Cataloging the Detritus of my Life
No post for today because I have been working on the backbone of the site and moving over my Let’s Plays from Photobucket and Gamespite. If you care to see what I’m talking about, and I hope you do. You can click the ‘Let’s Play’ tab above and read the King’s Quest LPs and the Space Quest 2 and 3 LPs in glorious html.
I’m still converting the SQ1 LP into html but I’m sure it will be done by the end of this week.
Garcon tries to scale the wall while the poor visioned minotaur has his back turned, to no avail:
If the right, and the middle are out that only leaves the left!
“Shit on a shingle!” Now is not the time to be practicing your climbing skills, Perseii! Eventually many tries and a vigor potion later:
The key to this area is to not step on the carpet and take the path to the left by the barricades then to go over the bridge on your right and finally to step over that thin black line you see there between the barrels and the assorted sacks. After that you slide through the door
This is a timed event where you have to stop all the brigands from flooding into the room, mess up and you’ll be forced to reload. Eventually we’re going to want to get Danar to the door in the upper left against the back wall.
close door
Once the brigands move away from the bottom door you need to:
Next some familiar looking brigands come in through the upper left door on the left wall.
move candelabra
nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
jump on table
With the knochelkopfs out of the way we enter the door into…
Seepgood wants to ask the weird looking fellow about Elsa and Yorick but the little guy doesn’t seem to shut up
ask about Elsa
ask about Yorick
So close Garcon can taste it! All he’s got to do is figure out this funhouse maze…
pull chain
open door
This is a fun little puzzle. If you mess up you find yourself kicked out of the door in the upper right sliding off of the bridges and into a restore game. Once through it though after dodging that fake door you enter the real one behind it to behold:
I suppose fighters can duel the enchanted Elsa before dispeling the curse upon her theives don’t have that luxury though
use dispel potion on Elsa
I thought they’d never leave!
get mirror
get potions
look bird
Remember that. It will come up later…
We use Yorick’s secret passage and find ourselves back with the Antwerp… Only one thing to do now!
Check out stats!
Nice! Okay, let’s go take care of Baba Yaga
Click the image to watch the ending!
And with that this let’s play comes to an end! Thank you for reading along. Next week I’ll be starting the sequel to QFG1, Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire. A fabulous game that expands on the the base QFG1 provided and expanding it with some wonderful storytelling, a fantastic setting, and a great sense of humor!
With the Mandrake and his life intact Garcon heads back to Baba Yaga’s hut.
Jackson doesn’t like the finality in Bonehead’s “bye” He orders the hut to sit and enters the hut once more:
Continue reading “Let’s Play Quest for Glory I: So You Want to be a Hero? Part 12”
With the Brother saved there are only two more things for Garcon to do in order to fulfill the counter-curse and become the Hero of Spielburg! What’s left to do again?
Drive the Curser from the Land?
and
Bring the Child from the Band?
Hrm… Perseii already has an idea on how to find the Baroness but he hasn’t yet run into the Curser, Baba Yaga, yet. Jackson moves to remedy that situation! A good Hero knows that you can’t beat ’em if you don’t know ’em. Everyone says Baba’s hut is somewhere on the western end of the valley so he goes looking there:
Yup, that must be it:
Definitely it… Danar thought about going over the fence, like any good thief wood, but:
Looks like whoever lives here thought of that… So, he approaches the gate:
A talking skull? You could do worse, I suppose… Seepgood hits him hard with his questions:
ask about Baba Yaga
That looks like an opening!
ask about deal
yes
ask about hut
ask about rhyme
This guy(his name is Bonehead, btw) sucks at security…
Remember back when we bought all those apples for the Jolly Blue Giant? and he gave us a bright red gem? Me too! If not go ahead and look back. I’ll wait…
…
…
Find it? Good!
That seems like the perfect thing to turn into someone’s eyes! Right?
give skull gem
What was that ryhme again?
hut of brown now sit down
Garcon Perseii Jackson Danar Seepgood! Master of all Chicken-footed huts he surveys!
look spider
Perseii moves slowly into the hut, his eyes peeled for Baba, but she doesn’t seem to be… AGH!
“Oh Goddess! She’s a master of doggerel verse! We’re DOOMED!”
“Oh no! She likes puns too! Kill me now!”
(Yes, I did have to type in Garcon’s name with the three spaces at the end, again. I hope you people appreciate what I put myself through for your entertainment)
You might ask why the most powerful magic user in the valley can’t get the mandrake root herself? Well, class that would violate the contract agreement the Adventurer’s Guild has with the Duplicitious League of Malcontents which stipulates that all Level 5 and higher baddies must offer lower level adventurers a fetch quest before killing them. See? Those Union dues don’t go to waste!
Well, what are we supposed to do in the meantime? It’s not even close to midnight… hrm… We could play knife throw with the head of the thieves guild?
But I suck at that game… We could clean out the stables again?
That only takes a couple hours… We could Play Mage’s Maze with Erasmus?
yes
He then goes on to ask Danar if he also knows Fetch, Flame Dart, and Trigger spells. Which he of course does!
If we win it even comes with a nice prize!
So what are you looking at here? This is the board on which you play Mage’s Maze. The goal is to get your little wisp, not seen, from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, Erasmus’ wisp starts in the right left. You’ll use the open spell to move rocks, the fetch spell to move bridges and ladders, the trigger spell on your wisp to make it grow or shrink as needed (only small ones can go through caves and, only medium ones can climb down the ladders), the flame spell is used to attract your wisp but it doesn’t seem to work very well…
If your wisp wanders its way down to the lower right before Erasmus’ does you win. Again, you can’t directly control the things you just have to open the path ahead of them while blocking the way behind. Oh, and the wisps will kill each other based on their size if they meet…
At this point Seepgood’s wisp (the white thing half way down the right side of the screen is nearly there. I’ve cleared out the way to the end while also blocking Erasmus’ wisp which is that purple thing near the center of the screen…
After a good while of my wisp flailing about and me wasting all my magic trying to get him to go where I wanted him to Garcon finally wins:
Woot! Hopefully that killed enough time?
No?
Dammit… Let’s just grab the damn thing now!
Dammit! Well, I’m sure he gets it right next time! Until then…
Danar decides to abuse both the “rest” and “wait” commands in order to get through the rest of the day. Those, and just practicing sneak everywhere…
Eventually though midnight comes around and Jackson makes a dash for the Graveyard; on his way he encounters:
So, that’s a thing… In the graveyard Perseii grabs the mandrake and makes a run for it:
Hrm, Garcon must be missing something?
use undead unguent
That was it! Seepgood looks at his wrist to confirm the time:
and, this time, he enters the graveyard confident that he’ll walk out of it alive and with the mandrake root:
“frolic? Is that what they call it when they kill poor, innocent, livies?”
look ghosts
“gross”
look plant
Next week we return the mandrake root to Baba Yaga, get completely wasted, and more!