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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Also, if real beggars looked like those zombie beggars

    I would never go outside again

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    Also, if real beggars looked like those zombie beggars

    I would never go outside again

    The worst thing is they're not even zombies! They're just crazy!
    Dubh wrote: »
    I distinctly remember leaping up a tower in Saints Row IV to Insane in the Membrane

    and then reaching the top as Oh Shit kicked in (which got ruined for me when I realized the last verse isn't trans friendly, bleh)

    Yeah, I was enjoying that song and then it got to that verse and I was like, man.

    Same thing with Funky Cold Medina!

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    I fear the moment that you run into an undead insane beggar.

    Honestly, I'm loving how much this game is horrifying me.

    And I'm not even playing it!

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    And its only because the only damn well in town is cursed!

    To bad you can't just cure them and end the combat that way.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    BYToady wrote: »
    And its only because the only damn well in town is cursed!

    To bad you can't just cure them and end the combat that way.

    Yeah, like I said, the more I think about this game the more messed up it seems. That's a consequence of the game's roots (these games have ALWAYS been hack-and-slash and dungeon puzzles, with no dialogue trees), but it's still super weird to think of!

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Part 9 – Witches Ain’t Shit
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    We get into the tower. It’s worth mentioning that the Enigma wannabe there says “You have the key so you may enter.” We don’t actually put the key in the lock!

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    And inside aaare…

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    Goblins! Kinda… kinda racist looking goblins oh god

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    Goblins aren’t anything close to a threat, though I do take issue with ‘It is a mercy to kill them’. Adventurers!

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    There are skulls scattered about the various alcoves of the tower. They’ll ask for a gem, and if you give it to them they give you helpful hints.

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    Apparently witches just leave their dirty laundry every-goddamn-where.

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    Some of the cages have little kids in them that you can free for 5k a pop.

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    And some of the piles of laundry have stuff in them! And sometimes you just get a disease from them.

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    That’s level one! On to level two.

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    Level two is just more of the same, though there is a side room with some chests in it.

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    Two of the chests have money in them, the other two have nothing.

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    Level three, though, is where we start encountering some actual witches.

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    And those curses? They suuuck.

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    Also on level 3 – cauldrons that you can check out for a random effect. Sometimes you’ll find something, sometimes you’ll get hurt, sometimes you’ll get a permanent +1 to all stats… Sometimes a mix of them.

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    The witches’ damage animation is nothing to write home about.

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    A good reason to not sleep on the upper floors of the witch tower unless you’re sure they’re all gone – The witches come up in packs, and since they all have a ranged attack they all attacks they step forward. They don’t do much damage, but that damage still adds up.

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    And this is why cursed items suck. Every one of those is just unusable until I get them uncursed. It blooows.

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    The skulls on the third level will all teach you a spell in exchange for gems. I already knew most of them but I did take Lightning Bolt.

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    Note: This is not the answer, and the wrong answer teleports you back down to the first floor.

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    The Head Witch is much like regular witches with one extra annoyance:

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    Thankfully at this point I think all of my items were cursed anyway, so it didn’t matter! Up yours, witchy!

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    This skull doesn’t give any helpful tips, but it does make me feel better.

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    The head witch had some baaank.

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    Hey kid, you don’t need to whisper, the witches are all dead! But thanks for the tip anyway!

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    Thanks, skull! But I was really looking for your brother.

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    Sure enough, it works.

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    That is not a unicorn. That is only part of a unicorn.

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    Man, I hope the old lady is okay with this.

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    Well, we’ve done all the damage we can for now. Might as well leave.

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    It looks like even dead people get experience, so that’s good to know.

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    Thanks, unicorn! Being a Crusader means we can get into the king’s castle, as well as access certain things only accessible by Crusaders. Basically, it’s pretty sweet.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    your party seems so excited by their new title

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    KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    Is party member #3 a Bajoran?

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Part 10 – Crusader Kings
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    So when last we left our heroes, we had just killed the shit out of some witches, and also we were all cursed.

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    Thankfully the Slime God is merciful and uncurses us for a low cost.

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    Oh, what’s that?

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    … What.

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    Stupid stingers! Stop attacking me!

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    Ligono’s skull! And only two of us had to die in this fetid swampland to get it!

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    40k experience and Recharge Item ain’t a bad deal, though.

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    The trainer in Vertigo has a level limit. Once you hit Level 10, you cannot learn any more from them. We’ve pretty much outgrown Vertigo anyway, though.

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    Oh hey, a tiny Stonehenge.

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    This is part of a quest that, predictably, sends you to basically the four corners of the world. In the end I think the reward is pretty nice, though.

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    I’ve got a couple of these right now. The problem with Enchant Item is that it bases it on the caster’s level, so if I want the most powerful item I have to wait, but if I wait I won’t get it… And so on. I think the next update may be entirely about items and such, so maybe I’ll do that then.

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    Joe! You’re a merchant now, good for you!

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    Ahh, here’s where we want to go. You actually can’t get in unless you’re a Crusader.

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    Aw god damn it.

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    I appreciate the larger-than-life portrayal of basically everything in these games. That castle looks so awkward there.

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    Inside the castle are Mad Fools.

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    More of a nuisance than anything else, really.

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    Their attack animation is to throw their balls at you.

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    King “I am the king!” Burlock sends us on an impossible quest. You cannot complete this. I think this guy’s just a dick.

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    These two books in the throne room teach you these skills for free. Super handy, although if you spent money to learn them, possibly a little annoying.

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    Sadly, we can’t get in there. Well we could, but it would summon the guards, and the guards are nothing to fuck with at this point in the game.

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    Artemus, our buddy, tells us basically what we already knew from the intro. Crodo’s been kidnapped! Find him!

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    Outside the castle are these jousters. They’re fairly tough, but…

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    They give good experience AND you get 2k gold a pop. Not bad at all.

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    Plus the animation when you hit them is all ‘whoa man I’m fallin’ off my horse here, whoa’

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    Lastly, but definitely not least, we make our way to Shangri-La, because we have a way back.

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    Shangri-La is… a pretty cool place to be.

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    The people are helpful.

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    Although to be fair, they do at least expect to be paid for their services. Yes, this guy teaches you EVERY SKILL.

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    I dunno, sounds kinda like socialism to me.

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    But who am I to argue?

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    Eradication is a condition beyond death. Yes, there are worse things than being just dead in this game.

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    Okay well we’re all done here, might as well just take off for now.

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    Huh, this doesn’t seem so bad.

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    OHWHATHEFUCKISTHA-

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    No, this is a much safer way.

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    The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    no seriously what the fuck is that

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    no seriously what the fuck is that

    It's an endgame monster is what it is!

    Also I think it's actually a Darkside monster.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Shangri-La is a super friendly place

    it is the Hotel California of Xeen

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    MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    The Druid quest is to get rid of magical aging. And nothing but, really.

    Also yes your characters can conceivably die of old age. Naturally. If you're fucking slow.

    EDIT: Basically I am going to drop in every so often to drop WONDER-DESTROYING KNOWLEDGE BOMBS

    and there's nothing that can stop me!

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Sucka I knew that already!

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    MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    Well did you know about the dying of old age thing? DID YOU KNOW THAT?

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    YES I DID JEEZ DUDE
    still well worth mentioning though!

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    MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    I am a miserable failure at dropping knowledge-bombs.

    or maybe this one was just a dud.

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Can you replace party members if they proper die?

    Also Wendy's insane face is terrifying.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Yup, just go to the tavern and recruit new ones.

    Part 11 – Sorceress? More like Sorcerisn’t!
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    So, I’m gonna show off one of the spells that I find simultaneously kinda useful and kinda useless. Wizard Eye.

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    As you can see, my minimap has revealed everything!

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    But the actual map is still hidden. It’s useful for finding hidden packages, but… Yeah.

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    In a little area near where the sorceresses lurk, there’s a gated area just chock full of Insane Beggars.

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    Their attack animation is suitably crazy.

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    But hey – they were guarding all these chests. Surely there’s good stuff in there, right?

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    … Oh. Yeah, every one of the chests here has 1 gold piece and 1 gems. And you just slaughtered a bunch of mentally ill people to get it. Moral ambiguity!

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    Anyway, sorceresses ain’t nothing to fuck with, and having my face used to wipe the floor made me realize I need to upgrade our equipment.

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    Like I said previously, magic items have prefixes, suffixes, and materials. I believe there’s only one of each, though I could be wrong. You can have a Coral Longsword but not a Coral Burning longsword. In the interest of showin’ off stuff, here’s a bunch of the tables showing off the suffixes and item stuff.

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    I really like that I apparently found a ‘dense belt’ at some point.

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    The ‘rare’ item category is always strange. Would you really want a coral longsword? Now that I think about it, though, that would be pretty badass.

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    Attribute bonuses are always welcome, especially just to see how ludicrously high your stats can get.

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    Pretty much every spell in the game is also represented by an item suffix.

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    That ‘equip’ bonus thing is pretty nice to know. Yes. You can wear two broaches, two medals, two charms, two cameos… Though now that I think of it I think they’re all shared. But hey, if they’re not, that’s amazing.

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    Finally, here’s all the skills in the game. As you can see, Astrologer is actually pretty useless because I have no druids or rangers in my party. But hey – extra skills.

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    Anyway, after re-equipping everyone with slightly better stuff, I try to enchant a weapon with the scroll I have.

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    Before.

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    And after. Wait, there’s no change. Weird.

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    Anyway we give enough to the temple to make the god or gods love us, and then it’s off to Sorceresstown.

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    Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!

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    In short order, the trio is reduced to a single one, who goes down fairly quick too.

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    They had some niiice stuff.

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    Oh hey, this says ‘property of Barok’ on this, we should probably return it.

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    He’s probably in this tent. I mean that’s where everyone who has something needs done seems to live.

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    Awesome, thanks dude! Also, you poisoned the well just because someone took your pendant? That’s… kinda petty.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Part 12- Robbers!
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    So in this little idyllic area of Rivercity, a dark secret is hidden.

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    Robbers! Robbers everywhere!

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    So many robbers!

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    Thankfully I actually thought to equip some more characters with bows so they can actually shoot enemies from afar. This comes in handy so often, because a lot of the time you can defeat enemies before they get within melee range.

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    Do not drink from the well here. Shit’s poison!

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    Open this grate to reveal MORE ROBBERS!

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    Also Robber Bosses! They’re a little tougher than Robbers but not by much.

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    Also the robbers are loaaaaded!

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    Double Robber Boss action.

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    This guy’s all “Stop! Hammertime!”

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    Hooray, a tiara! Wait, who’s Princess Roxanne?

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    A robber lair is one of the few places I wouldn’t question finding an axe in someone’s bed.

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    Interestingly, Princess Roxanne (and we had to go to Castle Burlock to find her) is an NPC that actually will still give you the quest even if you have the quest item. I like to imagine that one of the party members was like “Oh you mean… thiiiiis tiara?”

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    200k experience? Not bad at all, princess. Of course given the absurd experience requirements in this game, that’s actually only enough to get two of my party members to the next level.

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    But hey – gold and items too! Not bad at all!

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    alternatingAberrationalternatingAberration I am the milk man My milk is deliciousRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    The hell is looking out of the shadows under that bed? Did it just bribe you not to tell the princess it's hiding in her room?

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    The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    hold up

    200k experience got TWO party members a level?

    what in the balls

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    probably a cat

    that party member the twisted smile might know

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    hold up

    200k experience got TWO party members a level?

    what in the balls

    This game has crazyballs experience requirements. It's weird!

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    The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    I suppose it probably all scales together, but man that's wild

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Basically you're super-reliant on quests to give you huge XP boosts, because I'm not positive about how the XP from killing monsters is distributed.

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Looks like we've got trouble.

    Right here in Rivercity.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2013
    Part 13 – Nananananananananana BAT QUEEN
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    Yes we KNOW Crodo, jeez!

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    Do you even have to ask? I mean it’s polite that you do, but still.

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    Yuuup.

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    Killer Sprites! Kinda annoying as they – surprise surprise – curse you!

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    Cursing is quickly becoming my least favorite thing ever.

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    Also, a significantly less interesting Swamp Thing than the one I’m familiar with.

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    ‘Fresh druid is their favorite’, I think, means that they will attack druids before any other class, much like mad dwarves do to dwarves.

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    So do these people just leave their valuable dangerous shit out in the open and then go “OH NO IT’S GONE I BETTER GET SOME HEROES TO HELP ME!”?

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    Just down the way past Rivercity is this beaten-down pile of shit castle. It’s also overrun by Evil Rangers. Apparently I never got a screenshot of Evil Rangers either.

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    This is what they look like. Double attacks, a good amount of HP, and poisonous. Wonderful.

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    I really like that apparently they’re aware that the castle is a pile of shit so they’re offering the land that the castle rests on. “No, you don’t have to keep the castle, it sucks.”

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    Oh sure, just stomp out the fire and –

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    Jesus. “Also you pee on the ashes and hunt down their children and kill them to avoid any Batman situations.”

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    So far the faeries have been the most incompetent foes so far. Easy to kill, and they just leave their magical faery wand out in the middle of nowhere.

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    I guess the weird pedestal comes with it.

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    The rate of inflation being so seemingly ridiculous in Xeen, I’m betting that this is probably about $25.

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    Tito?!? @”cwrth”?!?

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    Alright guys, enough faffing around, let’s do some serious business and see what’s going down in Nightshadow.

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    Uhh… Yeah, Nightshadow has an undead problem. Specifically Bat Queens and Gnome Vampires.

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    On the upside – gems grow on trees here!

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    Also Bat Queens look pretty funny.

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    They’re not very tough at all, really. We’ve actually outleveled most of the enemies here, but…

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    In the center of the city are three sundials.

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    In nearly all of the buildings there are coffins. They either have Gnome Vampires…

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    Who aren’t much of a challenge. They’re still a bit rougher than Bat Queens to be sure but they don’t last much longer.

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    The coffins can also contain treasure!

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    THIS IS DISCRIMINATION I AM WRITING THE XEEN BRANCH OF THE ACLU ABOUT THIS

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    So scattered around the town are these various gravestones.

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    I take offense with your rhyming of ‘set’ with ‘set’, game.

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    Okay, so we have to kill someone. Presumably the Count.

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    Just to drive the point home even further into your skull.

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    So this is what you have to do. At night, set every sundial to 9. Then find where the Count’s coffin is, open it, and kill him.

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    Where could the coffin be? Perhaps this really conspicuous area that’s the only part of the town we haven’t been in yet?

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    Nah, couldn’t be. These large amounts of monsters are just guarding something else?

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    Oh well, okay.

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    Count Draco is assuredly a guy to Not Be Fucked With at our current state in the game. With the high AC, resistances, and AP, AND total mana drain, he’s… not an easy fight. I think our level is okay, but our weapons are just too shitty at the moment to have any real effect.

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    I mean we can still hit him. Rarely. Occasionally. But it doesn’t do much.

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    You can’t even open the coffin during the day, so don’t even try.

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    And even if you try and do it at night with a full stock of blessings… This still happens.

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    Jeeeeeeeeeeez, he wiped you OUT

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yeah, he's no joke*
    *he's kind of a joke if you're properly equipped

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Part 14 – M-M-Monsterkills!

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    Though we can’t beat Draco just yet, we can at least take advantage of our blessed status by killing some Swamp Things!

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    And as you can see by this, the EXP is kind of ridiculous in this game. One million exp already?

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    Behind Rivercity’s training grounds, there’s a gated area. What’s in there?

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    Yang Knights!

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    Four attacks means if they hit with all four, it’s probably a bad day for your party.

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    Luckily we can handle just one at a time.

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    As you can see, the rewards are well worth it.

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    This looks like a dead-end, but our helpful gecko friend says otherwise.

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    Oh fffff – This is a bit much for us at our current level/equipment level. We leave the Yang Knights to do their own thing for the moment.

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    Instead we decide to relax – by buying a castle!

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    A shitty castle in a shitty area? Of course I won’t!

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    Yeah, it’s actually called Newcastle. I don’t know either.

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    We can’t actually enter the castle yet, we’ve got to talk to the engineers at Castle Burlock. We’ll get to that later.

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    Stopping in at Shangri-La to get some spells – this one is niiiice. Also incredibly expensive, both gold and MP wise.

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    We’re off to the hills, to fight some dumb-lookin’ Ogres.

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    Ogres aren’t really much of a threat, though their ranged attacks can be irritating.

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    Oh nooo my face.

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    For some reason the hills give way to a snowy forest. Also, ninjas.

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    The main annoyance with Ninjas is their speed.

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    But you can’t outrun a fireball, jerk!

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    Evil Archers. Yeah, we got Evil Rangers, and Evil Archers.

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    Evil Archer fall down :[

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    Electrical Gatling Gun? Dammit, why doesn’t my archer get that?

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    Aaaand purple barbarians.

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    Thankfully they’re easy to hit, because they kept knocking out my damn sorcerer.

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    FFFF

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    I really like that this guy just sees some dudes with weapons and is all “HEY YOU WANNA MURDER SOME NINJAS”

    Next time: Pagoda-Shaming!

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    I just love that they designate everything as 'Evil _______' in this game.

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