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Clerics and mages, You say? I fear for Aghar's fate.
Here's a replacement, just in case.

Laurentius
male elf, Cleric/Mage
Chaotic Good
weapon: slingshots!
Not sure if c/m can use shields. If so, give him some kind of one-handed weapon proficiency. If not, go with staves as a secondary weapon.

Str: 13 or more
Dex: 19
Con: 16
Int: 17
Wis: 17
Cha: dump it to hell
 

The_scorpion

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Scorp

Male Dwarf Fighter/cleric
chaotic good

use clischee dwarf avatar pic

Minmax/roll stats as you see fit.
 
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Part XI: The hand job

We set off for the hand having cleared out the eye previously.

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:perception: we have entered chapter 3

What we missed here was a scene with a mad elf ghost casting a fireball at something which he thought was a dwarf.
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: I'm not sure about this, this place has been abandoned for ages and probably for a good reason.
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: We defeated that Yxonomei thing didn't we? This should be easy compared to some extremely powerful inter dimensional being, so let's get to out job here in the hand
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Yeah I just went there
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: Goblins, goblins everywhere
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: Told you this would be bad
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Not only goblins, but orcs as well
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Archers are next to get a thrashing
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Well those were easy let's continue

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: Oh more goblins, they're easy!
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: Weren't they horrible a minute ago?
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: Yes but that doesn't make them hard
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Goblins are steamrolled
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An undead orc shaman, well no things are getting a bit worse
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Still not a problem though
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: They goblins they are everywhere
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: Welll.... technically not everywhere, there was that corner over there where there weren't any
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: Nearly everywhere them
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Moar kobolds are killed, and as you can see here the tower is circular, all the levels of the tower have the same basic shape until we get up to the "fingers"
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Suddenly a score of orcs pop out of no where
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great it's a trap
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: No it's an ambush since if it was a trap I would have found it
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: You wouldn't recognize a trap if it bit you in the ass... which it has done several times
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: Ahh. but several times is not every time
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: I knew this would end badly...
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Cenobyte conjures some goblins, though they might be kobolds, very hard to tell.
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: WATCH WHERE YOU AIM THAT THING!
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It does the trick though and finishes most of the orcs
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Sweet sweet victory, it was a though battle but we won it
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A sword is found
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Further down the same hall, goblins!
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They weren't any problem and we encounter some orcs and goblins, one of the Goblin burps
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: Ah the infamous burping stratagem, invented by General Molyneux. Though not quite ass effective his later developed farting one.
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An intricate web of deceit keeps most of them off us.
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: The fire so exhilarating
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Dead orcs are dead once again thanks unundeadening received from the party
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On the next floor we meet some more goblins!
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; hah measly goblins cower before me!
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: Let's kick ass and chew bubble gum
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: Ahh I take that back , don't kill me!
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Some goblins are summoned to distract their archers and a fireball takes care of the great mass of them.
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It worked p.good
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: See, it's not bad, no one died
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: I nearly died there!
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: nearly
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Some more goblins are encountered and we get some goblin on goblins action
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: These little buggers hurt!
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: See thats what I said, but of course no one listened to me
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: Some good steel in their face hurts them more I would say
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Garfunkel attains another level of funk
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: Hah just couple of goblins no problem!
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... suddenly
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: See there we walk straight into another trap!
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: It's still an ambush and not a trap
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It hurts but web saves the day
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They are quickly picked off one by one by our ranged attackers and Yellowbard who is unaffected. The web places a "hold" spell on them, causing them to be unable to do anything (unlike say roots which just stops movement but can still attack or cast spells) and receive a large penalty to their armor class
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No problem at all
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We find this interesting item
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We try i and this is what we get. So far I haven't gotten anything of value at all out of it. Just some arrows and bolts that kind of stuff.
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Goblins, this is most surprising
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Hardly a challenge, here is a path down to the floor below. As can be seen many staircases have been destroyed by the defenders and then the invaders have built ramps and made holes in the floors in order to advance.

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Another ambush
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We pull back around the wall to avoid the archers, though we get some more in from behind
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One of the orcs shaman get in a entangling roots spell, though this one has a hold effect, the one cast by the clerics in the temple merely hundred movement afaik
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Fireball: Goblin extermination tool #1
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Reject is in a tight spot once again, though Tetris gets in a heal
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Once we get out of the area Garfunkel let's of a fireball on the remaining goblins
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Most of them had full hp so they survived the blast, yet now they are severely wounded and easy to pick off
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The last ones are killed
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Aghar levels up

So does Lovecraft, no SS though
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We find this rather nice morning star for our troubles. Aghar equips it and Tetris grabs the +3 mace Aghar was wielding previously
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Overview of this floor so far
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Alright ready for the next floor
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As soon as we step out on the third floor we are attacked by a bunch of goblin marksmen, they are rather well fortified behind this barrier, though since we took the correct path we end up inside with them and will easily be able to handle them
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They are little more than a nuisance when caught in close combat, however at range they can hurt
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as we find out when we get targeted by a few on the other side, a summon monster spell provides a nice distraction though
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: Scared by some bugs now thats what I call cowardly!
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Indeed the bugs chase them away
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Though finally they have no were to run and we pick them off with some arrows
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Randomly placed traps, I remember that those were there saving us possible death
The characters: :D
The readers of this LP: :x
Me: :smug:

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Scouting ahead, though it probably won't help much since enemies have a tendency to pop out of no where.
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: Oh great skeletons!
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: Well unlike those other things these just can't come out of nowhere that has to count for something
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: What my smite evil doesn't work?!
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: I guess it was a big misunderstanding then, and all they wanted to do was to hug us and not shove a sowrd through us
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: Yeah.... that seams reasonable...
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: Your smite evil might not work on them, but my fireball sure works on them :smug:
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The last ones are finished of
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a +1 shield, nothing great but still an upgrade for Garfunkel who had been using a regular non-enchanted shield
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: More skeletons let's smite them.... oh right
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Some sort of mage skeleton decided to fireball us
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: Hey watch where you aim th...
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: Not me this time
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Next up we encounter some sort of twisted undead monstrosity with blades for arms
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: With such a creature surely there must be a necromancer about no?
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Beat it up good
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more Skeletons, well at least it's a break from goblins

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Tetris casts detect evil just to check, and yes the undead are not evil
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: They might not be evil but they sure do act like it
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:knock knock:
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: Uhh who's there?
A giant skeleton with freaking blade arms that who
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In ones or twos they are not much of a threat

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Oh and elevator, let's check the rest on this floor first
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: God damned friendly fi...
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: Not me this time either
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Skeletons may be resistant to slashing and piercing damage acid sure does the trick though
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Some more skeletons come to join the party
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These shades do nearly no damage and are easily killed, however they should not be taken lightly for they can essentially "heal" other undead including each other, thus a couple of these behind an enemy force can keep it up for a long time.
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Cenobyte levels up
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Before continuing we explore the rest of this level
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: Purge the unclean!
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: Now thats the spirit
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Yep fireball > goblins
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More orc ambushes
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For our troubles of exploring and clearing out that part we found absolutely nothing
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Let's ride the elevator!
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Second floor. On this floor, ancient weapons, old furniture and hordes of undead.
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: Why oh why am I always in the front?
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Lovecraft levels up
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Overview of this level
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A shortsword is found, decent upgrade for Reject
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Tetris moves in to deal with the Shades
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: I'm gonna get medieval on your asses
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No problem there
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Alright the previously unaccessible part of the first floor
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Another room, here the shades are behind a line of skeletons, healing them up
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The skeletons may not be evil but the shades sure are
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We pull out from the bottleneck, thus either preventing heals of the skeletons, or making the shades come out and be vulnerable
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Seems that smite evil actually killed them off
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And the last ones are finished
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A enchanted crossbow is found, +1 AC as well ad the rest. Should be great for reject that keeps taking a beating
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Forward ho!
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We don't really find anything of value, but we find some odd machine parts.
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: What the hell is this thing?
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: Looks like a part of a broken machine probably worthless
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: Dunno might come in handy, better take it
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: Alright, I suppose so. I just didn't want to carry it it's heavy as hell.
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Next we go up to the next floor that we haven't explored

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: Something is wrong here...
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: What do you mean?
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: Well we are not getting attacked by a horde of undead the moment we set our foot on this floor, that just feels wrong
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: Dunno feels pretty good actually

What does the mysterious machine part belong to? And what is the deal with this mysterious floor? Find out next time same bat thread same bat time.
The next update should be the rest of the hand, also it will be a lot bloodier that I promise.
 

Darth Roxor

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All right, so,

Asad Ad-Din, a mysterious human mage from the east.

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Lawful neutral, max intelligence, constitution and dexterity as secondary priorities. Rest as you see fit.
 

taplonaplo

Scholar
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Messages
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The lack of love for druids is disturbing. They actually don't suck as in IWD for a change (Too bad you won't see 100% physical resistant druids coz of the "low" difficulty you are playing on :().
 

Hieromancer

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Messages
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Yeah, druids are actually pretty broken in IWD, I'm surprised more people aren't volunteering themselves as one. Just stack entagles and spike growths on each other a couple of times and you can murder most of what comes your way easy.

Ugh, I hate the thought of playing as one of the tree-hugging little bastards, but I guess I'll volunteer as one so you can get some crowd control going.

Al Gore, true neutral human male
Fighter (6) -> Druid
STR - 16
DEX - As high as you can spare
CON - 18
INT - Dumb as a rock
WIS - 18
CHA - 17, apparently, is what I need to dual. What do 2E druids actually use charisma for again?

Specialize in slings and whatever close-range weapon you think is good.



PS - A lot of healing spells become superfluous once a bard hits lvl. 11 (I think) and gets War Chant of the Sith. Try to keep your bard alive until then, or replace him post haste if any "accidents" occur.
 

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Nice update. Reject keeps slipping away from hands of death. I'm looking forward to see if he manages to keep it up.
 

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Yeah, my character is still alive and kicking! I hope that this won't change in the next update :?
 
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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.

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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
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: That was a lot of text, my head hurts...
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: I thought you bard types liked reading
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: My name is bard, doesn't mean that I am one.
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: Fine fine, now where was all that text you where talking about I didn't see any
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: You know I have no idea actually it just seemed like there was some text...
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: Soo about them towers eh?
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: You mean the ancient towers likely filled with the brim with ancient powerful magical artifacts? What on earth would you do there?
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: Oh I don't know, loot it?
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: I don't know about this... undead usually don't like their things taken
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: Screw that let's go get some loot
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: Seconded
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: Thirded
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: Seems like we've got a plan, un-un-dead the undead, loot their items and come back for rewards.
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: Sounds most excellent
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: I don't know...
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Up the tower we go
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Here there be clerics
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Some loot is looted
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: Why didn't you tell me it was this easy? Hell we need to get some more loot follow me!
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Another room full of clerics and cleric apprentice types
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: There I think that is all off them
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: There is one over there get him! Take his boots!
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: Why boots exactly?
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: A man can never have to many good boots I say
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: Well color me green and call me an ogre if that isn't some elv... ehm
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: Some what now?
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: 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.
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: Now this on the other hand is a mighty artifact of legendary power, you bard should have the honor of using this.
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: What me?
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: No the Bard bard
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Tetris levels up, to a new level of ass kicking and gum chewing, ot in this case cigar smoking.
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: This place certainly looks... suspiciously well preserved
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: Well that just means more well preserved stuff especially boots, get em!
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Buts are liberally conservatively kicked, and some at best mediocre loot is found
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: Well that was a disappointment, nothing of value
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: Oh don't say that we still got our reward to claim
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: Interesting, though it would seem Reject found something
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: Yep, several pairs of quality boots, and don't even think about stealing them, their mine! Mine I tell you!
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Back down
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Our most epic reward
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Onwards to the next tower!
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: 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.
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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!
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The next floor, the enemies are a bit hard to see perhaps on this screenshot due to their semi transparency

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: Those pesky elven archers hurt...
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: Well they're dead now... or undead... or unundead
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: By Thoradins bard! more elven archers
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: They guy had his own personal bard?
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: I means beard damn it
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The path to the left leads to another tower, though we won't be going there quite yet
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Reject levels up
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: Damn straight
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: Who you talking to?
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: Oh no one, just felt like saying it
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: So this is the highest level of the great fortress? Well there btter be something good here.
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: I hear you, I only got a couple of dozen or so boots together could still carry a few more
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: Damned rape spiders are back
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: And they're right in my face get em off me!
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Fact: Rape spiders are evil
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: Bout time you did something those damned spiders nearly raped me
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: Nearly... any way it looked rather tasteful
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Yea the loot is great
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We're back for our reward and the bitch attacks, use apparently she wishes to die as well.
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: Some interesting stuff here, and some more of this strange junk
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: Guess I'm carrying it.. sigh
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: Boots! Enchanted boots!
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: What I don't get is why we didn't just kill her to begin with and skip that damned tower
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: Well there could have been something good there...
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That bow is: :thumbsup:
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Boots of speedhack
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The last tower! (well the last with an entrance at the same floor as the others)
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: Looks empty...
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: Not completely, there is some guy over there
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Then suddenly the elves pop out of nowhere just like moles
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: We're surrounded! Kill them all and let me sort them out, sort out their foot wear that is
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: 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!
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: I'll even give you your boots back if you stop!
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The elves reject his offer
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: Bard I could use some healing
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:The Bards dead, and he couldn't heal any way
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: No I mean you the guy named Bard
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: Oh right just hold still one moment
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: Umm.... oops?
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: WATCH WERE YOU AIM... to late never mind
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: Karma's a bitch
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:... And I'd hit it :smug:
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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
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Verily we return for reinforcements

Death stats
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: Right how do we get some new people to join?
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: 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!"
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: Boots you say? A man can n...
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: Can never have to many boots?
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: Right, any way this gent here is McGuffin son of Guffin who will be joining as well for his share of the boots
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: Boots? You don't want gold or glory?
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: Nay, gold is the tool of the red skinned horned creature that dwells below.

Meet the new meat bags aventurers
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Long do we travel, many a good boot was worn out, but finally we reach out destination.

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Back to where we were.
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: Oh shit oh shit oh shit

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: I've still got it
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: At least no one was friendly fireballed this time
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: Friendly fire ball? Doesn't sound so friendly
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: Indeed it is not
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: But why would one...
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: Don't ask
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Meat shields are conjured or in this case bone shields with holes in them, great for arrow protection... not
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: A Blizzard, how diabolical
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Last ones are mopped up
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: Alright time for some payback for all those times they tried to kill us with this
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: What two times? Any it only worked once and on one person
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: But revenge shall be had never the less, revenge for Darth...Roxor... whatever his name was
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The next level
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.. and around we go
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: Great a freaking hippy
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: I thought you Ranger types liked nature?
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: 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...
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: Oookay, I won't ask
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Let's head back and check that passage
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Garf with the enchanted longbow deals quite some damage
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While playing I thought that was cloudkill...
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: There is this voice in my head...
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: It says that you all must DIE!
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: Alright this is getting annoying and extremely painful I say we kill him
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: I can't resurrect him you know...
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: All the better
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: Maybe we shouldn't kill people of our own group?
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: look whos talking, but perhaps your right
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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

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: Oh hi, we just dropped by to kick your undead asses!
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Obviously some one affected by fear just has to run into another room...
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... and another room, now we get some confusion fun as well
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: Guys whats going on?
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: No idea but I think you looked at me in a strange way so Ima gonna attack you
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General chaos is ensued as the only one that can cure this shit is in fact, confused.
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: Die you for some reason!
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Eventually the chaos ends
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Can't believe I got through the clerics towers with out a scratch yet here I have to rest after a single fight :decline:

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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"
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So does this mean we are in the tower which the way up was blown up by Labelas?
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: Yes that would seem so
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: Does it occur to any of you that this huge stone tower is floating in the air?
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: Yes so?
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: What do you mean so? A huge stone tower weighing thousands of tons, just floating in the air!
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: A wizard did it
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: Could have been a cleric
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: Or a lumberjack!
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: A lumberjack?
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: Yeah why not?
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Next stop the library
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We check out a book, this will come in handy later
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: So we just "borrowed" a book from the library with out any intention of returning it?
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: You could put it that way yes
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: 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.
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: They should put in better security if they don't want people to steal them
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: 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?
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: Exactly
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Dun dun dun the top floor, a lich!
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We attempt some lich diplomacy
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: He seems... a bit deranged to say the least
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: Lets try the other guy maybe he isn't stark raving mad
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: Let's give him this junk so he can fix this divine machine
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: No way we could sell the parts for gold!
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: And who would buy them? I'm bloody tiered of carrying this junk I'm giving it to him

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>Teh machine, it is fixed!
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Lich guy is a bit saner now, the reason which shall be discovered.
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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
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We give the mage guy our "borrowed book"

Alright all for today, next time we head to the dwarven stronghold.
 

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Stand next to confused archers, they get -8 on their rolls for attacking with ranged in melee.
Also, if you ever encounter parts where you need to rest really frequently start using haste, emotion spells, and priest prayer spells. ~+7 damage on every attack really adds up. That was basically how i mow thru HoF, and most enemy still fell in a few rounds which isn't bad considering how shittons of hp they got.
Too bad you got stupid boots, i consider it pretty much the worse you can get out of the bitch. Her gauntlets and elven chainmail are both superior.
 

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taplonaplo said:
Stand next to confused archers, they get -8 on their rolls for attacking with ranged in melee.

That's -4, I think.

So, Reject wasn't able to keep up his surviving after all. A pity, but that wasn't completely unexpected. Both him and Garfunke will be remembered for their sacrifice :salute:
New guys look pretty strong. Think that will the final squad?
 

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MicoSelva said:
taplonaplo said:
Stand next to confused archers, they get -8 on their rolls for attacking with ranged in melee.

That's -4, I think.
I thought it was -8 on attacking and -4 on your AC. Either way, you are better off hugging the guy, coz the AI definitely targets the closest guy.
 
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taplonaplo said:
Stand next to confused archers, they get -8 on their rolls for attacking with ranged in melee.
Also, if you ever encounter parts where you need to rest really frequently start using haste, emotion spells, and priest prayer spells. ~+7 damage on every attack really adds up. That was basically how i mow thru HoF, and most enemy still fell in a few rounds which isn't bad considering how shittons of hp they got.
Too bad you got stupid boots, i consider it pretty much the worse you can get out of the bitch. Her gauntlets and elven chainmail are both superior.

What I could have gotten quality elven chainmail instead of a pair of lackluster boots?!

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MicoSelva said:
taplonaplo said:
Stand next to confused archers, they get -8 on their rolls for attacking with ranged in melee.

That's -4, I think.

So, Reject wasn't able to keep up his surviving after all. A pity, but that wasn't completely unexpected. Both him and Garfunke will be remembered for their sacrifice :salute:
New guys look pretty strong. Think that will the final squad?

Group is solid indeed, though I very much doubt that there won't be more causalities before the end, for example I remember a certain statue spouting death spells and disintegrate. And even if we get through that I have absolutely no idea what awaits in heart of winter since I haven't played the expansion. That will be bloody.

Any way what does one do with a fighter dual classed to mage? Can't really figure this one out, and I suspect that unlike the fighter/mage multiclass elven chainmail won't work.
 

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Merkwürdigliebe said:
Any way what does one do with a fighter dual classed to mage? Can't really figure this one out, and I suspect that unlike the fighter/mage multiclass elven chainmail won't work.

I think that's mostly done to have a mage with much more HP and some decent skill with bows, so he/she doesn't stand around useless after running out of spells.
Elven chainmail shuld work fine after mage level exceeds fighter level.
 

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Merkwürdigliebe said:
Any way what does one do with a fighter dual classed to mage? Can't really figure this one out, and I suspect that unlike the fighter/mage multiclass elven chainmail won't work.

Kick ass? Dunno, it's a mage but with tons of survivability and combat prowess. Equip a bow and memorize crowd control spells if you don't want it in the front lines. The elven armor should work as both are technically the same class (fighter/mage).


Great update, btw. Keep them coming!
 
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Really? Wouldn't the mage class restrictions prevent the use of a bow or armor? Or can those be used once the mage level is higher than the fighter level? Otherwise the combo feels a bit weak.
 

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Yes, that is the point. After mage level is equal or higher to the previous fighter level, character regains all fighter abilities and functions as a multiclass fighter/mage - except no further experience in fighter class is gained.
 

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Great mopping up of the Hand. Oh, and the game won't get easier, I think there's still plenty of potential for party members who don't survive the trip.
 

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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

Sucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ7GxQi38I

Great cinematic. Just like all cinematics in IWD.

I love the Hand and its backstory (and how it's continued in Dorn's Deep), easily my favourite part of this game. A shame it was so butchered in IWD2, though...
 
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Darth Roxor said:
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

Sucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ7GxQi38I

Great cinematic. Just like all cinematics in IWD.

I love the Hand and its backstory (and how it's continued in Dorn's Deep), easily my favourite part of this game. A shame it was so butchered in IWD2, though...

There we go that was the cinematic I was looking for, excellent! I managed to find it earlier, though only in Hungarian. :lol:

Suppose I better get started on Dorns Deep, plenty of nice loot to be had there, and dangerous shit as well of course.
 

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