Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School: Adventuring 101, Quest for Glory

(Yes, I did have to type in Garcon's name with the three spaces at the end, again. I hope you people appreciate what I put myself through for your entertainment)



You might ask why the most powerful magic user in the valley can't get the mandrake root herself? Well, class that would violate the contract agreement the Adventurer's Guild has with the Duplicitious League of Malcontents which stipulates that all Level 5 and higher baddies must offer lower level adventurers a fetch quest before killing them. See? Those Union dues don't go to waste!

Well, what are we supposed to do in the meantime? It's not even close to midnight... hrm... We could play knife throw with the head of the thieves guild?



But I suck at that game... We could clean out the stables again?



That only takes a couple hours... We could Play Mage's Maze with Erasmus?



He then goes on to ask Danar if he also knows Fetch, Flame Dart, and Trigger spells. Which he of course does!



If we win it even comes with a nice prize!





So what are you looking at here? This is the board on which you play Mage's Maze. The goal is to get your little wisp, not seen, from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, Erasmus' wisp starts in the right left. You'll use the open spell to move rocks, the fetch spell to move bridges and ladders, the trigger spell on your wisp to make it grow or shrink as needed (only small ones can go through caves and, only medium ones can climb down the ladders), the flame spell is used to attract your wisp but it doesn't seem to work very well...
If your wisp wanders its way down to the lower right before Erasmus' does you win. Again, you can't directly control the things you just have to open the path ahead of them while blocking the way behind. Oh, and the wisps will kill each other based on their size if they meet...



At this point Seepgood's wisp (the white thing half way down the right side of the screen is nearly there. I've cleared out the way to the end while also blocking Erasmus' wisp which is that purple thing near the center of the screen...
After a good while of my wisp flailing about and me wasting all my magic trying to get him to go where I wanted him to Garcon finally wins:



Woot! Hopefully that killed enough time?

No?

Dammit... Let's just grab the damn thing now!



Dammit! Well, I'm sure he gets it right next time! Until then...

Apparently midnight is when the mandrake root causes talk and suspicion/ gives an exhibition/gonna find out what it is all about.

One nice thing abou the game is that you have multiple ways to make time pass, such as resting or turning the game's speed up. I /think/ you can also use a "wait" command but I'm not terrible sure.

Also, it doesn't fully come through in the pics, but the scene where the hero's been enfroginated are truly hilarious due to the look of sheer panic they manage to put on the frog's face.

Danar decides to abuse both the "rest" and "wait" commands in order to get through the rest of the day. Those, and just practicing sneak everywhere...



Eventually though midnight comes around and Jackson makes a dash for the Graveyard; on his way he encounters:



So, that's a thing... In the graveyard Perseii grabs the mandrake and makes a run for it:



Hrm, Garcon must be missing something?



That was it! Seepgood looks at his wrist to confirm the time:



and, this time, he enters the graveyard confident that he'll walk out of it alive and with the mandrake root:



"frolic? Is that what they call it when they kill poor, innocent, livies?"



"gross"

With the Mandrake and his life intact Garcon heads back to Baba Yaga's hut.



Jackson doesn't like the finality in Bonehead's "bye" He orders the hut to sit and enters the hut once more:



Not this again...

What terrible magic will Baba Yaga create now that Danar has provided her with such a potent spell component? Is the Spielburg Valley doomed forever?!



... I guess the only thing Baba Yaga plans on doing to the inhabitants here is making their stomachs churn.



*hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

Okay let's see how Garcon is doing here:



Perseii being unable to figure out what he was supposed to do next to counter the curse heads back to town, maybe a drink woould help him?



At the bar he finds a note:



A lead! Jackson knows this is going to break this curse wide open! He can feel it! He's going to head right over to the range at noon, tomorrow

yeah, tomorrow. Today? Today, he's going to get trashed.

He's been enfroginated twice within a 24-hour period. He's entitled to a few.

Ale?! What am I some sort of sissy? Ale is for children and the elderly! Not virile young heroes! What else ya got?



Better!



Best! But as my mom always said, "Breath befor Sweat you'll regret!" So Troll Sweat first!

And ever since then Garcon has been a teetotaller... Anyway, didn't that note say to meet up around noon at the old range? Perseii heads there now:

Bruno and Brutus continue their clandestine conspiracy:







Long winded gits, aren't they?

There's nothing I dislike more than a dishonest thief! These two are in mind to make the criminal element in this valley their own private monopoly! No one cuts out the Guild! No one! All that talk about a backdoor is interesting too! Let's go see if we can find one!



It bounces, could this thing be guarding the hidden back door to the Bandit's Hideout?



we shoo the Antwerp off and investigate the rocks:



Okay, that seems like something we cana handle. Didn't the Thieves Guild sell a Thief kit? Let's go pick one up and head back here!

After picking up the thieves kit Jackson returns to the door and pick the lock:



But! Danar doesn't appear to be strong enough to move the massive rock door aside...

Welp, this is a problem that can be dealt with through a grinding montage:



After slaying countless goblins and brigands as well as sweeping out the Baron's stables once more Seepgood thinks he is strong enough to move the stone door. He is also exhuasted, so before he busts this curse wide open he gets a good night's rest:





What was that important phrase Bruno kept insisting Brutus not forget?





Next time we leave the troll alone...

Garcon tries to scale the wall while the poor visioned minotaur has his back turned, to no avail:



If the right, and the middle are out that only leaves the left!



"Shit on a shingle!" Now is not the time to be practicing your climbing skills, Perseii! Eventually many tries and a vigor potion later:




The key to this area is to not step on the carpet and take the path to the left by the barricades then to go over the bridge on your right and finally to step over that think black line you see there between the barrels and the assorted sacks. After that you slide through the door



This is a timed event where you have to stop all the brigands from flooding into the room, mess up and you'll be forced to reload. Eventually we're going to want to get Danar to the door in the upper left against the back wall.



Once the brigands move away from the bottom door you need to:



Next some familiar looking brigands come in through the upper left door on the left wall.

With the knochelkopfs out of the way we enter the door into...





Seepgood wants to ask the weird looking fellow about Elsa and Yorick but the little guy doesn't seem to shut up

So close Garcon can taste it! All he's got to do is figure out this funhouse maze...

This is a fun little puzzle. If you mess up you find yourself kicked out of the door in the upper right sliding off of the bridges and into a restore game. Once through it though after dodging that fake door you enter the real one behind it to behold:




I suppose fighters can duel the enchanted Elsa before dispeling the curse upon her; theives don't have that luxury though

I thought they'd never leave!







Remember that it will come up later... as in every other QFG game

Okay, that's two out of three things off the list! Tune in tomorrow for the stunning conclusion to Quest for Glory: So You Want to be a Hero?

There's something oddly satisfying about this image.

If memory serves, that scene actually shows your protagonist expertly fighting off an entire crowd of goblins in a cutscene. Not that there's much point to it, but it is pretty nice to be told you're awesome, especially considering we're playing a Sierra game.

It's not a cutscene.

Again, the Brigand's Fortress is a great example of this series' approach to game design - there are three very different approaches you can use to get into the fortress depending on your skillset, and the puzzle aspect to the various rooms is a lot of fun with some great animations.

It's even more satisfying when you take out eight goblins at once and they're littered about the forest. I'll show that to you all as a bonus thing at some point. ..

Remind me

We use Yorick's secret passage and find ourselves back with the Antwerp... Only one thing to do now!



Check out stats!



Nice! Okay, let's go take care of Baba Yaga





Click the image to watch the ending!

Why do we go directly from the Brigands' Hideout to Baba Yaga's? Two reasons, the encounter rate rockets up after completing the Brigand portion of the quest and if we go to the castle the game ends with a crappier ending.

Thanks for watching/participating!

But...but your points!

So, the point list can get complicated with this game. Basically, players can get or not get points for their actions depending on what class their playing as. For instance, the thief and magic user get no points for killing any of the monsters they find in the forest the fighter though does.

I was nine points away from a perfect score I know four of those points would have come from selling troll beard and cheetaur claws to the Healer. I'm not quite sure where I missed the other five points...

I know I petted the cat during the burglary (3 points) I don't know whether or not the game where I played Dag-nab-it (3 points) was the same game I beat, or if I did it just for image capture purposes. I don't think I questioned the General Good's store owner (1 point). I know I didn't get the 5 points for winning 25+ silver in a game of Dag-nab-it. I don't know if I questioned the Weapon Master either (1 point)

Also - Start thinking about whether you want to see a fighter in VGA or move on to QFG2

VGA Fighter which then promotes in second quest, thief who stays thief.

Every possible combination of (EGA,VGA) x (fighter,thief,magic user)

Nah, I like Nodal's idea more.

great job, falsie!