No Mutants Allowed

[Crni Vuk]

that's racist.

[Viliny]

[Tagaziel]

[Dead Guy]

Hey guys, I think I found out who wrote the dialogue for this game. I think it's this guy.
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Mice killed: 5

[Dead Guy]

Inquisitive Girl

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OK! So, we're still in a tunnel, and you know what? Nothing interesting is going on in this tunnel. It's a conveyor belt to more derp. So screw this crap, and let's fast forward to the surface!


We emerge here, one path seems to be a dead end, and there's an artifact so that's where I'm going.


Defeat some dwellings and stuff, capture a mine that turns yellow so there's a town near owned by the inquisition.

That was pretty good...

You think so? I liked it too, my dear...

Yes, Bluebeak. My mind is growing stronger.


I lost some creatures there against the vampires, but now I can just ressurect them back at base. Cool.

I find another mass grave and head on down southwest.


I suuuck your blooood, BLEEEEIIIGH!


Next, I find some kniggets blocking my path, they flee but I pursue. These guys do more damage the longer they move before attacking. In earlier games this was pretty exploitable. The damage could be pretty silly. But the AI doesn't know how to make use of this and just stands still and pokes away with their lances.


This building appears to be an arena. Kind of nifty idea to get to do a training battle with no losses. It's actually kind of challenging this one. Also the award is pretty good.


Craaaaaaaaaw

I heard you the first five times, Aunt Sveltana. When we get to the prison, I stay outside... (This is not as derp as it sounds, I wasn't frapsing quick enough, Sveltana says something before this line. I think.)

This is not a joking matter, Anastasya. In spite your growing powers, this is no ordinary prison, and it's holding no ordinary prisoner! Jorgen might very well be the monster who controlled your mind.

I understand. Just remember to ask him a few questions before you turn him into a ghoul!

If Jorgen's truly in league with the Faceless, it will be he who asks the questions. I'm counting on you to give the right answers.

What. The. Fuck. The Faceless is one of my faourite tech death bands though.

Darkness questioning shadows...

Bluebeak is the first pot/kettle knight in HOMO VI.

What? Me? Aunt Sveltana?


Oh hi Inquisitor. I beat him easily.


Some friendly skeletal spearmen who gave me a quest to find a list that would free them from something. And also allows me to recruit the upgraded skeletons, yay.

We were counted by Kilburn... he put us on a list... the list became our death.

These skeletons are stronger than most... It semms that some great betrayal.... or sadness... has disrupted the cycle, and their bones may not rest until the curse is lifted.

Why can't I just use my power and force them to follow me?

Power and force. The path of Pavel...

Words of wisdom.

You could. I am proposing a harder path, Stasia. If you enlist your dead willingly, they will return to Asha in peace when the time has come. Find the list that has cursed them... and they'll follow you.

Necromancers used to be cool.

The inquisition has taken many prisoners, but there's no sign of Jorgen.

I can't believe they're accusing Jorgen of killing my father. He was his favourite councilor.

Whether Jorgen is implicated or not... we need to know.

Ummm... yes? That's what we need to know.

Jorgen must know something or they wouldn't be keeping him.

I wouldn't count on these guys acting all rational since they were just recently seen dumping fully armed and armoured (and living) soldiers into a mass grave.


It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum.


Catapult doesn't hit gates, crap. I've got ghosts though, they'll fly right through the walls.


Griffins come out and attack my ghouls, they're probably headed for my archers in the long run, so it's good to kill them off before they block the archers. Archers do shit damage in hand to hand, iirc.


My ghosts go in and block the enemy archers and kill a few though. I want them ganged up on so I can heal them and leech off of all the neighbouring stacks.


ghouls kill som grifs


Skeletons finish them


Some Vespas or whatever have come out to play, but they're invulnerable now, the Haven special ability is a one or two turn invulnerability.


The ghosts have killed som more crossbows, ghouls kill sentinels who've also come out the gates.


Every fucking thing has come out those gates by now, except some crossbows.


Perfect wail of the netherworld moment.


Splat. 26 ghouls resurrected.


Invunerable sisters block my skellies.


Finishing up


I win! I get a bunch of artifacts from the defeated hero as well.



Not my son!!!! No!!! Leave him alone!!! Kill me, leave Sander alone!!! He is innocent!! I know nothing of the Faceless!

Her staff mind is broken...

Elisabeth... You are safe now. It's me... Sveltana...

Sveltana! They've got Sander!

She's been put to the question. Look at these wounds. She needs a healer...

A healer probably did this to her.

They've broken her mind and body... This is how our Holy priests of Light go about finding the truth.

Abuse of this sort is abhorred by Elrath... It was Uriel's first lesson. This cannot be the Angel's work.

We're jsut below a Falcon Prison...

This stinks of Emperor Liam. Father never liked him.

Vendetta! Vendetta!

Imagine what they would have done to you if your brother hadn't given you a swift and painless execution. Something smells rotten in the holy falcon empire... I need to find out what is goind on.

Hehe. Oh man.

I know that look, Sveltana. I'm going to sharpen my beak.

No, say it's not so Bluebeak! Not you and Aunt Sveltana!

I'm taking Elisabeth back to my castle. I need to see the Mother Namtaru. Wait for me here with the army.

Yes! If Sander discovers what they've done to his mother, I pity those who are responsible.

Pity only the innocent, Anastasya. The guilty always had a choice.



I get a shitload of experience for freeing Elisabeth, and put a point into archery II, which boosts the ranged damage with each attack until the stack is attacked in hand to hand or moves. The other I put in Lightning Bolt, because I thougt the dazed effect I can add to it might be cool. Turns out it's not very cool. Whatever.

Next episode we'll start searching for that list, and defeat some incading Inquisitors.

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Mice killed: 5

[Jebus]

DRAMA!

I love how they're parafrasing Shakespeare.
I imagine they consider themselves very artfull writers...

[Pipboy2000]

I still don't know who the fuck Bluebeak is or where he came from.

Fun read tho',
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[Dead Guy]

Last time Anastasya captured a city from the inquisition and freed Elisabeth, part-time raving lunatic.

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The losses in the battle for the city are promptly brought back to unlife at the altar of eternal survitude. So much for that 'return to Asha when they've served you' drivel. I go about exploring the area surrounding our new base.

What are you doing, child!?!

What does it look like I'm doing? I'm readying the army. We've been discovered. I'll not let them move Jorgen to another location, or worse... kill him.

You're not ready!

Jorgen was councilor and physician to our family for over a decade. He wasn't the one who controlled me.

Sveltana will pluck your hair when she discovers this.

Go and tell her if you want! She'll know where to find me.


Our next objective is defeating invading inquisitors, one was helpfully marked on the map for us off to the southeast there.


Bla bla bla


Meanwhile, the new town is converted to a necropolis as per usual, I decide to go south, southwest first, to explore the map before I bump into enemy heroes.


Except, I bump into enemy hero.


I've captured the fortress visible in the previous pic, and continued south, the enemy hero turned back. Not sure why exactly. I thought maybe the mission is easy and he won't go beyond certain points on the map, but later on I found out that was not the case. Also, I see another mass grave! Necrophilia time!! I mean errr.


Wuah wuah wuah


Another Inquisitor shows up, and I decide to chase him down to remove the threat to my ungarrisoned towns and fortresses.


Severe threat means, yeah, not really that hard.


I put my ghouls in the quaffer fountain, so they get +5 destiny. Oh yeah. As you can see I recruited some Haven troops. That was mainly so that the enemy wouldn't capture the fortress and recruit them, they're mostly useless. Mostly.


Ghouls make it up to the crossbows, they've got the life steal going.


healing skeletons

And time for another nicely placed wail



Apparently the dude had the list the skeletons were whining about. Back to those guys we go.

These lists... there are annotiations to the originals... Crimes have been added after interrogations, and they carry the mark of Great Inquisitor Salvatore himself. These boners seek justice!

Having played Risen, I know all about Spanish-sounding Inquisitors. I will let these boners poke my foes with their spears furiously.


What the hell happened? Guess I met another enemy hero, it's been too long since I played this. This fight looks like it might've been a wee bit tougher.


Oh yeah, so they captured the town while I was away. Bastards.


Here's our heroine now. I put the cocaine on top of her.


Friendly ghosts, I smell another pointsless quest.

These ghosts are powerful... and they are attracted to you because of your increasing magical power.

Weren't you going to pluck my hair?

I can hear their complaints. They seek vengeance against the Inquisition. What is going on in the holy empire?

No quest, just got 30 upgraded ghosts for no effort, and the ability to upgrade their building in town to recruit more.


I head east to explore some more, and find another mass grave.


More bla


Found another fortress, kind of a lot of defenders here but no hero with bothersome spells.


Right, so a bit more exploring to do, then that last town is going down.

I build townportals in my towns so I can warp to them if a hero gets close. It's still annoying chasing these weak heroes three laps around the map so they won't capture your town.


By this point my army is probably pretty large, killing hundreds with zero casualties. I've also upgraded all the ghosts to their better counterpart, whatever those were called. Let's say they were called Wraiths.

I still think the tech, if you will, is progressing way too slowly. In the earlier games as far as I can remember, you couldn't recruit dragons etc on the first maps, but pretty much most other things. Lame.


I've taken a trip around the map now, captured the last town, but I think I lost a fortress in the process. Teleporting chase of a last hero begins. Also, last massgrave, nothing that made any sense was said.



Late in a scenario, many weeks have past and dwellings on the map increase in number as your army grows. It's kind of a silly rate of growth here though. Not sure how many were in this stack originally I guess but well, we shall see in the future.

And here, my screenshots end. I'm not sure when fraps decided to stop working. I noticed it first when I was playing Fallout ironman, but I think I frapped a few of the first screens I grabbed. Oh well. Looks like I'll have to replay some stuff. Sigh.

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Mice killed: 5

[Dead Guy]

Last time we ended with Anastasya chasing down one last Inquisitor to secure her lands. This time we jump forward a while, I've been collecting troops and harvested some experience with anastasya, and we're about to go derper underground. There's too much panic in this town.

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This underworld segment has some artifacts and some mobs, nothing out of the ordinary at all. After some fights we pop up to ground level again, and pick up +1 spellpower over here.

Since I'm replaying this and I'm not gonna bother picking anything up here and just go straight for the dude sitting in his castle.

This is what looks to be the final encounter of the scenario. An inactive teleport thingy is sitting there ominously though.

Anastasya Griffin! If Duke ANton had given you to me, you would still be alive. Now I understand his treachery... he preferred you undead, rather than as a purified priestess of Elrath. He follows darkness... like your father.

Salvatore, the light has blinded you... You kill the innocent... it is you who casts a shadow of fear and deceit

Orderites, I'm starting to think the dialogue was written by KSM. (it's also important to start every single line with the name of the person you're conversing with, everyone does that.

I am Light. Who is innocent? All must be cleansed by Elrath! If you cannot see this, then return to the grave from which you've crawled.

It's time you returned to Asha. You can plead your case to the Dragons when you meet them.

I'm going Khmer Rouge on this fucking game any second.

The Emperor's armies will be here soon enough, and we will build your next grave out of stone.

Well, that's creative.


We whoop Salvatore's ass and let a day go by, and recruit all the things in the city before going through the portal.



Ahhhhh... This light... My soul... There is no absolute truth... Malassa, cover me in your quaffer.

Someone's being tortured!

I hear a voice... screaming in my mind. It's Master Jorgen.


So these are the dungeons, and Jorgen is over there, but there's an army of blazing glories in between that we need to dispose of. This fight has an extra challenge thrown in, that Jorgen takes damage each turn and you must kill the glories before he dies.


There are quite a lot of the bastards too, and no retaliation PLUS they dispel effects on my creatures when they attack, which limits the usefulness of the life steal spells.


The fighting begins, you should be able to follow most of the goings on in the extended event log I've opened.

The Glories have moved up to get in range of my troops, during the fight, some of them will swoop over to the skeletons and the rest focus on the ghosts pretty much. Or Specters.










Have gotten a good part of the enemies killed by now. No terrible losses, but more than usual that's for sure. Jorgen is still at more than half health.


Notice how the game still says "good luck" when your "destiny" kicks in. Why not just call it luck?



We've got them on the run.





Oooh take me by force, Anastasya!

Whussat? Jorgen transformed into this dude.




Why did you free me?

Yeah, you already asked that...

I'm afraid that someone might take control of my mind again! And use me to kill someone else I love.

You're thinking of Bluebeak, aren't you Anastasya?

Thank you for telling us your truth. We did not kill Slava. We will help you discover who did.

Whey, mission complete! We've learnt so much. Jorgen, our trusted councillor of yore, was actually a member of anonymous all this time, alternatively a black japanese demon that offers you gold and then eats you.



Take me to them, Elisabeth. Do not be afraid. We are with you!

No! I don't know anything! I've never even seen a Faceless! No! Not my son!

Elisabeth... We must build a wall. Do you see them? Giant stones of obsidian. Yes... Like that! Trap them. They can no longer hurt you... nor your son.

They're so many! But... They're trapped. Yes... We are safe now... "sigh"

"sigh" indeed.

How did you do that, Jorgen? You healed her madness.

As children of Darkness, we can enter the world of dreams and memories.

What do you mean? You could help me... discover who controlled me?

Why do you want to find memories that your mind has chosen to forget?

Sander... All is well... Sander...

I... I am going to see the Mother Namtaru. I think she can help me. Thank you, Jorgen... for helping Elisabeth.

The... the mother wha?

Are you well enough to travel, Elisabeth? Why must you go so soon?

Wizard Hafayaad is mounting an expedition to the East. I've heard news that my son Sander is alive and warring with the Orcs. Even if he won't agree... he needs his mother.

Anastasya. the High Priestess Sveltana is expecting you, and I need to make final preparations with Lady Elisabeth. We're leaving in three days. I suggest you save your farewells for then.

Yes, High Priest Hafayaad. I'm going...

So, the game dialogue actually spells this guy's name wrong, consistently.

Could you accompany Wizard Kaspar? He has traveled far to meet with High Priestess Miranda.

Certainly...

When did you make the decision to become a Necromancer? I've been studying the order for a dozen years... I've finally seen the truth in it.

I... really didn't have a choice in the matter. It was either that or passing on to Asha.

You were transformed... against your will?

I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS!!!

No. I'm glad I was brought back. I've unfinished business.

10-4 Jensen.


Will there be more adventures for Anastasya?

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Mice killed: 5

[PlanHex]

I have no idea what's going on in this LP, but somehow I'm enjoying it anyway.
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