wtf is contagion?

Cygoth · Post by **Cygoth** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 12:31 am

I'm so bored that I reinstalled this dreadful game and loaded up a savegame where Imoen gets to fight some drow mages in an arena type of thing (don't ask me why - apparently it has something to do with a naughty elf called Johnny, who is forcing me to tromp through dungeon after boring dungeon for some obscure reason).
Getting back to the point, the drow cast something called 'contagion' (I had to scroll back and see what caused it), which is -2 str, dex and cha, and after letting the game run for an hour while I had dinner, it's still there - so am I to assume it's permanent until 'cured'?. I've searched the manual and can't find the spell anywhere. Is this the elusive 'deep gameplay' that everyone keeps prattling on about? Does that mean Viconia gets to rest and memorise a cure spell that she had never used before? Whee! Are there any other spells that aren't in the manual that will allow me to search it fruitlessly and be even more bored than I already am?
Where is the 'rich story' and 'npc interaction' that I've read about?
Is that the stuff like..
'Hi I'm Val and my mummy and daddy were undead so I killed them and now we have to...um...kill everything in a dungeon and get phat lewt'
or maybe..
'Hi I'm Maz and I have to avenge my friends by um... killing everything in this dungeon and getting phat lewt'.
or perhaps..
'Hi I'm a fruity amateur poet and oops! Help! I've been kidnapped and to save me you'll have to um.. kill everything in a dungeon and get phat lewt!'
or could it be..
'help! my daughter has been kidnapped by an evil villain, and to get her back you'll have to um.. kill everything in a dungeon and get phat lewt'.
But then I guess they must be the 'involving side quests', presumably since they involve quest-like activities on, well... the side!
Okay, so I gather that the 'deep' part means that it's mostly underground, the 'involving' part means that they involve doing stuff (mostly underground of course).
So that brings us to what one assumes is the 'plot', which is of course..
'I'm Johnny the Irritable Elf and I stole your soul, so you have to um... kill everything in *lots* of dungeons and get *lots* of phat lewt'.
Have I missed anything?

White Rabbit · Post by **White Rabbit** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 12:45 am

Contagion is like a level 4 spell, check the manual moron.

Cygoth · Post by **Cygoth** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 1:38 am

So it is little fellow, thankyou for boring me further with your helpful, if tactless reply. I so enjoyed thumbing through the indexless spell list yet again. Perhaps you feel the need to call people names in order to make your own inadequacies seem less overwhelming? You needn't bother - in your case it won't work

glory · Post by **glory** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 1:49 am

I needed a good laugh...thanks.

btw...you might want to consider going to two sessions a week instead of one...

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 5:01 am

Have I missed anything?

No, that just about summed it up, I guess. I must admit I kinda like killing everything in a dungeon and getting phat lewt...

But, hey, compare this to Diablo and suddenly the word "interaction" springs to life

Aerith · Post by **Aerith** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 6:28 am

Lol i dont care if he bashes the game or not, thats one of the funniest and most clever posts i;ve seen yet

Cygoth · Post by **Cygoth** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 7:55 pm

Thanks - at least someone understood it

Rabid fanboys are a lot like religious zealots - they have no sense of humour

Lemark · Post by **Lemark** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 8:51 pm

squish

what's an rpg without a dungeon? =)

most players, like myself, LOVE going into dungeons to kill everything and grab phat loot so we can move onto the next harder dungeon to grab better phat loot. and at the end of a dungeon, we might even find a dragon or a giant to kill!!!! erm...and then we can check the boards later to see if it was some quest npc too....

Lemark · Post by **Lemark** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 8:58 pm

btw, you forgot one thing Arameus after the last part.

hi, i'm jonny the elffy and i'll meet you in a dungeon so you can kill me and get my phat loot.

Kyle Marksteiner · Post by **Kyle Marksteiner** » Tue Jun 26, 2001 9:02 pm

Hey I wanna play...
Nalia- (easy one)- hey, let's try to rescue my dead father, which we can do by clearing a dungeon and get lots of phat lewt! (She doesn't seem to care that I'm robbing her blind, btw.)
Keldorn- My wife is sleeping with some old guy, but I'd much rather help you clear this dungeon and, er, well, get lots of phat lewt.
Cerd- I'm er, a completely usless NPC who wants to join your party so I can help stop a renegade branch of the Sierra Club. En route, we can clear an open area and get lots of phat lewt.
Vicona- I was put in this game just because, if I wasn't, every Drizzt lover in the game would demand a drow!

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Wed Jun 27, 2001 1:32 am

Korgan: "I be the compuls'ry Dwarf, bein' put in fer political reasons. All I wants is kill everythin' in a dungeon an' get phat lewt."

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Wed Jun 27, 2001 1:55 am

Basically with our expansion we have changed the focus from kill everything and get phat loot...to:
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Kill new things and get new phat loot in old areas...justkidding...actually its:
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Kill almost everything new and get new phat loot in new areas.