When you have guessed the answer, how exactly did you tell the game what is right? Do you have some possible choices to choose from and you have to click on the correct one?

You must type it in. Literally, think about the puzzle, come up with an answer, type this answer into the game, and press ENTER. So hardcore. It felt really really good to guess that second answer without cheating.

Here, you try it. Give yourself 5 minutes to guess the answer, and really think about what is being asked. What can possibly go on your face? .. What causes words to happen? .. The 'lack of space' one I don't really get. It doesn't fit in. The 'bird' line is on-topic though. It fits in.

I touch your face
I'm in your words
I'm lack of space
And beloved by birds...

What am I?





This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Jan 7 2015, 11:23 PM

So, how far along the MQ are you now, Renee?

It sounds like it has to be


This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 26 2015, 06:33 PM

So I guess I won´t be playing any more Arena until November comes along, creature of habit as I am...


But hey! Before we know it summer is over and soon it´s gonna grow colder and darker again so no worries, eh?

Correct. You get the cookie. err... no cookie emoticons here at Chorrol, so you get this weird explanation point-looking thing.

mirocu: I got about halfway through Labyrinthian before I began modding Skyrim, and then ... well ...

Labyrinthian is not very fun. I'll get back into Arena eventually, matter of fact RG1 has the 'Destroy Walls' spell, which makes any lair much easier. But it's still not as fun as Oblivion and Skyrim.

I did some Arena last night. RG1 got to the next major point of Labyrinthian, before I stopped the game. I'm just glad she found this point, sheesh this dungeon is big.

There is another word riddle, and I stopped the game because I want to think about what the answer could be, even if this means mulling over the riddle this week instead of gaming. I want to pretend it's 1994 again, and there is no Internet to cheat from.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 22 2015, 12:06 PM

I can assure you that in the end Renee will solve the riddle. Because when Lucius arrived there 200 years later, there wasn't any riddle to solve anymore.

Finally got out of Labyrinthian. I had to cheat for one of the puzzle-doors, because its answer was one of those trick questions... but I managed to guess the very last puzzle on my first try. Behind this final puzzle-door was the second piece of the Staff of Chaos. This is 2 out of 9, I believe.

Played some more Arena last night. Now we are in a place in Valenwood called 'Selene's Lair', which has a lot of spiders roaming around. RG1 mostly stays invisible though; which saves all sorts of time (and equipment damage) because TES1 really packs these lairs full of enemies, way more than later games. She usually only fights an enemy if it blocks a hallway, or prevents her from trying to rest. After we find the "sacred jewel" (or whatever it's called) then we can return to the queen of whatever city-state is supposed to have the info to the next staff piece.

And last night, I figured out something new about this game. I assumed it features digital movement only (one speed) but if I move the cursor slightly upward (so that it turns into an arrow) and press a certain button on my controller, now the pc moves at variable speed.

Why is this important? ... Because it adds to imm. *sigh* IMMersion. This way, when RG1 goes into towns, it feels more like she strolling at various speeds, instead of running all the time. I also noticed that when she walks (instead of runs) the NPCs won't constantly stop what they're doing to turn and look at her, instead they will keep doing whatever they're supposedd to be doing (moving randomly). Again, this adds to ... the I word.

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 8 2015, 02:14 PM

So while Renee Gade III is busy dancing fighting in the Arena, her grandmother Renee Gade is sneaking past spiders and learning that moving too fast isn't always good.

I wonder whether we'll ever find out who were the impregnators in the Gade family? We have RG1 that had a daughter-> RG2 and she gave a birht to RG3 but who where their fathers?

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 8 2015, 08:41 PM

That's a good question, thanks for asking. I like to think that RG2 was born after her mother was done saving the world from Jagar Tharn / the events of TES 1: Arena, while RG3 was born sometime before I did any gaming with RG2. In other words, the gal I gamed with on PS3 already had her child before she became a lonely rogue-warrior, followed the Pilgrim's Way (badly), and then became a Knight of the Nine. How did RG3 wind up in Skyrim? I don't know. Who are the fathers of all these ladies? Really don't know. Stuff to think about.

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 9 2015, 12:33 AM

I think it was one of the gods who did the deed each time. And even if it wasn't, that's probably what each Momma Gade claims anyway!

After all, if you look at all the great heroes and rulers of RL ancient history, they had at least one god in the family, sometimes two or more (Alexander claimed descent from Heracles on one side of his family, Achilles on the other, and eventually threw in Zeus as his actual father for good measure as well. That was a busy bed!).

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 9 2015, 03:19 AM

That's a tempting explanation SR. "Divine intervention" did it. ha ha

I guessed it! Didn't think I had it in me at my age. Full disclosure . . . I played Arena to completion at launch so obviously guessed it back then too. But that was many years ago. I had totally forgot the question, much less its answer.

As for myself, I really ought to resume my years-old on again - off again Daggerfall playthrough. Likely not gonna happen in the immediate further, but at least I'm thinking on it.

Yeah, those puzzles are pretty neat. I had to cheat on the last one, which got to me because I was so close to the answer. But the one before that (in Elden Grove or whatever it's called) I guessed right on my first try. Which is really satisfying.

I'm really looking forward to Daggerfall. Honestly, Arena's main quest is so repetitive: go to Mage's Guild > Go to dungeon > Go to castle > Go to dungeon > Go to castle > Go to dungeon.... and those dungeons are HUGE sometimes. Maze-like. I can only play TES 1 for maybe an hour at a time, once or twice a week. I still enjoy it, but the game's really a huge dungeon crawl, without a lot of the subtler elements I've read about in Daggerfall.

After a too-long hiatus my avatar snapped out of his coma in the Daggerfall City Temple of Kynareth, where he had been about to grab an assignment. This proved to be a simple delivery run to an inn in Charentown (?), the only complication being his getting jumped en route by two thugs hired by a rival Temple.

Craving a more meaty assignment, he headed to Knights of the Dragon where he often receives lengthy dungeon crawls. As luck would have it they needed him to dispose of an Orc Warlord in the depths of Tricergon. The foes he encountered there posed little threat. He was never in any great danger of dying. What's more, he looted a daedric pauldron which netted him a pretty penny . . . errrrr, Septim. Entering the dungeon he was faced with two travel paths. He chose one and set out. Exhaustive exploration followed without finding the Warlord. I called it a night with him still roaming the dungeon. Woke this morning and resumed the search. Nothing but dead ends. He made his way back to the entrance, loaded loot onto his wagon, and set off down that second passage. Not a minute later he spied a secret doorway. Behind that door were two mobs and the Warlord!

Back in Daggerfall City he sold loot, banked, visited his home, received quest credit from the Knights of Kynareth, identified two magic items and received training in Illusion at the Mages Guild, and is about to solicit an assignment from that organization.

Arrggh! You´re making me wanna play Arena again, Decrepit!


And I will, soon enough. I just love the atmosphere in that game.

Arena's a neat game and I'm glad I have it, but i can't wait to get to the end, and officially have it over with.

*there, I said it*



It's such a grind, especially those HUGE dungeons. I'm sure Daggerfall will be much more interesting. I know DF has huge dungeons too, what I'm saying is that DF also has a much-more fleshed-out world, overall. That'll be neat to see.

I enjoyed my play-through of Arena back when it was new and shiny. It's the one 'major' TES title I have next to no interest in playing again. Almost everything about it was improved upon in Daggerfall. Those few areas where it bests Daggerall aren't overly important. That said, I don't rule out a replay though it will definitely take a back seat to contemplated replays of Morrowind and Skyrim, this time heavily modded with all expansions/DLC.

As to the subject at hand, Daggerfall City's Mages Guild gave my avatar a simple task . . . travel to Tunbeth Hamlet, enter the Palace, and kill an undead, in this case a vampire. Returning to Daggerfall he accepted an assignment to dispose of a Gargoyle in the Lair of Alabore. This proved rather challenging as the Lair was inhabited by casters of various sorts, some pretty darn tough. Quickly accessing the situation, he stored his beloved Daedric Warhammer and equipped himself with tower shield and a lesser quality mace enchanted with paralysis-on-strike. The mace does not guaranty paralysis, but did help even out the odds. The gargoyle itself was deep within the Lair. Following its demise I worried that, after my long hiatus, my avatar might have trouble finding the exit. (He's magically gimped and likely will never have enough magicka to cast teleportation.) Thankfully he has not lost his sense of direction. Within a very few minutes he was at the entrance carting a decent haul of Daedric weapons for the trip home. (I hold the apparently minority view that Daggerfall's dungeon map in 3D perspective mode, combined with the mini map insert, make finding dungeon exits a breeze a good 95% of the time. For dungeon exploration I stick to 2D mode.)

That out of the way, he solicited a too rare civilian quest during which he was sent to Baelworth Hamlet to check on the father of a Daggerfall City merchant. Not a happy ending.

He then traveled to Penbury (???) Hamlet for training in Medical at a local Temple. I left him as he reentered one of the Daggerfall City gates.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Oct 23 2015, 02:45 PM