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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9349720" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Pool of Radiance (Part 64): Valjevo Castle (Part 7)We open the door to the southeastern room of the hedge maze.[ATTACH=full]363923[/ATTACH]Again, the game thinks fire giants are as dumb as hill giants. This is demeaning. The Fire Giant Anti-Defamation League should send in strongly-worded letters.Anyway, what are they arguing about?[ATTACH=full]363924[/ATTACH]Of course its something silly. Granted, frogs and toads would be absolutely tiny from a giant's perspective, so I can see how they would have trouble telling them apart.Technically, frogs and toads aren't exactly equivalent. Toads are a sub-clade of frogs, so not all frogs are toads, thus making them not equivalent. We tell them that.[ATTACH=full]363925[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363926[/ATTACH]Our friend tried to help, and then forgot he tried to help. Well, in any case, time for battle![ATTACH=full]363927[/ATTACH]Four fire giants aren't too hard for us at this point, so we charge forward.[ATTACH=full]363928[/ATTACH]And soon they are taken down.[ATTACH=full]363929[/ATTACH]Like always, too much money to carry off. Random clean-up persons are going to find several fortunes after this is all over.[ATTACH=full]363930[/ATTACH]We leave the southeasten corner room. We head north a bit, and see the gates that lead to the southeastern quadrant.[ATTACH=full]363931[/ATTACH]We head up north to the northeastern section of the maze.[ATTACH=full]363932[/ATTACH]Along the long paths of the maze...[ATTACH=full]363933[/ATTACH]Until we reach the northeastern corner building, the last of the four for us to find.[ATTACH=full]363934[/ATTACH]We enter...[ATTACH=full]363935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363936[/ATTACH]Hmm, even a pack of trolls shouldn't be too much of an issue.[ATTACH=full]363937[/ATTACH]Only eight of them.And you know what's good for trolls? Fire.[ATTACH=full]363938[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363939[/ATTACH]That's a pretty good damage for a fireball at this level!With them damaged pretty severely, we take them down quickly...[ATTACH=full]363940[/ATTACH]And with that, we're done with the set locations within the hedge maze. Only the Inner Tower awaits!So, before going into the final section, we take a quick rest to heal up and regain spells.[ATTACH=full]363941[/ATTACH]Rested up, we return to one final wander through the hedge maze.[ATTACH=full]363942[/ATTACH]We head back south to the southeastern section...[ATTACH=full]363943[/ATTACH]More and more hedge maze...[ATTACH=full]363944[/ATTACH]Circle back and re-enter the northeastern section through another entrance.[ATTACH=full]363945[/ATTACH]Go to the northwestern section.[ATTACH=full]363946[/ATTACH]And enter the doorway to the main part of the inner tower.[ATTACH=full]363947[/ATTACH]Going inside, we enter what appears to be a large featureless room with no exits.[ATTACH=full]363948[/ATTACH]But our searching shows us something different![ATTACH=full]363949[/ATTACH]There's a hidden doorway here!We go through and find stairs up (note that the wall to the left is invisible from this side, if it wasn't completely illusory to begin with).[ATTACH=full]363950[/ATTACH]We go to a landing on the second level. There are stairs down behind us (where we came up), ahead of us, and, apparently, a secret door to the left. At least this time the game told us! However, we leave it be for a moment, and head down the steps ahead.[ATTACH=full]363951[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363952[/ATTACH]Yes we do.We enter a room that seems a bit... weird. And worrisome![ATTACH=full]363953[/ATTACH]Oh, nothing suspicious about statues frozen in terror, right? Someone just has weird taste...[ATTACH=full]363955[/ATTACH]Well, so much for that hope. We need to kill her before she can use her gaze attack![ATTACH=full]363956[/ATTACH]Which we do, pretty easily.[ATTACH=full]363957[/ATTACH]She unfortunately doesn't give much in the way of XP, or have much treasure. The giants have spoiled us concerning both of those recently.We head back up the steps, and then through the secret door we found there.We reach the second level proper, and take the corridor to the right.[ATTACH=full]363960[/ATTACH]Sure, why not?[ATTACH=full]363961[/ATTACH]It just leads back to the medusa room, so there's no need to jump, other than to take falling damage. If the medusa were still alive, the character opening the trapdoor would have had a chance to be petrified.We leave this room and head back to the other corridor leading from the steps.[ATTACH=full]363962[/ATTACH]We've come all this way to be confronted with some of the most diabolical foes of all - bureaucracy and waiting rooms! Curse you Tyranthraxus and your evil schemes!We go talk with the dagger-happy dude waiting with us.[ATTACH=full]363963[/ATTACH]We decided to parlay nicely with him, but he doesn't have much to say.[ATTACH=full]363964[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363965[/ATTACH]Well, it would be rude to turn down an invitation like that![ATTACH=full]363966[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363967[/ATTACH]Despite wanting to yell out "Your death!", we parlay nicely with him. Lovely laurel leaves by the way. Someone's a Caesar wannabe. That never bodes well.[ATTACH=full]363968[/ATTACH]Execute Order 66, right.(Al-Hyam Dhazid was the scared wizard we found at the start of the hedge maze).We don't leave immediately. This makes him suddenly and suspiciously nervous.[ATTACH=full]363969[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363970[/ATTACH]Nah, bud. This has "stab you in the back" written all over it.He takes our rejection of his plan poorly.[ATTACH=full]363971[/ATTACH]But it's quickly over for him.[ATTACH=full]363972[/ATTACH]Hopefully he has something nice.[ATTACH=full]363976[/ATTACH]Ah, a replacement for the one that he used up in the graveyard!And the XP gained by killing him is enough to get Baroness Bella to the next level![ATTACH=full]363977[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]363978[/ATTACH]And what perfect timing! For all that's left to do is to go over to the stairwell outside the office and head down to chamber of the Pool of Radiance and confront Tyranthraxus himself! Join us here next time, as we fight the final battle and complete the game!</blockquote>

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