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| Title | Shaper |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, December 13 2006 09:40
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 20:53
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I'm increasingly curious about this. Can someone explain to me how a random number generator would not in fact generate truly random numbers? Thanks, -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, December 12 2006 20:01
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 19:50
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 19:25
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 19:20
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I have now said all I would have liked to have said on this matter with present company. -S- [ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 20:17: Message edited by: Synergy67 ] -------------------- 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, December 12 2006 18:51
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 17:31
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 16:08
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written Tuesday, December 12 2006 15:13
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CHAPTER THREE: Part Three — Something Smells Down Here So, we’re feeling pretty cocky, but it’s time to put our mettle (and metal) to the test in the Wrecked Labs, now that the threat of the Golem’s Fen has been eliminated. I like the boggy, Willow-tree lined spiral path to the foreboding trap door. The piles of rock suggest illicit excavation here.  It’s been a long time since I ventured down into this creepy, abandoned place all alone. Val doesn’t spook easily, but this will be a slightly unnerving challenge. Or not. Let’s find out. I’m getting the chills just a little as I enter. We poke around a bit. Here comes the towering, lumbering Maddened Rotghroth. Totally freaked me out the first time I encountered it.  Our first attempt will be to stand and fight, as I just acquired Essence Shackles from the canister in the golem’s workshop. We curse and slow the rotghroth. It does nothing its next turn and Val unleashes 153 points of magical damage from her first dose of Lightning Aura. A tiny amount of the white line below the rot retreats. Rut-roh, Raggy. This thing’s tough, all right. 147 points of damage with her second jolt. Now we get the dialog box that the rot has emerged and we have a powerful urge to flee. That’s not entirely untrue, but the rot just stands there again and roars a challenge.  Two more rounds of Lightning Aura are doing very noticeable cumulative damage by now. The rot takes 66 damage from the after-effect in between turns...and it still just stands there dying from a distance.  The fifth Lightning hit on the rot redlines him. Your fetid bony behind is toast now! But wait, we MISS our next attack. We may need some more missle skill, and meanwhile, we might take some damage yet. But the rot just stands there taking another 66 points of lingering magical damage. And again, the maddened rotghroth roars a challenge. Some challenge. Slow ‘N’ Stinky seems to have failed to notice the challenges I have been roaring at him all along to the tune of 300 HP per turn. To drive our point home, we run up and confidently deliver the lethal blow by swordpoint. Pee-yew. We shouldn’t have done that. It will take a week to remove this stench. How the mighty have fallen. “He who hesitates is lost.” Thank you Essence Shackles. This rot fang will come in handy toward making a Talisman of Might and three Mental Focus Charms later on. Rot-brain also drops one of those nearly worthless Radiance-bane items which promptly go to coin. This is just too easy. Let’s go on a leisurely stroll through the labs now, shall we? We switch four pieces of gear to make us as convincing and tinkery as possible. The Burning Turrets submit to Val’s irresistibly lulling presence, which doesn’t stop her from casually dispatching them one by one. Oh, now that was funny. The first turret was tougher than expected. When Val failed to chop and blast it into oblivion in one turn, the other two friendly turrets turned on their injured mate and acided it out of existence. Thanks guys, but I wanted those XP! Oh, nevermind. There are no XP to be had at this point. The third turret helps me take out the second. It is up to me alone to take out the third. Two blasts of Ice Spray aren’t quite sufficient. We’ll be boosting Battle Magic further yet. Two sword strokes put the Rogue Drayk out of its misery. We continue to loot with leisure. We have 53 Living Tools. Shall we use one to open this door? Wellllll....okayyyyy. Three more turrets we have cajoled. Let’s swap out some gear this time and add in the additional point in Spellcraft we just picked up with Crystal-Woven Chain we found, and see if this enables our Ice Spray to dispatch a turret in two hits. Hmm, it works one time, not quite the other. We take a bit of nasty acid damage but are soon healed up nicely enough. There are no more foes to face down here. Just some more “shopping” to finish. We pass a lovely patch of living health and essence plants, but we really don’t need their services at all. As we open the locker that contains Purified Essence, we gain a level to bring us to 31. What shall we spend our SP on, my Precious? Spellcraft and Battle Magic both cost 4 at the moment. This is a no-brainer. We take some tolerable damage getting past mines to the Mass Energize canister. Normally a great boon, this isn’t at all useful to us at the moment, but we, the canister-crazed, are ever happy to indulge. We emerge into the final room of the lab on our circuit through. We repair the pylons, which does nothing for us at this point, but just in case there’s another rotting guest lurking under a pile of rocks somewhere, we might as well get them going again. We’re thoughtful like that when we get the chance. We also, much more usefully, help ourselves to our second dose of Create Drayk, conveniently waiting here for us in another entrancingly glowing green canister. One more of these, and we’ll have Cryodrayks at our beck and call. We are very ice-friendly. Valeta’s father, Prince Valiant, originated from the somewhat frigid realms of Thule, after all. Ice runs in her blood.  Because we prudently left some 24 spaces free in our inventory after killing the disappointly unchallenging rot, we managed to drag everything out to the stairway in one trip. But it wlll take two trips to haul all our loot out of here entirely. We got all kinds of useful and lucrative stuff down here, but four items are reserved for Jared, because it will be far more profitable to surrender them to him.  By the way...I seem to do this every time I’m down here. I miss the three boxes in this room here. Be sure not to overlook the three chests on the west wall. One of them contains the gold bar you’ll be wanting.  Interesting. A second attempt at the rot—just for fun—reaps the exact same results! My sixth hit with Lightning Aura misses, and a seventh hit with pretty much anything kills it. Again it roars two challenges, but never gets the chance to attack when first hampered with Wrack and Essence Shackles. So, Val decides to try out the Crystal-Woven Chain for a while for its boost to Spellcraft, and see if she notices any ill effect to her survival rate due to lessened armor. She slinks happily back to the rebel camp to bring Jared his requested items...even if we are just a little irritated to surrender the rather precious Demon Bile in particular. The Singing Rapier reward Jared gives us is decent for its bonus to QA and Parry, but it pales pathetically to what the Claymore already offers us. Valeta’s Father owned a blade called The Singing Sword. Oh, now we’re talking. Look at what else our little errand to the Wrecked Labs earned us:  We glut ourselves on all the spells we can stomach and have a piddling 3500 coins left. I believe there are a few even tastier spells available to us only from Danell down in the Shaper Camp Gamma. We’ll be wanting those too. And the ability to summon Wingbolts. Time to head out for some more "find, kill, loot,and repeat." NEXT: Monarch Better Fly -S- [ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 15:16: Message edited by: Synergy67 ] -------------------- 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, December 12 2006 15:00
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CHAPTER THREE: Part Two — Le Golem’s Fin Presently, Valeta is feeling insanely powerful. She sweeps around The Golem’s Fen taking out all the mines along with the encountered Clawbugs and Vlish who succumb all too readily to Daze and Ice and steel.  She careens boldly into the workshop at the center and deactivates the two power pylons around the Oozing Sentinel golem after dispatching a couple of spawned impediments outside the door.  Next turn, she runs down next to the Spawner and casts Wrack on the golem, who has not yet moved. Next round, she redlines the Spawner with two sword strokes. Quick Action of 10, with never investing any Skill Points into it yet, is paying off. The golem finally wakes up and runs down, slugging Val for more damage upon himself than Val. We dearly love our Spine Shield, plus the spines we affixed onto our already Savage Gloves. The first Spawned Worm chips off the Golem and we charm it with our wit and good looks. Subsequently, each turn the charmed worm kills the next worm to chip off the ol’ golem.  We hit the Golem two or three times till it crumbles. We mop up the remaining worms with Daze and a few close-up views of the soles of our boots. The charmed worm comes to its senses exactly at the moment nothing else remains alive. Too late. It is all over so quickly. We collect the Essence-Infused Iron the Spawner dropped, which we will be using later to make the Legs of the Tyrant, but those will have to wait until we can get to the Blood Poison tucked away in the Western Morass in Chapter Four, because we used the first available dose of Blood Poison to make our lovely, lethal gloves. We are happy enough with our choice. NEXT: Hey, How Come This Hole Below the Fen Isn’t Full of Water? -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, December 12 2006 14:01
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quote:That'll learn ya to not reload after scoring a Fyoraskin Cloak. -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, December 12 2006 13:53
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Hear! Hear! Where ya been hidin', Alex? -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, December 12 2006 11:36
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ET, you're on a roll. That evoked laugh number two. -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, December 12 2006 11:12
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CHAPTER THREE: Part One — Why Does It Always Rain When I Go Camping? So here we are in the Aziraph Shaper Camp Gamma in the heart of the fenland. We get quests from General Crowley and Miranda to rescue Khyryk and contact the Shaper spy Archibald in Rebel Camp Aziraph. We work on helping the refugee Mizerah with her undertandable wish to leave. We promise to help Zinser find his lost Serviles. We steal 60 coins worth of guarded loot and we steal everything not nailed down on the sly to sell it promptly back to Sergeant Sabrina...and, what the heck, raid her shop and lockers while we are at it. Shaper Danell takes pity on our muddy, corrupted, sorry self and grants us a boon of Spellcraft +1. It’s at 5 now, without having invested a single Skill Point into it yet.  We resist the tempting Slightly Expensive Spells and Shaping offered here for the moment. We can do better in Rebel Camp Aziraph on spell prices with a little errand-running. I will want Wingbolt Shaping eventually, but I want to exercise my cashflow elsewhere first.   Meanwhile, let’s run back to Ilya Province and pick up the rest of our stored goods and head up the Eastern Rise this time. We can pass with impunity on either route.  Ice Spray continues to do wonders at taking out a number of critters with one hit. But I still want more.  Here we find what happens, perhaps, when bored mines are left alone to breed uncontrollably. Getting through this cluster gives us two canisters.  We go mental on the bandit camp found inexplicably hiding behind all the field projectors.  And finally we arrive in more marshes...the Golem’s Fen. We scoot through for now, keeping to the east and scuttle on up to the Rebel Camp Aziraph. We get Greta’s parallel quests involving Khyryk and Monarch and get Jared’s quest to recover some supplies from his workshop. We buy a canister from him to Shape a Drayk...just in case I decide I want a pet at some point. Most importantly, we train with Archibald in all four combat skills. Eh, Parry isn’t that useful, but I will have no shortage of cash in this game. I can afford it. I’ll be turning him in to the Rebels as a Shaper spy before too long, so it’s best to take advantage of what he offers before anything else.  I don’t want to buy any magic spells until I have done Jared’s quest. We get Ellsworth’s quest to contact the Rebel spy Vecsey back in Camp Gamma. We kill some rats in the NW and sell the Polished Shield. It’s not so useful for this Infiltrator. OK, we’ve got LOTS to do now. Let’s get to it. -S- [ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:19: Message edited by: Synergy67 ] -------------------- 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, December 12 2006 10:44
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