Pity that I don't have the internet at home. I'd have seen what happened to the Fred with regards to the Helm of Defence and avoided the same thing happening to me.
Diary of Æthelflæd and Holy Avenger continued.
Day 13On arrival in Beregost, we helped the Dudley’s, gave Alanna’s beau a bit more spine, took on Karlat, calmed down marl, and got a book for Firebead. We then cleared Landrin’s home of spiders and I acquired a cloak from Algernon. After that I agreed to help Silke, but when I refused to commit murder for her she attacked me. After hurting Holy Avenger considerably, she died. Holy Avenger then healed himself and we rested. I returned Perdue’s sword for him before exploring the area. When we did that, I got a couple of belts from an ogre with a belt fetish. I found a letter to Mirianne and returned it, and then headed south along the road. We were attacked by a member of the Flaming Fist and were forced to kill him. We fought with ghasts, ghouls and hobgoblins, finding a pair of boots on one of them, and then continued south killing various enemies until we reached Nashkel.
[I liked the battle against Silke. It was much more realistic. She used invisibility, moved away from Holy Avenger who was attacking her, and then cast magic missiles. That was far more intelligent!]Day 23We were attacked by a crazy mage called Zorgal. He killed Bentha and then put me to sleep. Holy Avenger stayed awake however, and he finished off Zorgal. He was hardly hurt at all in the battle. We then protected Prism from Greywolf and returned with the emeralds to Oublek. After that we picked up all the people who wanted to go to Nashkel. We got them there without conflict and left them there.
Day 26We were asked to deal with the problem of the madman Bassilus. We did so, and whilst doing so were also able to help Melicamp get back into shape.
[I was quite impressed by the way Bassilus cast “Sanctuary” in order to heal himself when badly hurt. Since Holy Avenger was almost dead, it was not actually the best thing to do, as both Holy Avenger and Æthelflæd were able to cast healing spells. If he has been really wise, Bassilus would not have attacked again at that point, but would have waited until he was fully recovered, but then he’s supposed to be mad. With the gold that was earned we got a travel cloak. It was a toss-up between a travel cloak and a martial staff, but currently I think that the protections against various things such as fire are more important.]Day 27We returned to where we met Bassilus and killed some ghasts, Zargal and his two friends. Zargal seemed to be particularly susceptible to fear. He ran away once. When he recovered, he took a healing potion, (presumably) and after being hit again immediately panicked.
[Cavaliers have no fear of his friends due to being immune to poison]Day 32We helped a boy trapped in a lighthouse, an archaeologist and Brage, the captain of the guard. After selling his sword and nearly all my jewellery, we scraped together enough to buy a martial staff +3 and a greenstone amulet, with 10 gold pieces left over.
Day 38We re-visited the lighthouse area where Holy Avenger killed a lot of sirene and I killed some flesh golems. We then went looking for Rufie and had a battle with Vax. We then returned to High Hedge to sell the spoil and buy better equipment.
Day 41
We then went to find a shipwreck and after doing so tried to help Shawl. However, she killed Holy Avenger and when I retaliated she died.
[ No helmet of defence!!! Every other game I've played, she brings the character back to life. Does SCS change this, or is it that my character was too strong?] We then returned to the temple to get him raised. The only good thing was that I got 5000 experience for killing Shawl so I am almost at the next level.
Day 46We went to sort out those half-ogres that Bjornin told us about, killed some bandits and yet another assassin. On our return to Beregost, I bought some Shadow Armour which has left us short of gold again, but at least it might keep me alive. I still have enough to buy a scroll of acid resistance however, so I think that I will buy one of those before going hunting Ankheg.
Day 51
We went hunting Ankheg and were highly successful except that we needed to sleep after killing fifteen. When we slept we were attacked by another which we dispatched. We tried to sleep again and were again attacked. Once again we prevailed. A third time we tried to sleep. On this occasion we were attacked by two, one of them being very tough. It killed Holy Avenger, only this time, I was the avenger!!! I killed it with Holy Avenger’s staff and then we went to the Friendly Arms to raise the fallen. I had to sell nearly all my jewels to pay for him being raised. This was particularly galling as I have heard that we could have some good armour made for him costing a mere four thousand gold pieces. After being raised, Holy Avenger had to sleep again and again in order to heal himself.
Day 52We returned to the Ankheg nest and found Farmer Brun’s son. We returned the body to his father and gave him all our gold to help him get back on his feet. That was a very sacrificial gift, but what else could we do? Whilst we are poor ourselves, at least we have the wherewithal to earn more.
Day 61
We have picked up Gavin who has involved us in a quest to solve the problems that Mutamin is causing. We are equipped and ready to go. [I was going to drop him off once we had been given the quest, but Gavin seems singularly attracted to Æthelflæd, and I would like to see how their relationship works out.]
Day 67The battles in Mutamin’s garden were going well until we didn’t notice a medusa that turned Holy Avenger to stone. As soon as we noticed it, we were able to kill it, but had no “Stone to flesh scrolls”. We therefore returned to the temple and bought two, one as a spare. We returned to Holy Avenger, but the spot where he was, was swarming with gibberling. As we now knew that there were also medusae in the area, we turned Holy Avenger back to flesh and immediately ran, Gavin praying to Lathander as we ran that we would not run into an ambush until Holy Avenger was healed. His prayers were answered.
Day 70On our return to the garden, I gave a potion of oil of speed, a scroll of protection from petrification and several healing potions, to Holy Avenger. They were enough for him to kill all our enemies there. Gavin is obviously quite attracted to me; which I find quite flattering, as a lot of folk do not find Svirfneblin attractive. We will now give the good news about Mutamin to Gavin’s superiors.
Day 76We have been to see the Morninglord and were handsomely rewarded for killing Mutamin. This enabled us to pay for some Ankheg plate armour. Unfortunately it will take some time to make. We have saved a man being attacked by a bear and as a result we were given some snow boots. We tried to get into Durlag’s tower, but the guards were too powerful. We did however kill one of them, but it is clear that we need more experience before returning. We tried to get into lady Valeria’s house to find out what is happening to the missing citizens, but were unable to open the lock. Since there was not much else to do, we then entered the Nashkel mines.
Modifié par Grimwald the Wise, 14 novembre 2011 - 06:04 .
Retour en haut
