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These are the Ophidian books; Item: 705 'Book', Serpent Isle Quality/Title (author): 0 - Philiphus's Wisdom (by Philiphus) 1 - (The path to wisdom lies before thee. If thy deeds are as virtuous as thy words, thou shalt not fail.) 2 - Temple of Balance 3 - Implements of Balance 4 - Iskeriss's Journal...

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There are more books after 150, previous list resumed. Item: 642 'Book', Serpent Isle Quality/Title (author): 182 - Observations of Pain (by MageLord Filbercio) 184 - Poetry for the Romantic Lute (Sir D. Dey) 201 - Notes (by Erstam) 209 - A Short Treatise on Combat Tactics & Habiliments of War 2...

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Thanks for the heads up! I rarely check my hotmail. It's my spambox, sort of.

You saved me a lot of hours.

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Can you post it in bits? I got this part: Item: 642 'Book', Serpent Isle Quality/Title (author): 0 - Phil's Guide to Unfinished Usecode 24 - The Book of the Fellowship 25 - Lord British - The biography of Britannia's longtime ruler 39 - The Apothecary's Desk Reference 44 - The Provisioner's Guide to...

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Does it help to press escape before the thunder sound plays?
It wouldn't solve the problem, but at least you could play while waiting for someone smarter than me to troubleshoot.

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You're all making me blush now.

@Dominus: Well, if you're going to document it, want me to do the same for Serpent Isle?

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Welcome. Glad to be of some help around here.

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Uhm, I forgot to put some lines in every 5 books, to make it more readable.
Just imagine that they're there. *cough*

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Here you go: Quality/Title/(Writer/note): 0 - Morgan's Guide to Unifinished Novels (by Morgan) --- Unifinished is spelled like that in-game. 1 - "How Death Affects Those Who Work Around It With Regularity" 2 - My Notebook (by Alagner) 3 - Observations of Black Rock (by Rudyom The Mage) 4 -...

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If there is, I can't find it either.
39 is the Apothecary's Desk, so that's one down.

(in Serpent Isle; might be different in TBG.)

It's easy to make a list through ExultStudio although also very boring to do.
But I've nothing to do this evening, so I'll try to make one.

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I take it you're talking about Gazers. Yeah, their ability to paralyze you can be annoying.

I take it you can't talk to Julia about the key. You first need to talk to Captain Hawk; he'll inform you of the tunnels beneath Moonshade and that Julia has a key to them.

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Using cheats can and will break your game if you don't know what you're doing.

Best thing you can do is to start over and play the game the way it is intended.

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Well done! Your perseverance is admirable.

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Whether TBG or SI, if you edit in spells into your spellbook (through Exult Studio), these spells won't be inside another spellbook. So I'd say: Unique.

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Actually, this reminds me, this wiki has warmth values for every piece of armour in Serpent Isle: http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Armour_Values#Ultima_VII_Part_Two If correct, then you could technically wear swamp boots (-15 warmth when compared to fur boots) and, for example, leather armour (+15 w...

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Nope, swamp boots don't protect against the cold.

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@Incriptus: I guess that's handy. After a long day of fighting and dragging your feet through the mud, you can just go home and enter your keep without having to wipe first and thus avoiding the wrath of the missus. Two fights in one day is after all a bit much. @KC: Sure? @Dominus: I imagine the bo...

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Well, there's our answer I guess. They're meant for the fashionable, new age knight, who'd rather poke an enemy's eyes out with their magnificent ensemble, rich colour schemes, and style, than actually poke an enemy's eyes out. "Fight the enemy? Good lord, what a dreadful idea. I am not getting...

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Can't agree more, they should provide more protection.
I always wondered the same thing, and have never used them in my play-throughs. Leather boots look much comfier anyway.

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@KC: Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I'm not sure how I can help. :P The crashes I had felt completely random, although a lot of them occurred while I was trying to park my ship, for some reason. And they appeared more frequent as I progressed. I still have the save games if anyone wants them...

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@Dominus: I'd step up if I could, but the only thing I could help with is getting coffee for the bug fixers.

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Do you use mods by any chance?

For me crashes are an absolute rarity in both The Black Gate and Serpent Isle, but when using the key ring mod for TBG, it keeps crashing every few hours.

So if you're using mods, maybe it's worth trying to play without them.

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If previous posters haven't removed your doubt yet: If you're looking to sell that game, you can be 100% certain that EA will find you and sue you. You'd be selling assets that they own. They are not a nice company and will probably destroy you financially. (Although any company in their right mind ...

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Honouring someone for trolling and spamming a forum?

Euh...

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I saw all these new posts on the forum and thought to myself: Awesome, lots of new stuff to read!
Then I opened a thread, saw the gibberish and recognized the user name... :'(

Anyway, this guy's definitely a spamming troll.

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@MkM: I don't know of a second cheat room in Trinsic. Are you sure you're not talking about the park in Monitor, in Serpent Isle? That park has an invisible teleporter next to a tree, and you need a climbable item to reach it. If there does exist a second cheat room, I'd love to hear it. It'd blow m...

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I seriously doubt there's a secret loyal fans don't know.
But Kotaku-guy rectified his silly mistake at least.

)

Heck, I even know the piles of rocks that hide gems. But admittedly, that's a bit nuts.

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@DrCode: Thanks!

I won't be playing the games anytime soon (too many play-throughs recently, saturated) but I really appreciate this for inevitable future plays.

People still hammering and tinkering away on/at this game after decades. <3

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It definitely happens without the SI Fixes mod as well, and it happens in The Black Gate too. This never happens in vanilla, as items are forcefully placed next to one another. e.g. they get automatically sorted. Locations: There are a ton of locations where items get stacked at the edge/in corners ...

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Interesting that Kalen has lines. It makes me wonder if Kalen's regular death wasn't planned by the developers but just added in there at that time to save development time.

I wish I was a half-decent artist so I could help out and create a half decomposed-looking Kalen portrait.

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So the walk back will be a whole new experience. That's nice. I would carefully choose to not go for rage-inducing options though. - Losing the jawbone would already be an annoyance, but taking away the Avatar's spellbook and gawdknowswhatelse, personally I'd be incredibly annoyed about it. It's nev...

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Hmm, those are some really different theories indeed. I'm inclined to go with what my link tells, since the ultima codex leaves way too many questions unanswered and has a major error: I don't think the bane of wantonness could have taken over both Gwenno and Cantra, since Gwenno needs water of disc...

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"Some of the Avatar's gear will be stolen. Including the Jawbone." Question: How will this work without annoying people? Will players be required to walk all the way back to Fawn/Monitor to get the jawbone back somehow? I can see why you did this, since the Avatar being able to teleport ri...

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The wiki says Angus, but the game has never been really clear about that. Or I just never got it.
I guess it explains something about the whole Angus disappearance at least.
Where his body remains? Who knows. Probably buried.

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Side-note: This wiki page suggests that Cantra was taken by the Bane of Insanity. Which would make sense, since Cantra needs water of Logic to be cured (which is doable when you have the Serpent Isle Fixes mod installed).

http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Banes_of_Chaos

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Or perhaps the bane grew weak during the time spent in imprisonment and needed time to 'heal', so to speak. Or it decided to spy on the world. After all, time went on and things changed a lot since it was imprisoned, so perhaps it thought it wise to scout its new surroundings before making itself kn...

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That sounds like fun. Hoping for the attendees that Richard'll be there!

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Having played both vanilla and Exult to near-infinity, I'd say: Use Exult.
Much more options. The health bars alone are already worth it.

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@Monotremata: Yeap, played the BG games. They're supposed to be incredibly dangerous, absolutely. But in vanilla they would be way less dangerous due to them also using sleep, curse, poison etc. on you, while in Exult they seem to instantly use the I.W.I.N. button, aka the Death spell, in my experie...

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I can't remember last time I played vanilla (over 15 years ago, at least), but I think you could be right, although fire fields were always a pain in the rear. That Aram Dol encounter is very annoying; for me it's the hardest fight in Serpent Isle. If the fire fields don't kill you, Aram Dol will us...

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I think 1.2 was the first Exult version I used. Before that time I furiously held on to several old computers just to play older games. I had a 286 and a 486DX aside from my Pentium-something. And a switchbox between my screen, mouse and keyboard and 3 pc's so I didn't need three of everything. Good...

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Venom's post was made 17 years ago. Just a heads up.
Jeez, I was a young lad back then.

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Or the mod creator really dislikes garlic. A secret fantasy of sticking the cops on anyone who even remotely smells of the stuff.

Will we ever know the truth? *insert Twilight Zone theme here*

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Oh, in case it is overlooked, I placed some garlic on the ground in that save. Saves you time looking for some.

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Naturally, here you go:
https://avatar.home.xs4all.nl/crap/ult_ ... icsave.rar

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Not sure if it's of any interest to anyone, but I wonder if TBG's key ring mod is a bit buggy to be played in recent snapshots. I tried to eat a piece of garlic but instead of devouring this little snack, the guards were called. Trying it multiple times, guaranteed more guards and party members star...

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The Creator update no doubt? I got all sorts of problems with lots of games.
Sound errors, frame rate reductions across the board...

Thankfully that update can be uninstalled. Everything's back to normal.

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I'm late to the party, but I'd definitely recommend using Exult. I've finished both games many times, both vanilla and Exult, and have not seen this object disappearing bug in Exult since many years. And I do play through the games every year or so. I did have the exact same problem once, I entered ...

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Nice.

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You can do a lot of wacky stuff with the in-game cheat menu and you can even break your game. To me these 'cheats' were obviously meant as tools for the developers, not as cheats for players. You should either play the game without cheating or accept that using this menu will cause weird stuff to ha...

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