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Really Pants posted:firm and thrusting En garde, dodge, parry, thrust, spin, fix beak.
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Oh man, now I'm kicking myself for not mentioning that Quakers use "thee" even as the subject. This guy's threatening to throw us in the river, not kill us. We should be determined and firm but clearly he's an OK guy and we can trust him. ManxomeBromide fucked around with this message at 06:47 on May 31, 2018 |
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May 31, 2018 06:42
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I love how the protagonist has a dagger but we're all considering them unarmed anyway.
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May 31, 2018 06:51
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He's also explicitly unskilled in its use, so yeah, taking on someone who knows which end of the weapon goes towards the enemy is probably a bad idea. Remember how well his previous attempts at combat went? He got literally eaten alive both times.
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May 31, 2018 07:29
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Oh I wasn't saying that we were wrong in doing so.
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May 31, 2018 07:42
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Yeah, I wouldn't say that dagger's just for show, but at best we'll be using it to clean that half-a-grouse the hermit gave us.
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May 31, 2018 07:43
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I do expect the dagger to turn up in a puzzle solution sometime, but as a tool.
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May 31, 2018 07:46
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I expect the grouse we got from the hermit to be a puzzle solution (or maybe an alternate solution, because it was optional) at some point, so I definitely assume we'll be getting some use out of that dagger, as well.
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May 31, 2018 08:18
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Commander Keene posted:I expect the grouse we got from the hermit to be a puzzle solution (or maybe an alternate solution, because it was optional) at some point, so I definitely assume we'll be getting some use out of that dagger, as well. Is that even something this game can handle, though? It doesn't remember the "state" of the various Places of Power we enter, so I wouldn't expect it to be remembering any optional changes to our inventory, either.
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May 31, 2018 08:49
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PurpleXVI posted:Is that even something this game can handle, though? It doesn't remember the "state" of the various Places of Power we enter, so I wouldn't expect it to be remembering any optional changes to our inventory, either.
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May 31, 2018 09:15
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Commander Keene posted:I obviously don't know how this game was coded, but it's fairly simple to check if the player has an item in their inventory. I suspect the game not saving the state of PoPs is more to prevent unwinnable states rather than technical limitations.
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May 31, 2018 09:48
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Level One: Break Time? But We Only Just Started! In which we can die, but not in the places you'd expect. Guess that dagger's not so useless after all, if you don't mind it being the wrong solution.  Zereth posted:I suspect we don't actually have an inventory. I don't think anything is saved between Places of Power. If we gain a sword and use it later, it's because we did so in a non-optional manner in a mandatory place of power. EDIT: Believe it or not, we're halfway through the first level in terms of raw Places of Power. There are a total of 19. That said, they get longer pretty quickly, so in terms of raw content we're probably not quite halfway. Nakar fucked around with this message at 14:55 on May 31, 2018 |
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May 31, 2018 14:53
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Nakar posted:Too bad that dude only appears in this one scene, to murder us. He could've saved us a lot of trouble. In a way you could say he did...
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May 31, 2018 15:12
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PREPARE TO DIE, FAT MAN sounds like something Steve would yell at some point, if she was dealing with this. Probably at several points, really.
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May 31, 2018 19:19
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One of the interesting bits of setting up MadMaze as being this place of utter chaos is that you can put a character like the Woodsman in there and have him behave exactly like a cranky fantasy ranger and this ends up feeling like a relief to a tense situation as opposed to as an obvious cliche.
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Commander Keene posted:He's also explicitly unskilled in its use, so yeah, taking on someone who knows which end of the weapon goes towards the enemy is probably a bad idea. Remember how well his previous attempts at combat went? He got literally eaten alive both times. Actually I think the lady just throws you into the pot and you can still talk to her normally after first trying to attack her? Apparently attempted murder is fine with her, but bothering her too long means it's supper time.
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Jun 1, 2018 04:48
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Oh my gosh I haven't even thought about this in over a decade.
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Level One: The Lady & The Lists In which we merrily avoid all potential dangers and then put ourselves in the most obvious danger we've ever been in before. ManxomeBromide posted:One of the interesting bits of setting up MadMaze as being this place of utter chaos is that you can put a character like the Woodsman in there and have him behave exactly like a cranky fantasy ranger and this ends up feeling like a relief to a tense situation as opposed to as an obvious cliche.
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I say we should try our best, but only to prove our merit. This knight can ride us down if we try to flee (attempting to flee on foot from an opponent on horseback in open ground is basically the single most suicidal thing you can do), but maybe he'll take an honorable yield if we establish our valor. (Not that I can count on that, but you did say this is survivable...) And they do go out of their way to point out this isn't the knight that committed a foul... nweismuller fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 14:43
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nweismuller posted:I say we should try our best, but only to prove our merit. This knight can ride us down if we try to flee (attempting to flee on foot from an opponent on horseback in open ground is basically the single most suicidal thing you can do), but maybe he'll take an honorable yield if we establish our valor. (Not that I can count on that, but you did say this is survivable...) Took the words right out of my mouth. I'm almost certain we shouldn't go for the kill at least, since that's mainly why we cried foul in the first place.
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Jun 1, 2018 14:56
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Huh, I was sure I had missed a PoP telling me it'd be a good idea to drink from that lake, but apparently I hadn't. This is the PoP I made it to, though I got a bit further into the event than this. Let's fight gallantly and see where that takes us.
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Jun 1, 2018 15:21
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It's pointed out that he's a black knight. Obviously the answer is to cut off his arms and legs, and call it a draw. 
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Jun 1, 2018 15:41
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Go for the kill. Nobody here is honorable, they don't care if we're craven or brave, just whether we satisfy their bloodlust.
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Jun 1, 2018 16:13
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Prove our merit.
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Jun 1, 2018 21:48
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Might as well finish what we started. Don't be a jerk and try to kill him. It's worse to purposely kill in a tournament than it is to strike someone in the back. In fact, isn't a back-strike perfectly legal?
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Domus posted:Might as well finish what we started. Don't be a jerk and try to kill him. It's worse to purposely kill in a tournament than it is to strike someone in the back. In fact, isn't a back-strike perfectly legal? Depends on era and area, but the most well-known form is: "Strike only the shield to unseat the foe", and there's a huge emphasis on conducting one self honorably, even putting oneself at a purposeful disadvantage to prove one's Chivalric honor, so a back strike would definitely be consider gauche in a lot of more chivalry-bound tournaments.
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I appreciate that two of the "magic words" you can futilely yell in the forest are straight from Lord of the Rings, albeit one is slightly misspelled. Namely, they're from the inscription on the One Ring: Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulūk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul I suppose this isn't really pertinent to anything in this game, but it's a nice little reference.
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Nordick posted:I suppose this isn't really pertinent to anything in this game, but it's a nice little reference. Captain Marvel's "Shazam" is on the list too.
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Nordick posted:I appreciate that two of the "magic words" you can futilely yell in the forest are straight from Lord of the Rings, albeit one is slightly misspelled. Namely, they're from the inscription on the One Ring: It reminds me of the Interplay Fellowship of the Ring game, where yelling random words of Elvish poetry was magic.
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Adamant posted:Captain Marvel's "Shazam" is on the list too. I'm kind of disappointed that XYZZY or PLUGH weren't, though.
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Y2 was obviously a Place of Power, but not one within the MadMaze.
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Prove our valor, if this guy actually is a legit honorable knight he'll take off the armor and fight us fairly on foot.
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Level One: The Elf-King & The Black Knight In which we lose, then win the tournament in a single day. TheGreatEvilKing posted:Prove our valor, if this guy actually is a legit honorable knight he'll take off the armor and fight us fairly on foot.
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Nakar posted:Level One: The Elf-King & The Black Knight And finally, supposing we ignored Gonzaga's wise warning and chose to remain at the tournament? This is how I died. Tostien had told me to WIN the tournament, and my equipment seemed pretty unbeatable, so I figured I'd have a shot. Didn't work out too well. Adamant fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Jun 2, 2018 14:15
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Well, I have to say 'winning a tourney via elf magic' wasn't exactly what I expected.
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Jun 2, 2018 16:33
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Tostien's advice isn't what we wanted - that sword won't get us into Castle Perilous - but he just spoke of freeing a King. The King's under the castle, right? I'm leaving a note to myself: when we ultimately hit up the Castle, we go up first.
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Can we say Tostien's name in later encounters or was that a 1-time deal?
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Can we say Tostien's name in later encounters or was that a 1-time deal?
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Level One: Beauty & A Beast We meet a god and are forced to endure poetry, in that order, twice. Join us next time for what might actually be our first genuinely difficult puzzle unless, you know, you understand basic logic. TheGreatEvilKing posted:Can we say Tostien's name in later encounters or was that a 1-time deal?
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Nakar posted:Level One: Beauty & A Beast He's yellow today, as we can clearly see in the picture.
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