quest tips: Re: Re: Appropriate Sacrifices

From: Bryan Thexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:35:23 -0800 (PST)

• Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...> wrote:
  > Bryan Thexton gave some very helpful comments on sarcifices, but I'd
  > take
  > issue with a couple of things he says ...
  >
  > >
  > > - The uralda quest is one of the hardest in the game I find, but
  > when
  > > desperate for cows it is good. ...
  >
  > If you're finding a quest hard it usually means you haven't read the
  > myth
  > carefully enough. As another poster mentioned recently, the Uralda
  > quest
  > gets much easier if you pick the option to watch from a high place in
  > the
  > first set of options (as the myth clearly indicates). That means
  > you're
  > not thinking of yourself when the biting things attack.
  >
  > I've just found another trick, which you're given a strong clue to if
  > you're having trouble persuading the bulls later on. I'll post exact
  > details under spoilers if asked. With it the Uralda quest becomes
  > relatively easy.
  

Actually, when you find one myth particularly hard, I think it often means a play style thing, so that you routinely do or don't do something that affects the odds in that myth.

I'll happily take tips on the Uralda quest though. I don't find it necessary, but there is a nice feel to having done all the quests. What I do currently is:

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-try to have a quester strong in leadership and animals, with at least very good in combat. This is seldom an uraldan, because not many clans have one and when they do they are often poorly skilled.

-watch from a high place.

• endure the attack, endure the attack, endure the attack.
  • seldom die here, but sometimes get lost.
• make the sign from the cave (and if that fails, ask to be healed). **occasionally fail here
• bring the cows and hope the bulls come along.
  • often fail here.
• Say "A little lost blood is nothing...."
  • Occasionally get trampled to death by enraged bulls here.

>
> I'm finding 'Elmal Guards the Stead' the hardest quest. Currently I
> have a
> balanced clan worshipping Elmal, the Clan chief (now King) is Heroic
> in
> Combat, Leadership and Magic, and I can still only succeed with that
> quest
> if my clan magic is around 20 or better (while I can do 'The Making
> of the
> Storm Tribe' with clan magic at zero).

So two things, one that might matter (not sure), and one that I'm sure does.

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1- might help: build fortifications, especially in the year leading up to the quest.
2- Sure it helps: You need combat to kill the opponents, magic to knit yourself together again, but when faced with the teller of lies, what skill tells you what the right action is and ensures that you follow the right rules.....? If you are weak in that skill (perhaps especially if you are a strong leader) you are apt to fall for the sweet lies of chaos.

--Bryan

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