metal dawn on 23/1/2005 at 20:57
Quote Posted by dlw6
The "amulet setting" is something you have to find, and it's very well hidden. There is a book, talking about something that happened to the Duchess when she was younger, that has the clue you need.
Assembling the amulet is a lot of work, but using it afterward is very gratifying.
[SPOILER]Alcandor mention the psychic. The Psychic tells of a chest submerged in an watery grotto. A hint as to where this is would be useful. So the Duchess dropped it in the canal. That barely constitutes as a hint. [/SPOILER]
R Soul on 23/1/2005 at 22:56
Location of the 'underwater grotto':
[SPOILER]In the south-west corner of the cathedral grounds is a building whose wall has a hole in it which leads to the canal system.
Just next to the building is a gate. On the opposite side is a vertical passage that leads down to the grotto.[/SPOILER] :thumb:
Isn't it annoying when people just insert a block of spoiler code with no prior explanation as to what sort of information is about to be divulged? :erg:
metal dawn on 23/1/2005 at 23:02
Thanks R Soul. I can't thank you enough!
Follow-up---Blast and dammit all! It was so close, yet never saw it!!
nemisis khann on 4/3/2005 at 16:31
Tried placing all the items in the order according to the spell book order and waited and nothing happened and reread the spell book picked up a the eyes and replaced them and waited went to make a cup of tea and waited and still nothing happened I have in attendant a zombie, "the cardinal sent me" and still nothings happened what am I doing wrong? what have I missed?
R_G on 5/3/2005 at 17:34
i encountered the same problem...
any suggestion is welcome!
thanks
dlw6 on 9/3/2005 at 18:03
It took a while for the thing to happen that's supposed to happen after you place all the items, but it sounds like you waited the 2 minutes.
Perhaps you can start again, being very careful to place the items? What worked for me was, I ran onto the magic circle, looked down, dropped the item exactly where it needed to go, then ran for cover. There was enough time to do this without getting hit by the [SPOILER]"eye in the sky" guardian[/SPOILER], so long as you dropped only one item at a time and then got back under cover.
The book should, after about 2 minutes, glow and levitate. When you pick it up again, you are on a new page with the final magic words (I won't spoil that surprise :laff: ). The amulet is definitely worth having, too bad its charges are limited. :sly:
Norman Druart on 9/3/2005 at 19:13
When I played last month, I placed the items, quicksaved, and then waited for a while (~1 minute). Nothing happened so I quickloaded and instantly upon the reload, the book levitated and the ritual completed.
Old Man on 9/3/2005 at 19:49
I've not tested this out. In fact it's just a feeling I have. But I suspect this delay before the book gets going is directly related to the alert status of the locals. I play mostly in Ghost mode, which means, among other things, that the NPCs do not visibly alert. For all practical purposes this means they neither see nor hear me. And I've never had any meaningful delay with this pentagram.
So, corelate the amulet delay with the alert status of the locals. And remember that an NPC that seems to have returned to alert level zero may not have. There is a delay while the NPC is at alert level one that takes, oh ten or fifteen seconds, to time out. If you tried picking the pocket of that one lady copper standing across from Basso in the first episode of CL you'll recognize this. She won't cough up her loot, even though you're directly behind her where she cannot see you, until she stands down from that alert level one she reached when you ambled in through her field of view. If you're standing by waiting for the book to spin and the patrols can see you enough to reach alert level one, the book will never start up if this is true.
Or I could be all wet here too. :-|
Martin Karne on 14/3/2005 at 23:32
Midnight in whatever, I never got to get the two first objectives checked, only the third one got checked, even if I did it the right way, so whatever did I have lost with ctrl+alt+shift+end, it's no fault of mine.
:confused:
metal dawn on 14/3/2005 at 23:51
Quote Posted by Martin Karne
Midnight in whatever, I never got to get the two first objectives checked, only the third one got check, even if I did it the right way, so whatever did I have lost with ctrl+alt+shift+end, it's no fault of mine.
:confused:
Did you knock anyone out before the undead arose (while having a "no kill" objective)?
Some of the people are scripted to die and for some reason the player is blamed if they are knocked out.
