~Fun with Quest for Glory I - Can you play cribbage?
Man it was the weirdest thing. I've been workin on making this chicken soup with this ridiculously time consuming recipe (simmer for six hours, put in the fridge over night, simmer for another two hours, put in the fridge for 24 hours AGAIN AGH) and it's like this soup better be worth it, but anyway I went to go put it in the downstairs fridge, and I opened up the freezer for what I could eat TONIGHT since this soup is taking all too long. Anyway, to my surprise, the inside of the freezer was covered with ants.
Ants. In my freezer.
Almost all of them had frozen to death, of course. There were tons of them scattered all over the bottom of the freezer and the door. On top of the sealer thingy on the freezer door was like this huge pile of dead ants. Like inches of dead ants piled up. I thought that sealer thing around the edges of the door was supposed to prevent things from even getting IN the freezer. :O
Anyway, they were pretty much all dead, except a few stragglers. They crawled over some pizza boxes and stuff I had in there, but none of them got inside any, and even if they had everything was wrapped in plastic. In fact, they didn't get to any food in there, since it was all wrapped or sealed in plastic. Cause it was all frozen. It was like a whole bunch of ants just decided to commit ant suicide in the freezer. I've never seen ants do that before. :O Weird stuff.
Cleaned it up anyway though, but man that was bizarre. None of them were in the fridge either, just the freezer. wtf.
I got Apartment Life for Sims 2 but it broke all my mods, making my ZEX house unplayable because without the jealousy mod ZEX can't whore around appropriately. >:( Bah. Maybe there's a fix somewhere or something. I'll go check later.
Anyway BACK TO QUEST FOR GLORY WOO
Previous editions
SOON I CAN STOP SNEAKING AROUND
SOON
I love this place, I really do.
I also love how the Hero's arm goes up and down. om nom.
GOBLIIIINS
man i am getting swamped with goblins what is this
hey a white stag
Darn it. I'm sure i have enough space or whatever but this is annoying regardless. I always forget new directories I put games in. Eh, I'll just delete one, no big deal.
DIE STAG
A SWORD ABSHAHG
I'll get you yet
MAYBE I'LL JUST THROW ROCKS AT YOU INSTEAD
Stag: DUDE WTF why you even gotta do a thing
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME
wait who are you
THANK YOU THANK YOU
i hope you didn't save after throwing a rock at the stag! Cause then you can't beat the game! :D
Anyway let's do this the nonviolent (i.e. right) way
HOLD ON I GOT THIS
you can say no, but she'll just go back into the tree and you have to do it again. so eh.
Her hair looks like worms.
The Dryad has her own little theme, kind of dramatic and pretty. This version combines it and the Goblin Ambush. :B
Is that what those ptooie plants are called? Well what do you know.
GOTS ME A QUEST
possibly cause there's a woman in it, idk
Dryad: WTF GET OFF
Hero: :D
This game really needs to branch out with its puns.
I think you can also throw a rock at it here, but that might either crash the game or kill you. I forget. :B
Close to the dryad we find... a mysterious ring! HMM.
HELLO CLEVELAAAAND
Nothing will happen here.
I LOVE EATING MUSHROOMS
I WILL SHOVE THEM IN MY FACE WITHOUT WARNING
fairy mushrooms wait
WOAHWHAOAOIAOAH
EAT SOME MORE, IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID?
HAHAHAHA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
well i guess they did warn me
you know this isn't even the only drug related death you can trigger in these games. Oh Sierra. :D
Well anyway I'm outta here
Ah, the Goblin Ambush! This is a good place to grind stats. Basically, goblins will pop out and attack you. Everytime you beat all of them, they add one more to I think a max of 9. Once you hit the cap, you can just kill them all, leave the screen, come back, kill them all, repeat. Me and Alix spent a lot of time leveling here. But I'll come back when I'm more ready for it.
North from here leads to Baba Yaga, and south to the Goblin Ambush. It's up in the top left corner of the map, I think.
A SKULL
Wow, that was easy enough.
SURE WHAT DRAWBACKS COULD HELPING A TALKING SKULL HAVE
A glowing jewel eh
I think I know where to find one of those
BABA YAAAAAAAAAGAAAA THERE'S A BLOND DUDE OUT HERE AND HE LOOKS HEROOOOIIIIC
chicken legs mmm
SEE THAT HUT
PAY ATTENTION
Don't climb the fence, basically.
Pretty pitiful, but I haven't really been grinding yet.
You guys, you spore spittin guys
YEAH
I wish there was a way to capture how spastically the hero flails at the wall. Hee hee.
HINT HINT
It actually turns out I was climbing the wrong area. WELL WHATEVER.
Here's the Fighter's solution to this puzzle. Basically, you throw rocks at the seed when it's in the air and knock it down. Thieves climb up and just catch it, and Magic Users use fetch again.
IT CAN BE KIND OF DIFFICULT
Haha success
Spireas: D:
I always felt kind of bad for taking this seed since the Spireas just sit there all D: after you take it and don't go PTOO anymore. Ah well.
IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Alright here's your dumb seed
I never understood why the hero drops the seed from above his head
There were a lot of trekkies on the Sierra teams back in the day. :B
Always with the nature saving, alright, what's the deal
No prob.
...Hmm.
I don't know if you can tell from the caps, but when the acorn drops, the font gets a black outline. It's the same graphical weirdness that happens when you talk to Hilde. Who knows what causes it, really.
ONE DOWN
Blackened Saurus, serve at your next dinner party
wtf
A Meep, how do you know what a meep is, I don't know what a meep is
I THINK I KNOW WHERE MY GREEN FUR IS COMING FROM
And as you may imagine, they make squeaky little sounds when they pop up and down.
GET OUTTA THERE
The meeps won't let you pull up the rock :(
that guy isn't meeping
he's up to something
his fur is all yellow and he's mostly bald what's with that
Shouldn't you be working with Jim Henson?
dirty hippies
dirty hobbits
dirty... rabbits?
Well that was easy enough. ANOTHER INGREDIENT DOWN
FREE SPELL WOOOO
And that's pretty much all we need from the Meeps. There are a few things you can do with them though. If you throw rocks or cast Flame Dart or attack them, they get upset and throw things at you and refuse to talk to you, if I remember right.
I think, and my memories of this are vague, you can also feed them apples and they'll spit out an apple core. But I'm not sure. :B
Ah, the days before you could click the mouth on yourself and select what to tell people.
No problem.
GASP
Antwerps bounce up and down in the same place making a loud BOING noise. Hee hee. HUG ME, ANTWERP
It just bounces you away though. :(
FINE BE THAT WAY
you bouncer
This screen is a bad screen. You want to generally turn around and go left, cause there's nothing good ahead. DON'T MIND ME I'VE MEMORIZED THESE THINGS
It leeeads here! The Brigand Ambush. :O
:O
I think we thought for a while that you could actually fight your way through here, but maybe you can't? I can't remember us ever succeeding anyway. You're not supposed to.
INTERPRETIVE DANCE
Back to the waterfaaaall
Dang, running out of time here.
IT'S KIND OF FLYING, RIGHT? OFF THE ROCKS? YEAH
Success.
So there's an invisible ladder here! HMM.
But I'll do this the way you're supposed to do it for Fighters. THROWING!
Fred Flintstone?
He reveals the ladder for you whenever he sees you're there, just in case you didn't know about it.
nope
Darn, I was trying to get smushed behind the door that time, cause you can do that. Eh, maybe later.
Okay, this time I'll do it right.
Ah, old 'enry the 'ermit. He has the catchiest little theme song. Me and Alix picked it out on the guitar once, and my god it gets stuck in your head.
yuk yuk
A PLEASANT PLACE
Hero sit up straight be a gentleman
I did not get the joke behind this for the longest time. You have no idea. :O
I HEAR YOU, 'ENRY
I dunno why this amuses me so much. 'Enry just quietly chuckling to himself.
I like that no one knows, hee hee.
No he isn't. At least, not in this version.
MORE FREE SPELLS WOOO
as a side note, i like how 'enry talks
I GOTTA MEET THIS GUY
:O
Who would cast a spell at 'Enry though? :O
Anyway I'm outta here
Funny you should mention that.
LITTLE DARK, MAYBE
You know, after all this time, I honestly have no idea how to play cribbage. I think it involves cards. But anytime I hear the word, I think of 'Enry.
Here, have some of my bread, sausage, and plums.
Hero just sprawls out all over, hehehe.
Lame. This is why we don't usually spend the night here unless we have to.
ANYWAY AWAY WE GO
I thought it up all by myselfs. :B
GETTIN THERE, SLOWLY
waaa I burned the roof of my mouth and the side of my tongue on some gyoza yesterday and it hurts to eat anything boo. And I have to go to this family thing on my dad's side tomorrow and the day after and I'm not entirely looking forward to it meeeh
Ants. In my freezer.
Almost all of them had frozen to death, of course. There were tons of them scattered all over the bottom of the freezer and the door. On top of the sealer thingy on the freezer door was like this huge pile of dead ants. Like inches of dead ants piled up. I thought that sealer thing around the edges of the door was supposed to prevent things from even getting IN the freezer. :O
Anyway, they were pretty much all dead, except a few stragglers. They crawled over some pizza boxes and stuff I had in there, but none of them got inside any, and even if they had everything was wrapped in plastic. In fact, they didn't get to any food in there, since it was all wrapped or sealed in plastic. Cause it was all frozen. It was like a whole bunch of ants just decided to commit ant suicide in the freezer. I've never seen ants do that before. :O Weird stuff.
Cleaned it up anyway though, but man that was bizarre. None of them were in the fridge either, just the freezer. wtf.
I got Apartment Life for Sims 2 but it broke all my mods, making my ZEX house unplayable because without the jealousy mod ZEX can't whore around appropriately. >:( Bah. Maybe there's a fix somewhere or something. I'll go check later.
Anyway BACK TO QUEST FOR GLORY WOO
Previous editions
SOON I CAN STOP SNEAKING AROUND
SOON
I love this place, I really do.
I also love how the Hero's arm goes up and down. om nom.
GOBLIIIINS
man i am getting swamped with goblins what is this
hey a white stag
Darn it. I'm sure i have enough space or whatever but this is annoying regardless. I always forget new directories I put games in. Eh, I'll just delete one, no big deal.
DIE STAG
A SWORD ABSHAHG
I'll get you yet
MAYBE I'LL JUST THROW ROCKS AT YOU INSTEAD
Stag: DUDE WTF why you even gotta do a thing
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME
wait who are you
THANK YOU THANK YOU
i hope you didn't save after throwing a rock at the stag! Cause then you can't beat the game! :D
Anyway let's do this the nonviolent (i.e. right) way
HOLD ON I GOT THIS
you can say no, but she'll just go back into the tree and you have to do it again. so eh.
Her hair looks like worms.
The Dryad has her own little theme, kind of dramatic and pretty. This version combines it and the Goblin Ambush. :B
Is that what those ptooie plants are called? Well what do you know.
GOTS ME A QUEST
possibly cause there's a woman in it, idk
Dryad: WTF GET OFF
Hero: :D
This game really needs to branch out with its puns.
I think you can also throw a rock at it here, but that might either crash the game or kill you. I forget. :B
Close to the dryad we find... a mysterious ring! HMM.
HELLO CLEVELAAAAND
Nothing will happen here.
I LOVE EATING MUSHROOMS
I WILL SHOVE THEM IN MY FACE WITHOUT WARNING
fairy mushrooms wait
WOAHWHAOAOIAOAH
EAT SOME MORE, IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID?
HAHAHAHA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
well i guess they did warn me
you know this isn't even the only drug related death you can trigger in these games. Oh Sierra. :D
Well anyway I'm outta here
Ah, the Goblin Ambush! This is a good place to grind stats. Basically, goblins will pop out and attack you. Everytime you beat all of them, they add one more to I think a max of 9. Once you hit the cap, you can just kill them all, leave the screen, come back, kill them all, repeat. Me and Alix spent a lot of time leveling here. But I'll come back when I'm more ready for it.
North from here leads to Baba Yaga, and south to the Goblin Ambush. It's up in the top left corner of the map, I think.
A SKULL
Wow, that was easy enough.
SURE WHAT DRAWBACKS COULD HELPING A TALKING SKULL HAVE
A glowing jewel eh
I think I know where to find one of those
BABA YAAAAAAAAAGAAAA THERE'S A BLOND DUDE OUT HERE AND HE LOOKS HEROOOOIIIIC
chicken legs mmm
SEE THAT HUT
PAY ATTENTION
Don't climb the fence, basically.
Pretty pitiful, but I haven't really been grinding yet.
You guys, you spore spittin guys
YEAH
I wish there was a way to capture how spastically the hero flails at the wall. Hee hee.
HINT HINT
It actually turns out I was climbing the wrong area. WELL WHATEVER.
Here's the Fighter's solution to this puzzle. Basically, you throw rocks at the seed when it's in the air and knock it down. Thieves climb up and just catch it, and Magic Users use fetch again.
IT CAN BE KIND OF DIFFICULT
Haha success
Spireas: D:
I always felt kind of bad for taking this seed since the Spireas just sit there all D: after you take it and don't go PTOO anymore. Ah well.
IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Alright here's your dumb seed
I never understood why the hero drops the seed from above his head
There were a lot of trekkies on the Sierra teams back in the day. :B
Always with the nature saving, alright, what's the deal
No prob.
...Hmm.
I don't know if you can tell from the caps, but when the acorn drops, the font gets a black outline. It's the same graphical weirdness that happens when you talk to Hilde. Who knows what causes it, really.
ONE DOWN
Blackened Saurus, serve at your next dinner party
wtf
A Meep, how do you know what a meep is, I don't know what a meep is
I THINK I KNOW WHERE MY GREEN FUR IS COMING FROM
And as you may imagine, they make squeaky little sounds when they pop up and down.
GET OUTTA THERE
The meeps won't let you pull up the rock :(
that guy isn't meeping
he's up to something
his fur is all yellow and he's mostly bald what's with that
Shouldn't you be working with Jim Henson?
dirty hippies
dirty hobbits
dirty... rabbits?
Well that was easy enough. ANOTHER INGREDIENT DOWN
FREE SPELL WOOOO
And that's pretty much all we need from the Meeps. There are a few things you can do with them though. If you throw rocks or cast Flame Dart or attack them, they get upset and throw things at you and refuse to talk to you, if I remember right.
I think, and my memories of this are vague, you can also feed them apples and they'll spit out an apple core. But I'm not sure. :B
Ah, the days before you could click the mouth on yourself and select what to tell people.
No problem.
GASP
Antwerps bounce up and down in the same place making a loud BOING noise. Hee hee. HUG ME, ANTWERP
It just bounces you away though. :(
FINE BE THAT WAY
you bouncer
This screen is a bad screen. You want to generally turn around and go left, cause there's nothing good ahead. DON'T MIND ME I'VE MEMORIZED THESE THINGS
It leeeads here! The Brigand Ambush. :O
:O
I think we thought for a while that you could actually fight your way through here, but maybe you can't? I can't remember us ever succeeding anyway. You're not supposed to.
INTERPRETIVE DANCE
Back to the waterfaaaall
Dang, running out of time here.
IT'S KIND OF FLYING, RIGHT? OFF THE ROCKS? YEAH
Success.
So there's an invisible ladder here! HMM.
But I'll do this the way you're supposed to do it for Fighters. THROWING!
Fred Flintstone?
He reveals the ladder for you whenever he sees you're there, just in case you didn't know about it.
nope
Darn, I was trying to get smushed behind the door that time, cause you can do that. Eh, maybe later.
Okay, this time I'll do it right.
Ah, old 'enry the 'ermit. He has the catchiest little theme song. Me and Alix picked it out on the guitar once, and my god it gets stuck in your head.
yuk yuk
A PLEASANT PLACE
Hero sit up straight be a gentleman
I did not get the joke behind this for the longest time. You have no idea. :O
I HEAR YOU, 'ENRY
I dunno why this amuses me so much. 'Enry just quietly chuckling to himself.
I like that no one knows, hee hee.
No he isn't. At least, not in this version.
MORE FREE SPELLS WOOO
as a side note, i like how 'enry talks
I GOTTA MEET THIS GUY
:O
Who would cast a spell at 'Enry though? :O
Anyway I'm outta here
Funny you should mention that.
LITTLE DARK, MAYBE
You know, after all this time, I honestly have no idea how to play cribbage. I think it involves cards. But anytime I hear the word, I think of 'Enry.
Here, have some of my bread, sausage, and plums.
Hero just sprawls out all over, hehehe.
Lame. This is why we don't usually spend the night here unless we have to.
ANYWAY AWAY WE GO
I thought it up all by myselfs. :B
GETTIN THERE, SLOWLY
waaa I burned the roof of my mouth and the side of my tongue on some gyoza yesterday and it hurts to eat anything boo. And I have to go to this family thing on my dad's side tomorrow and the day after and I'm not entirely looking forward to it meeeh