Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 110 and 111: Elderberry Pie and Good Humor Bar

In Which Our Hero bakes Baba Yaga a pie and escapes from Baba's clutches with a new sensahuma.







Marcus starts off this series with a set of stunning deaths in the swamp. One of them is mere seconds after I decided to be smart and save, which just goes to show the old adage of adventure games: SAVE OFTEN.

Out of the swamp and it's time to make Baba's pie. We've already got the first ingredient and the second one is right around the corner, so we pick up yet another vial of Grue Goo. Next stop: the Elderberry Bush. It's a bush. With eyes. And tentacles. A veritable Cthulhu bush it is.

It's not hard to get the berries. A couple of well-thrown rocks knock a branch off, and our Monkey Island item acts as a fine bait. Bam, the berries are ours. We've got ourselves a pie.

Back at Babas, we mix the berries, goo and bonemeal together (after remembering where we left it and figuring out how to get it out.) The pie is cooked by the skulls and it's off to present it to Baba.

She's happy to take it, after a brief bout as a hedgehog we're happy to give it and get the hell out of there.

The second video is a little short, as the next update will have another fortune, which is long.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 108 and 109: Saving Elyssa and The Mad Monk's Tomb

In Which Our Hero begins the process to save the Rusalka and deftly avoids Error 52.







Okie dokie. Picking up outside of Baba Yaga's hut, Marcus thinks about what he needs for the pie. Flour for the crust. Where can he get that? Right, the giant mortar and pestle that Babs uses to fly. Well, it just so happens that you can also use a mortar and pestle to grind things like bones. Bones make a fine flour for pie crust.

He's got none of the other ingredients though so it's off to do more damage around Mordavia. First stop: the Leshy. Marcus gets the last riddles out of the way, and the next time he visits the Leshy he'll actually be able to resolve that subplot. Yeah.

Then it's back to the lake to see the Rusalka. She's not quite sure why Piotyr wants her saved, but hey, an evil lake spirit isn't likely to understand the reasoning of a Paladin ghost. But she seems game. So it's off to the cemetery to discover her real name: Elyssa. And her old boyfriend was Janos. He's a bit of a douchebag. We'll meet him later.

Marcus runs back to tell her her real name, and she says that indeed Janos was a real douchebag. Marcus wasn't around to white knight then but he sure is now, and Elyssa needs a white knight. She even gives Marcus a piece of her hair so he can complete the ritual he learned from the gyspies.

Which he'll do after dark, and while he's down in this neck of the woods he might as well head into the swamp after one of the last rituals. A while later, slogging through mud and dead people, he reaches the Mad Monk's tomb and sees two Chernovy wizards guarding it. They are some ugly motherfuckers. A little Marcus magic later and they're sucking swamp and he's taking the ritual and going home.

Until he dies.

Well, fuck.

Quest For Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 106 and 107: Marcus' First Fortune and Ogress With A Grudge

In Which Our Hero finds out about his future and learns just how badly he pissed off Baba Yaga.







Back in Magda's wagon, Marcus further questions the gypsies about their freewheeling lifestyle and shapeshifting abilities. Then he gives Magda some gold and initiates the fortune-telling, a very long cut scene that reveals several clues about what's going on (although in a somewhat less-than-helpful way.) This is basically the setup for the next three fortune-telling sessions, which are far more specific.

Next video, Marcus carouses with the gypsies and is given the opportunity to bust his best moves with a gypsy hottie, at Davy's insistence. He wakes up on the ground and hung over, but ready for action. Good thing to: because he goes south, gives Bonehead the hat, and comes face to face with an old friend.

It seems things have changed very little: Baba Yaga has Marcus dead to rights, but instead of killing him sends him on a quest for some....

Pie.

I guess we'll be able to add chef to Marcus' list of abilities.