My character scoffs at vampires. Then he kills them


I hope ms Gade da First makes it through!

How? How is he ridding them? ... Fortunately, I haven't seen any more of these in Crystal Tower. Crystal Tower gets really interesting too. There's a section which has .. well I don't want to spoil it for ya. Then again, you're not doing the Main Quest.

With spells. He´s immune to theirs and has quite some powerful ones himself, one hit is enough to kill anything.


Whoa!

I would like to see some pics right about now

Can you give some examples? I was using a reflect spell but maybe it's not powerful enough.

I think I took some pics. I'll have to post 'em later.

Hmm, I´ll have to enter the game and look them up. Most of them are low on effect though and you have to add the numbers up since they grow with each level. My character has a reflect spell too but he never uses it because it kills whoever attacks him instantly and he wants them to fill up his Magicka first

Rene Gade 1 is in Crypt of Hearts, which is #6 out of 10 steps during the Main Quest. I've been playing Arena occasionally, but not talking about it. Anyways, I'd thought I'd post a few Arena pics, okay?

Village Scene

Red Skies at Night

Hubba Hubba -- ( I assume she's supposed to be a dark elf, hard to say. Could be Argonian. Races aren't as defined visually as they are in later games).

Tropical Rainstorm -- (I assume this is in Black Marsh)

Psychadelic Shrine

Creepy Pixelated Forest

I am having an awesome battle right now in this game. I guessed the answer to the puzzle correctly, and there's two fire daemon in the room where the staff is found. Fire daemons apparently do not take damage unless you've got a mithril weapon or better. RG1 has an adamantine sword which she's been carrying around forever. I'm not sure if her weapon is good enough. Seemed like it wasn't harming the daemons much.

Then we decided to try some other ideas. In the next room there are a lot of pits. RG1 can levitate, so she starts levitating over the pits, moving away from the daemons (which cannot follow). She breaks out her Ring of Ice Storm to begin sending cold magic their way. Then she casts a Spell Reflection, and that's what did the trick.

As the one daemon started hurling fireballs at her, it eventually died because here we've got a 10% chance of having each spell reflect back to its caster, but there's also a +5% chance per level. RG1 is level 17 right now. She wrote this spell a long time ago, probably when she was Level 3 or 4, so it's really 55% or 60% chance that spells reflect.

She drank a Resist Fire potion to eliminate taking any damage that isn't reflected, then she drank a bunch of potions (restore health and magicka). She moved in close to the first daemon, and touched it with a Damage Health spell, which causes 40 to 50 damage every 5 rounds (5 minutes in-game time). There is +3 to +6 damage per round with each additional level, and again, we're talking maybe 12 or so extra levels.

She took a huge chunk of damage when she went back into that room with the staff piece. The second daemon was hiding in there and he got her. But then he too began throwing spells, and pretty soon he was history.

Reading about such battles reminds me of Baldur's Gate where a lot of spells were leveled dependent and if you planned things ahead, some tough battles quickly became much easier.

Good that she dealt with both daimons, she's not far from finishing the MQ, right?

Awesome updates, Renee! Cool that you´re still on the MQ. And I really liked the pictures, keep em coming!


Those daemons... All my character needs to do is sneeze and boom; destroyed

Thanks mirocu, I will update more frequently this summer since I'm not playing Skyrim all summer. I also REALLY want to get to Daggerfall. So I've been playing Arena maybe once or 2x a week lately..

Lopov: Yes, I think there are three more steps to the M41n Kw3$T. I can't believe I've been doing the MQ in this game for over 2 years. How do people get it done in hours?

We found the seventh staff piece! It was found in Black Marsh, the in the dungeon of Murkwood. This dungeon was surprisingly easy. It consisted of two levels: the first is an outdoor maze. The air was foggy, but the enemies were nothing we hadn't seen before. This maze was easy because most of it was foliage (bushes & trees), so as soon as we found a stone structure, we knew to go inside of it.

Came to a door. The question was this...


I tie and hold, capture and bind,
yet both knights and knaves crave me.
I faithfully enslave all within my grasp, whether or not they seek me.
Yet those who have never felt my unmerciful hand, are pitied by their fellow man.

and I went through 8 guesses before I got it right!




After guessing that one, we went down to the next level, which was simply a large room full of caged golems. All we had to do was jump across one chasm, and the staff piece was right there behind a door! This time it took me just TWO guesses to get it right. After guessing wrong the first time, the cages opened, and all these golems might have attacked Renee Gade the first if she hadn't cast an invisibility spell.

I run smoother than any rhyme,
I love to fall but cannot climb,
I tremble at each breath of air,
And yet can heaviest burdens bear

I think this one is so easy I won't even post the answer. Who wants to guess?

This post has been edited by Renee: Jun 15 2016, 10:49 PM

It sounds like water to me.

I agree, sounds like water.


Nice update, Renee! So now, ehm, Renee, has all the pieces but one? That dungeon sure sounds easy, no false passages or hidden rooms at all. I think it´s to let your guard down for the final dive...

Yes, the answer is water, very good you two.

Yes mirocu, it seems like the early Bethesda team (which was like... two people, + Todd as a beta-tester!) didn't feel like putting much energy into Murkwood. Or maybe they decided to make Murkwood so easy, they were thinking most gamers would assume "how can it be so easy? There must be some trick." Whatever the case, I hope I am done with Arena soon. I really wanna try Daggerfall this summer.

Fredas, 7:11 pm, Second Seed 11, 3rd Era 393

Renee Gade I

Level: 17

ST: 62, Int: 60, WP: 78, AG: 77, Spd: 50, End: 66, Per: 48, Lck: 64



In the town of Narsis, in Morrowind now, Renee Gade walks at night, knowing at some point a minion of Jagar Tharn is bound to show up soon. And tonight is the night. It is a vampire who faces the Nord Battlemage on the very streets of this town. Tharn tells her so, during a quick, omnipotent moment of time.

The vampire immediately begins throwing some spells at Renee, fireballs mostly. But she is quick. She counters by immediately casting a spell of her own: one which will reflect most spells. She grabs into her magic bag, and grabs a potion which will also resist fire. After these two simple moves, the vampire hasn't got a chance in Oblivion.

After the vampire's dismissal, she begins her search for an inn to spend the night. She may spend several nights in this inn, for her gear is in need of repairs. Things must also be bought, identified, and sold. She had managed a good looting back in the dungeon of Murkwood, in the province of Black Marsh.

She is pleased to find an inn literally on the same block the vampire's ashes had fallen. As she rents a room, she muses upon the last words spoken by Ria Silmane, the spirit she had been conferring with over the past 4 years. Ria hold told her to come here, to Morrowind, and as usual she would need to ask the locals if they knew anything about the place Ria had mentioned, a place called Dagoth-Ur.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jun 19 2016, 03:13 AM

Ooh, things are getting tight now! The staff is almost complete and Renee will soon face the final battle. May the Force™ be with her and... Oops, wrong universe

Renee has almost beaten the game! Thrash it like a red-haired stepchild.

Ha ha you don't know how much I want to beat this game! I can't wait for Daggerfall. I have a feeling I'll get stuck in a Daggerfall / Morrowind phase for many years to come.

Fredas, 1:01 pm, Mid Year 4, 3rd Era 393.

King Cosik, the leader of the town of Ebonheart, in the province of Morrowind, was surprised to see the lady he'd been hearing so many things about walk into his court. Cosik was expecting some sort of hulking she-man, a very physically-developed matron of warfare, or some such, but the lady before him was nothing like this. She was smallish, for one thing. And dressed in common leather, not some shiny armor suit.

"Might this be her? The one everybody's been referring to? She looks nothing like I'd imagined."

King Cosik's nearest page agreed, but said nothing. This page had heard plenty of things too. How a Nord (a Nord!) was the one who'd managed to collect all the staff pieces which had been scattered by Jagar Tharn, one in each of Tamriel's provinces.

Finally, the page spoke. Nobody ever said he couldn't speak...it was just something not commonly done. And besides, he thought he might be able to inform the king directly.

"Sh--she is not really a just warrior, milord, she has magical talents too. She is said be able to disappear from sight in the blink of an eye, walk over pits and rivers without falling into them, and cast the deadliest magics seen since the days of Uriel Septim III, under the banner ofTheodore Osbern."

"What did you say? Who are you?"

But before he could derive an answer, the Nord woman approached. And now that she was near, the king could see something about this woman before him. She definitely had the fire of a warrior in her eyes. But the air around her seemed charged, as well. Charged with magical energy, that is.

"By gracious," she spoke." "I am here to address the court on the matter of the location of a certain lair, known to your peoples as Dagoth-Ur."

"My name is King Cosik," he began, "and I have heard that you seek Dagoth Ur, the legendary home of of the Dwarven people. Perhaps we can help one another. I have in my possession", he rambled, "the Anvil of Mithos, greatest of the Dwarven blacksmiths. Only one object was strong enough not to shatter when used to shape metal upon the Anvil, the Hammer of Gharen."

"And I think I can guess the rest..."

"It is said that the ring of the Hammer upon the Anvil speaks to the user, telling him the entrance to the Mount of Dagoth-Ur. With the raw metals present within the mountain, my blacksmiths will be able to fashion the finest weapons and amor in the realm!"

"You want me to..."

"Recover the Hammer for me."

"Thought so."

"It was supposedly lost in the dungeon known as Black Gate. I will show you where this dungeon can be found. You will be rewarded for this deed with the location of the entrance to Dagoth-Ur. You can then journey there and explore it to your heart's content. Do you agree?"

"Of course I do."

... that was how King Cosik liked his subordinates, ready and obedient. And before him was the very queen of subordinates.

"You do me a great service, Renee Gade, one that I nor my people will easily forget."

And then, the lady before him, Renee Gade, the once demure nobody from Amol, in Skyrim, did the most amazing thing.

"Where-- where did she go?"

"As I said, milord, she has great magical talents.

King Cosik fretted a moment, unsure of what made him more uncomfortable: the lady warrior-mage disappearing, or the fact that he was now engaged in a conversation with one of his .... not so great subordinates.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jun 21 2016, 11:26 PM

In my personal ranking of the five main TES releases in their virginal unaltered vanilla states, Daggerfall has long been tied with Oblivion for top honors. (Disclosure, I use and recommend Daggerfall Setup, which includes unofficial patches and corrections as well as additional content. But, its fixes and patches do not fundamentally alter any aspect of game play. There is one optional add-on that, after further study, I decided is a bit 'cheaty' and won't use again.) Add mods into the mix and I give Oblivion the nod, though Daggerfall remains a reasonably close second. In a sense I'm being unfair to Morrowind and Skyrim become I played those games at or near release pre-expansion/DLC and only lightly modded.

I really ought to return to my stalled Daggerfall playthrough, which I've not visited since early this year.