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seems like you pay too much attention to your automap. Complaining about not picking up your spear in prev episode, now there are multiple lying there for you to take and stock up on.

Nicely done! I look forward to the inevitable replay that kills Xanathar the "right" way. ;D

Good riddance, midget fighter :P He's dead weight and just steals XP from the characters you'll take into the next games. In fact, having just seen these games completed with a party of only one, I find myself querying why anyone would bother with more than one in their party ^-^;

Spiders are the bane of many games, but this one particular can screw you over pretty quick. You are correct about the animations. Once they start to play, you can still click your actions (attack,move) and they be processed once current animation will finish. Also, if you are not using empty hand for Taghor, a shield would be nice. Short sword in offhand is a better idea

'oh fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuuuuck you' not even close to get r*ped by the game yet :)

3:20 - Face tanking Be Quick or Be Dead. I see you also like to play dangerously! 12:35 - So Fun Facts About Stoneskin™: 1. It doesn't negate x damage like it does in new D&D. It negates x attacks. X is equal to the level of the caster who casts it. 2. It's permanent until it's done shielding against attacks. It persists through sleep. 3. It's OP as fuuuuuuuuuuck. 4. It got removed in the second and third games because of 3. 5. In addition to preventing attacks, it also prevents status effects that would trigger from being hit. Stoneskin = Mantis Immunity 19:27 - Mantises. Not even once. As you've noticed, resting cures paralysis. You actually only need to rest for 1 hour to cure it. 25:07 - Everyone who has played through this game has been here. Pure mantis rage.

Handled those skeleton warriors like a boss. Well played!

Love the depth you put in your heroes backstory. You might get stuck with them for longer than expected (or just get them replaced with better ones as you go :) ). As for starting off with Lvl2-3 characters - it's just the game way of telling you, that it's not to be messed with at lvl 1. Other than that - I could NOT imagine an lvl 1/1/1 Fighter/cleric/mage Half-Elf combo. It's starting life wouldn't be more than 1 :)

- 4:30 I was wondering how long that was going to take to happen. If you're throwing them at a group of enemies in front of you, a fireball won't damage your party. Hitting an adjacent wall with them will, as you've discovered. Once you get access to ice storm, the better version of fireball, you have to be careful because hitting enemies in front of you with it *will* hurt your party. - Stoneskin is the best spell in the game by far. It's literal god mode that lasts for a certain number of attacks. It gets removed in the sequels. If there is a secret past that wall at the very end, I'm not aware of it. Curious to see what it leads to, if anything!

- 21:20 "If they poison me I'm going to be pissed!" :D Not *quite*. Those would be rust monsters, they eat your armor. I think there are only one or two of them in the entire game and they aren't in the sequel. Just there as a 'screw you' to the player. - 27:10 "And poison!" Worse than poison! Paralysis! I'd recommend keeping a couple castings of Remove Paralysis prepared basically from now until you finish the game. The mantis men aren't the only enemies down here that'll paralyze you. You're making very good progress, I must say!

- The drow levels are probably the worst for teleporting shenanigans. Easily the hardest part of the game to get through without a map. - Nice job handling the skeletal warriors. Those guys are nasty customers. Just wait 'til the second game, assuming you decide to play it. ;) - I think your frustrations are fairly well warranted. The game's certainly got some of that old school jank and it can be frustrating. The worst is yet to come. :p

:D - "Did they just run off somewhere?" Maybe. Enemies do wander a bit. I'm also certain that if there are more than X enemies on a map that they start despawning after a while of not interacting with the party. Probably a good thing because of how monster spawning works in the first place. - Congrats on finding your first portal! You'll figure out how they work sooner or later. Be sure to hold onto all the stone items you find, they're basically keys to fast travel in the first two games. Once you figure out where they lead, portals make returning to get party members resurrected a lot less tedious than hiking up from the lower levels. - With old DOS games like this, there's absolutely no shame in save scumming. Especially when they throw encounters at you that you'll have next to no way of surviving unless you know they're coming. - Possible spoilers, but since you're probably a fair way past this point I think it's probably reasonable to mention that the kenku eggs are actually used for several level quests throughout the game. Trading them with the drow will keep you from completing the one on the kenku level, but I *think* the others will still work. - You are correct in assuming that your bypassing of the first encounter with drow was just bypassing that group, for the most part. I'd say that, in your case, paying them off was probably the right idea. That fight can be kind of rough if you don't know it's coming. There are a handful of wandering drow that you'll still have to fight.

Not too much to say for this episode, really. You're very much figuring things out on your own so I can't really give much advice for where you are in the game. That said: - The game's real-time. It just pauses when certain things happen, like spells. Mostly because it has to wait for animations to play more than anything. It's mostly a hardware consideration from what I understand.

Those eggs are definitely worth collecting... and the reward is something that will be useful if you're brave enough to take these heroes into the third game :)

28:56 "How did they get EXP?" I don't know. Maybe successfully dodging attacks is also worth EXP in this game?

Great job on your first boss battle, and with two fighters down no less! I thought that shadowy mage was going to kick your ass with his OP spells. That was some quick thinking and fast footwork!

10:55 "This is a bad idea, saving in such a state." And yet you did it anyway. (smh)

8:43 "Did I mention that I hate spiders?" Yes, and I think they may be taking offense to that. :)

3:07 "And it's like creepy, because it's silent... In this case, the silence is the creepy part." That's the one thing this game is missing, some good background music. Maybe you should just add your own! I can just imagine it now, searching for keys and hacking and slashing through enemies while Twilight sings about wrapping up Winter! :D

0:27 "I am save scumming after each fight with the spiders because I don't want to get poisoned. I don't care about, like, immersion..." When it comes to encounters with giant spiders, I'm not so sure an immersive experience would be a _good_ thing.

Man, those drow don't f@$% around! I had forgotten just how dangerous those things could be.

If you ever want to have anyone in the back rows help out in combat, you could equip someone with a bow and put arrows in his/her quiver. Don't forget about your throwing daggers as well.

15:08 "I'm getting turned around constantly, and it's not like the game's fault anymore." There aren't too many games for which you'd have to clarify that statement. :)

14:12 "Imagine if I had accidentally pressed SAVE right there." Then I'd _imagine_ this would have been a very short LP.

2:34 "F@$%ing... where are these dwarves?" Dwarf: "You called?"

1:59 "I just haven't been in the mood to record lately, I don't know why." I could take a guess as to why. Spiders. Here's some advice on how to deal with those nasty critters: th-cam.com/video/Xgdw6TMhGkA/w-d-xo.html

Was someone vacuuming, or was that your computer desperately trying to stay below its melting point?

Wow, it's been awhile! I had completely forgotten about this LP.

29:29 "F@$% you guys." And then you did. =)

23:24 "They gained experience by teleporting." Maybe that's how Twilight Sparkle got so strong. :)

Finally watching the series! Here's my criticism, not to be taken as offense. I only want you to improve. - 2 minutes of silence at the start, I'd suggest reading it out next time! - You ramble too much. I know talking is fun, but too much can be very dull and that's the reason this episode was 40 minutes long. This is something that should've taken 5 minutes. - You seem quite passionate about this game. I can't wait to continue! Anyways onto Episode 1!

"I'm going to try to do an episode a level" *immediately splits level across multiple episodes*

- Get used to the 'bullshit.' As you surmise it's mostly there to pad out the game a bit. It gets, eh, 'creative' later in. The automapper will definitely help you out in the later levels. - There's no item degradation in the Eye of the Beholder games, thank Christ. There *are* enemies who will destroy your gear later in, though. :D - Your save at the 'Museum' was very, very wise. :p - There are NPCs with a little bit of dialogue. Nothing particularly meaty, though. Mostly just "oh, you're not killing us, do this thing for us instead" type stuff. They'll also resurrect your corpses. - So enemy AI in these games is pretty trash-tier. If you have a group of enemies hounding you, just get onto the other side of a door, close it, and they won't be able to open it to get to you. Not super useful in this game, because encounters are mostly manageable. It'll save your butt in the sequel, though. - 34 minutes in and you realize you're past the desired 30 minute runtime. Welcome back to LPing. :D - To this day, I can't stand the puzzle with the gems and the eyes. I'm still not 100% sure how the teleportation in that area works. I generally just randomly wander around in a circle there until I manage to find the right way to get all the eyes into all the sockets. You're basically done with the easy part of the game. From now on things stop playing nice. Good luck! :D

- Now why would a rock float on top of a pit? Hmmmmmm... - For the sling you put the sling in one hand and a rock in the other. Fill your belt with rocks and it'll auto-reload. There's no way to store thrown projectiles like arrows, sadly. - You're correct that there's no way to check equipment stats in game. - Stone objects like the dagger you found are used as a kind of key later in the game. - Your thief can use that bow, I believe. Try switching the hand he has it in. The 'top' hand is a given character's primary hand. - You definitely don't need to hold onto multiple copies of gear that you don't plan on using. There are no shops in this game or the sequels. The best you're getting out of carrying random gear is to use it for weighing down pressure plates. - "Why am I missing so much!?" And you wanted to start with a party of 1st-level characters. :p - "Failed lock pick attempt." Welcome to why thieves are essentially useless in these games. You can't pick *any* important locks. That said, yes, you can generally keep trying until you succeed. Each time you use your picks, though, there's a very slim chance that they'll break and be lost permanently.

3:35 "Drogond had gained a level of experience from taking food." I wish it worked like that in real life!

:D - You can put arrows into the quivers in your characters' inventories. The quiver is the slot with the number on it above your body armor. Pretty handy for saving inventory space. - Speaking of stabbing things, you can dual-wield in this with melee weapons (and thrown weapons if that's your bag). It might be worth throwing your thief's sword into your fighter's off-hand if you don't mind sacrificing some of his defensive ability for more killing potential. - Get used to fake walls. There are a *lot* of them. I fully expect there to be rage once you get down to the spider-filled levels. - "The dagger fits." Welcome to finding your first 'level quest' in Eye of the Beholder. Each level of the dungeon has one and you get bonus XP and (typically) powerful gear for figuring them out. A few of the best weapons in the entire series are found as rewards for level quests in this game. - 27:50 i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/591/928/94f.png Still making decent progress, all things considered. You've just got to start thinking with 'oldschool bullshit' in mind. I'd say leave the derping in, it adds to the experience, I think. It's always nice to see someone tackle these games blindly.

You think that was time wasting? Should try playing the Shadowgate Remake. Maybe not Moonlogic worthy time waster, but you do have to click things on things a little too much for my liking.

25:33 "I don't like being... eaten." I wonder if D&D started the whole vore fetish thing.

0:47 "Just so you know, I have decided to use the All Seeing Eye..." Did Star Butterfly teach you that one?

As per protocol, commentary on your commentary: - Dunno if you figured it out, but you can disable the health bars in the UI and instead have it display their actual HP values instead. Also, don't worry about not talking. You don't always have to fill dead air with speech. It can be okay to be quiet. - Ha! "12 HP WAS A MISTAKE!" - The difference between rations/iron rations is that normal rations are your home packed meals kept in a sack or whatever while iron rations are kept in iron tins so they keep forever. - In game mechanic terms, iron rations fill up your food bar more. Your cleric will be able to cast Create Food soon-ish, which will make carrying rations a waste of inventory space. - For your mage, you can put daggers into the three belt slots to have them automatically fill back into her hand when you decide to start throwing them.

Not bad! Some commentary: - Game sound's definitely low. Props for bravery in using the PC Speaker sound effects. - Your voice volume is good. - Video quality is good as well. - I definitely appreciate the depth you went into for character generation. It's definitely more than most people put into something like this and it's refreshing to see. Running with a 12 HP fighter is pretty brave, but he should bulk up pretty quickly with levels. - Props for putting editing in to skip out on the boring bits of character generation. :D Definitely looking forward to seeing actual gameplay.

Wow, a game that I've actually played growing up! This is quite the interesting surprise.

Super video :-)

It is wonderful! :*

Great video :-)

First :-)

I feel terrible saying this because I used to love Sim City 2000 so much, but I find it practically unplayable these days. The UI is just so ancient.