Let's Play Lone Wolf: Book 29 and beyond!

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Toplowtech: Aug 31, 2004

Voting AAR too: always attack Roark

# ? Mar 15, 2018 18:58

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# ? May 12, 2024 04:20

Guy Fawkes: Aug 1, 2014; Lvl 62, +5 meadow defense

The_White_Crane posted:

I hardly think I need to express my opinion here, but always attack Roark.

Let's do it!

# ? Mar 15, 2018 20:28

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

Mikl posted:

Roark, gaze into the fist of Lone Wolf.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 20:40

Materant: Jul 22, 2010; see, what you don't understand is he now has

THE MANLIEST MUSTACHE

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Mikl posted:

Roark, gaze into the fist of Lone Wolf.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 21:47

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

achtungnight posted:

There is already a significant number of people voting to attack Roark. I will gladly join their ranks.

It certainly seems like a better option than trying to fight Tagazin barehanded after already failing to kill him with the Sommerswerd.

The Dungeons of Torgar posted:

Roark watches you rush towards him with hate and fear in his eyes. �Help me, master,� he whimpers, rising unsteadily and drawing a slim-bladed sword from beneath his black robes.

Demonlord Tagazin answers his servant with a thunderous growl but does not hasten his pace to save him from your attack. He seems to be enjoying the fear that Roark displays, and as you strike his growl changes to a hideous snigger.

Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 37 Roark: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 20 Combat Ratio: 0 We roll: 7 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 36 Roark: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 11 We roll: 7 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 35 Roark: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 2 We roll: 2 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 31 Roark: COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 0

The Dungeons of Torgar posted:

You snatch the amulet from Roark�s lifeless hand and then turn to confront Tagazin. You sense an energy flowing between Roark�s amulet and the amulet that hangs around the Demonlord�s neck, and you use this power-bridge to ward off the creature.

Tagazin shudders as your psychic commands rob him of his supernatural strength. His body becomes pale, almost transparent, and wisps of smoke curl from his skin as though his body were evaporating slowly. He retreats towards the centre of the temple and leaps onto the marble block. There is a chilling howl and suddenly the shadowy chamber is flooded with a blinding light. Thunder booms and the walls shake. Terrified, Roark�s followers flee the temple and scramble up the stairs. Crackling bolts of white lightning leap from the marble block to tear great chunks of rock from the walls, and the air seethes with a cloying stench that threatens to suffocate you. With terror in your heart you bound up the steps and escape as the defeated spirit of the Demonlord vents its spite on the chamber below.

Healing: +1 EP (32/37).

Dust clogs your throat and the roar of falling stone is deafening as you race towards the surface. When you reach the ramp that leads to the crystal doors you find it split wide open. A web of cracks zigzags across the two halves and a growing mound of rubble threaten to seal off the exit. Desperately you claw your way across this jagged debris, passing the bodies of some of Roark�s followers, and diving through the shrinking exit just before the ceiling collapses with a tremendous crash.

Outside the situation is remarkably calm; only a slight ground tremor and a sound like distant thunder hint at the incredible destruction taking place inside the temple. The clearing is deserted and you are beginning to think you are the only one to have escaped, when you hear horses galloping away and glimpse three riders disappearing along a track that heads off to the east. It is nearly dark and they are soon swallowed by the shadows of the forest.

Healing: +1 EP (33/37).

Shall we follow them or let them go and make camp for the night?

I don't know about you, but I find killing Roark with our bare hands pretty satisfying.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 23:07

Mikl: Nov 8, 2009; Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

We're on a cursed island, we've just escaped death, and we get the chance to venture into the woods at random, at night? Nope, let's make camp.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 23:18

achtungnight: Oct 5, 2014; I get my fun here. Enjoy!

Do not let the riders escape in case they are Roark's allies going for reinforcements! After them!

It is nice to have killed Roark with our bare hands. Does he also die if you somehow overcome Tagazin (with or without the Sommerswerd)? I know the answer, but will let Tiggum answer as he's better able to judge and abide by the thread's established spoiler policy. I also know there are other paths in this book where you don't meet Roark, but I will talk more about them after Tiggum gives permission or after the book is done.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 23:22

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

achtungnight posted:

It is nice to have killed Roark with our bare hands. Does he also die if you somehow overcome Tagazin (with or without the Sommerswerd)?

Choosing to attack Roark is the only way to kill him (and you can't do that if you have the Sommerswerd). He might die trying to escape the collapsing building, but if he does you don't see it happen.

And you can talk about the battle at Cetza at this point because we've definitely passed it (in fact we'd definitely avoided it the moment we chose to look for Sebb Jarel instead) and the same goes for the actual meeting with Sebb Jarel, but basically anything that follows either event might still come up. Both the Cetza and Pirsi paths end up at the same place, with a potential diversion to the Isle of Ghosts. We're currently still in the middle of that optional side-quest and will rejoin the critical path afterwards.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 23:44

Materant: Jul 22, 2010; see, what you don't understand is he now has

THE MANLIEST MUSTACHE

_{_{_{_{it defies physics}}}}

Tiggum posted:

Choosing to attack Roark is the only way to kill him (and you can't do that if you have the Sommerswerd). He might die trying to escape the collapsing building, but if he does you don't see it happen.

Wrong, actually! If you take Tagazin's amulet, Roark tries to stop your heart through the link the two amulets have. If you survive a three point hit (ignored if you have Nexus), you turn it back on him and stop his heart. :black101:

Sommerswerd route is actually the one way besides just not going this way that you can get screwed out of killing Roark.

Materant fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Mar 16, 2018

# ? Mar 15, 2018 23:57

achtungnight: Oct 5, 2014; I get my fun here. Enjoy!

Thanks, Tiggum. It's safe to say now (correct me if I'm wrong) that I like this book because it has three distinct paths in the beginning- and they all are of importance to ongoing Lone Wolf subplots and character arcs- not going into specifics per spoiler policies. Roark's fate on our current path is my personal favorite of the three paths. although I did have to be reminded what a tough encounter it can be if you have and use the Sommerswerd. This is a satisfying end for the Roark plotline IMO.

The other two distinct paths are Meeting Sebb Jarrel and the Battle at Cetza. In the latter, you can meet a certifiable badass character named Captain Prarg. It is also possible to meet King Sarnac of Lencia and fight Baron Shinzar of Hammerland, a Darklord ally who wields a nasty dark magic flaming battleaxe. I believe Graygor mentioned Shinzar during our meeting. We've missed all that now (Shinzar we won't see again in future books, the other named characters we might, again not going into specifics).

We've also missed meeting Sebb Jarrel. It is only possible to get to the Isle of Ghosts and encounter Roark by failing to meet Sebb Jarrel. You can get there from the Cetza path, but it requires some specifics I won't go into. The same is true of getting to the Isle of Ghosts via the Jarrel path as we did. If we had had Divination, or refused to tell Jarrel's partisans about our mission, we would have met Jarrel (the mousy partisan was an imposter, Jarrel is someone different) and taken quite a different path. Of course, if we had met Jarrel, we would never have gotten to meet anyone at Cetza, nor would we have met Tagazin and Roark. Or the Bear who was on at least one cover of the book.

# ? Mar 16, 2018 00:04

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Materant posted:

Wrong, actually! If you take Tagazin's amulet, Roark tries to stop your heart through the link the two amulets have. If you survive a three point hit (ignored if you have Nexus), you turn it back on him and stop his heart.

Oh yeah, I guess I missed that when I was skimming the text - like I said at the start, I'm not as familiar with this book as some of the earlier ones.

achtungnight posted:

It is only possible to get to the Isle of Ghosts and encounter Roark by failing to meet Sebb Jarrel. You can get there from the Cetza path, but it requires some specifics I won't go into. The same is true of getting to the Isle of Ghosts via the Jarrel path as we did. If we had had Divination, or refused to tell Jarrel's partisans about our mission, we would have met Jarrel (the mousy partisan was an imposter, Jarrel is someone different) and taken quite a different path.

Actually Divination doesn't guarantee that you meet the real Jarel. You detect that the fake is lying, but how you react to that determines whether you get to meet the real one or not. And there are paths other than the one we took that can also get you to either Jarel or Roark. It's actually easier to get to the Isle of Ghosts than to meet the real Sebb Jarel.

Whether or not you get to the Isle of Ghosts after the battle at Cetza is a bit more complicated. Your best chance is to not have Huntmastery or Pathasmanship, but even then you've got a 30% chance of missing it even if you make the right choices. Weirdly, it's easier to get to the Isle of Ghosts the fewer previous Magnakai books you've played through since it relies not just on specific Disciplines but also on your rank. So the less likely you are to know or care who Roark is, the more likely you are to meet him. :shrug:

# ? Mar 16, 2018 00:23

nelson: Apr 12, 2009; College Slice

Let�s follow them. Perhaps we can get into more fights with our bare hands.

# ? Mar 16, 2018 02:01

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

nelson posted:

Let�s follow them. Perhaps we can get into more fights with our bare hands.

Well, we do still have the Sommerswerd. We just chose not to draw it and thereby make ourselves seem like a legitimate threat to Tagazin.

The Dungeons of Torgar posted:

The track consists of ancient paving blocks mostly overgrown with moss, but occasionally you hear the sound of a distant hoofbeat striking upon an exposed slab of stone. You follow the trail and are soon engulfed by darkness. Only the sound of forest owls and the flutter of bats can be heard as you make your way slowly through the inky black forest.

You have been walking less than an hour when you arrive at a stone bridge. The stream it once crossed has long since dried up, and the empty watercourse is blanketed with dead leaves. You are now very tired and in need of food and rest.

Healing: +1 EP (34/37).

Should we stop and rest or keep going?

# ? Mar 16, 2018 11:19

The_White_Crane: May 10, 2008

Stop and rest.

Also:
1) Hell yeah, we beat Roark to death with our bare hands. More like die-born of Amory, amirite?
2) I thought that mousy fellow might be an imposter; it didn't seem like an appropriate descriptor for the brother of the man we met earlier.
3) Tiggum, could you post the scene where we instead stop Roark's heart? I kinda want to see that...

# ? Mar 16, 2018 11:50

achtungnight: Oct 5, 2014; I get my fun here. Enjoy!

Keep going. We have Huntmastery, don�t we?

# ? Mar 16, 2018 12:17

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.