He´s just a kid then! Get him up to 25-ish and he´ll be fine. Probably..

I think my own character is still in Skyrim. He´s ready to take on the MQ, he just needs me a little bit..

'rocu.... MQ...





I was thinking I needed him about Lvl 20 before he sets out

Ooh, a journalistic update! Nice one, Renee!

A journal - how nice. I love the spelling mistakes too, they fit the story. Damn, you guys make me want to play Arena.

I make me wanna play Arena too!

That's something I got the sense of while 'she' was writing it. For some reason I see this young, 18 to 20-year old girl wanting to start a journal, but she's not entirely educated. She's good with weapons, and also a fledgling spellcaster, but hasn't had time to perfect her writing skills.

Back in the middle ages only some royalty or the religious (monks and such) were truly educated. Renee Gade has had some education, but not the sort where her folks send her away to some monastery for years and she comes out like a sage or a scribe.

Renee's very first quest completed folks! It's a random quest. I gotta say, finding the Mage's guild wasn't that hard because I've been marking everything on the map, but finding the correct INN was getting frustrating. There's so many damn inns in the town she's in (which is Amol). I've marked several of these on the map, but they all say "INN". So she visited over a half dozen of these inns. Finally she found an inn which was not marked, and this was the correct one.

This is a small victory for both of us because in the original Arena game on my old comp we couldn't get any quests to work for some reason.



She managed to kill a lizard man, two goblins, and a rat. Those were rather easy, but then she came across a wizard. Her first one. The guy didn't use any spells, ironically it was Renee who managed to hit him with a fire dart. She also used her broadsword to take the wizard down, but by the time she did this she had already healed herself twice, and her Magicka was gone. So it's a good thing she 'kilt' him before he kilt her.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 1 2014, 02:14 AM

Her first quest done! They grow up so fast, don´t they..?

Renee, do you mark the inns and other places by writing the names yourself? There is a feature where you can right-click ( I think) on a door to an inn/shop etc in the game and it will mark its full name on your map

Nice story Renee, it's good to hear that Renee is doing fine. Can you loot armor or clothes from NPCs in Arena?

You can indeed, Lopov

You can loot whatever they have which usually is low-grade armour and weapons. Sometimes they have potions and other misc objects too.

I didn't do this in my original game (couldn't figure out how) but in the new game I have been doing this. Makes things much more convenient because Arena's towns are waaaaay more confusing and 'generic' than those found in later games. It's amazing I used to think Bruma or Windhelm (in OB and Sky, respectively) were confusing.

But note to self: if I ever get any more random quests, I need to start writing 'quest' next to the inn where I got the quest.


Sometimes. So far, most of the things she has found are near-useless. A daggar here, a few gold there. Most enemies carry nothing at all, which explains why they wind up wandering into towns I suppose.

The only significant items she's found are an Elven Amulet which lowers her Armor Class by -1, and a couple of "Marks" worth over 400 gold each. But all of these were found in the starter dungeon. Maybe she should go back there and try to get some better loot, but I can't find the place now because when she left the Tutorial she was pretty freaked out, and simply wanted to run towards the newest inn.

Yeah, she's rolling now! RG is really getting the hang of random Arena quests. It's easy to make money in this game, and there's lots to do that is actually non-violent. In this case, all she did was (1) pick up a tip from a townsperson that somebody in the Dirty Pit Inn needs an escort. (2) Found this person. She wanted to go to the Mage's Guild (3). RG1 takes her to Mage's Guild *boom* that's 80 gold. The entire quest was done within an hour or two.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 9 2014, 02:36 AM

Yeah you can plow through four-five quests in a day that way and you don´t even need to talk to people. All you gotta do is walk into random inns and try to talk to the inn keeper. If one inn doesn´t work just go to the next

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 9 2014, 07:53 AM

Yeah, so Renee got a tip to visit the palace, where the Baroness lady (or queen or whoever she's supposed to be) up above gave my battlemage a quest, but this quest involved traveling 58 days away to some cave. The reward was only 160 gold, and I got the sense that RG1 did not want to do this. It's too far away.

Between me and her, I'd like to see her keep building up her gold and her XP right here in Amol. I've been watching some Let's Plays of Arena, and by golly some of those dungeons are tough out there. So I won't mind if RG1 keeps hanging out in Amol, and even becomes somewhat of an Uber.

The Let's Play I've been watching is by a British guy named Shellibix, if you're interested. It's funny because Shellibix jumps right into the MQ without buffing up his toon at all! ... As a result, he gets pwned over and over again once he's out in some dungeon.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 15 2014, 03:00 AM

Your experience with Arena is very similar to my own, Renee. I also opted out on a baron quest because I felt my character wasn´t ready by a long shot. I decided I´d rather lose that quest and just deal with it instead of doing what I was told. Interestingly enough, when after that long shot he finally was ready, it wasn´t too late to do the quest!

Getting your character stronger by doing what you´re doing is imo a very good idea before tackling dungeons and whatnot. Btw, isn´t it awesome that shield spells aren´t limited by time!?

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 15 2014, 07:48 AM

Shield spells aren't limited by time? What do you mean? You can cast a shield spell and it lasts for hours? Wow, Rg's gonna have to get that. So far her spellbook includes the default healing and Fire Dart spells for Battlemages, and she's managed to buy Orc Strength and Light as well.

It was funny when RG turned down that quest the Baroness lady was like "You young Nords today are so unambitious!" That cracked me up.

If I´m not mistaken, shield spells are active as long as they´re not depleted. In other words, they only decrease when you´re taking hits

My Arena gal has made it to Level 6, and has an even 600 gold at the moment. I dumped a point into Personality (she's always chatting with people, after all), a point into Strength, 2 into Intelligence I think, one into Endurance, and one into Willpower. She's pretty well-rounded with the stats, methinks.

Even though her game is not officially dead-is-dead, it's been awhile since we've had a death. She can heal herself, and also doesn't go outside at night unless she's got at least 3 potions, either for Magicka or Health.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 20 2014, 02:36 AM

She´s coming along fine, I see. Taking on the MQ and all And I did just the same when Thor was young; never went out at night without those potions. I really need to come back into his game but I reckon that won´t happen until fall.

Why? Because that´s when I started to play Arena last year and I´m a Creature of Habit Extraordinaire™ and if I start out playing in a certain way I have to keep playing like that if I don´t want the feel for the game to disappear