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| Displayed name | Synergy |
| Member number | 6292 |
| Title | Shaper |
| Postcount | 2009 |
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| Registered | Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 12:25
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Either that or I'm thinking Mimi confused the Ur-Drakon skin for another skin, or a Drakon Scale, which she did sell. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 01:18
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Oh yeah...you mean that indescribably vile four-letter slur around here that starts with c u and has a t in it. Reserved for when one wishes to incite violence from certain touchy SW members. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 01:12
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quote:The guy following them IS a duck. That guy asks the bartender to put the tab on his bill. This shamelessly recycled humor brought to you lovingly by: -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
| Items sold : just an idea in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 01:07
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It is not possible for you to have sold the Ur-Drakon Skin, nor did you buy it. It is one of the special items for forging the Eight Artifacts. You find these items in difficult places, and there are only one or two of them each. They are meant to be very rare. The special items cannot be sold. The Ur-Drakon Skin comes from Quessa-Uss, and you will find it there, if you take Salazaar's advice and pay final respects to the drakon you fight and slay. You can only make the Shapemaster Boots OR the Girdle of Succor in the game, but not both, since there is only one Ur-Drakon Skin. Choose wisely. :) -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 01:00
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We moved away from the Seattle area in 1980 largely for this reason...which eventually resulted in seven years in Texan exile. Then, bit by bit, we all came to our senses. Except my older brother. He moved back down there and became a Russian Orthodox priest. Note that there is not a drop of Russian blood in our family. I don't understand my brother. Curse those Soviets! Curse them! -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 00:54
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Some people may find it necessary to post more than others. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 00:04
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Growing up dreading the Soviet nuking of the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, WA and Boeing at the end of the Cold War era really really sucked. How on the success meter do we measure entire generations growing up under the spectre of fear, I wonder? If only I had known that all I had to do was "Duck and cover," it might have all been different. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 27 2007 23:54
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I endeavor to embrace the aesthetic that l e s s is more . Any resemblance to gimmickry herein is the consequence of self-indulgent fleeting fixation. An experiment. An exercise. A failed exorcism for an irrepressible and perpetually morphing penchant for word abusage. If my word falls in the forest and no one hears it, it still makes ripples in my brain. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 27 2007 23:00
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Apparently alliteration appreciation atrophies. Alas. A loss. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
| Easter Egg in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, February 27 2007 16:25
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I'll post some pics from this little diversion in my next Insidious Infiltrator installment. Thanks for the help. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 27 2007 10:47
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Thee Bow of Decay is a worthy weapon. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 27 2007 10:36
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quote:Have you not noticed that the inscrutable and inimitable Salmon is mind-blowingly unique? -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
| Quessa-Uss in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, February 26 2007 22:13
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So, under this cap, do Spellcraft and other magic add up to more than 30? Do I really have 42 Battle Magic effectively, or just 30? -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, February 26 2007 21:45
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quote:And...so...how's it going? And how are XP working out? -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, February 26 2007 21:31
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"Two dollars! I want my two dollars!" — Psycho newspaper boy, Better Off Dead. -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, February 26 2007 21:27
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I just tried to kill Ghaldring with 42 combined Spellcraft + Battle Magic. Two hits of Kill only took him down half. After one turn of attacks, I was auto-killed. I've also been wondering, is there a cap on magic power at 20, or will it ramp up indefinitely? -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, February 26 2007 17:22
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quote:I can never remember...are those the rebels that hang from the top of the cave or the ones that stand on the bottom of the cave? Pardon my necromancy, but I was unable to resist the compulsion. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, February 25 2007 23:58
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Exxxxxxxcellent! -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, February 25 2007 22:57
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Sorry about that. I assumed the description in the first post made it obvious this would be a complete story of what an Infiltrator goes through in an entire game. By nature, it's loaded with spoilers. It's mostly made for people who have played the game through and are considering trying another type of character to play. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, February 25 2007 17:16
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What oozebeasts? -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, February 25 2007 12:03
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quote:Hmm...The Flatulent Drayk quest? Can you imagine the perils of his own breath to himself? Yes, this was entirely uncalled for. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, February 24 2007 23:35
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VALETA III: CHAPTER FOUR — Part Two: Trall-la-la Whoops!...or...She Who Hesitates Is Lost Actually, what are we waiting for? Let’s go make another Mental Focus Charm before storming the Western Morass. We venture back to Valeya Ruins and pile up our anvil ingredients by the door that will not open...yet.  The path to the anvil is well-guarded. It’s useful to be on friendly terms with the Shapers at the moment.  So, it’s been a while since I faced the Maddened Trall guarding the door to the anvil room. I forget how this goes....After the usual buff ‘n’ haste and Wrack ‘n’ Shackle, Val conservatively attacks with Lightning Aura and doesn’t find it too effective. This guy’s pretty tough.  Playing around, she sears and acids the trall, neither being terribly helpful either. OK, let’s get serious. She whittles 421 points off the Trall with Kill. Looks like one more hit of nearly anything should finish him off...right?  Oops, we shouldn’t have used Ice Spray. That was a bit cocky and bit stupid.  And now look what happens, because we failed to finish him last turn.  He’s healed partially and has three new friends to help out. We Strong Daze the trio, but Kill bounces off him like a soggy grape. Now the especially Maddened Trall hastes and throws three nasty rocks at us in a row. Ouch! We heal and now remember that in this state, the Trall has become nearly impervious to all magical damage. Nothing hardly makes more than a nick in him and we’re burning through essence at a fast rate and striving to stay healed. Now we’re out of green essence, despite having plenty of blue. Gah, this is gaxed. We should have Dominated the two Betas immediately instead of tinkering around with trying to attack the Trall directly with more magic. Val can’t even get at the Trall with physical attacks, because she froze the two Betas and Kyshakk neatly in front of him. Valeta concedes to her defeat. I could have had her run out around the corner to heal up and essence up and take it on again, but instead I restarted the attack. I should have played out the challenge of the first attempt fully. Anyway, this has been a lesson in how NOT to handle such situations. Attempt No. 2: Val comes in as before with Wrack ‘n’ Shackle, but corners the Trall at close range to keep him from his nastier ranged attacks and goes right for some Kill strikes.  The trall summons only two betas this time when he is near death. We Dominate one immediately to help pummel the Trall now, who mostly requires physical punishment to crumble. All the spines on Val’s gear along with Spine Shield permit the Trall to do lots of damage to himself every time he pummels us...which isn’t more than a couple times before we deliver the coup de grace with the Guardian Claymore. That was better. I still wish I played out the first botched attempt just to show we can survive our worst mistakes. It’s not like I’m short on essence pods. We access the anvil and fashion ourselves a second Mental Focus Charm for another free level of Spellcraft. We add the Steel Spine the Trall drops to our recently acquired Dexterity Boots. We psyche up for the impending rush on the Western Morass. -S- P.S. That was a kindly gesture, Thuryl. I'm not sure what to think. But thank you. [ Saturday, February 24, 2007 23:38: Message edited by: Synergy ] -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, February 24 2007 21:54
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Yes, and if you haven't done that before, once you enter fight mode after pressing 'f,' look for the button at the bottom of your screen that has a knife on it. If you here press TAB, it is the button that is labeled "attack." Press that button and then the target of your choice, and you have started a whole new war with formerly friendly folk. You devil, you. -S- -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, February 24 2007 21:47
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quote:There will be fisticuffs, explosions, treachery, and dancing hamsters! I truly welcome any discourse with you at any point, Kel, really. You show yourself to be a peaceable and reasonable person, which I greatly appreciate, and you’re growing on me all the time. Shh, don’t tell anyone. I really wasn’t feeling angry at you in yesterday’s boxing matches, like I said. I was feeling passionate about defending some sense of my integrity in the public eye. I was feeling angry at someone else eventually, to my disappointment. If we want to discuss the nature of relationships further, I will welcome a wholly non-incindiary continuance of that topic somewhere if someone wants to start one up. Maybe it will naturally re-emerge at some point in the future. Meanwhile, I was expecting and hoping you might have something to contribute to this topic. Thanks for the useful and interesting historical info. quote:[/b] We could look at what that Jesus guy started, to name one. I don’t know of much in the way of historically-known examples, though. It’s just my sense of how things begin in the world: with one person, one small group, one new idea or discovery, one place, though I’m not suggesting these things happen in a vacuum. I think most early histories of nations and how they formed their attitudes and beliefs are so often shrouded in the mists of time, we may never know the quiet, humble beginnings of what become national identities and the markers of eras. On an admittedly inane contemporary level, we can see how one clown somewhere in America can come up with a new dumb joke, and a few years later, and even a generation later, it seems like every kid in America knows and reveres it. Yet we know that one mind first came up with it somewhere. But now it's virtually a universal part of American culture. I’m also aware, how on smaller scales one person in a position of authority or influence can dramatically set the tone for an entire environment or even a nation. I work in an environment right now which can readily be pretty wretched if there is someone humorless, rigid, or control-freaky at the top. Thanks to one woman who runs the operation and sets the tone, it is one of the most wonderful places I could hope to be working. One person can have such influence from the top down, and it is often infectious. Rome is said to have started with Romulus and Remus of the wolves...I wonder what the actual startings of such nations were like with the real persons involved? I think a lot of the flavors of nations and cultures may well trace back to some simple, early influences, which may have been one person of influence in an early tribe or whatnot. It’s just my theory, though. I can’t validate it. quote:The Greeks: the ultimate patriarchal narcissists? -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, February 24 2007 21:06
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VALETA III: CHAPTER FOUR Part One — Beeline to Poryphra So, I didn’t photo-document the first part of Burwood Province, but here is what has transpired. Val is seeking to make contact with the Shaper camp in Poryphra Ruin before much anything else. Valeta II started assisting the five Infiltrators along the way and without a save game far enough back, my reputation-based strategy was hosed. It was a careless mistake, but Val III here is an even more refined exercise in focused lethality, so it’s been just as well. Val went north from Rebel Camp Aziraph through Burwood South Road. The four Wingbolts she was careful to single out one at a time, and none ever got a shot off on her. We're nice to the minor ruffians camped nearby. Val can't resist dodging off to the east to the Sentinel Groves to play with the undead. Only the last of the three spectres is a real danger. He is capable of running up from afar and hitting Val three times! He has to be hit hard and fast and never be permitted the chance to attack. We go further north to Valeya Road, killing everything. We start with Daze for groups and dispensing hasted Ice Spray/Firebolt greetings upon battle betas and glaahks. Only after killing everything shaped that moved in the zone did she ask Shaper Krogstad to rein in his creations there (for the experience points.) She also meandered into the mad servile camp in the SW of the zone and mopped them out readily with Daze and Spray, being sure to first follow the dialog path with them that leads them to offer up their nearby canister to me first. I wholly missed that option at least my first game or two. We aren't collecting any rewards from the five Infiltrators yet, though. Next, north to Valeya Ruins, Val bumps into Guardian Kantor and his pack of goons.  We’ll wipe out this entire town eventually, but for now, we use our Leadership to gain free access to the streets as a double-agent. Kantor wants me to secure the anvil here, but I haven’t bothered yet. I want to zip up to see Alwan first. The other useful thing to do here right now, besides stealing everything not nailed down, is to buy a Rotghroth fang and Demon Bile from Rajskrub’s shop. These are two of the four ingredients needed for our next Mental Focus Charm. We already have the Glaahk Eye and Madness Gem sitting in a pile at the gates of Rebel Camp Aziraph. We exit east to the Kelekee Bridges. The Vlish here fall prey to Daze and just about anything thrown at them. The turrets are nasty if we catch any of their flak, so crossing the bridges involves careful moving hasted to take out one or two turrets in a turn when coming into range. The ambush is no sweat. We meander north to pay Shorass the Trakovite a visit. His larger pack of Kyshakks is a bit of a trick as an Infiltrator singleton, since they don’t Daze very effectively, but luring them out into the hallways one or two at at time works well enough. A good time for maximal buffs, Augmentation, and Regeneration. I’ll come back to kill Shorass later and collect his loot, but not yet. For now we just rap. Now north to the Poryphra West Gate. Val is avoiding Fort Raevinn, because to pass through it requires helping the Rebels according to my strategy, and I don’t want to do that until after talking to Alwan et. all and getting the Help the Infiltrators quest first. My reputation is just high enough right now with my 10 Leadership with gear to do it. I discovered something new this time through the West Gate. You actually can safely deactivate all those mines on the north island without setting any off. Way cool. I had never figured out the puzzle before. We pass that way and bypass having to deal with Shaper Horis at all for now. We just scoot through to the east, which takes us to... The Poryphra Ruins and into the thick of the Shaper camp here. Alwan and Miranda and friends. Shaper Grim has useful new spells for us like Major Daze and Major Heal at average prices. Guardian Koerner has what I came here for: the quest to aid the five Infiltrators. Why not? We’d like to further our own kind in the world...at least temporarily. We also don’t want competition. We get the paper spying quest from Kiki. We buy Living Tools from Waldfogle. Val basically buys all Essence Pods and Living Tools wherever she goes, and rarely buys anything else, except spells, occasional shaping, and occasional anvil ingredients. Now she heads back to enter Fort Raevinn from the south and help the rebels fight the shaper attackers there. Using enough leadership convinces the four messengers fleeing to stay and fight too for some extra XP. I fought this battle about a half dozen times just experimenting with how Val can utilize the fighters around her versus trying to do all the killing herself, including the tough stationary pack around the campfire. There are some worthy and numerous adversaries here and it takes some careful timing and occasional hiding around a corner to heal in order to survive the full onslaught. She scores the Stabilty Boots here from the Shaper captain. These replace the Nimble Sandals Val’s been using since Chapter Two. Now it’s west to Derenton Freehold. Val kills the Kyshaaks in the SW rubble, gets the Free the Prisoners in the Western Morass quest from Mage Manohla, kills the impudent drayk for Orois Blaze for a blessing boon of +1 Dexterity, talks to the drakon guest for Litalia and gets the Quessa-Uss quest, peeks at all the papers for Kiki’s quest, steals everything possible. She’s got 41 Living Tools in tow, being able to open doors for minimal Living Tool use with the 15 Mechanics she has with gear assistance. We’ll use some of those to break into canister rooms eventually. I already did for one canister in Aziraph. It beats paying 3000 gold to bump up my Drayk shaping ability one level. I swear someone either here in Derenton or in Poryphra used to give me a quest to kill Shorass, the Trakovite, but I haven’t been able to trigger that quest any longer, and I’m wondering if it was removed since the beta? Has anyone gotten that quest since the beta? Now if you mention Shorass to Litalia or Alwan, they just say they will take care of him and next time you visit Shorass, he is gone. Here is what the path looks like:  Well, this brings us up to where I actually am right now. I apologize for the lack of pretty pictures, but they will resume again now as we head next to raid the Western Morass. -S- P.S. Dareva, I played an early beta game with an Infiltrator who was far less optimized than even yours may be, but she still whomped through pretty impressively, which is why I first got excited about the Infiltrator. I added some Strength, Endurance, Intelligence, and battle skills for melee and missles too. Magic was at much more normal levels, but she was strong all around. A Servile probably would have worked better with that allocation, but the Infiltrator still did great, especially having extra essence for creations late in the game. [ Saturday, February 24, 2007 22:55: Message edited by: Synergy ] -------------------- A4 Items • A4 Singleton • G4 Items • G4 Forging • G4 Infiltrator • NR Items • The Lonely Celt Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |