I'd actually expected Collasium to be the hardest dungeon so far, as the natural progression in the game would imply, but found the only major difficulty to be finding the third piece and logically understanding both the rotating room and the room requiring the two gem pieces at the end.
In general, it was a smooth, pleasant bit of sight seeing!
Was quite surprised to find that Lord Cet hadn't any dire minions under the water waiting for me...particularly compared to the vile dark deathtrap that was Anephas' Shrine.
But yes, after my surprisingly hastefully sucessful and picturesque roamings around the Underwater City to allocate the the three tablets, I started my final quest and ultimate journey towards Cet's Pyramid....
Not having picked up all of the teleportation spells, I decided to go semi-full of treasure from Collasium, just to take an anxious peek of what lies within.... [img]graemlins/egypt.gif[/img]
That little peek, turned into half an hour of fleeing, ghastly mummified grins, and an especially fraught white eyed hack and zap fest. When I came to the sad fate of what would have to be my favourite NPC in the game, G'Ezzered Ra, I gibbered a dirgeful moan and clenched my fist in a steadfast will to punish Cet and conquer his final challenges.
Argh but how it all seems temporarily in vain!
I had an encounter with Cet and Kerah at the Portal of Isis where Kerah is momentarily possessed. However, during the small battle with Kerah, I started to experience my first batch of crashes and freezing within the game, which has left me with no choice but having to reset my computer. I can still utilise the mouse, but everything just freezes and I can't even Alt-Tab out of the game.
It has happened at least four times in this dungeon, others were during a fight with some fire hounds and one of those Firelords. I started saving every two minutes of progress but as this became more tedious and the crashes increased in their evil tumult, I tried to calm down and to rationally think of my options: : [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img]
A) Install the patch. I don't really want to but, as I've gotten this far without it! I'm not entirely certain of what other effects it might have on my game...
But if I have to, I shall patch to fix this unholy Cettian plot to stop me winning!
B) Reinstall the game, doing a full install. I only did a partial one and it has started to result in a few lockups during this dungeon as the cd-rom attempts to keep up with the game data.
C) Mope languidly in a dank pit eternally [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]
D) Burn the game! Its a witch! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
E) Ask for help at the ever ready friendly forum! [img]graemlins/help.gif[/img]
I won't be touching the game again until I'm certain the plan of attack shall see me through the game! I might start by a browsing of the best tips sections...
Despondent cheers,
Cerebrodragon
[ 11-23-2003, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]