Part 34

Alright, time for the next dungeon! I could head over to the Cave of Thackus or the Cave of Oblivion, but there's something special waiting for me in The Dark Tower of Xervah.

Be it ever so humble. The tower is pretty much a living thing as you'll see more of later.

This place is filled with these delightful little mouth pits.

The locals are as charming as ever. THese guys can turn you to stone, so they're double annoying.

More fun things.

On the way through I manage to find a few nifty things:

Now I get to try my luck at one of the hardest puzzles in all of video gamedom:

What do I do!?!

Ah, is this some kind of hint? I take a swing at the heart.

Ah, a fitting reward for such a difficult task.

So I get to this wall and there's pretty much nowhere left to go. There has to be some way to get past this.

Wait remember these fun things:

I find the closest one and take the plunge.

Fucking eww. I'm pretty sure I'm in the intestines or some such.

While searching through the muck I do find something neat:

HELLS YES!! Another Flame Jewel found. I think that's 2 so far, so I'm doing pretty well. Anyway, I climb into one of the other brown tubes and get spat out in another section of the tower.

When I make my way back the wall has moved out of the way!

I find more friends to play with:

I kill a few more bad guys until I come to a save point. By now we all know what that means.

These two are really one of the more threaatening bosses in this game. They do decent damage with their spells, they can take a good deal of damage, and they have to both die in the same turn or else they will revive each other. If you don't prepare they can and will hand you your ass.

Yeah, I'm having none of that.

Ok let's see what crap ass artifacts I get:

Meh, nothing to great. Maybe I can transmute this stuff into to something cool.

Ok, that looks fun...

Were I to make a large enough emoticon to celebrate my excitement it would not only break the tables, but would ruin a large section of the internet as a whole. Gentlemean and Ladi... ok who am I kidding... Gentlemen, it is time to do some serious transmutation.

1st off, let's get a new wand for our mages...

Not only is this wand pretty damn powerful, it let's us do Great Magic clinchers and NEVER BREAKS!!!

Now for some new swords...

Good damage + possibility of freezing foes + death to ice weak monsters + bonus damage to flame based monsters.

Good damage + possibility of turning foes to stone + death to poison weak monsters.

And something for our Spearmen...

Good damage as well as having all three attacks and bonus damage to fire weak enemies. Right now this is about the best weapon I can get.

I also get to transmute a slew of new skills/spells/recover items/other really useful stuff:

Sweet Jesus I'm rollin in it now. Armed with all my new slick gear we're ready to kill damn near anything. Next time we go much out the cave of Thackus and kill some crabs.