Avernum 6 almaria4/16/2023 ![]() Wouldn't want to win the war by improper means!" "Now you're just being bitter." Ahem.Īlright, we can fly! The Orb of Thralni is the primary "key" for overworld travel - there'll be chasms, rivers, and so on that we can't get across without using it. We'll go away, find some poor sap whose children got slaughtered by sliths and who'll pay us his last copper penny if we get revenge for him, and then we'll come back, sneak inside, and do the job anyway." "Now hang on -" "Y'know, just so we're doing this properly. It's gotta be locked up tight right now." "We could just fly in! Look, there's no roof on it or anything!" "And get skewered by a hundred javelins? You've seen how badly we fight on open terrain!" "Yeah, I don't really feel like trying this over and over again until we somehow miraculously survive." "Oh, fine. And we've buzzed this guy's fortress like a dozen times now while en route to other locations! It's like a juicy bit of squid that nobody will let you eat!" ".beg pardon?" "What, you've never eaten squid before?" "Tantalizing morsels aside, everyone on that fortress just saw us soar through the air like particularly murderous seagulls, and -" "What." "- and so I don't give us much chance of being able to get inside. And that's if anything even weirder." "I object to waiting. Let's go get the contract, bargain as high a price as we can get, and then go singlehandedly win the war against the sliths." "It feels really weird to hear that said seriously." "You don't think we can do it?" "No, quite the contrary. Much as I'd love to go rob some lizard dudes, I think we should hold off." "What? Why?" "Because nobody is going to pay us well for a fait accompli. As it is." "Hey, don't stand so close to me!" "So, I can't help but notice that we're right next to Sss-Thsss' fortress." "Yeah, and I've been thinking about that. Part 35: Almaria "Awesome." "Man, this is gonna open so many doors for us." "I might feel a little better about this if my stomach were settled.
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