No One Lives Forever Komplettlösung
Verne Hodge
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This guide is the result of hours upon hours of personal gameplay but detailsfrom Prima's guide to Ascension as well as the original literature that came with the game were also used in writing this guide.
All right, here's my deal with the Ultima games. The first threewere way before my time so I don't know much about them. I triedplaying them on the Ultima Collection and it was just...painful.Ultima IV and V were great and I completed both of them. Ultima VIthrough VIII I did not play because I didn't like the overhead 3-Dformat. I decided to play Ascension because it is supposed to bethe last one and it is in a fully 3-D world, which I have grown tolike, and you play in either first or third person views, which I also like.
In the beginning Britannia was knows as Sosaria. Meanwhileback on Earth a young guy was becoming more and more discouraged bythe way things were going (if only he could see what's going onnow!). The guy goes walking one day and finds a moongate and goesthrough to Sosaria and meets Shamino. Shamino decides to call theguy British because he was from the British Isles (very clever thisShamino is). Anyway, British became a great leader and eventuallybecame Lord British.
In the First Age of Darkness, the main baddie was Mondain, agenerally nasty guy. He kills his father, takes his sun gem andtries to make himself immortal with it. He goes on a terror spreeand Lord British calls on a stranger to come and save Sosaria. Astranger comes, defeats Mondain, and all is well for a while.
So a while passes and Sosaria then falls into the Third Age ofDarkness. An island appears in Sosaria with fire and evil allaround it. You would think people would notice a fiery island justspring up overnight. Anyway, Lord British again calls for a heroand this time 4 heroes show up. Exodus is defeated and the city-states of Sosaria become united under Lord British and the land isre-named Britannia.
Now that three ages of darkness have been overcome, the Age of Enlightenment is among us. Nobody is terrorizing Britannia, butLord British feels his people need an example of how to live, so hecalls on yet another hero to go on the Quest of the Avatar conquerthe Great Stygian Abyss and the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.
The Avatar does his thing at the Codex and things are lookinggood. Except Lord British gets himself lost in the Underworld andBlackthorn, controlled by the Shadowlords takes over. He calls theAvatar back to rescue him and restore order to the land. Once LordBritish is back in power he banishes Blackthorn to the land of windand ghosts (or wherever it is he goes).
The Avatar goes back to Earth and lives peacefully for a while,not knowing that his quests in the Underworld had caused it to startto collapse and send gargoyles into Britannia. Like any newintegration it was not going well so the Avatar is kidnapped to besacrificed as the False Prophet of the gargoyles. He narrowlyescapes and goes on to bring peace to the land again.
So now this black gate shows up and along with it the Guardian,who starts to corrupt the virtues. This just cannot be so onceagain the Avatar comes and destroys the gate (the Guardian's link toBritannia). If this weren't enough the Avatar and his crew aredrawn to Serpent Isle for some reason, where Dupre is killed.
So here we are now. The Guardian is so angry about the Avatarescaping from Pagan that he takes it out on Britannia and startsraising these nasty columns all over the land. The Avatar is calledback to set things right once and for all because when this journeystarts you cannot return to Earth and you will not return toBritannia when it is over.
If you have played any of the previous Ultima games (and ifyou're playing this one then you probably have) you will see littlereferences from each of the games throughout this one (like theLeggings of Sentri...where's that guy been?). It's prettyinteresting, actually.
I am not quite sure what happened when this game was made but Ihave never played a game with more bugs and crashes (and I have allthe expansions to the Sims so I know about some game bugs). Thereare so many bugs that it would not be worth my time to list them.Plus they vary from version to version anyway. If you are having aproblem I would suggest that you check the version number of thegame you are playing. You can do this by going to the first page inyour journal and looking in the upper right corner of the rightpage. You should see a version number of 1.18. If your version islower I strongly suggest you do a little searching around theInternet and get the patch.
Even once I installed the patch I was still having crashes andbugs (though not as often) so as with any game, but especially thisgame, SAVE OFTEN!!! I cannot express this enough. I don't know howmany times I've gotten halfway through a dungeon and forgetting tosave only to have the game crash right before I finish. It's veryfrustrating so take my advice and SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!!!
I am writing this guide while playing the game for the second time through. I am doing a few things differently so you can learnfrom the mistakes I made the first time. Hopefully there will be less backtracking in my guide and defiantly less confusion. Well,here we go!
Some people may scoff at having a guide for this part but Iknow the first time I played it took me a little while to master thecontrols. Hawkwind (the guiding voice) is helpful, but he gets alittle annoying also.
The game starts with you, the Avatar in bed when you aresummoned to rise and start your journey. Hawkwind tells you alittle about how to move and interact with things. You can playwith most things in the room, the TV, phone, piano, and lamps. Onceyou've gotten used to moving around touch the ankh to move on.
Once you leave this room Hawkwind suggests you put some clotheson before you go to Britannia. It's probably not a good idea forthe Avatar to go wandering around in his shorts. Anyway, leave thebedroom and hang a left. Click the door to open it and look right.In the hamper are your clothes (not a very big wardrobe for thesavior of Britannia, but oh well). Touch the ankh to learn how toequip things. Right-click and drag the clothes onto you to put themon. Head out of the bathroom and turn left. On the table is yourtool belt. Touch the ankh to have Hawkwind explain how to use it.Equip it and read the book telling you what skills you are going toneed before you go off into Britannia.
Go downstairs and turn right. Look on your desk by thecomputer to get a key. (touch the computer for a "preview" ofUltima Online 2 :) Look on your bookshelf and pick up yourbackpack. Touch the ankh to learn how to use it. Then to the leftof the bookshelf is a chest. Open it and get a map of your house.Go into the next room to the left. Get your journal off the table(now would be a good time to practice saving frequently) and getyour compass off the fireplace mantle. An ankh will appear andHawkwind will teach you how to sit in chairs to rest your wearyfeet. There is nothing you really need in the kitchen so head onoutside.
Hawkwind will remind you that you have much to learn so go leftand start training. There will be ankhs to learn how to use asword, bow and arrow and how to play...hopscotch. Yeah, anyway,once you've mastered those things say goodbye to your puppy and headout the small gate on the side of the house (the only one thatopens. Hawkwind will tell you how to use keys to open gates anddoors and he will tell you to find the gypsy (you can use thetelescope on the side of your house to get a peek at her trailer).
Follow the path and you will come to an ankh telling you how toclimb. Turn right and Hawkwind will explain how to swim. Swimmingis one of the trickier parts of the game so you might want to take alittle time to practice now. Once you swim across the pond you'llprobably meet your first enemy, a rat or a rogue. It was a littledisturbing the first time I slaughtered someone but I got used to it.
Some things never change...If it's not broken, don't fixit...and about a million other cliches that all basically mean ifyou've played the other Ultimas then you know how this works. Thegypsy asks you a series of virtue related questions that determineyour character class. They all have advantages and disadvantages soit's basically up to you, but it can be a little tricky just fromthe looks of things because they each start with different itemsthat also have advantages and disadvantages.
In past Ultimas I have either been a paladin or a bard and thefirst time I played Ascension I was a bard but this time I opted tobe a ranger. As usual the poor shepherd is the hardest because youstart with no advantages in stats, but you do get a huge karmaboost. Unfortunately this won't help you until the shrines arecleansed and you can use magic. Mage is a tempting professionbecause of the starting equipment and intelligence boost, but againthis is useless until you can use magic and you'll probably getyou're your little magical butt kicked all over Britannia untilthen. Like I said, it's a judgment call.
You arrive in Stonegate and Hawkwind warns you that it's notsafe there (duh, did he watch the cut scene too!). You'll find thatyou have nothing with you from Earth so check the chest the gypsyleft for you to get you started. The contents will be slightlydifferent for each character class (one of the reasons I chose to bea ranger this time was because there is a key in the chest thatopens another chest WAY later in the game with some very nicearmour). Go through Stonegate and pick up anything that will beuseful. There are several books that you can take, but they'rereally not worth it and they take up precious space in yourbackpack, which is limited. Besides, I have found that most bookscan be found several places throughout Britannia anyway so there'sno point in carrying around most books.
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