#131225 - 02/05/06 11:51 AM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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(syd slips her invisibility cloak on, creeps into the thread - takes notes on game and slips out quietly to locate a copy while not alerting the original posters to the fact their thread has been spied upon)
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#131226 - 02/05/06 07:47 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Addicted Boomer
Registered: 05/30/99
Posts: 2308
Loc: Central Texas
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Thanks, Sig for the link to the manual. Peggy glad you're here, too. If you have any questions just whistle. What kind of character are you playing? Syd, I see though invisibility cloaks. Come on in and join us! I'm in Stillwater now and have captured the Stillwater Giant 
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#131227 - 02/06/06 11:23 AM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Addicted Boomer
Registered: 12/12/01
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Loc: southeastern Michigan
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(The ever-vigilant Sig puts on his Spectacles of All Seeing and discerns Syd sneaking into and out of his topic, wearing a very handsome cloak, indeed.) Yeah, come on, Syd. We have to make up for all those people who never gave this game enough of a chance. I bet GoGamer has a copy with your name on it. You're in Stillwater already, Debra? Uh . . . I'm glad this isn't a foot race. 
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#131230 - 02/07/06 10:42 AM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Settled Boomer
Registered: 09/10/01
Posts: 507
Loc: Houston TX USA
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Thanks, Sig. The manual has not yet arrived, but I will be on the lookout for it. I made pretty good progress last night and did get increase one of my skills somewhat, though I am not sure how! I had that auto schemes on. Probably did that when I was first looking over the screens. I turned it to "No scheme" so that I can tell when I increase something. Then maybe I will know how I did it. I killed Virgil!! Should I replay or just go on with his replacement? I rather liked him and don't know why he suddenly turned on me. I was only trying to crack open a barrel at Schuyler's... This is a very intricate game and I am loving it. Probably will last me several months. Thanks again. 
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#131233 - 02/07/06 10:23 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Registered: 12/12/01
Posts: 1249
Loc: southeastern Michigan
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Yeah, Debra, it's fun making things with those "schematics," isn't it? My fave is all the different funky firearms, but I make a lot of Healing Salves and Fatigue Restorers and other stuff. And aren't the pencil drawings on the schematics good? I love those.
I should be reporting back to Bates in the next session about what I found out in the Black Mountain mines, after having done some extra exploration there, and also in the Tarant sewers.
Speaking of neat things in this game, don't you like those little, purple, floating "Love Lights" in Ashbury? I wish those phenomena really existed, but I guess we'll have to settle for fireflies.
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#131235 - 02/09/06 11:04 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Addicted Boomer
Registered: 12/12/01
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Loc: southeastern Michigan
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Yeah, I always appreciate eye-pleasing load screens. The train one is my favorite.
Too bad about not being able to pick up Waromon (that lizard humanoid). I had him the first time and want to get him again. True to RPG-ness, though, it's easy to mess up in this game. All it takes is clicking on the wrong reply choice or trying to pick the lock on a barrel within eyeshot of someone. Put it this way . . . I'm hitting F7 a lot.
You killed a Love Light? Yeah, that had to be an accident. Rather serious consequences for that, but it just bears up what I was just saying. Funny how NPCs always assume you do everything on purpose.
My character's a good guy. Yours, too?
I'm back from the Isle of Despair, but the dwarf there wouldn't give me his Wheel Clan spectacles, and the game wouldn't let me have that shopkeeper in Ashbury make me a pair, so I made a schematic for them with the editor, but now I'm going all over looking for a lousy Kathorn crystal I need to make them (we sold all the ones we've collected so far). At least the strategy guide I ordered got here (from Canada), so "dungeon crawling" is a little better with the maps in it. Onward and downward . . .
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#131236 - 02/09/06 11:15 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Settled Boomer
Registered: 09/10/01
Posts: 507
Loc: Houston TX USA
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I've done most of the Tarant quests that can be finished there. Tried the Black Clan mines and ran into a golem who made mincemeat of my party! Right now I am trying to decide how best to muscle up and to get some cash. Seems no one wants to buy many of the awesome things I have managed to collect. Oh, how I would love to find one great general store that buys and sells it all! I've crashed a couple of times. I am able to play right through when I start back up so I must be overloading something. Yes. I am still really enjoying. There is quite a long learning curve for me. I am Level 13 and have not learned much! These guys are very stingy with those points. 
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#131237 - 02/10/06 07:26 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Addicted Boomer
Registered: 05/30/99
Posts: 2308
Loc: Central Texas
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Sig, I've got lots of Kathorn (sp?) crystals. You should have asked me. I would have met you at Schuyler and Sons and passed 'em over. Peggy, I think as you upgrade your beauty or charisma you can buy/sell more at any store. Which character are you? Are you a goody-goody like Sig and I? What's your character's name? I am Eleanor, half-elven and drop dead gorgeous. You may touch me now Whatever happened to stealthy Syd?
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#131238 - 02/10/06 11:02 PM
Re: Starting a replay of Arcanum---any joiners?
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Adept Boomer
Registered: 11/12/99
Posts: 12307
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"Whatever happened to stealthy Syd?" ************************************************ She is out buying a cloaking device for her invisibility cloak while waiting for her game to arrive 
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