[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission
- From: Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:03:20 +0800
On 2010-02-08, pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following was sent from the Editor's Companion form
> From: Jan Charvát <ch.honza@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 07:51:02 on Monday, February 8, 2010
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> (ft) 17tdoi 53: [jc: If you manage to kill Tagazin outright, you cannot
> obtain the Power Spike, and therefore you cannot defeat Ixiataaga. Is it
> possible that your Weapon improved by Dessi Stone is effective against him?
> (also in section 230)]
I think that this is as intended. A bit cruel -- if you're a little
too lucky, without the Sommerswerd's boost, then you're dead -- but
intentional. I'm quite sure it's intended that your Dessi-stoned
weapon is not effective against the Deathlord (though in that case,
what they expected you to do to him is an interesting question!)
> (ft) 17tdoi 75: [jc: If you do not possess the Sommerswerd, than the weapon
> improved with Dessi Stone is also destroyed? This would make trouble with
> fighting Tagazin again in sections 45, 53, 142, 216, 230 and 308. Maybe
> there should be footnoted, that Dessi Stone make your weapon effective
> against Tagazin. For example, in section 220: "With the Dessi Stone fitted
> into its hilt, your Weapon now inflicts double ENDURANCE point losses
> against an undead OR IMMORTAL opponent in combat." ]
No, I'm quite sure that this, too, is as intended. It's a bit peculiar
that only this one instance causes your weapon to be destroyed, out of
all the cases where you CAN fight Tagazin with any old weapon -- but
there's a pattern there, too; in every instance where you can fight
Tagazin (without needing the Sommerswerd), he's already been hurt.
Losing the Dessi-stoned weapon against Tagazin is fine, because you
don't need it any more anyway -- from here on out there's no more
undead to fight, only Plane of Darkness creatures, Tagazin, and
Ixiataaga himself. The Dessi stone isn't meant to help against any of
these, only against Ixiataaga's undead minions.
And even then, you can use any old weapon to fight the undead; indeed
you have to if you have the Sommerswerd, as you're forbidden to use it
for much of the quest! You just don't get the Dessi stone's double-EP
bonus; I figure the difference can be imagined as 'magic weapons can
destroy their unlife-force' versus 'you have to completely hack them
to pieces'.
--
Tim Pederick
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