Avadon the Warborn 7: Got 'Em!

Well I really thought I'd hit the wall in the game. I had to go to the Corruption area and there I had three quests, none of which I was able to do. And there were no other quests! I was forced to figure it out.

So I went to the Spiderweb Forum, where I was easily able to find advice on how to do the quests. The first one was to grab some special fungi. Easy enough, once you find them. But they're at the very back of an area with only one escape route, and the instant you grab them, revenants appear. That would be OK, but they're impossible to kill. They regenerate, no matter how badly you beat them up. After a while, you run out of options and they get you.

Fortunately the forum told me how to get them. I will reveal it here: the revenants are controlled by horrors. Kill the horrors, and you can kill the revenants. The problem with the fight is that the horrors flee to the south, and it can be difficult to catch them. So, build turrets and summon aid to attract the revenants, finally freeing you to go after the horrors.

So it was a tough fight, but doable and highly satisfying once done.

Then, I had to just get by as many enemies as I could to get up the stairs at the back of a cavern. Not easy because the "enemy stops you," but eventually you can make it, especially if you have a character that can teleport. Hint: you will need two characters at the end. One needs to engage the green monster to distract it, and the other merely needs to get up the ladder (once you've found the hidden switch that opens the trap door above). You might lose a character--I did, but only one character needs to get up the ladder.

Then there was a difficult fight with some charmed foes. They are tough, so you need to use whatever consumables you have: assault crystals especially, and turrets and wands. Hang in there and the fight is definitely doable, but only with the consumables.

So getting all that done made me proud, even if I did get the advice from the forum. I still had to do it.

Now the only path forward appears to be back to another area of the corruption, where I will face an old enemy, or her spirit, at least.

I'm at last starting to find some good items to equip my characters. Mostly you win them, but I confess to buying a wizard's staff, and I'm glad I did. However, I'm using the runestones to enhance my gear, and have now advanced to two scarabs per character. I'm at level 13, so clearly not even halfway through the game. Plenty of stuff to do, enemies to slaughter and loot to find!

Tomorrow!

(I must say that this is the first day I've taken in my newfound freedom from the Kirkus books to just play a game. Gad, it was lovely!)

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