Quest for Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 157 and 158: The Rite Of Conquest and Murder Most Foul

In Which Our Hero ahem, kicks a lot of ass and saves his friend's life, and learns of another assassination.





Alright you've waited patiently while Marcus has namby-pambied around. He's brokered peace deals, he's refused to fight or kill his opponents. No longer.

Marcus starts on the shores of the mercenary village. He looks around, calmly draws his sword, and runs at them presumably yelling something extremely badass. Like Lancelot at a wedding he cuts through wave after wave of mercenary invaders, leaving a stack of corpses in his wake.

Finally a centaur wizard appears, and Marcus demonstrates that his lessons with Uhura and Yesufu didn't go to waste as he turns the wizard into a living pincushion with some spears. That's what it takes to get Claudius to show up, and Marcus walks up to him and plants Piotyr's sword in his midsection repeatedly until Claudius will no longer trouble Silmaria ever again.

Then it's a teleport back to his room, collapse into bed, and an early start before it's off to the marketplace. The first stop is the healers to stock up on some much-needed supplies after the little fracas. After that it's off to Pholus and Shakra to ditch the weapons and magical items. Then up to the Hall of Kings, where Marcus proudly presents Claudius' shield.

Of course Marcus wins this Rite as well, and Logos announces that Magnum Opus has been killed offscreen. We're down to three contestants now. Logos then lays out the next Rite: to journey to the island of Hydra and kill the beast that gives the island its name. That's right, we get to kill a Hydra! Awesome!

Rakeesh isn't too keen on it though; he insists that this is an unimportant diversion. He then gets a sense of danger, and Marcus ducks only for a poisoned dagger to hit Rakeesh in the chest. Marcus thinks quickly and gives Rakeesh a poison cure pill, but even that may not be enough to save his old friend. It's a dark time in Silmaria...

Quest for Glory Epic Let's Play Parts 155 and 156: Overachiever and Come Sail Away

In Which Our Hero wins not only his Rite of Freedom challenge but those of every other contestant, and sells more loot and goes for a sail.





We're getting close now, so it's time to crank this baby up to two videos per update.

We open with Marcus taking a trip to the apothecary, where he restocks his pills for the trip ahead. And it's a good thing too; he's going to need them. Then he runs to the Hall of Kings and tosses the stack of sigils at the guards. The little overachiever then wins the Rite of Freedom easily and handily. Yup, it's good to be Marcus.

The next rite is the Rite of Conquest - Marcus must find the fortress of the Hesparian mercenaries and their leader General Claudius and return with his shield. He speaks at length to Rakeesh about the situation, and learns that Claudius is a ruthless and cunning strategist. Well, that's OK. Marcus has killed more ruthless and cunning strategists before. Khaveen thought he was pretty hot shit too once.

Marcus sells off the rest of his stuff he doesn't need, then charters Andre's boat to take him to Syfnos, where the mercenary base is rumored to be. After a little sailing around trying to find the right pixel, Marcus makes landfall just after dusk and prepares to launch an all-out frontal assault on the mercenary fortress.

Things are about to get bloody!

Quest for Glory Epic Let's Play Part 154: The Rite of Freedom

In Which Our Hero frees the last of the five villages.



We find Marcus after a bit of offscreen action where he took care of liberating the other three villages. At the start of this video, he's standing in front of Naxos, night has fallen, he's laden down with loot and ready to kick some more ass.

He runs in Marcus style, hacking and slashing his way through mountains of enemies until he makes his way to the boss house where he makes quick work of the mercenaries inside before grabbing the last sigil and liberating the final fishing village from the clutches of the invaders.

Booyah!

Marcus then swings by the dragon pillar outside of Silmaria. Bad news: Kokeeno is there dead, lying facedown in a pool of his own blood (and without any good loot.) Worse news: the dragon pillar is cracked. I'm guessing that's definitely not a good thing.

Marcus runs back to Silmaria and tells the city guard about Kokeeno's death. They promise to recover the body and investigate. Then Marcus starts the long, arduous and profitable process of selling the giant mountain of loot he's acquired and depositing it in the bank.

A hero's life is hard sometimes.

Quest for Glory Epic Let's Play Part 153: Viva La Revolution

In Which Our Hero frees the first of the five villages.



After speaking to Andre about his desire to become a healer, it makes sense to go speak quickly with Julanar about it - which Marcus does. She's happy to have the help and says she'll take Andre on as an apprentice, which we run back to Andre and discuss with him. Somehow he knows faster than we do, but hey, that's fine. Honor for us, and the last of our pre-Rites quests are done.

Now for an all-important question: how many people want to kick some ass?? Marcus runs to the first village and sizes up the situation: lots of enemies. All armed. All dangerous. Time to come up with a plan?

Nah. Draw sword, rush in and start fucking shit up. The Marcus way!

A bloody struggle later and the first village has been liberated.

There will be three more off-screen liberations and we'll pick up with the last village in the next update!