Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.x/5.9.xNC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

When I first went to Verbobonc, I entered Wilfrick's castle, talked to Abriam(?) who told me that Wilfrick was behind him. I went through the door in the back and talked to Wilfrick. He gave me the weather/merchant quest and the drow quest. I left out the side door and talked to Achan and got the 3 criminals quest. This is when I noticed that I had 3 sets of uniforms per character. I then went upstairs to the cop bar and talked to the bartender who I think I kinda pissed off because he won't talk to me anymore. I left out the side door and went to the restaurant. I paid 100 gold to get a table and went up two flights of stairs. When I got there, I spoke to Darlia and he offered me the hostelry job. I accepted the quest but did not do it. I left and went to Prince Zook and then to Nybble. I completed the tunnels and teleported out. I went into the castle and spoke to Wilfrick and the 2 quests were completed and he gave me the Darlia/Lerrick quest. I completed the Darlia/Wilfrick quest and went back to speak with Wilfrick. Instead of completing that quest right then, he jumped into the Slaver's quest, which I accepted after much dialog. I then completed the 3 criminals quest and then completed them by speaking to Achan. I then went to all of the blue doors on the map. I found Wilfrick at home and completed the Darlia/Lerrick quest and failed the Family Turmoil quest. I went to the church of pelor and ignored the priests because they didn't provoke me. I bought the foreclosed house from the bank. I then completed the slaver's quest.

I think you are correct. He must have gave them to me when he shouldn't have.

 

On the subject of Darlia/Lerrick quest, Darlia never offered me anything, job or otherwise. I was given possibilities that I had seen someone following me and then I bumped off Darlia/Lerrick and gang. Talking to Willy boy made mention that Lerrick had hired me to assassinate Willy and I was able to move on to the Slaver quest.

 

I never noticed anyone, though they may have been there. It was a little funny and interesting when I talked to Darlia and I was offered that type of reply, but I just went along with it to continue the story.

Thanks for the fixes Gaear. I had wondered why the Drow was SOOOO high on the XP when the amount offered up when Dragon died paled in comparison.

 

Small status report on weid/bad things ;-)
Hickory branch : smth weird happened the cave lord H was hiding in was walled (first combat round agains wall abunded in sneek ataks on it :twitch: and when inside the cave lord H told me i was a coward (fled the branch acording to him (but i only took a small nap' at the basement of the shrine' after waisting the poor demon inhabitant)
Moathouse respawned: was quite good except the drow encounter :thumbsdow that was the single most pathetic battle i had they haven't eaven hit me once and it ended in 3 rounds (3rd round was mopping duty (local mosqitoes could have finished the encounter) ... may i sugest ~100hp for each drow ?? also i got alot of xp from encounter felt a bit undeserved(at least i got a nice regen necklace as a thanks from witch )
Nulb house ambush: first time it crashed when i encountered the guy who sold me the house and informed me that some gents' were looking for me (CTD rigth on conversation at i belive the q: where were they heded ... or smth like that)... after game reload i went directly inside the house and got greeted' by ranos,gremag&associates... suicide in like 4-5 rounds : i was blasted by a bunch of command and confusion spels resulting in my twin sorceress team fireballing the living *** out of them and my twin polearms wielding barbarians decimating any bandits in range and if that wasen't funy enough the rest of the ataking force auto-impaled themselves while closing the gap to my twin barbarians... that encounter needs some rethinking i believe (wasen't at that high level : was returning with fish head for the pirate (and after leveling from the battle my twin gals got theyr little hands on fireballs :evilgrin: so like lvl 6 ??)
Arena of heroes: first 2 batles happened in close succesion entered owlbear combat at level 4 and left at lvl 5 and after a short nap in hommlet was back and waisted the twin hill giants ... atempted the 3rd battle at lvl 5 and got waisted .... returned after nulb house ambush at a lvl 6 and emerged victorious (my party was turned to rags but no one died) after an epic battle :love: one extra hint for it : more stinky clouds needed :evilgrin: (my twin sorc gals+druidess got dissabled' from the stench the poor barb twins barely managed to hold the enemy at bay' til the gals woke up'). Oh by the way the reward for me is useless nobody uses shields in my party : they either dual wield or use pole arms (so maybe some reward options : like ring/neclace/armor/cape....)
About how my party looks like:
1)barbarian 2/rogue x.... locksmith/trapper role (armed with guisarme)
2)barbarian 2/rogue x.... radar tower (specialised in seeing the unseen and hearing... wields glaive)
3)sorceress x.... direct dmg spells&crippling spells (got celt runes tattoed and caries wood elf shield (no spell penalty)
4)sorceress x.... crippling spells&misc spells (same equip as 3)
5)druidess x/rogue 1... healing&buff+spike/entangle type spells (1 rogue level taken for extra people skils' boost(including appraise)&extra dmg via sneak, wields longspear)
As far as spelcasting goes the only direct dmg spells i have are :magic missle(taken last when nothing of intrest was left for that spell level) and fireball (top priority this one ... used for ... crowd control :evilgrin: as it quicky dispach filler' units). favored spells : sleep spels,color spay,glitterdust,greese,ray of enfeblement,web(sorc) entangle,spikes,barkskin(druid)
About crafting: only had belt of giant str(twin barbs&druidess only) for : arena of heroes(last 2 encounters); hickory branch and moathouse respawned; recently made amulets of endurance (1 for everyone) and of corse now i'm *** poor (about 7k gold is all i have)
Curently going to the ToEE (did about all there was for both homlet(cant find a flower for ami :-( ) and nulb and im about 1k exp from level 9 with my party except druidess (crafting got the best of her :evilgrin: )
From the temple i plan to recruit wiked(the jailed rogue raider) and drop the folowing on him : mithril chainshirt , some dx glowes, regen necklace,belt of giant str and he will be dual wielding meatcleavers (basicly he will be the gal's bodyguard/low blow specialist' hes got to atone for he's past somehow oke: ) After this recruit succesfuly integrates in the party (the half-elf druidess is hes only hope for ... happiness (strangely enough the twin human sorceres seem to favor the twin barbs(smth about theyr halforkish aparence is to blame i presume :evilgrin: ) theyll be going to the great city of Vb. (the twin barbs heard that there are some city dwelers out there that need to learn a few lessons on how 'tribal chains of comand work' of corse the twin sorceress are eager to go as well... the druidess on the other hand seems to think that away from nature her powers won't be enough to keep the party alive... hopefully wiked proves capable of cheering her up....
Will be back in a while with a Vb. report ... (By the way great work on 5.9 version its been great so far (overall ai seems better, game runs a bit faster (no jerk stops so far) and despite plaing for soo long i only had 3 CTD (2 of them were acidental i belive (hours of playing and then bang !! simply by walking). I can barely wait to try the Vb. area (grr why oh why does anyone have to do house/garden work during joyfull times like this ??!! (thx god the school is still a few solid weeks away )
Sry for the long&potentialy boring post and pardon my rusty english...

 

Right now i'm just clicking around in circles with no clue. I'm not all that interested in all the quests except the slavers. Had to kill Gunther and I have the slaver quest from the Viscount. Maybe i''ll find the other 2 criminals but right now I can't find anything.
Is the security barricade at the castle suppose to open somehow?
I've been everywhere on the signpost and all around the map day and night. I'm at a standstill now.

 

I just remembered something significant and I don't want to forget.

You can kill the signposts. They have the friendly green circle around them when you hover over them. I haven't actually killed one yet but I will try later. Would that mess up navigating around the map? :evilgrin:

 

I now own a 100,000GP castle with lots of storage room but nothing else. Have to check if it's a safe area to rest. Guess i'll keep on searching.

 

Ok, you cannot kill the signposts because it serves no purpose. However, I did kill everyone in Verbobonc and no one cared. I started with Lord Wilfrick at home and then everyone else followed. I got the cop killer reputation and the verbobonc slaughterer but none of the guards said anything to me. The only one that said anything to me was my attorney. He said that he already spoke on my behalf at council and my sentence was death. He said that right before I killed him, lol.

I was sort of hoping that Verbobonc would set hell on me, sending legion after legion after legion to kill me in a never-ending wave of guards.

 

Maybe a hideout for the criminals or a dungeon of somekind with a tip on the slavers. But it came with guards and servants so no luck. Good thing I had 100's of thousand GP to spare.

 

I didn't do any of the above choices. The guards didn't arrest me. After I killed Wilfrick, I left the house and killed the 2 house guards and then went from building to building killing everyone. I eventually got to the jail where the attorney said my sentence was death. And then I killed him.