Part XII: Blood for the Machine God
Bit longer between updates than I thought, but I got hooked by x-com, any way on with the show, today the hand (job) shall be finished.
Alright back to where we left off, the mysterious floor. Wheres my "it is a mystery" smiley when I want it? I blame Hoodoo
Explodering the floor we meet some people of questionable sanity
: That was a lot of text, my head hurts...
: I thought you bard types liked reading
: My name is bard, doesn't mean that I am one.
: Fine fine, now where was all that text you where talking about I didn't see any
: You know I have no idea actually it just seemed like there was some text...
: Soo about them towers eh?
: You mean the ancient towers likely filled with the brim with ancient powerful magical artifacts? What on earth would you do there?
: Oh I don't know, loot it?
: I don't know about this... undead usually don't like their things taken
: Screw that let's go get some loot
: Seconded
: Thirded
: Seems like we've got a plan, un-un-dead the undead, loot their items and come back for rewards.
: Sounds most excellent
: I don't know...
Up the tower we go
Here there be clerics
Some loot is looted
: Why didn't you tell me it was this easy? Hell we need to get some more loot follow me!
Another room full of clerics and cleric apprentice types
: There I think that is all off them
: There is one over there get him! Take his boots!
: Why boots exactly?
: A man can never have to many good boots I say
: Well color me green and call me an ogre if that isn't some elv... ehm
: Some what now?
: Oh what it's just garbage I'll just dispose of it don't worry!
Unlike other armor elven chainmail does not prevent the casting of arcane spells or the use of thief abilities, thus it is great for a character multi classed with either thief or mage/sorcerer.
: Now this on the other hand is a mighty artifact of legendary power, you bard should have the honor of using this.
: What me?
: No the Bard bard
Tetris levels up, to a new level of ass kicking and gum chewing, ot in this case cigar smoking.
: This place certainly looks... suspiciously well preserved
: Well that just means more well preserved stuff especially boots, get em!
Buts are
liberally conservatively kicked, and some at best mediocre loot is found
: Well that was a disappointment, nothing of value
: Oh don't say that we still got our reward to claim
: Interesting, though it would seem Reject found something
: Yep, several pairs of quality boots, and don't even think about stealing them, their mine! Mine I tell you!
Back down
Our most epic reward
Onwards to the next tower!
: Think I'm getting the hang of this, kill people in tower go back down for reward, guess whats in the next tower eh?
Just now I realized I didn't get any screenshots of the first tower I entered, this because it uses the whole "in engine cinematic" things in which the screenshot functions apparently doesn't work. Any way that tower is blown up by Laurrel and no progress can be made there only lots of bits and pieces floating around.
Some poor defenseless imprisoned orcs and an ogre and butchered for their stuff which isn't much, the savage beasts don't even wear boots!
The next floor, the enemies are a bit hard to see perhaps on this screenshot due to their semi transparency
: Those pesky elven archers hurt...
: Well they're dead now... or undead... or unundead
: By Thoradins bard! more elven archers
: They guy had his own personal bard?
: I means beard damn it
The path to the left leads to another tower, though we won't be going there quite yet
Reject levels up
: Damn straight
: Who you talking to?
: Oh no one, just felt like saying it
: So this is the highest level of the great fortress? Well there btter be something good here.
: I hear you, I only got a couple of dozen or so boots together could still carry a few more
: Damned rape spiders are back
: And they're right in my face get em off me!
Fact: Rape spiders are evil
: Bout time you did something those damned spiders nearly raped me
: Nearly... any way it looked rather tasteful
Yea the loot is great
We're back for our reward and the bitch attacks, use apparently she wishes to die as well.
: Some interesting stuff here, and some more of this strange junk
: Guess I'm carrying it.. sigh
: Boots! Enchanted boots!
: What I don't get is why we didn't just kill her to begin with and skip that damned tower
: Well there could have been something good there...
That bow is:
Boots of speedhack
The last tower! (well the last with an entrance at the same floor as the others)
: Looks empty...
: Not completely, there is some guy over there
Then suddenly the elves pop out of nowhere just like moles
: We're surrounded! Kill them all and let me sort them out, sort out their foot wear that is
: Seriously you guys I was just joking I'm one of you guys I'm a half elf, I just happen to look like a dwarf!
: I'll even give you your boots back if you stop!
The elves reject his offer
: Bard I could use some healing
:The Bards dead, and he couldn't heal any way
: No I mean you the guy named Bard
: Oh right just hold still one moment
: Umm.... oops?
: WATCH WERE YOU AIM... to late never mind
: Karma's a bitch
:... And I'd hit it
Just what we needed more enchanted bows, oh wait we already have a better one and only one bow user, which isn't even using a bow at the moment but a throwing axe
Verily we return for reinforcements
Death stats
: Right how do we get some new people to join?
: Let me try... " Any one that would join us on our quest shall be rewarded greatly with many pairs of boots that we have acquired!"
: Boots you say? A man can n...
: Can never have to many boots?
: Right, any way this gent here is McGuffin son of Guffin who will be joining as well for his share of the boots
: Boots? You don't want gold or glory?
: Nay, gold is the tool of the red skinned horned creature that dwells below.
Meet the new
meat bags aventurers
Long do we travel, many a good boot was worn out, but finally we reach out destination.
Back to where we were.
: Oh shit oh shit oh shit
: I've still got it
: At least no one was friendly fireballed this time
: Friendly fire ball? Doesn't sound so friendly
: Indeed it is not
: But why would one...
: Don't ask
Meat shields are conjured or in this case bone shields with holes in them, great for arrow protection... not
: A Blizzard, how diabolical
Last ones are mopped up
: Alright time for some payback for all those times they tried to kill us with this
: What two times? Any it only worked once and on one person
: But revenge shall be had never the less, revenge for Darth...Roxor... whatever his name was
The next level
.. and around we go
: Great a freaking hippy
: I thought you Ranger types liked nature?
: Not me, I didn't want to be a ranger any way, I wanted to be a Lumberjack, leaping from tree to tree as the flow down the mighty rivers of the north. The giant redwood, the fir, the larch...
: Oookay, I won't ask
Let's head back and check that passage
Garf with the enchanted longbow deals quite some damage
While playing I thought that was cloudkill...
: There is this voice in my head...
: It says that you all must DIE!
: Alright this is getting annoying and extremely painful I say we kill him
: I can't resurrect him you know...
: All the better
: Maybe we shouldn't kill people of our own group?
: look whos talking, but perhaps your right
Any way we just wait it out, Garf hurts like hell even with all those spells we put on him, enchanted bow+ high dexterity + enchanted gauntlets with THAC0 bonus = pain
: Oh hi, we just dropped by to
kick your undead asses!
Obviously some one affected by fear just has to run into another room...
... and another room, now we get some confusion fun as well
: Guys whats going on?
: No idea but I think you looked at me in a strange way so Ima gonna attack you
General chaos is ensued as the only one that can cure this shit is in fact, confused.
: Die you for some reason!
Eventually the chaos ends
Can't believe I got through the clerics towers with out a scratch yet here I have to rest after a single fight
It would appear we are in the tower which I didn't get a scree shot of ( it was just one "room" and nothing in except stuff floating around"
So does this mean we are in the tower which the way up was blown up by Labelas?
: Yes that would seem so
: Does it occur to any of you that this huge stone tower is floating in the air?
: Yes so?
: What do you mean so? A huge stone tower weighing thousands of tons, just floating in the air!
: A wizard did it
: Could have been a cleric
: Or a lumberjack!
: A lumberjack?
: Yeah why not?
Next stop the library
We check out a book, this will come in handy later
: So we just "borrowed" a book from the library with out any intention of returning it?
: You could put it that way yes
: You know I have heard of this far away land called Arcania where they have an ancient archive just like this, except there are hardly any books in it because people keep doing this.
: They should put in better security if they don't want people to steal them
: Like what a legion of undead and having the library in a tower floating in the air with the bottom floor of it blown up?
: Exactly
Dun dun dun the top floor, a lich!
We attempt some lich diplomacy
: He seems... a bit deranged to say the least
: Lets try the other guy maybe he isn't stark raving mad
: Let's give him this junk so he can fix this divine machine
: No way we could sell the parts for gold!
: And who would buy them? I'm bloody tiered of carrying this junk I'm giving it to him
>Teh machine, it is fixed!
Lich guy is a bit saner now, the reason which shall be discovered.
Well thats that the hand is finished, there should be a nice video here that was shown but I can't find it on jewtube
we head back to kuldhar to resupply
We give the mage guy our "borrowed book"
Alright all for today, next time we head to the dwarven stronghold.