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chapter 7 "Miscellaneous Tips and Secrets"
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- The portal generator (portal gun) works by making an orange portal in one
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place, and blue portal somewhere else, and presto, you can now teleport
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between those two places by entering one of the portals. By default you only
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find the portal generator with the "ammo" for the blue portal...the blue vial.
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To make it really useful you need to find the orange vial and install it
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in the portal generator too. Unfortunately the orange vial is on a rawther
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nasty and tough cave troll. Good luck.
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- When you're in combat with multiple opponents, you really really have to use
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the "target" command. For example, "target orc". Otherwise you will keep shifting
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your target to the last guy what hit you, and you will not whittle down your
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oppenents fast enough and you will die. This is why you need to be very careful
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if you get trapped in a room with a dozen rats. If you don't target one at a
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time, you're liable to be nibbled to death.
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- If you're fighting and you can't see, you aren't going to do any damage.
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- Unless you are a fighter NEVER wield two weapons at once. Double wielding, and
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for that matter, two handed weapons, are skills that fighters have. If you're
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not a fighter, double wielding dramatically decreases your combat effectiveness.
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Also, unless you're a fighter don't bother trying to fight without wielding a
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weapon of some kind.
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- Getting drunk and sleeping makes you heal faster. You can also heal a little
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faster by giving Clepius a healing slip, and he'll rub some healy stuff on you.
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Healing this way is pretty slow though. For fast healing, either buy potions
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from Oana in the magic shop (very expensive) or buy yellow or green spices
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from Brandy in Harry's bar (east and south of the town, by the water). You
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have to flatter Brandy in the right way for her to be ok with selling you spice.
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Say what a good wife you would be.
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- Yellow spice is good for health, blue spice is good for mana, green spice is
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good for stamina. You have to pay Brandy in gold. Go to Zoe in the bank for
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exchanging money.
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- The rocket pack works pretty ok, in fact perhaps too well. If you boost
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up and fly around carelessly, you are very very likely to wind up somewhere
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extremely unhelpful, like an ocean with no sense of which way to swim for land.
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Its best use is for very short hops over dangerous areas or pits.
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- Do not stargate into space. It will kill you without breathing apparatus, and even
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with a breather, if you use the rocket pack, you are almost certain to careen
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out of control and eventually run out of air before you can find your way back
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to the outer space stargate.
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- It's probably ok to stargate to the sea bottom location if you have a
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breathing device, but be sure not to lose your bearings or you'll run out of
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air there too.
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- The door in the stargate cave says "Speak, friend, and enter" in the elvish
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language of Edhellen. If you want access to the very fine sword and the resurrection
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scroll that are on the other side of that door, you'll need to go to the
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Bugg, the language teacher, 1n, 2e, 1n of Dirk. And you'll need to spend
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training points.
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- The omni is a teleportation device and when you press the button on it it will
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tend to whisk you away from trouble. However it has a mind of it own and if it
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is in your direct inventory for too long it'll teleport itself away. Keep it
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in a rucksack or something.
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- You definitely want a big bag you wear, like the rucksack. The ruck has greater
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capacity than other things like the backpacks. It's important to have a bag you
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can wear. If you "sell all to otik", worn and wielded things are not sold,
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so this is helpful when getting rid of lots of stuff at once. It's also a handy
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way to organize your short term versus long term inventory.
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- Don't activate the turret in a room you plan to be in. It doesn't care what it
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shoots, it just wants to shoot.
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- If you want XP, grind in the forest. Plenty of critters. Just watch out for
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wandering orc soldiers. Only grind there when you are strong enough to take
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down orcs.
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- Poleepkwa are very very strong, but that's about it. An insectile
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race of fairly low intelligence and with their own language, they are doomed
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to playing with no magic and not understanding any written or spoken material
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they come across. Poleepkwa is playing on hard difficulty. Not recommended.
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Having said that, if you play poleepkwa and get your claws on the powered
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armor in the lab, you can kill pretty much anything you come across.
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- If you want to play as a fighter class as dwarf or orc, kill the orc
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shaman as if you were going to become mage but instead of giving the
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orcslayer sword to Leo in the church, give the helmet to Roshd near the
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tower in Ylsrim.
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- When you are a total newbie, you might understand and be able to read
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languages different than those of your race. As you lose newbie status,
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this goes away and if a language is important to you, you will need to go
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learn it at Bugg's. And you better have a high intelligence stat.
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- A lot of locks are pickable but you need a tool to do it. There is a
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lockpick in the mansion, in a bag in a room the thief has been using
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to sleep in. Once you have it, you can try to "pick lock on door with pick"
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or "pick lock on locker with pick". However, it uses up your stamina,
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and if you fail you hurt yourself, it doesn't always work, and for it
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to work predictably you need to be rogue class and have lockpicking skills.
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If you're a mage you can cast buffer so that it hurts less when you fail
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a lot.
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- The second vial for the portal gun is in the posession of a cave troll
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that lives underneath an orc chieftain. Starting from the orc
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commander, go 3s, 1e, 1ne, 1s and you are at the chieftain. wear the rocket
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pack (this is important) and activate it, then kill the chieftain. This
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may be easier with the pistol (instructions below). Right before he dies,
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in the throes of furious retribution, the orc chieftan will activate a trap
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that dumps eveything into a pit below, where the cave troll waits. Ideally
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he'll be dead and drowned from your solving the well quest. If he's not,
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you are now hovering (because of the rocket pack) over an angry cave troll
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that is probably way too tough for you to kill. Drop a live grenade
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and wait for it to kill him, then boost down and get your loot, then
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boost back up. Don't dilly dally too long or you'll run out of rocket pack fuel.
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Still, that chieftain is pretty tough. Do some grinding to get up to
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level 12 or so, maybe higher. Or tackle this with a party.
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- If you were observant during your raid on the mansion, there is a 9mm pistol
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in the safe. If you kept it, you can find an ammunition magazine in the
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locked locker 1n, 1e, 1s of Jennybot in the Virtual Campus. The key for
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the locker is in a trash can in University Square, where Wim and Tim are
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standing near a tree. The trash can is there, but trickily it is hidden
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in the room description, instead of being part of the inventory listed
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when you look. If the key is already gone, you may need to pick the
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lock on the locker with the lockpick.
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Once you have the clip and the gun:
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load clip in pistol
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wield pistol
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shoot orc with pistol
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- If you die or otherwise somehow remove the Yautja wrist computer, it will
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deactivate. To be able to cloak again:
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wear computer
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open computer
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activate computer
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uninstall module from computer
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install module in computer
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close computer
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- If you're out of money for buying spice from Brandy, you can heal the old
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fashioned way: eating food, drinking water, and waiting to heal. Having a full
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belly and not being thirsty speeds up how quickly your health, stamina, and mana
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regenerate. If you don't have money to buy snacks, go under the the humpbacked
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bridge in the town (from Dirk: 1n, 4w, 1d), then:
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cast whip
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cast buffer
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cast fireball on troll
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Pay attention to the battle. If your buffer shield goes away, cast it again.
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And again. And again. Once the troll is dead:
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search rocks
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get pole
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get can from troll
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get worm from can
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bait pole with worm
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fish with pole
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Eventually you will catch some fish you can eat, to keep up your strength.
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Drink some water too:
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eat herring
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drink from river
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drink from river
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And keep drinking from the river until you can't drink any more. This way of
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healing is slower, but it is free, and you'll eventually be back to 100%.
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