The Drunken Lizard Pub

I managed to get over the difficulty hump before I lost my character. I got to Everdale literally starving to death (taking damage every couple steps, mana wasted from self-healing). I managed to get a create food scroll and my guy has mutated into a rogue-priest hybrid in order to survive. On a sec...

BasiliskWrangler figured this out for me.

It was OpenAL drivers installed on my box. Problems, gone game is running flawlessly.

I have to agree with the guy struggling. This is my first Eschalon toon and the food/water issues are straight up STUPID! I figured I'd make a rogue and just suffer the cost of buying food and water as I went along. I was prepared to deal with the cost, however, there isn't enough food to feed JUST ...

I just bought the game. It seems to have installed correctly (I see the save game folders and such). However, when I try to launch it the wait icon appears for a few seconds, but a screen never comes up. I am running the program in XP compatibility mode (sp2) and as an administrator. In task manager...