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[Aquillion]

Well... that'd be the one you haven't finished yet. =P

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You basically meet up with the guys at the... Grit Gate? Then you have to go to... Golgatha? and bring back a robot, then there's a mission to burn down a banana grove [with a sidequest to grab a flamethrower]. After getting back from that, the place gets invaded. I have no idea how you're actually supposed to survive that invasion normally, much less keep the plot-NPCs alive, but I managed to keep myself standing through liberal use of using the phase? mutation to walk through walls and heal back up. After you repel the invaders, I got a message along the lines of 'The rest of the quest is incomplete!'.

Edit: Thanks, lemon10, for that post under mine... reminding me that this board does, indeed, have a spoiler tag.

You forgot about

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Bethesda Susa, which you have to do after the Golgotha quest and before the banana grove.  Perhaps it wasn't there in the version you played or something?

[Aoi]

Nah, I probably just flat out forgot about it. The version I played was the... second latest, I think?

[Aquillion]

Yeah, as far as I can remember, he is one of the most dangerous uniques (second most dangerous in my opinion though), the only thing more threatening then which are the things in the deathlands (which are made even more annoying by the fact that they are non-unique, and can have numerous ones on the same screen).

He has weaknesses, though.  Aside from the method I used to kill him:

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He's much much weaker if you can disarm him.  His sword (as far as I can tell) isn't overwhelmingly special -- it has a scary "vibro" bit in its name, but I think that the "ceremonial" part indicates that it's not really a dangerous tool on par with his jetpack.  At least, I used it for a bit and it didn't show any special powers.

The problem is that he has the entire long sword skill tree, including the mutually-exclusive skills that players can't learn together, plus terrifying godlike stats; not only are those skills dangerous individually, but they each give him +1 to hit with his sword, and the fume-flier to gives him inhuman penetration with a rush -- so he'll almost always hit, penetrate your armor, and slaughter you.  If you disarm him, all he can do is rocket-dash at you and punch you, which hurts but isn't nearly so dangerous -- he's not a mutant and has no other weapons aside from his sword.

[MasterFancyPants]

I recently got back into this and have to say the 'Rising Indrix' quest is awesome; it keeps getting more and more disturbing the farther you go down the river. It reminds me of Apocalypse Now... If someone made a quest out of it for Fallout 2.

[drkpaladin]

It reminds me of Apocalypse Now... If someone made a quest out of it for Fallout 2.

This sums up the game neatly IMHO.  I'm having a blast playing this one at work lately   I'm glad I gave the game another try, being a four-armed knife fighter that can make multiple copies of himself and dominate enemies is great fun.

[Micro102]

Ok, twinning lampreys, they will not go away. It's not them respawning each other, I figured that out after the 3rd kill. It's when I kill both of them at the same time (explosions/lining them up with double pistol shot) and yet they seem to respawn. I must of killed about 12 pairs of the things on a fully explored floor. After killing everything else. Huge waste of resources and I think it's a bug.

It was on a floor after you get the gold key in Bethesda susa (or something like that)

[Carrion]

If anyone is curious about the method behind the madness, roguelike radio did a show with Caves of Qud's developers:

http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/09/episode-45-caves-of-qud.html

[Micro102]

Ok, my guy got ironshank in his legs.... What does it do and how do I cure it?

[Twiggie]

theres a book of cures in the southern village with the plant trader and the albino ape leader.

and generally stuff can be cured in the early stages by eating honey

[Micro102]

Exactly how much honey do I have to drink to cure this disease, and where can I get yuckwheat?

[Twiggie]

yuckwheat is found randomly, and when you eat honey there'll be a message if you're cured, i think.

[Micro102]

Huh so I just keep quaffing it?

The book recommends as part of a cure, that you drink it once a day. I might try that.

[Micro102]

Ok, I have eaten 3 yuckwheat and drank dozens of drams of honey. My ironshank keeps getting worse. Wth.

I'm just going to go for the main cure. Can I use any slime, or does it have to say "amoeba slime"? Where can I find these amoeba's?

If all that fails, can I cheat away this disease?

[Nighthawk]

I only know about Glotrot, haven't contracted Ironshank yet. However, I do know that Glotrot could only be cured by honey/yuckwheat when it was in its early stages. Otherwise, you had to make yourself a "Flaming Ick," which is a pain in the ass. Ironshank might have a specialized cure, too. You just need to look in that book of cures talked about in Twiggie's post.

There's no "Cure Diseases" debug command, but if you knew how, you could easily make yourself the cure by "wishing" up all the ingredients.

Hope this helps! 

[Micro102]

Seems I will have to wish it all up...

I need amoeba slime.

The ironshank has spread fully so I am now resorted to jumping every 100 turns. So wishing is going to take the place of 5 hours of jumping.