this chest and the fools he has to deal with. He will stab us in the back, sooner or later, and deliver the Salamander Stone to his dark lord to gain POWAAAAH!
When we enter the door on the left, we trigger a fight.
Bunch of orcs with one Shaman.
The wise shaman knows all about da_rays and the terrible evil he serves, so his first act is to oneshot him with Ignifaxius to stop his evil schemes.
Unfortunately, before the noble orc shaman can explain this to our "heroes", Grimgravy bans him and the others make short work of his followers.
Yay, a staff for Nevill- oh, wait.
The key is called Golden spectacled key and it doesn't open that chest we've found.
Helly saves the life of da_rays the Borbarad cultist and in his ignorance seals the doom of this world.
Also, Nevill almost died.
Let's hope we find some food and water before we get hungry and thirsty.
(SPOILERS: we don't find anything)
Alright then, let's flee.
Nevill is now pretty much useless at using magic and keeps failing Foramen.
Our Rogue is useless for picking locks despite his 15 skill, because we don't have a lockpick and there are no alternatives to lockpicks in this game.
So, we mostly have to ram the doors instead with Boreale and Morkar. We can't open locked chests, because we can't force them open, there's no lockpicks around here and Nevill is on his deathbed.
In one of the other cells, we find another prisoner. Say hello to Praiodan, he'll accompany us here in this living nightmare. I give him that orc sabre we got, since he is the only one who has high skill with "Batons".
The other cells are mostly empty. Some have writing on the walls, but if that's relevant in any way to this dungeon, I haven't found a use for it.
This is how we keep opening all of those doors without Foramen.
Here, we found another potential companion. I'm sure that the 8 of us can get through this just fine-
GEEZ, FINE! Just stop crying already!
"I'm glad. You will not regret this", said Praiodan with relief.Yeah, I'm not so sure about that.
You say goodbye to Thurazz.Maybe we should've taken that orc along, he seemed way more badass. Well, too late now.
In the next cell, we find some potential loot, so... yes!
How do you know that, da_rays, you weren't there. Are you one of our stalkers? In fact, you've just joined the group moments before we found the Blood Pinnacle, after vazha's tragic demise-
Waaait a minute, I know who he is! He is a secret cultist of Borbarad, sent to recover the Salamander Stone after these idiots got captured and just blew his cover in front of everyone. Maybe vazha's demise wasn't an accident. Fortunatelly for him, the othe party members too stupid to notice, but I'm on to you!
The D20 is ours once again! Now, we just have to make sure da_rays doesn't steal it after his sudden, yet inevitable betrayal. So I give the D20 to Boreale, he should keep it safe and he is level 8 now. I taught him to read, so that he doesn't embarass us anymore.
This also happens from time to time.
The game only rolls for Boreale, so I guess it picks the character with lowest Hide skill. Boreale has -2 in Hide.
We can't go this way, since the game crashes everytime we go through this door.
On the way back from that glitched door, we encounter another patrol.
We have to fight them because of Boreale, but that's okay, perhaps they will drop something useful. Maybe even a lockpick!
...yeah, like that's gonna happen.
Praiodan and the agent of decline da_rays are the only ones who have weapons, but it's not like they do much more damage then everyone else, who has to punch orcs to death, since their weapons suck.
Nevill is useless, as he can't manage to cast Horriphobus or indeed, any spell. They also drop him in two lucky hits. Grimgravy is a godsend, since his banhammer is as powerful as ever.
Bows... well, atleast Helly can noscope again. Grimgravy takes the other one, but most of his time will be occupied by swinging the banhammer as usual.
We can't treat Nevill's wounds right now and I don't want to waste AE on a useless magician with Blue Cough (or whatever it's called now), so let's hope he doesn't die until we can finally heal him again. Grimgravy picks up Nevill's responsibilities and provides light, so that we have an automap.
Charming place. There's nothing in the coffin and the chest is the only thing we can interact with.
It's also one of those magical chests that can't be picked or opened with Foramen, so we can't do anything here until we find the key.
The secret agent of decline da_rays swears terrible vengeance upon this chest and the fools he has to deal with. He will stab us in the back, sooner or later, and deliver the Salamander Stone to his dark lord to gain POWAAAAH!
When we enter the door on the left, we trigger a fight.
Bunch of orcs with one Shaman.
The wise shaman knows all about da_rays and the terrible evil he serves, so his first act is to oneshot him with Ignifaxius to stop his evil schemes.
Unfortunately, before the noble orc shaman can explain this to our "heroes", Grimgravy bans him and the others make short work of his followers.
Yay, a staff for Nevill- oh, wait.
The key is called Golden spectacled key and it doesn't open that chest we've found.
Helly saves the life of da_rays the Borbarad cultist and in his ignorance seals the doom of this world.
Also, Nevill almost died.
Let's hope we find some food and water before we get hungry and thirsty.
(SPOILERS: we don't find anything)
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Part 40: Blood Pinnacle 3 - DOGGIES!
Hey, maybe there's food!
You even push aside the spoiled and rotting food, albeit with an expression of distaste, you don't find anything to interest. On the other hand, this room is so uninteresting and easy to overlook that it is almost a perfect hiding place...
Hey, why so picky when we are already almost starving to death? Leftover vegetables and dead rats sound good enough to me!
See, this is what happens when you are too picky!
We'll be parched for the rest of this dungeon. Atleast as far as I got, because I can't get through that glitched door.
Yay, who can it be?
Doggies!
Cute doggies, wanna play?
Sit!
Awww, you want to rid us of that evil traitor, well done!
Soon, they are too tired to play anymore, so we win.
Sure, after all, I'm not the one who actually has to dig through all of this.
What, no awesome fiery sword of decapitation in here? Totally not realistic!
Also, da_rays the rogue Borbarad cultist almost died of thirst.
We manage to save him, so that he may continue to plot our party's doom, but everyone else starts dying of thirst too.
We have to Treat Wounds of everyone everytime they take damage from lack of water to keep everyone alive. Later on, we also start starving to death, so we have to play this exciting minigame of "click and pray". Yes, it's annoying as hell. But everyone has decent Treat Wounds and high attributes, so despite the negative modifiers from Stink and Parched, we can manage to survive without water. Luckily, Praiodan is secretly an evil undead sorcerer and an accomplice of da_rays and thus doesn't require food, water or any sustenance other then our suffering.
MORE DOGGIES!
They wanna play catch with Helly, but they suck at it.
After we finish playing with the doggies, we can search the room.
Well, what do you think?
It's magical, as Grimgravy can tell, but dead Nevill can't cast Analytica, so we don't know what it does (not that living Nevill would be much better at magic).
Yay, everyone is Parched now! Fun!
Damn it, Boreale!
Well, time to ban some orcs, I guess.
Well, this upgrades Boreale from a deadweight into the second useful member of the party, right after Grimgravy.
We find lots of chests around the place, but they are always locked, can't be forced open, da_rays still doesn't have a lockpick and dead Nevill can't cast Foramen any better then when he was alive.
I keep marking these chests on my map, so that we know to return there later. I don't know when later will be, most likely never.
Hey, maybe one of those locked chests is full of lockpicks!
ZOMG, WE ARE DOOMED!
Wait, what.
Well, that was anticlimatic. One noscope from Helly is all it took.
He had a spear that no one except Helly can really use, but Helly already has a bow, so...
Note that we don't actually rest in this dungeon. If we did, we'd die of starvation.
What's gonna be here, I wonder?
A gate with specific key required...
Level 2? That's the way to go, I guess.
Hey, maybe there's food!
You even push aside the spoiled and rotting food, albeit with an expression of distaste, you don't find anything to interest. On the other hand, this room is so uninteresting and easy to overlook that it is almost a perfect hiding place...Hey, why so picky when we are already almost starving to death? Leftover vegetables and dead rats sound good enough to me!
See, this is what happens when you are too picky!
We'll be parched for the rest of this dungeon. Atleast as far as I got, because I can't get through that glitched door.
Yay, who can it be?
Doggies!
Cute doggies, wanna play?
Sit!
Awww, you want to rid us of that evil traitor, well done!
Soon, they are too tired to play anymore, so we win.
Sure, after all, I'm not the one who actually has to dig through all of this.
What, no awesome fiery sword of decapitation in here? Totally not realistic!
Also, da_rays the rogue Borbarad cultist almost died of thirst.
We manage to save him, so that he may continue to plot our party's doom, but everyone else starts dying of thirst too.
We have to Treat Wounds of everyone everytime they take damage from lack of water to keep everyone alive. Later on, we also start starving to death, so we have to play this exciting minigame of "click and pray". Yes, it's annoying as hell. But everyone has decent Treat Wounds and high attributes, so despite the negative modifiers from Stink and Parched, we can manage to survive without water. Luckily, Praiodan is secretly an evil undead sorcerer and an accomplice of da_rays and thus doesn't require food, water or any sustenance other then our suffering.
MORE DOGGIES!
They wanna play catch with Helly, but they suck at it.
After we finish playing with the doggies, we can search the room.
Well, what do you think?
It's magical, as Grimgravy can tell, but dead Nevill can't cast Analytica, so we don't know what it does (not that living Nevill would be much better at magic).
Yay, everyone is Parched now! Fun!
Damn it, Boreale!
Well, time to ban some orcs, I guess.
Well, this upgrades Boreale from a deadweight into the second useful member of the party, right after Grimgravy.
We find lots of chests around the place, but they are always locked, can't be forced open, da_rays still doesn't have a lockpick and dead Nevill can't cast Foramen any better then when he was alive.
I keep marking these chests on my map, so that we know to return there later. I don't know when later will be, most likely never.
Hey, maybe one of those locked chests is full of lockpicks!
ZOMG, WE ARE DOOMED!
Wait, what.
Well, that was anticlimatic. One noscope from Helly is all it took.
He had a spear that no one except Helly can really use, but Helly already has a bow, so...
Note that we don't actually rest in this dungeon. If we did, we'd die of starvation.
What's gonna be here, I wonder?
A gate with specific key required...
Level 2? That's the way to go, I guess.
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Kicking chest and taking fireball like a chief Gotta love the creativity when lacking lockpit.
Since im leading the paranoid group to an unknown lvl 2 orks deathpit , what could go wrong?
Hoping for aharder set of boot lockpit set soon! Or some late night drive in. Everybody got the munchie
Gotta love the creativity when lacking lockpit. Since im leading the paranoid group to an unknown lvl 2 orks deathpit , what could go wrong?
Hoping for a
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Part 41: Blood Pinnacle 4 - OGRES!
We are now at level 2.
And still dehydrated. Wonder what we're gonna fight next?
Well, this is unfortunate...
Thankfully, Grimgravy can ban every ogre, so Boreale and Helly don't have to do all the work.
Yay, an obvious trap!
Why Grimgravy? He's not the one in front, take the evil mastermind- I mean, our loyal companion da_rays!
The arrows stay hovering in midair and it takes quite a while for them to despawn. The trap triggers everytime we walk past it, which is annoying.
Yay, more treasure we can't loot! Maybe those chests are full of food, wine and lockpicks? They just here, yet as far as we are concerned, they might as well be on the moon.
Oh, maybe it has herbs!
We have to defeat some more ogres before we can look for herbs.
Also, female orcs.
Well, better start banning then.
They do a lot of damage. Tbh, enemies always seem to target da_rays for some reason. I guess they know about his secret allegiances and are trying to stop him before he dooms the world.
Also, Boreale is as badass as ever.
And Helly noscopes like a champ.
We've won! What will we get?
Yay, an axe for vazha- oh, wait.
Well, Morkar can sure use that sword.
I don't know what this does, as I forgot about it. I guess I will have to return here later.
If there are any herbs here, they are in this unpickable chest.
Might as well take some.
We also run into several orcish patrols on the way. One of them again consists of a lone orc scout. He doesn't last very long.
In addition to being parched, we are now also starving. Which means lots of penalties and constant damage.
The next orc patrol gives us a sword for Praiodan.
Also, we still have to go through this every few in-game hours. I don't know how long we've been here, but we have slept at all since we've left our cell.
Maybe it has good weapons and armor? Or maybe even LOCKPICKS?
Nope.
Well, this has to be good, right?
If this is a "good" mace then I don't want to see what a bad mace is. Seriously.
Erm, what does this mean? Orcs worship Ingerimm?
We search it, but apparently, there's nothing useful here.
Another orc patrol, this time with more ogres!
They still target da_rays every time and now even oneshot him.
Well, atleast we got some armor.
Can't treat him right now, hopefully he doesn't-
Yeah, ok, our evil Borbarad-worshipping rogue starved to death while unconcious. Or maybe this is just another part of his plan to bring doom upon our party. He shall return, stronger then ever!
Just have to make sure everyone else gets through this, or we'll run out of Codexians.
Let's see what this does.
...what?
Is this some sort of pun that works in german but fails utterly flat in the english version?
Yeah, it was either this or it would trigger some horrible trap.
We are now at level 2.
And still dehydrated. Wonder what we're gonna fight next?
Well, this is unfortunate...
Thankfully, Grimgravy can ban every ogre, so Boreale and Helly don't have to do all the work.
Yay, an obvious trap!
Why Grimgravy? He's not the one in front, take the evil mastermind- I mean, our loyal companion da_rays!
The arrows stay hovering in midair and it takes quite a while for them to despawn. The trap triggers everytime we walk past it, which is annoying.
Yay, more treasure we can't loot! Maybe those chests are full of food, wine and lockpicks? They just here, yet as far as we are concerned, they might as well be on the moon.
Oh, maybe it has herbs!
We have to defeat some more ogres before we can look for herbs.
Also, female orcs.
Well, better start banning then.
They do a lot of damage. Tbh, enemies always seem to target da_rays for some reason. I guess they know about his secret allegiances and are trying to stop him before he dooms the world.
Also, Boreale is as badass as ever.
And Helly noscopes like a champ.
We've won! What will we get?
Yay, an axe for vazha- oh, wait.
Well, Morkar can sure use that sword.
I don't know what this does, as I forgot about it. I guess I will have to return here later.
If there are any herbs here, they are in this unpickable chest.
Might as well take some.
We also run into several orcish patrols on the way. One of them again consists of a lone orc scout. He doesn't last very long.
In addition to being parched, we are now also starving. Which means lots of penalties and constant damage.
The next orc patrol gives us a sword for Praiodan.
Also, we still have to go through this every few in-game hours. I don't know how long we've been here, but we have slept at all since we've left our cell.
Maybe it has good weapons and armor? Or maybe even LOCKPICKS?
Nope.
Well, this has to be good, right?
If this is a "good" mace then I don't want to see what a bad mace is. Seriously.
Erm, what does this mean? Orcs worship Ingerimm?
We search it, but apparently, there's nothing useful here.
Another orc patrol, this time with more ogres!
They still target da_rays every time and now even oneshot him.
Well, atleast we got some armor.
Can't treat him right now, hopefully he doesn't-
Yeah, ok, our evil Borbarad-worshipping rogue starved to death while unconcious. Or maybe this is just another part of his plan to bring doom upon our party. He shall return, stronger then ever!
Just have to make sure everyone else gets through this, or we'll run out of Codexians.
Let's see what this does.
...what?
Is this some sort of pun that works in german but fails utterly flat in the english version?
Yeah, it was either this or it would trigger some horrible trap.
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Part 42: Blood Pinnacle 5 - You Must Patch The Game (before venturing forth)
We come across this great hall full of orcs.
If we venture inside, then at first, this happens.
If we venture any further, we trigger combat with loads of orcs we can't hope to defeat. I don't know if it's automatic or if it depends on sneak skill.
Fleeing is useless, as if you do manage to flee, you instantly trigger the battle again.
After a reload, I enter the hall via another entrance and try that invisibility spell, then I send Grimgravy alone past the hall.
Nope, doesn't change a thing. Well, alright then, I guess we'll just have to avoid this place.
We'll just have go around and crit smaller groups of orcs with Boreale's axe.
Poisoned? Great...
Thankfully, this is just a weak type of poison that expires after the battle.
But don't worry, Boreale now has Traumatic Fever, so we won't lose the fun of YET ANOTHER periodic damage.
We also find the toilets, but there's nothing interesting here.
We return all the way back to where we started to explore the other direction. I walk around the pit trap by hugging the right wall.
Oh look, it seems there was a food store near the cells, in the other direction!
Well, it's just 15 supply packs, which wouldn't make that much of a difference.
Also, as soon as I pick it up, everyone pounces on it like a bunch of rabid tigers, so we only have 3 supply packs left.
Well, this room kinda looks like a kitchen, which means food and hopefully water, but the game crashes anytime I enter this room, so... I guess we'll have to wait until they patch this!
From what I've heard, it's due to some new Unity update or something. Still annoying.
We come across this great hall full of orcs.
If we venture inside, then at first, this happens.
If we venture any further, we trigger combat with loads of orcs we can't hope to defeat. I don't know if it's automatic or if it depends on sneak skill.
Fleeing is useless, as if you do manage to flee, you instantly trigger the battle again.
After a reload, I enter the hall via another entrance and try that invisibility spell, then I send Grimgravy alone past the hall.
Nope, doesn't change a thing. Well, alright then, I guess we'll just have to avoid this place.
We'll just have go around and crit smaller groups of orcs with Boreale's axe.
Poisoned? Great...
Thankfully, this is just a weak type of poison that expires after the battle.
But don't worry, Boreale now has Traumatic Fever, so we won't lose the fun of YET ANOTHER periodic damage.
We also find the toilets, but there's nothing interesting here.
We return all the way back to where we started to explore the other direction. I walk around the pit trap by hugging the right wall.
Oh look, it seems there was a food store near the cells, in the other direction!
Well, it's just 15 supply packs, which wouldn't make that much of a difference.
Also, as soon as I pick it up, everyone pounces on it like a bunch of rabid tigers, so we only have 3 supply packs left.
Well, this room kinda looks like a kitchen, which means food and hopefully water, but the game crashes anytime I enter this room, so... I guess we'll have to wait until they patch this!
From what I've heard, it's due to some new Unity update or something. Still annoying.
Hiding is for pussies 
also lol @ bugs
also lol @ bugs
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Hiding , eating , drinking , sleeping is clearly all for pussies
And from what ive seen , the biggest challenge so far to the easiest : Bugs , food and water then big ass ogres.
what an awesome group of anorexia plagued adventurer! We'll all become model in Thorwal afterward
Righ right....ive mixed the words Model with ''mummified death'' and Thorwal with ''deathpit for hungry adventurer. And afterward with ''right F$@&ing now'' . Typos .
And from what ive seen , the biggest challenge so far to the easiest : Bugs , food and water then big ass ogres.
what an awesome group of anorexia plagued adventurer! We'll all become model in Thorwal afterward
Righ right....ive mixed the words Model with ''mummified death'' and Thorwal with ''deathpit for hungry adventurer. And afterward with ''right F$@&ing now'' . Typos .
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Alright, the patch has arrived. Turns out, only the kitchen was actually inaccessible due to that crash glitch. There was a well inside to provide an endless supply of water and some food. Would've been nice to have, but somehow, I've managed to survive without it.
I did manage to find the exit from the dungeon. Turns out, it was behind a fake wall near that "triple somersault" lever. There's a lot of locked doors we don't have the keys for, but we got the Salamander Stone and that's all we need, so I've decided to leave that place for now.
I'm now inside the Phex dungeon to get Star Trail and boy, I guess I'm not that good at riddles or logical puzzles. I seriously have no clue what to do next and everyone's already starving and parched.
I can't follow a walkthrough, since this place was complety redone compared to the original and it's pretty much 99% new, so the only thing I could do would be to browse the german official forums with google translate to find some tips...
I'm thinking about reloading and going to Tholmjar instead to finish the main quest. We can return to do that Star Trail quest in Phex Temple sometime later, if it's like Blade of Destiny HD then you can continue to play after you've beaten the game.
Well, I hope I can do that atleast.
I did manage to find the exit from the dungeon. Turns out, it was behind a fake wall near that "triple somersault" lever. There's a lot of locked doors we don't have the keys for, but we got the Salamander Stone and that's all we need, so I've decided to leave that place for now.
I'm now inside the Phex dungeon to get Star Trail and boy, I guess I'm not that good at riddles or logical puzzles. I seriously have no clue what to do next and everyone's already starving and parched.
I can't follow a walkthrough, since this place was complety redone compared to the original and it's pretty much 99% new, so the only thing I could do would be to browse the german official forums with google translate to find some tips...
I'm thinking about reloading and going to Tholmjar instead to finish the main quest. We can return to do that Star Trail quest in Phex Temple sometime later, if it's like Blade of Destiny HD then you can continue to play after you've beaten the game.
Well, I hope I can do that atleast.
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It also doesn't help matters that some riddles seem to require knowledge of the setting, which in my case is fairly limited.
I've found some scrolls which might contain clues, but we've lost our new magician to some trap by accident and everyone else's Read skill of 4 isn't enough to read them, so I don't know if they do contain clues or if they are just alchemy recipes and the skill they lack is actually Alchemy...
So, what do you think, finish the main quest, then return later or try to push through?
I've found some scrolls which might contain clues, but we've lost our new magician to some trap by accident and everyone else's Read skill of 4 isn't enough to read them, so I don't know if they do contain clues or if they are just alchemy recipes and the skill they lack is actually Alchemy...
So, what do you think, finish the main quest, then return later or try to push through?
post riddles here - let us see if kodex is up to the challenge!
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Things I'm stuck with
This is as far as I got and it obviously isn't the right solution. One time, I accidentaly missed the spot that triggers the puzzle event, which resulted in the two dead party members.
Basically, you have to fill the whole board with the plates, but the plates can't be adjanced (or diagonaly adjanced) to a tile or plate of the same color (nor can you place a plate on a tile with the same color). When you place a plate on the tile, the color of the plate replaces the color of that tile.
I think it works like that, atleast.
This room is full of these tiles you can walk on.
I guess you have to walk on them in a certain order and this is some kind of clue?
I have no idea what this is. There are two of these and one has some kind of stone on top of it, but whenever I walk away from it, Praiodan's Curiosity is triggered, he tries to take that stone and it vanishes. There are some hidden walls near these two and I think this opens them.
There's also some "altar" you can donate money too, some dude speaking gibberish with whom you can gamble and a door with no lock, which I think requires some item to get past.
This is as far as I got and it obviously isn't the right solution. One time, I accidentaly missed the spot that triggers the puzzle event, which resulted in the two dead party members.
Basically, you have to fill the whole board with the plates, but the plates can't be adjanced (or diagonaly adjanced) to a tile or plate of the same color (nor can you place a plate on a tile with the same color). When you place a plate on the tile, the color of the plate replaces the color of that tile.
I think it works like that, atleast.
This room is full of these tiles you can walk on.
I guess you have to walk on them in a certain order and this is some kind of clue?
I have no idea what this is. There are two of these and one has some kind of stone on top of it, but whenever I walk away from it, Praiodan's Curiosity is triggered, he tries to take that stone and it vanishes. There are some hidden walls near these two and I think this opens them.
There's also some "altar" you can donate money too, some dude speaking gibberish with whom you can gamble and a door with no lock, which I think requires some item to get past.
Elementary, my dear Watson
EDIT: NVM misread instructions - yeah I'm pretty sure this is just a big trial and error endurance test tbh, like a sliding tile puzzle more or less
Each first letter of each word is a cardinal direction: We Will Wander - 3x West. So it's the path you must follow. W W W W S N S W W S S E W
No idea about finger sticking tho
EDIT: NVM misread instructions - yeah I'm pretty sure this is just a big trial and error endurance test tbh, like a sliding tile puzzle more or less
Each first letter of each word is a cardinal direction: We Will Wander - 3x West. So it's the path you must follow. W W W W S N S W W S S E W
No idea about finger sticking tho
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That colored tile puzzle isnt neccessary I think, since I can already just walk through it and take minor damage. It's annoying though.
Btw. right now, the only surving party members are Reinhardt the female dwarf and Boreale. Everyone else died of thirst.
Btw. right now, the only surving party members are Reinhardt the female dwarf and Boreale. Everyone else died of thirst.
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