Unfortunately, it's a levitation spell, not a fly spell. So if you want to go up and down, you've got to find something to run into that will lift you up. It is a royal pain in the keister....
Aside from the loss of quests, the game doesn't penalize you for slaughtering everyone in it. At least, not really. If you kill an NPC in an area, everyone else in that area may get mad and attack you, thereby expanding the amount of killing you need to do.
I'm playing my second character ('cause the first died miserably at the hands of an Ylside). I gotta tell ya... there's a lot of satisfaction involved in watching an Ylside crumple to the ground after getting one of Smarties' fireballs in his face
I'm running at a rate of one fireball per Ylside... cleaned out the human city and castle before I went to the prisons to have Kultar "help" me. Still, at 500XP apiece, I like Ylsides...
I think my next run through will be with a rogue. It's frustrating not being able to open up all these locks...
I have come up with a couple of sneaky tricks that I didn't see on the Jowood forums that I'll pass along.
1. Pressure plates for traps are nasty. But if you toss 'em a bone, the bone weighs enough to set them off and keep them down. Then when you run across 'em again, they don't go off. I used this in the crypt...
2. Shift-click on an object, and it goes right into your inventory (combining with other things, if appropriate). I just checked the book, and it doesn't mention this... I stumbled across it quite by accident. Man, has it been useful since...
I'm sure there are a couple of other things, but I can't think of 'em right now. That's what gaming until 2AM does for you... when everyone else gets up at 7 [img]smile.gif[/img]
Good luck on Akbaa...