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Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:38 pm
by jinnes
Loving Book 2 so far!
Here's a weird thing. In Farrock Caves, level 1, I used a powder keg to blow up a cracked wall, near the border between the bandit area and the spider area. The blast revealed a passage that led north to a small room with stairs down. But when I try to take the stairs, it doesn't let me, giving me instead a message "There is nothing more in this direction. Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere."
What's up with that? One of the things I love about Eschalon is the go-anywhere-anytime model of world building. Why the artificial and kinda OOC denial?
(And I do have the full version, not the demo...)
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:40 pm
by jinnes
Plus I wasted a powder keg!
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:41 pm
by Rune_74
I know why, andi ts not because it is limiting you in that sense....but I will let the big lizard answer that.
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:49 pm
by jinnes
Hmm, fair enough -- so you are saying I would have had to use that powder keg anyway? I should come back later?
Design-wise, IMHO, I do think a more traditional barrier (a closed portcullis? a sparkly thingy?) would be preferable to the "don't go here" help text.
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:54 pm
by BasiliskWrangler
There are two places in the in the game world where you will get this specific message. The stairs in Farrock Caves are one of them. These two "go nowhere" places are connection points for a big add-on content adventure I have planned for later this summer.
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 9:57 pm
by jinnes
Ah, cool! Thanks for the heads-up, BW!
Will you put a powder keg in the first room of that DLC plz? For me?
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 10:48 pm
by Randomizer
The keg wasn't completely wasted. Look around there might be some things that you missed seeing.
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 15th, 2010, 11:40 pm
by Dragonlady
Randomizer wrote:The keg wasn't completely wasted. Look around there might be some things that you missed seeing.
Oh my yes, precious pretties, precious I say!
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 16th, 2010, 12:47 pm
by Hawkwind
BW -- I was hoping you were going to say "add-on" adventure...
Re: Turn back - your fate awaits elsewhere (spoiler?)
Posted: May 16th, 2010, 1:02 pm
by Asgard The Elder
BasiliskWrangler wrote:There are two places in the in the game world where you will get this specific message. The stairs in Farrock Caves are one of them. These two "go nowhere" places are connection points for a big add-on content adventure I have planned for later this summer.
ADD ON AREAS -- OH MY, DID YOU SAY EXPANSION PACKS? ... YES YOU DID, EXCELLENT IDEA. Every time I turn around here things are getting better and better!