Woohoo ! Finished Serpent Isle on the stroke of the New Year

After a year I've finally finished Serpent Isle. I had a four hour
brainstorming session and after figuring a workaround for the serpent
gate bug I finished the game within 10 minutes of the New Year (am I sad
or what?). Started the game back in January and have played it on Exult
1.2.

I've just tried to close a couple of loopholes in my knowledge of the
game. I saw the Chaos Hierophant at the Gunpowder factory but I also
tracked him down to his resting place in the garden (of Enthusiasm was
it). He didn't have anything different to say.

Also I tried Order waters on Cantra. She doesn't get over her malady no
matter which water of the 3 you give her. Perhaps the original FAQ for
this group was right after all in some ways.

I still have a couple of questions. The vision of the hero from another
world at Monk Island was presumably a picture of something in this game.
But what exactly?

And I saved order and chaos by restoring balance but there are only
less than 10 people left alive on Serpent Isle after the ravages of the
banes .... so does it really matter whether they live in balance or not?

I've been reading the Ultima nitpick site (and laughing a lot over it
too). Perhaps I'll enter those points there.

Looks like I'll have to wait for Pentagram to be more fully developed
before I play Ultima VIII and Crusader. It still seems to be going
through major development changes every time I check the website. (Could
they use help from somebody with rudimentary programming skills?) I'd
quite like to play the two Crusader games I have on it but I'm not going
back to DOS so I'll wait a few years for those fine developer people to
do their stuff and play them back to back the way I did with the Ultima
VIIs.

About time I played something that only takes a month to play ....
anything apart from an Ultima for now....

Thanks for all your help over the past year. Ultima VII: Serpent Isle
was a rich game and I didn't experience any buys in Exult that couldn't
be overcome (although the Serpent Gate took a while last night and I had
to check my walkthrough ... I have to put the cubes of ice and fire one
at a time onto the plinth ... putting them all on at once didn't work.
That cost me a few hours work).

Cheers and I'll be back in a few years time when Pentagram is fully
playable.

Bill


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Bill Jillians

Quietly we read <43b7ca56$0$2715$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
unable to contain our credulity we realized that J. P. Morris
<jpm.TakeThisOut@it-he.org> said this:
>Bill Jillians wrote:
>
>> After a year I've finally finished Serpent Isle. I had a four hour
>> brainstorming session and after figuring a workaround for the serpent
>> gate bug I finished the game within 10 minutes of the New Year (am I sad
>> or what?).
>
>Well I was writing an audio playback engine at the time. That's even
>worse
>
>> I still have a couple of questions. The vision of the hero from another
>> world at Monk Island was presumably a picture of something in this game.
>> But what exactly?
>
>I believe it pertains to the temple of discipline, and the acid floor.
>I don't know how you approached that problem.. I usually just get the Avatar
>high on health potions and walk right through it.
>What you're apparently supposed to do is swap minds with an automaton (which
>is not affected by the acid).

You swap with the female automation that serves in The Blue Boar in
Moonglow.

>
>> And I saved order and chaos by restoring balance but there are only
>> less than 10 people left alive on Serpent Isle after the ravages of the
>> banes .... so does it really matter whether they live in balance or not?
>
>Not to them, it doesn't, but the main issue is that all the worlds are
>interconnected, so if SI blows up, Britannia and Earth will too. That's
>the idea, anyway.

Ah ... OK. Also I was wondering what happens to the spellbook you lost
in the teleport storm that Lord British gave you ... it never reappears.

Also what is the relevance of the pine cone and the blue egg that are in
your pack after that storm ... they never seemed to help much.

I'm sure more will occur to me later.

>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>

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Bill Jillians