> A lot of people say that, but I don't agree.  :)  U7 looked prettier,
> certainly, but its conversation engine was nowhere near as versatile,
> and while the plot as just as non-linear as U6, it got confusing if one
> skipped ahead of Elizabeth and Abraham rather than being led around by
> the nose, following them.

> In U6, it didn't really matter what order one did things -- even
> teleporting to the gargoyle world with the Orb of the Moons at the
> start of the game had a built-in way of balancing things out.

> ...I've forgotten.  What happened if one just slaughtered all the
> gargoyles?

>>> In U6, it didn't really matter what order one did things -- even
>>> teleporting to the gargoyle world with the Orb of the Moons at the
>>> start of the game had a built-in way of balancing things out.

>> ...I've forgotten.  What happened if one just slaughtered all the
>> gargoyles?

> He said 'it didn't really matter what ORDER one did things', not
> 'it didn't really matter what one did'.
> U6 isn't self-stabilising enough to prevent sabotage >:-)

>>He said 'it didn't really matter what ORDER one did things', not
>>'it didn't really matter what one did'.
>>U6 isn't self-stabilising enough to prevent sabotage >:-)

> Ahh.  *smiles*

>>There's a lot of ways you could total the game, killing key
>>plot characters and then burning their corpses.. casting VANISH
>>on critical objects might work too.

> *grins*

> (How does one burn a corpse?  And what happened if one killed them, but
> didn't then burn their corpses?  Or was it that they could be ressurected if
> their corpses weren't burned?  *thinks for a moment*  To sum up, more or
> less--could one ressurect gargoyles?)

> *smiles quietly to self, imagining*

> Lumina might get on a bit better with Smith if he saw him drunk.  And
> certainly if he saw him drawn.  ;)

> Well, it cuts him in half.  Is that good enough?

>> Quoth JP Morris <j...@it-he.org>:
>> ...
>>> [What happens if you resurrect Smith into Dupre's body..?]

>> Lumina might get on a bit better with Smith if he saw him drunk.  And
>> certainly if he saw him drawn.  ;)

> Well, it cuts him in half.  Is that good enough?

>> Ahh.  *smiles*

>>>There's a lot of ways you could total the game, killing key
>>>plot characters and then burning their corpses.. casting VANISH
>>>on critical objects might work too.

>> *grins*

>> (How does one burn a corpse?  And what happened if one killed them, but
>> didn't then burn their corpses?  Or was it that they could be ressurected
>> if their corpses weren't burned?  *thinks for a moment*  To sum up, more
>> or less--could one ressurect gargoyles?)

> You can't burn corpses, but for about 30 gold a pop, you can get the nice
> man
> in Empath to do it for you.  His eyes gleam fiendishly as he notices the
> body you are carrying.

> If you kill someone but leave them around, you can resurrect their bodies,
> although it isn't always successful (hence my 'undead' utility to
> resurrect
> people's minds).  I've heard there is a way to force a soft-reset of
> people
> using magic (the Charm or Fear spells might work, something that changes
> their internal goals) but I've never actually got around to trying it.

> If you burn or otherwise lose the body, resurrection becomes vastly more
> difficult, although it is possible to achieve with a bit of hacking
> (e.g. sacrificing Dupre, and then resurrecting him with the other NPC's
> mind).  This also transforms Dupre's body into a more suitable host, so
> you
> won't get Finn etc running around in the form of a knight.
> [See the U6 section of my website for the gory details.]

> It is impossible to resurrect mature gargoyles in-game.  I don't know
> about
> immature/wingless gargoyles, such as Beh-Lem.
> It should be possible to resurrect Dupre's body into a gargoyle, but you
> might only get 1/4 of the body or other nasty effects (like when joining
> Smith into the party.. his ass gets left behind when he moves around).

> Definitely worth trying.. >:-)

> [What happens if you resurrect Smith into Dupre's body..?]