All Your Crystals Are Belong to Us!
Posted by Mike Blitz on November 28th, 2006
(Written 24 August 2006)
The four crystals are mine! After 41 hours of digital adventuring, I have come into possession of the last crystal. As a bonus, I found some adamantite in the airborne castle, gave that to a drawf, and he made me Excalibur, an uber sword of the highest nature. My knight and thief are now a vicious one-two punch, and my level-75 party is primed for what I’m assuming is a forthcoming final battle.
Anyway, I took the four crystals to the guys dancing in the woods, and they proceeded to babble on an on about a lot of confusing stuff. Somewhere in there they let me know about something very big and bad that is 2000 years old, which I’m guessing I need to kill. They didn’t actually do anything, as far as I can tell, which makes me wonder why they wouldn’t tell me all that stuff before I got the four crystals. So the big question here is: What use are they to anyone? The big answer, folks, which is fairly obvious now that I think of it, is this: If you spend your whole life dancing in a circle in the woods with a bunch of other men, you’re likely to be little use to anyone. So there, don’t choose that as a career option.
I digress…
As I expected, when I got the fourth crystal, the guardian in front of the water cave decided to skip town, which opens up this last preliminary cave for exploring. I decided to explore that cave before I try to go after the final boss, who apparently lives in a castle very near to where our adventure started. D’oh! Tricky guy, that final boss! Anyway, I’m now on level 8 of the cave, which I’m guessing may be 20+ levels large, if it’s like the previous one of these things. Once I’m done here, I think I can head off for the final encounter.
Getting close to the end!
Status: Killing Stuff with a Purpose!
