Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 124 and 125: Punny's Last Show and Last Day

In Which Our Hero attends a fine comedy show and enjoys his last morning in Mordavia Town.







"What do you know about show business?"

"There's no business like it. No business I know."

Ah, showbiz. The glitz and glam of being up on stage and having people pay attention to you. If you're a gnome then it's pretty much the beginning and end of your existence. So it's understandable that Punny Bones wants to do one last show in Mordavia before he moves on. Who wouldn't want these rubes laughing at his jokes?

Punny's in rare form, and his act takes up most of the first video along with the townsfolk's reactions to it. Marcus also pays a visit to Boris, who talks about snuggling with Olga again at night. Good deed done.

Marcus drop in on Piotyr too, who tells him that the way to greater light is to travel the path of Darkness. Very interesting advice. Perhaps the meaning will become more clear soon.

The next morning Marcus gets a note from Katrina asking him to meet her at the castle gate. They have much to discuss. Yeah, like why she's an undead freakshow with giant 1988 hair. There really isn't a hell of a lot to do but wait at this point, so Marcus kicks back and chills - and the next series of videos will be the climax.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts One Hundred and 101: Saving Igor and The Lovers

In Which Our Hero solves the crime, saves the gravedigger and the gypsy; and reunites Boris and Olga.







Marcus' big day continues. We go into Dr. Cranium's lab looking for Igor and instead find that the doctor has sinned against nature - and apparently intends to do so again that night, and several nights thereafter. Maybe it's best that we as a Paladin don't get too involved in this little... um... affair.

Igor's not at Cranium's and he's not in front of the monastery. Maybe he's at the graveyard? Marcus rolls out of town and takes the opportunity to swing by Boris' to deliver Olga's latest message. Fun.

In the graveyard there's an awful groaning noise coming from one of the graves! Hands on his sword, Marcus pushes the fallen gravestone aside to find...

Well, what did you think? It's Igor of course, who runs back to town after expressing his gratitude that Marcus freed him.

Back in town, Marcus finds that the gypsy has been set free and everything seems to be on its way back to normal. Olga has another message for Boris, which Marcus delivers. And Boris finally admits he will go see Olga. Looks like those two are on the mend.

A brief wait later and night falls. We're going to go see a couple of friends, but first we head back to the swamp where Marcus captures some Will-o-the-Wisps to shine the light of dead children's souls on the Squid Stone to retrieve one of the rituals inside. He then releases the Wisps back into the swamp, and that's where we'll pick up next time.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts Ninety-Four and Ninety-Five: Waiting for Baba and A Paladin's Sword

In Which Our Hero kills a little time (necessarily) and gets a new sword, and another quest to complete his other quest. Sigh.







We've got two videos today to help speed things along. The first one is Marcus' morning routine: getting some potions from Dr. Cranium, including the Rehydration Solution, and going to see Boris. Then it's off to Baba Yaga, but we meet the Leshy first who asks us another riddle but chides us for not having visited Baba yet.

We're about to fix that, oh yes. The second video picks up right outside Baba's hideout, where we meet Bonehead again. He'll let us in as long as we get him something to 'improve his looks.' Damn, another quest. At least this one won't be too hard to complete.

Once we're done with Bonehead (and he does give us some good exposition about Baba's background) we kill a little time until nightfall and then face another wraith to take its plunder - a big old shiny pile of plunder, which includes a Paladin Sword. Our inventory says is belonged to Piotyr. Well well.

Watch out world: Marcus is back.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Part Ninety-Three: Sensahuma

In Which Our Hero gets the skinny on a new quest.





Kicking off in Punny's room, we get the skinny on his encounter with Baba Yaga. Seems she didn't like him telling a joke about a certain Hero who turned her into a frog. You know, Marcus. Oops.

Since we're (inadvertently) responsible for Punny's state of affairs we might as well try to find Baba and see if she'll give him his sensahuma back. Plus it would be doing the world a favor if we finally got him to stop telling such terrible jokes.

That night, we spend another night out by the Staff and our dreams are troubled, terrible things. What does this mean? Is it connected to the restless ghost of Piotyr?

The next morning we continue trying to reunite Boris and Olga, drop by the gym for a workout and head to Craniums just in time to see him reanimate a corpse. Kind of. Lucky us. And that's where we pick up for next time.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Part Eighty-Nine: Boris and Olga

In Which Our Hero starts doing a good deed for extra credit.





This video covers two things: the daily visit to Doctor Cranium and his funny if somewhat repetitive expositions on science, and a trip to the castle to begin reuniting Boris and Olga. Doctor Cranium tells us about something new he's working on: a rehydration solution. Sounds useful. Good thing we have this book of scientific formulae here to help him remember how it went.

Then at the castle, Boris tells us how much Olga used to nag him and how that nagging drove him away. Hmm. It's going to be hard work getting these two back together.

Next video there will be much more action, two new locations and an old, err, friend. I promise.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Part Eighty-One: The Rusalka

In Which Our Hero meets a really nice girl who wants to murder him.





I'm an insomniac, so my lack of sleep means a bonus video this week!

This one kicks off right where the last one left off: finishing our conversation with Boris, who tells us a very interesting tidbit about a foreigner staying at the castle. He has an odd habit of licking his lips when he talks to you. That sounds awfully familiar...

After taking our leave of Boris and the castle, we roam over scenic Mordavia and find a wandering Necrotaur, whom we make quick work of. Marcus has apparently learned an offensive spell somewhere, as he pounds the shit out of the Necrotaur with a hadooken. Good on him I guess.

Somewhere south of the castle lies a lake. As we approach, a beautiful woman with green hair pops out and invites us for a swim. That seems natural, right? Wrong. We sweeten her up a bit and have a nice conversation with her, where we realize that she's someone we might be able to help in the future. Then she might think of us as more than a friend!

White Knighting for the Rusalka and more in future updates!

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Part Eighty: Dark Visions

In Which Our Hero has a little too much to drink.





Back in the basement Marcus takes a look through that large, ominous desk and finds some large, ominous plot points. Inside are the papers of Amon Tillado, the Mad Monk. Amon Tillado was a few cards short of a deck - or had a few cards too many in his deck. But the desk contains some important clues about where to find each of the rituals. Odd, the Mouth ritual was supposed to be hidden beneath the Dark One sign on the arch, but we didn't see it.

There's a reference to one of the rituals being in the monastery and can be found by those 'willing to seek dark visions.' Isn't that what the Amon Tillado wine is supposedly for? Might as well have a bit.

Hic.

Hic.

BARF.

WHAT. THE. HELL. WAS. THAT????

It's time to get out of here. Out of town even. Supposedly there's a castle to the west of town, maybe we should go check that out.

It's beautiful out here. They're even playing Marcus' song! We grab some corn and head to the castle, where we meet Boris Stovich who seems to be channeling every major horror movie stereotype in one, and has a strange nervous tic with his fingers. Everything he says is sinister-sounding. Good guy or bad guy? Our Paladin Sense isn't tingling, but it's been wrong before...

Picking up here next time, when we'll meet a lovely young lass who wants to send us to our doom.