Homo Arbor FM - 2005.02.25

Abert on 27/2/2005 at 04:54

Quote Posted by coreyb2

[SPOILER]I jumped in the river swam thru the cave and up out thru another small cave to a large column in the water. Jumped in and up the column and now I can't reach the rope. There is a small square hole in the wall by the small platform under the rope but nothing in there. I need a rope arrow. A spoiler needed please.[/SPOILER] :erg: Is there another way? Thanks

Swim part way up the vine and then over to the rope.
Are we suppose to get by the metal fence after you exit the well? I see a tool box and a ladder beyond it.
I need 93 or so loot to meet the minimum on expert. I have all other objectives complete. I must be missing a big area somewhere.
Albert

Sir Lance on 27/2/2005 at 05:44

Albert

[SPOILER]You don't come back through the water. There are two main hidden loots areas. One in the building with the armory the other is in the the second nearest house to the storage building.[/SPOILER]

Further cue [SPOILER]for house secret[/SPOILER]

[SPOILER]check the kitchen very carefully[/SPOILER]

Abert on 27/2/2005 at 14:28

Quote Posted by Sir Lance

Thanks Sir Lance. Probably the one spot in that kitchen I did not check.
Albert

Lightningline on 28/2/2005 at 03:26

:thumb: :thumb: Very Nice mission..I esspecially liked the glassworks...some of the light covers,windows and loot. Thanks a lot.

nil8hate on 28/2/2005 at 07:53

Quote Posted by Hit Deity

Dang, are you in cahoots with R Soul? (See this (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94119) thread!)

Everywhere I go on the FM forums nowadays it's wood and Homo Arbors...

hmmm....it means man tree (homo=man) and (arbor=tree). not sure what you are reading into this that has you so upset?

anyhooo....i really liked the look of this fm...and a unique twist for basso. thank you for your hard work!

oh yeah...i [SPOILER]did not want to kill basso!!! the music afterward almost made me cry![/SPOILER]

metal dawn on 28/2/2005 at 08:40

Quote Posted by nil8hate

Yeah, I know what you mean. I sat near him afterward for a good while out of regret and sorrow.

ShadowWolf421 on 28/2/2005 at 13:57

me too :(

I did love all of the Lord of the Rings stuff in this one though, especially
[SPOILER]the Return of the King screen in the bathroom[/SPOILER] ;)

Rosa, your DromEditing skills have dramatically increased, friend Basso was fun to play and was good but this was fantastic! :thumb:

Dafydd on 28/2/2005 at 13:57

I know I'm missing something painfully obvious because nobody else has even asked. But -- how do I get into deWinter's? The gate is shut; Metal Dawn mentioned a switch, but I don't know where he means.

The sign says inquire at the police station. I've been through there, got the treasure and the weapons, and through the houses. But if there's another way into deWinter's, I'm stubbornly not seeing it.

Thanks,

Dafydd

ShadowWolf421 on 28/2/2005 at 14:02

Dafydd

Remember where the archer was/is in the police station?

[SPOILER]Look by him and to the right on that wall in front of where he is/was standing[/SPOILER]

Dafydd on 1/3/2005 at 01:13

Further along. Grrr. Automatic ghost bust.

I understand that not every mission can be ghosted, but a gratuitous forced ghost bust in an otherwise completely ghostable mission really gets my goat.

Did no ghoster test this? Or did they make suggestions, and Rosa just blew them off?

I suppose I have to knock out the two guards around the treebeast... but I'm not happy about this at all. It definitely spoils the mission for me. Especially after I did so good to ghost the manual in Charlie's cage. What's the point, then? I could have just knocked them both out, the guy and the monkey.

The only way to ghost this is to deliberately refrain from reading a certain book, which means you don't really do the full mission.

Note, it's not killing the treebeast that busts the ghost; that's allowed via rule 11 ((http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30310)). It's the fact that there is no way to kill the treebeast without alerting the two guards patrolling outside the cage. Even if they don't see you do it, they see the body!

If someone comes up with a way of doing this without busting the ghost, I would be astonished. I put out all the surrounding torches and killed the thing about fifteen times, each time making sure it ended up in one of the shadowy corners of the cage. But every time, the traililng guard spotted it and went ape, pulling the alarm. Sometimes the first guard did, too. I suppose it's possible that if you do it a hundred times, one time they won't react. I'm not willing to play this scene that long to find out. But it would have been so easy to make one of those overhead lights burnt out, so there would be enough darkness in one little spot that you could have fulfilled the objective without alerting the guards. Damn -- a wasted opportunity.

(The earlier bit with the breakaway bridge isn't a ghost bust because it's possible -- difficult but possible -- to jump over the railing without breaking it.)

Dafydd