Let's get famous in Darklands!

You've gone from Vegabonds to [Dragon Slayer] in 2 years time.

Whatever it takes to prevent the Dragon Age, eh? Heh heh heh *snort*

Also Hurrah!, next page already. Thank you all

I found a dragon area too but all I got was witch encounters that don't even give any virtue and some random bad effect (lose all DF, degrade armor...). No trace of the dragon worshiping village either.

Maybe fire breathing lizards don't show up in Winter ? Either that or my WoodWise is too low, but there's hardly any way to train it.

Carry on good sir, you're obviously better at this game than I am.

Good luck finding that dragon if you didn't do so already. Just don't forget to bring some firewall potions with you otherwise the trip may not end so well.

Another update is in the works but it's about 8 MByte worth of pictures so I better start bumping this now.

Grab your popcorn, people. This is going to be a long one.

One more mine before I get sick of it.






This is not a real Vulcan.





These are real Vulcans.





Bee gets some help from this good looking fellow.



We are rewarded with a holy... finger? Are you serious? :/




A fiery pit filled with fireball throwing Vulcans marks the finale of our quest. Although pretty much all our armour gets shattered during the fight, we still make it to the portal.






We go straight to a church to show the priests there our finger. They’re quiet thrilled.



There are no more rumours going around in the empire, so we're forced to do minor jobs to afford some new armour.




Why do these low paid tasks always lead you to the other end of the world?
At least we get more opportunities to investigate suspicious looking ruins.



Watching...



Entering...



False alarm I'm afraid and now there is another blizzard heading our way. Ashe?



After roughly two months of travelling across the country, we finally reach our destination.



Using brute force...



We start to pray for whatever reason.




Guess those saints are not swayed by melodramatics. Try again...



There is another new event on our way back to Würzburg.






That wasn't a smart idea. Everyone loses a point in virtue. Sorry for that.



We go to the banks for another assignment and get yet another Raubritter quest. *sigh* There is a little twist this time though.



No reason to share the fame with mere henchmen when we're already awesome like that. One pleasant surprise on our routine trip through the streets:


This town is now bookmarked.
But all in all there is only one thing left I can think of.





That's quiet a long way to go but we can catch up with some wasted opportunities, like meeting a wise hermit.



Ok, that one, not so much.




The ox loses in the next round. Unable to choke with yet another defeat I reload and we try riding instead.



There, much better.
We continue our journey, not suspecting anything, when suddenly...





It sounds like we just received Spectre status by your Lord’s grace. Actually, we may just have stumbled over the main quest and it’s on our way to boot with no further hand holding required.




Calling upon a saint for guidance:


No real news then. There is still about a month between now and the Sabbat and no easy ‘wait until day x’ option, so we run around to kill some time.




and another encounter:



and another lonely woman in the woods although with a drastically different mindset than the last one:




Another soul saved by the power Christianity.

After more combat encounters and some minor preparations in Lüneberg, the day is finally here.





There are only two of them. The fight doesn’t last ten seconds.




I try the top to bottom approach again. Starting with the water ritual.




Meh, it was still worth a shot.





No reason to deny it.



Following a hunch, we have another go at the water ritual but with Ashe as leader.



Next up: broom riding.




Crud!






We get one last chance to visit an event.







It is time...




Gonna prove the world that us are some bad-ass Christians (albeit maybe a bit suicidal).



It’s 1vs4? Sorry, but you’re toast.



News at eleven: evil doesn’t fight fair.




One more wave. We’re ready!



Maybe not ready ready but it is sufficient.



It has begun.
Templers are next from the sound of it,

Current roster





Stop being so good, Bee.

So, what happens if you go full retard and select the 1st option (to get unnatural strength)?

Just tried it. Let's just say that you should pay special attention to the 'for the rest of your life' part.

God Finger!
I doubt anyone who watches the localized G Gundam will get this reference.

Great job.

Pussycat669 said:

Good luck finding that dragon if you didn't do so already. Just don't forget to bring some firewall potions with you otherwise the trip may not end so well.

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I haven't found it, and eventually gave up when I became hunted by some kind of demon called the Wild Hunt, and went to many towns all around Germany for the saint needed to make it go away. I still haven't found the right church, but the monster isn't too tough and sometimes is seem attacking some tree people, which when saved give permanent stat boosts, so it's alright. With all this travel I'm gaining age fast though, good thing I started with a bunch of 20 years old youngsters.

Pussycat669 said:

There are no more rumours going around in the empire, so we're forced to do minor jobs to afford some new armour.

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You should consider using alchemy for money making, it's much faster. Find a couple towns that sell reagents for high quality Eater Water, those sell for 1k a potion and cost just a few hundreds in materials. You can make three per day with 99% chances of success with a decent alchemist and philosopher's stone, so you'll be able to afford quality 35+ armor as much as you want.

Pussycat669 said:

Another soul saved by the power Christianity.

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The alchemical reward is pretty nice, but virtue is much more rare and therefore valuable. How did you get to high 40s and even 90 for Bee ? My team's virtue hovers around the twenties, which means I cannot pray for 90% of the saints I know of.

Epic!



Truly epic!
Our holy power has grown pretty strong, it seems, as this update demonstrates.



Epically epic!
So there is a main quest after all, eh?

Pussycat669 said:

Stop being so good, Bee.

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I'm sorry.

korenzel said:

You should consider using alchemy for money making, it's much faster.

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Some sound advice there! Money isn't much of a problem to me anymore though. I just rooted out the Templars and the group is carrying about 30+ pieces of 20q plate armour around which should provide enough coin for the endgame, I hope, where I may need those extra components (finding those has been a rather tiresome aspect so far. Especially since I refuse to make notes about the different cities). The best alternative way to earn money seems to be slaying dragons, at least from my experience. They're fairly easy opponents, if you got the protection, and net you a ridiculously large reward for fairly little effort.

korenzel said:

How did you get to high 40s and even 90 for Bee ?

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Mostly due to the exploit with the dragon village I mentioned earlier, really. You can see the difference between the mine chapter and the one about the dragon in the team roster. Not exactly a clean play style but I didn't give them any new saints yet so I guess it's evened out for now. There really aren't many reliable sources for an increase apparently. Saving the feast during the Sabbat seems to be one, as well as donating large sums to the church (although that does only work with Ashe right now and I still haven't quiet figured out why that is).

Crooked Bee said:

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Reliable as ever. and back.

Crooked Bee said:

So there is a main quest after all, eh?

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It appears so. It sure has the party running around a lot at least. :/

Bee said:

I'm sorry.

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Actually, for a moment there you didn't have to anymore since a bug first decreased your EdgW skill to -111 and then reset it to 0.
Thank god for those backup saves.

Making some good progress here. The next update is almost ready. Just waiting for the next page.

Pussycat669 said:

Making some good progress here. The next update is almost ready. Just waiting for the next page.

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Intelligence: So you want us to bump this to the next page? Like this:

Bump

Another seat of great evil is waiting.




The heroes approach.





We enter the yard of the compound. There are many doors leading to all sorts of random encounters. Here are the more civilized ones:


I'll be damned if I let Theocrat screw this up.




Now, let's get the silver.



Some Templars spawn outside the room. They are skilled swordsmen and heavily armoured but, thanks to some smart use of choke points, still beatable. At least that is what I believed.



The ox tries to guess the password.




There are many guards in that room and they are able to get out of the door before someone can block it. They overpower us easily.





Everyone got stripped of his/her inventory. If my limited experience with older rpgs is any indicator, this is a situation where you either a) take the right turn and find a chest with all your stuff or b) take the wrong turn and die.



We die. Reloading…




This time we're able to fight our way through. It seems to be some kind of command centre.



There is an occupied cell in the next tower.






Suit yourself. We rather investigate the fountain in the yard.



The ox tries a sip.



He gets temporal +10 agility for the price of three virtue. I think we're better off cleansing the thing.




Next up is the cellar where we met our demise earlier. Turns out not all undead down there are necessarily hostile.




We give him the bone as requested.



Thanks a bunch. Only one thing left to do.



The other undead put up more of a fight, again emphasizing that using choke points is vital for the team’s survival.



Going back to the watch-post now.



A vicious Tatzelwurm is guarding a nearby chest.




Bummer. Going downstairs, passed a ton of lethal traps, we find a pile a burned paper.




Not giving up so easily.



Theocrat gains about 20 points of speak latin for this endeavour. Not bad at all. There’s nowhere to go but up from here.




Only one more staircase left. The demon must be close.



If I wouldn't have screwed up the earlier conversation with the imprisoned monk from, we would now know what to do but as it is, there is no alternative than to press on.




What follows are three rooms, each containing tons of Templars & alchemists plus a holy relic as motivation. We then finally reach the boss of this place.




He is barely able to throw some stunning spells our way before we can close in on him. Thanks to the skeleton's advice, this fight is a walk in the park.



And where is Salzburg?



I should have guessed.
Next stop: hell. Or something close to it.

Team roster

I haven't read the update as I have yet to enter the Great Monastery and don't want to spoil the fun, but I'll assist with the bumping.

Much obliged, korenzel
There sure is a lot going on in the endgame so I'll need all the space that I can get.

What, we're approaching the endgame already? As in, the end of this LP!?

Looks like it. My bandwidth will be thankful though. Gained about 30% over the last two days.

So it "To Hell or Bust eh?"

Pretty much, yeah :D

well it seems like this is coming to and end very early, I've assumed it would take longer being open and with many options. how many RL hours you put in I wonder