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Black Robe posted:Right Ruins of the Ancients posted:The tunnel you are in seems to dip even further downwards at a greater incline and it is all you can do not to fall face forwards tumbling head over heels down the passage. After a long walk in such conditions the floor finally begins to level out and you find yourself in a large cavern. Agarashi: Combat Skill 18 Endurance 24 Combat Ratio: 0 We roll: 8 Dark One: Combat Skill 18 Endurance 25 Agarashi: Combat Skill 18 Endurance 14 We roll: 7 Dark One: Combat Skill 22 Endurance 22 Agarashi: Combat Skill 18 Endurance 5 Combat Ratio: 4 We roll: 5 Dark One: Combat Skill 22 Endurance 18 Agarashi: Combat Skill 18 Endurance 0 Regeneration: +2 EP (20) Ruins of the Ancients posted:You head down another corridor at the far end and race down its sloping passage going downwards, ever downwards. At this point you are hungry and must eat a meal *Strongbad voice*: A vehement poison! Vehement! Tiggum fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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RudeCat posted:Left is for good guys, we're bad so we do the opposite!
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RudeCat posted:Left is for good guys, we're bad so we do the opposite!
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RudeCat posted:Left is for good guys, we're bad so we do the opposite!
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Right hand rule!
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Is Magnamund one of those setting where left handed magic is good and right handed is evil, or am I confusing it with something else? Anyway, Right
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exmachina posted:Is Magnamund one of those setting where left handed magic is good and right handed is evil, or am I confusing it with something else? Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Jun 8, 2022 |
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Toplowtech posted:good luck healing with force lightning. Well, if you hit them with enough of it, they won't need healing any more, now will they?
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Let's Is "amulet" a typo? I thought we were picking up a necklace from the pedestal, not a guantlet. Guess I also forgot that's what we came in here for in the first place. Has its significance been explained already? Why do we want it? Just a fetch quest for the zombie dude? Toplowtech posted:Left handed magic is good in Magnamund, yeah. Kai Alchemy and the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star magic are left-handed. Nadziranim practices right-handed magic. Right-handed magic was also given by Naar to the Agarashi to aid in their struggle against the Elder Magi. It is not innately Evil but good luck healing with force lightning. IIRC the Vakeros of Dessi (and the Elder Magi themselves) also use RHM. And so does Lone Wolf/New Order Hero via the Magi-magic discipline.
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Ofecks posted:Is "amulet" a typo? Ofecks posted:I thought we were picking up a necklace from the pedestal, not a guantlet. Guess I also forgot that's what we came in here for in the first place. Has its significance been explained already? Why do we want it? Just a fetch quest for the zombie dude? Ofecks posted:IIRC the Vakeros of Dessi (and the Elder Magi themselves) also use RHM. And so does Lone Wolf/New Order Hero via the Magi-magic discipline.
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RudeCat posted:Right Ruins of the Ancients posted:You walk casually along the corridor when you hear some sort of swishing sound ahead. You stop suddenly and crane your ears for some sign of what ever creature made the sound. Perhaps you can show the creature the true horror of meeting an enemy like you. The dark connection to Naar seems to flare inside of you and a sudden bloodlust rises. Licking your chops, you anxiously draw your weapon. You are ready to drink the blood of whatever lies ahead, enemy or friend. Whatever it is, Naar seems almost gleeful at the prospect of you dealing its death. Inching forward your senses are temporarily heightened to greater strength and you spot your quarry. A slight surprise fills your face as you see who it is. A Kai Master stands in front of you. Even if you wished to you cannot back away now, the urging from your darkside is too strong. The desire to drain this Kai of his blood is driving you insane with fury. You leap forward to attack this Kai. He reacts immediately and draws his own weapon in response. Kai Master: Combat Skill 24 Endurance 26 Combat Ratio: 1 We roll: 2 Dark One: Combat Skill 25 Endurance 16 Kai Master: Combat Skill 24 Endurance 21 We roll: 9 Dark One: Combat Skill 23 Endurance 14 Kai Master: Combat Skill 24 Endurance 9 Combat Ratio: -1 We roll: 8 Dark One: Combat Skill 23 Endurance 11 Kai Master: Combat Skill 24 Endurance 0 Regernation: +5 EP (16) Ruins of the Ancients posted:The Green traveling cloak of the Kai falls around him as he collapses to the floor. Moaning he is barely conscious, unable to move as his life essence slowly drains out of him. Unable to stop yourself, you furiously bring your weapon down upon his jugular, than at other points of his body where the blood flows fastest. Roaring greedily, you dip your fingers in his blood, your pulse pounding, and you darkness rising. Your eyes begin to glow, and you smile, the last thing this Kai will see in this world is your evil growing as you send him not to the waiting arms of his Master, but to the plane of darkness through the banishment of his soul through your own dark ritual. He realizes his fate but it is too late, and as his soul is forcibly grabbed from his body by the forces you have unleashed through your own sliver of Naar, he lets out a scream so tormented, so terrible that even you almost feel sorry for him. But then, glee takes over your soul as you realize the tortures he will endure on that dark plane or more than any other. Slowly the bloodlust falls and you regain your senses. Blinking your eyes, you try to shake off the after effects of such fury and such darkness, but it is too much for you at this point in your advancement and you fall to the ground, almost comatose beside the body of the Kai. Doomwolves Combat Skill 13 Endurance 14 Combat Ratio: 10 We roll: 2 Dark One: Combat Skill 23 Endurance 13 Doomwolves: Combat Skill 13 Endurance 5 We roll: 8 Dark One: Combat Skill 23 Endurance 13 Doomwolves: Combat Skill 13 Endurance 0 Regernation: +3 EP (16) Ruins of the Ancients posted:Before you stands a final choice. A sign points to the main corridor and says exit, but too your right a small, almost insignificant passageway begins leading to some stairs which go down to a place you cannot see from where you are standing. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Drink the Laumspur and take the stairs.
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nelson posted:Drink the Laumspur and take the stairs.
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nelson posted:Drink the Laumspur and take the stairs.
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nelson posted:Drink the Laumspur and take the stairs.
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Quaff all EP restoratives then head towards the clearly marked exit on the main corridor!
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Did we regenerate after combat?
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nelson posted:Did we regenerate after combat? Good catch. I forgot about that. I've fixed it now and our current Endurance is 16/29.
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nelson posted:Drink the Laumspur and take the stairs. Ruins of the Ancients posted:The narrow confines of the hallway and then the stairs that follow are almost claustrophobic. You narrow your shoulders considerably as you squeeze through and then suddenly you are past the obstacle. Before you stands a lizard like creature which has a saddle and seems to be ready to ride at great speed down a small road built in the hallway, which is now much much wider. Noting that it seems that the mount is purposely placed there, you get up on it and prepare to take off toward the end of the corridor. Mutant Giak: Combat Skill 13 Endurance 14 Combat Ratio: 10 We roll: 7 Dark One: Combat Skill 23 Endurance 16 Mutant Giak: Combat Skill 13 Endurance 0 Ruins of the Ancients posted:The Ghoulag applauds. “Well done, well done, but do not feel so confident as of yet. We have only begun. I believe that in order to pass my little test you must have found an item. If you have, you will show it too me now, if you have not, well then…” The Ghoulag looks at you expectantly, patiently waiting to see if you have the Palladium Gauntlet or not. Ghoulag Helghast Combat Skill 35 Endurance 25 Combat Ratio: 0 We roll: 9 Dark One: Combat Skill 35 Endurance 16 Ghoulag Helghast Combat Skill 35 Endurance 14 We roll: 5 Dark One: Combat Skill 35 Endurance 14 Ghoulag Helghast Combat Skill 35 Endurance 7 We roll: 1 Dark One: Combat Skill 35 Endurance 9 Ghoulag Helghast Combat Skill 35 Endurance 4 We roll: 2 Dark One: Combat Skill 35 Endurance 5 Ghoulag Helghast Combat Skill 35 Endurance 0 Ruins of the Ancients posted:The creature falls dead at your feet. The Ghoulag stares at you in morbid fear. You have defeated all its traps, fought its monsters, and still had strength enough at the end to face one of its most powerful creations. You advance on it, death dancing in your eyes. No one, not even this creature, dares challenge a Son of Naar and gets away with it.
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Final Stats for Ruins of the Ancients
Endurance Points: 5/29 (21)
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This book is worse than the previous one. There are a lot of words used incorrectly and formatting errors that would almost certainly have been caught if there had been any kind of editing process. There's also a really nasty dead man walking scenario right at the first real decision of the game where making the wrong decision means you'll never find the Palladium Gauntlet and will die right at the end. Otherwise there's no real challenge to this one and you're unlikely to need more than one attempt to get through it - especially if you learned from the first book and made sure you had Immunity, as we did. Also, the whole sequence at the end (where you actually meet the Ghoulag and fight his champion) is entirely skippable. Take the clearly marked exit corridor and you win. The only other thing worth noting here is that this book contains a really clumsy anti-cheat device: one mandatory section asks if you have "Adamantium Earplugs". No such item exists and saying you have it results in death. But if you were cheating anyway you'd just go back to the previous section and carry on, and in any case it's pretty obviously out of place with the setting. No more so than the unexpected mention of Giak DNA later on, but it's still a pretty big clue that something's up. Perhaps it was intended more as a joke than a real trap. Anyway, tomorrow we'll start on The Memory of Haakon.
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Ok, these adventures are way too short.
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So there's a section that can kill you if you have and use the Adamantium Earplugs? What's the context for that? Where could we have acquired those? Also, looks like the gauntlet is needed to win yet if you choose the center path at the start, you can't get it and are dead-man-walking? What are those 2 endings?
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 16:58 |
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My guess is it’s a choice when the doom wolves are burrowing towards you. Could we see the death passage for that? It sounds like it would be ridiculous.
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oh rad, one of my favorite LP threads is still going. only... 12 books to catch up on
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Ruins of the Ancients posted:Shouting in fierce anger you raise your gauntleted fist and shout with fury.
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shouting angrily, you shout angrily!
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Ofecks posted:So there's a section that can kill you if you have and use the Adamantium Earplugs? What's the context for that? Where could we have acquired those? Ruins of the Ancients posted:A feral growling begins surrounding you, annoying your ears with its persistence sound, and growing in volume. Soon the sound is so loud that you can barely stand it and you cover your ears in agony. You are unable to detect where the sound is coming from and as it continues to increase in sound level, you fall to your knees. Unless you find where the source of the sound is you fear that soon you will be unable to proceed. Ofecks posted:Also, looks like the gauntlet is needed to win yet if you choose the center path at the start, you can't get it and are dead-man-walking? What are those 2 endings? Ruins of the Ancients posted:You follow this tunnel only a short distance before coming to a gigantic Palladium Door. Ruins of the Ancients posted:The Ghoulag applauds. “Well done, well done, but do not feel so confident as of yet. We have only begun. I believe that in order to pass my little test you must have found an item. If you have, you will show it too me now, if you have not, well then…” The Ghoulag looks at you expectantly, patiently waiting to see if you have the Palladium Gauntlet or not.
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When you refer to two different items as necessary in the same entry (Palladium Gauntlet and Amulet), and only one exists in the Adventure, it's a good sign an editor would have helped your writing a lot.
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Man, the writer really likes their eternal punishments.
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The Memory of Haakon posted:The Story So Far Which Drakkar Discipline shall we add to our repertoire this time?
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Mindshield
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Going to the desert, might need Tracking
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Based on how long these books have been, the whole thing is going to be the boat ride Better work on our Basic Instinct so we can look out for danger, and to get a leg up on any interrogations we might be in for.
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I want to see what a train wreck the author makes of Basic Instinct.
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RudeCat posted:Better work on our Basic Instinct so we can look out for danger, and to get a leg up on any interrogations we might be in for.
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RudeCat posted:Based on how long these books have been, the whole thing is going to be the boat ride
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nelson posted:Mindshield
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achtungnight posted:I want to see what a train wreck the author makes of Basic Instinct. Action Chart
Endurance Points: 29/29 (21)
Tiggum fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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