

Oceanside, California, United States I'm a former university professor of Reading Education and bartender.

Avernum Crystal Souls 10: Back to Avernum!.Avernum Crystal Souls 11: Clearing up Old Missions.Avernum Crystal Souls 12: Punching out some Bosses.Avernum Crystal Souls 14: Rescuing the First Cryst.Avernum Crystal Souls 16: Back to the Ziggurat.Avernum Crystal Souls 17: FINALLY got Dispel Barrier!.Avernum Crystal Souls 18: Finding the Blessed Athame.I'm pretty sure I can take out those bandits now. I think it's time to go back to the Vahnatai lands. I mean, I don't think I'm learning any true life skills here, but fun is a goal in itself! I know where it is, but I can't get in yet because of the clearance problem.Īnyway, I just was having so much fun last night that I kept on playing! That's what these games to do me. For example, Starcap has a hidden lab in Dharmon.

No doubt that's where I'll find the spells I want. I haven't yet made it to Crown Clearance, so parts of the game are still closed off to me. In fact, I now have over 20,000 coins! Yay! But I need to find those upper level spells to buy with all my nice money. However, I managed to take 'em down, and got some nice loot. Because you're basically inside the circle, it's difficult to protect your spellcasters. It's far from simple. You have to destroy a coven of three witches, and they're all spread out, and they have a whole army of minions to help them. Will have to return to that later.įinally, thought I'd do a seemingly simple quest for lost boats. Dragged off LOTS of loot! However, the boss eye beast fight was one I just couldn't pull off. Also took care of the large Empire force that was camped out there. I fought three of 'em, with their accompanying ghosts, and knocked 'em off. In this game they cast lightening, which is survivable if they get healed up quickly enough. I decided to tackle the ruins of Cotra, which in this game has been destroyed by the Empire and eye beasts. So, more exploration will be required into giant territory. whenever Jeff has a quest that requires a certain number of items, he usually puts more than the final number into the game. Either that, or one of the three was not one of the target statues. I picked one up during a fight, but it seems not to have registered. I'm supposed to collect three stone icons from them, and I was sure I got all three, but the game says I have only two. I went up into giant lands and tackled several giant lairs there. I've finished that except for the final fight, which is behind a barrier I can't as yet dispel. That way clearly is going to be the choice, but I'm betting that I'll need to speak with a character somewhere who will give me a clue I'll need to trigger something that will let me through. One of the entrances has a couple of hidden buttons.

No matter which way you go in, you wind up outside again. There is a bandit lair there with a seriously difficult puzzle. Wandered into the honeycomb (that is a maze-like collection of tunnels west of Mertis). Visited some areas that are major fights in the previous game but are peaceful, although not always completely welcoming, now. Founds lots of equipment dumps (little round piles of soil) that hide some really nifty loot. I wandered around the rest of the Great Cave because I hadn't been to the edges. I took care of the Rakshisai-magical tiger cats-who, sadly, are enemies (I mean, obviously, I like cats). However, I had accumulated an extremely long list of quests, and there were major places I hadn't visited, so I thought I'd just wander around for awhile and do some minor quests. I have a goal to get the dispel barrier spell, which requires me to conquer an Empire outpost (I know where it is from previous games). Fun fun fun! I got all my Kirkus books done, all my baking done, and was just cruisin', so after a day off I went back to my game.
