I wonder what happens if you use hacking to get Philinus out of Odemia before rescuing Ariadne; that is, what happens if he is with you when you rescue her. I assume they would both appear in Odemia when you leave a zone, but I would be curious to see if you could get them stuck in the wrong zone.

Actually, I think your chron met more of the requirements (for the alternative challenge at least) than mine did, although I guess it could be argued that my chron did meet the requirement of Wizard being late and oblivious.

Indeed, it was. It didn't belong that in first post, and I have now corrected the problem.

It's never too late to hop on the Kako-ship to Illicit Affair Island.

Merry Christmas and/or other assorted holidays. ^_^

Nice work as always 🙂 .

You could always contribute a late entry to the challenge 😛 .

My guess is that he didn't really consider it a priority, but I still like the thought of using the existing number as the basis for an in-game calendar, since there's little other information to go off of.

Actually, I'm impressed by the number of replies to this challenge. There were more than I expected, although I admit to being disappointed that Retsy seemed to survive in a lot of them 😉 .

I suppose that I'll have to go ahead and get the Christmas chron challenge up in a couple of days or so, depending on how long it takes me to come up with some more ideas for it.

But for a good cause 🙂 !

My troubles with the rolling pin continue. I actually got pretty far in my first attempt, but that's because my followers were doing all the fighting. Realizing I was missing the point, I started over. This time no followers, just me and my rolling pin. That's when I kept losing my rolling pin to unicorns.

Is it cheating to use the sapphire book trick in order to gain access to the Replicate spell early in the game? That's what I did. So I have a rolling pin, I have replicate, I'm all set for dozens of rolling pins, right? So I directed nexus to LKH, replicate a crate, drag it to Alaric, fill it with my rolling pin and other assorted booty, and... cannot smash apart the crate with my bare hands. I could see no alternative to inviting Hector into my party, giving him my rolling pin, and shaking him down. This worked, and I replicated several copies of the rolling pin, but I was disappointed that I had to get a follower to do so. At least I can smash crates now, right? And kill unicorns? No, and no. Apparently I cannot smash a crate with a rolling pin. And the several rolling pins I had on hand weren't enough to effectively hit a unicorn. But I did learn that you can throw a rolling pin short distances. I guess that's kinda cool? There's a probability of the rolling pin disappearing forever though.

This post has been edited by BreadWorldMercy453 : 11 November 2018 - 07:27 PM

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 13 October 2014 - 08:35 PM, said in Hmmm....:

Wowev Fiery, that's a much more complicated answer than I was expecting! So we can only guess how game-Cythera is supposed to be pronounced? : __\ When did you learn Greek anyway? o_O

I took a semester of Modern Greek in college. I picked up some of the rest through a combination of linguistics courses and explanations in that class of why the pronunciation is so different from how we normally pronounce words from Greek.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 19 June 2015 - 03:19 PM, said in Authorship of the Cypher Manuscript:

It still strikes me as likely that the author of the Cipher Manuscript would be a character in the game, but then again, the chimera don't seem to appear in the game, so many the author doesn't either /:

I think that having an outside character write it creates more potential story lines than a character in the game. It opens up the possibility to more interaction with other worlds and allows more growth for the universe. The fact that gandreas included the manuscript at all suggests to me that he intended to explore these possibilities further.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 27 October 2014 - 07:05 PM, said in Cythera Youtube Playthrough:

No, I want to see if you can (with cheating, if necessary) kill the Abydos ghosts : __P

Well, I should be able to set their status to dead in hexedit, but I don't know how that will affect the game.

Unfortunately, I'm a little too busy just now to experiment with this, although I'll make an effort to get around to it.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 03 October 2014 - 08:51 AM, said in Roll to succeed:

For example, if you attack someone...

Shorty thinks I should edit this to say "if you attack your innkeeper" but I don't see how that's relevant. I had a perfectly valid reason to attack that innkeeper. What does it matter that he was the innkeeper?

@buzzzzy_bot, on 17 September 2014 - 03:32 AM, said in Aloiphoi, redux:

Given mages' vague description of the Aloiphoi, I kind of doubt now that gandreas intended anyone to find substantial content in them.

Any clue what the letters mean?

I'm inclined to agree about the lack of substantial content. I think they are intended just to give cultural background and add depth to the game.

I suspect that the lettering is most likely some sort of ordering system.

I take it this means you're defining "quasi-active" as posts once a year, Wizard 😛 ?

Well, I suppose I could borrow Wizard's account and post from it, but I don't think that would count as three people posting...

Well, I was being optimistic and thinking this year.

Well, Grapper's free to return and give his own take at any time.