Nwn - 24-03-2003

Rev Hellfire

Ok ladies what do we want to play this evening.

I have the save from wednesday and continue with that or do u want another module (which u can suggest ).

Answers before 4:30 pls.

Saruman

We should probably continue on.. i hate to leave something unfinished!!

LoLth

definitely continue on. But I do think we have missed some clues and some areas (you have no idea how tempted I was to dl the module and open it in the toolset! ... but I resisted). I think we should go back and re-explore. for example, where does that portal in the temple go? what were the gems and the statues for? What else is in the maze? etc.

we sort of stumbled into the final room without checking everything else first.

Rev Hellfire

So load the save game or restart the module ?

Saruman

No load saved... no point doing it again.. we were pretty far through it... unless you want to load our characters as they were at start of module... otherwise i dont see the point.. just load the save.

LoLth

yeah, load the save.

Hopefully someone in the gorup hasn't visited the merchant and we can get him/her to buy a ton of healing kits

LoLth

well, there was a good bit left to explore.

unfortunately, we think someone not present had the plot item needed to complete the quest

(by getting to the barge and retrieving the star of mo-pelar)

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There were absolutely zero clues as to what had to be done, and once in the final chamber we couldnt leave

(personally I think it should not have let us into the chamber without the item to get to the barge to get the star which along with the rod opens the portal to exit by).

Also, secret doors were a pain. Cerano couldnt see them, at all, even when we went through them, boosted his lore (you still have my ring of insight btw) and held them open. The secret doors were essential to the quest too. If it were single player, Cerano would have been unable to complete the quest.

A few more entries in the quest log would have been nice.

It was fun though, some excellent traps and puzzles. Some really good fights, and the town of silvervale ahd some nice equipment. (pity we didnt go there in the beginning when we had the loot from the dunwich adventures).

LoLth

keeping with the 1st ed scenario re-furnished theme...


how about:

http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1044116422130.shtml

lvls 5-8, 1-4 players, 4-5 hours. Ghost tower of Inverness, largely hailed as one of the best 1st ed modules and a prequel to the lost isle of catanimir.....
has a large hak file included in the zip, download about 4mb,

or if we want to get away from it all:

http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1045123401139.shtml

gates of myth drannor, by abbadon (a well known scripter seemingly), lvls 5-10, 1-5 players, 4-9 hours gameplay. Has a small hak file in the download (cloaks.hak).
Download total is 2.76 mb.

Rev Hellfire

4 meg large I take it you havent patched any games recently.

LoLth

sorry, too used to dl'ing them in work and transferring them to CD for home use.

gates of myth drannor is a 2.8mb download, the hak is less than one meg, the scenario itself is 12mb unpacked.

The Inverness one is a 4 mb download, the hak is 7mb (3.5mb zipped) and the scenario is 5.7mb unzipped.

is there somewhere I could mirror the hak for myth drannor so everyone can have easy access?

I'll have a look for a smaller mod. But we're running out of good rated ones!

LoLth

found one!

http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1029387285530.shtml

tallanavors pride, 5hours gameplay (minimum seemingly), levels 8-10, 1-3 players - we had 4 last night so this should be ok. level should be fine (recommends 6th for multiplayer).

No hak pack, total download size - 0.72 mb

tadaaa

or, if another classic PnP conversion is required,

http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1028218726282.shtml

tomb of the lizard king. levels 6-8, 1-5 players, 3-4 hours gameplay, 0.42 mb download

(I am downloading castle spulzeer as we speak, 29mb download, but includes a user manual etc, so I'll see about trimming that down a bit).

LoLth

ok, last post... honest, will have to do some work.

http://nwvault.ign.com/Files/modules/data/1027794287049.shtml

huge campaign one seemingly 36-40 hours gameplay. suits up to 20th level, respawn areas, can be used as a PW server if wanted.

1.44mb download

right, me off to do some work before I go to lunch!

LoLth

anyone got a preference?

If it's one with a hak we need to decide and give everyone time to download (bc and lomir, I can pu t the modules onto CD for you if you dont have access/time yourselves).

on a side note, anyone got any ideas how to get around the auto install exe's some of the scenarios are packed in?

Saruman

Restinford looks good (the last one you posted!)

Though it does say you want to be very tough for the boss.. then again we have not had a boos to fight in a while!

you still have my ring of insight btw

Yeah i was going to give it back to you last time but something happened before i did the barter that distracted me.. i think you came is and dungeon master and teleported me out. Forgot about it after that, i was not even using it as i put back on whatever right i awas using before.. i think it was just a ring of cyan to give me light.

LoLth

well, I downloaded castle spulzeer but it's an exe installation. However, the lovely author sent me a link to his FTP site with a zip installation. 40mb hak file, 7mb scenario file. (total zipped download is 25mb)

If anyone wants to give it a go, I can post CDs to peeps that dont want to download that much and Rev can either use the link to the FTP site (I'll PM it) or I can send it to you too

ps. yes I now realise that Rev was being sarcastic about the 4mb filesize... I completely missed that yesterday. doh!

Rev Hellfire

Yea send me the link and I'll get it on the server.

Rev Hellfire

ok castle spulzeer is on the server.

is this what you're going for tonight ?

BattlingCheese

I'll get it downloaded in work Lolth, just supply the link for Rev.
If I don't get around to it I can meet you somewhere in Celbridge and get it off you.

Rev Hellfire

I've mirrored the hak pak, which is all u need to play online, comes in at around 20meg.

links etc here
http://www.darkkeep.com/viewtopic.php?p=55

LoLth

thanks rev.

we're a tiny bit too low for it at the moment but it should be fun... perhaps you could put up tomb of the lizard king for tonight, ot give the players time to download the hak?

Tomb of the lizard king, lvl 6-8

should be only a one night session and fairly straight forward too (bandits...lizards..evil stuff..kill..kill etc.)

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just to make it clear though, we are only about a level to a level and a half too low for this. If we take our time, play sensibly (as in cover each other liek we had to do in the pharoah mod) we should be fine. It will also make it important to do as many sub quests as possible to get the xp.
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Saruman, I would say that the restinford module would be better as a PW mod on the main server. it's a bit big for campaign play (plot items etc).

BattlingCheese

got both downloaded Lolth

Rev Hellfire

I've put up the lizard module. This will give ppl who mightnt have time to get the hak pak for the other module, so taht can be next.

LoLth

thanks rev

ps. I saw that smurf smut you posted on darkkeep... I am no longer innocent!

Squall

unfortunately, we think someone not present had the plot item needed to complete the quest

Sry lads that was probably me. Completely forgot about quest items sry.

Was getting a bit worried bout that 20 meg hak. Lizard king mod should be fun and itll give me time to dwnload that hak

cya l8r