Sometimes I hate myself for dicking
around in this game...
At first, I was just going to write
this as another “running around” issue, but figured that since I
was going to be up too damned late anyway, I figured I should have
something a little better than that for this outing.
So, what I've done here is I put down
the Bottled Spirit artifact to generate the Ulkan Mines. In these
mines live yet another of Fa'Diel's varied sentient and
quasi-sentient species, the Dudbears. There's a mission I usually do
before this in a town called Lucidia, I believe, that comes from an
artifact called the Firefly
Lamp. This mission requires learning the Dudbear language so
that the hero can help some lovestruck dumbass flirt with the town's
novelty lamp maker because he's got a raging boner for her.
I bring it up here because in my
goofing off in the mines, I stumbled upon a quest I suppose I always
knew was there and just didn't want to get into yet because, as I
said, I'm up too damned late and hadn't wanted to think quite so
hard. But in this being a numbnuts about this, I stumbled upon a
quest where I'm probably gonna have to know the Dudbear language, and
I could barely get it right even when I had the tutorial on it fresh
in my non-tired mind.
So, this quest I stumbled into involves
the Pirate Penguins horking a religious icon from the Dudbears as
they sleep in their cavernous home. The title is, as my half asleep
mind remembers it, Where's Putty?, because that's the name of the
deity the icon was linked to. Because the Dudbears' English-speaking
priest thinks I'm involved somehow, I've gotta go looking for the
statue or whatever it was the Penguins jacked from the Dudbears' room
to make everybody happy.
After a bit of running about in the
mine, I came across a Faerie who said something about the light being
in the darkness. I know there are “Abandoned Rooms” like that in
there, and I suspect they factor into all this somehow. But I'm
gonna have to get some sleep and come back to this when I've got a
fresher mind to think with. Maybe after work tomorrow or the next
day.
As some of you who've been reading this
from the beginning might remember, I said I was going to start having
missions that spanned multiple issues. I really hadn't expected that
to start happening until I got into the Dragoon Arc, but here we are.
But really, this is a good thing.
It'll be kind of a test for me to see how well I can do this sort of
thing. It'll also highlight the beauty of having multiple save files
just for this sort of thing. I know I'm going to get this wrong, but
at least I don't have to screw up the game worse than I already had
before I put the Bottled Spirit down. Next issue, I try to finish
what I started here. After that, I think I'll go back and do what I
normally do and use the Firefly Lamp instead.
Until then, folks, stay safe, sleep
well, and have fun gaming. Oh yeah, and DFTBA.
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