Share your Seventh Sense award hunting experience

[Ofecks]

Yeah I found I couldn't have both installed at once. Too many weird program behaviors.

You are correct about the Fireseed uses except for one - the Xlorg doesn't count. I guess because it doesn't work as intended.

Did you get the bow shot award this time?

[norshire]

I did! I went after every bow target I could without skipping Fireseed options. The book has a lot of them!

Book 9 went more easily; I made two runs today, one to get the 'generosity' and 'hunting in darkness' awards, one to get the high combat and gambling awards. I noticed that the Senate's Mace does double damage vs. invaders; that's *invaluable* to make the siege portion of the book go smoothly. It's even better than using the Senate's Dagger in place of the DoV!

[Ofecks]

I haven't tested it, but I wonder if you can do both Mischievous awards in a single book 9 run. 12 objectives between them and you have to do them all.

[norshire]

What are the objectives? Are they from 'help on thief and slay another' and 'Just how many charges won't see the light of day...'? AFAIK, you couldn't do both at once. The first one requires killing the Pickpocket after you escape from gaol, but I think the second one requires bribing the soldiers -- if you go that path, you never meet the pickpocket.

[Ofecks]

Aug 9, 2020 3:03:26 GMT norshire said:

What are the objectives? Are they from 'help on thief and slay another' and 'Just how many charges won't see the light of day...'?

Yes, it's those. Pasted from my own notes:

"Help a thief and slay another":
.(139) First, escape from the South Gate tower and seek out Chiban
.(217) combat the pickpocket [either kill or evade, but they probably intended for a kill, in which case section (155) would have been a better fit]
.(164) be voted against by the Senate, then run into Sogh the thief later in the tavern
.(87) Loot the Psychic Ring

"Just how many charges won't see the light of day":
.(235) gave the beggars less than 3 GC, lost 2 backpack items
.(85) killed some Anarian Rangers on the highway
.(225, 190) trapped the old man in the cellar and stole his things [need PM+Tutelary, DV]
.(170) killed the drunken mercenaries in the eating house
.(185) escaped the gatehouse cell [need NX or PS+Primate]
.(309 or 238) killed tower guards [no PS+Principalin; easiest way to get here is to fail a throw of a dagger at the strongroom guard, WM with daggers makes this harder to do]
.(19 or 319) bribed Slovian mercenaries with Lune [need 10 Lune] or GC [need 1 GC]
.(137) the senate voted against you

I checked the flowchart, and you are correct about bribing the soldiers. Unfortunate.

[norshire]

I'm trying to get the 'encounter the Black Yua' and 'no combats' awards in the same run.

I've needed to restart a LOT of times:
Didn't fall into the chasm to meet the Black Yua
Missed the bowshot vs. the magicians
Missed the bowshot vs. the magicians
Failed to break Tagazin's amulet chain
Failed to hide from Krorn
Failed to hide from Krorn
Didn't fall into the chasm to meet the Black Yua
Failed to break Tagazin's amulet chain
Didn't fall into the chasm to meet the Black Yua
Didn't fall into the chasm to meet the Black Yua
Failed to hide from Krorn
Didn't fall into the chasm to meet the Black Yua
Failed to break Tagazin's amulet chain
--- FINALLY! ---
In my last run, I hit ALL of the random number picks

[Ofecks]

Nice, grats.

On my High Score route, book 10 is tied with 12 to have the highest amount of awards in one book - 6.

High Combat (6?), Death-Defying (Cetza), Charitable, Death-Defying (Yua), Bounty (Roark), Item Collection [no AC, 'Swerd]

You can theoretically get 8 awards in book 12 as a fresh start. Not statistically probable, though.

[norshire]

Next up, I'm trying for the 'Accompany Prince Graygor to gain this title, though do so with honour' award, along with high-combats and rescuing the soldier from under his horse:

Died to the Drakkar sniper after killing the Ziran and Hammerlander
Exact same result
I clicked too fast and missed picking up my gear after falling on the Isle of Ghosts -- then I got stuck in the confrontation with Tagazin (the book says your weapon shatters, but I didn't have a weapon to shatter!)
Drakker sniper again.
Killed the krorn too fast, lost my weapon, then died to the Zagganozod ambush at the bridge

Drakkar sniper again. HORRIBLE RNG! I'm using RNT guiding, alternating between the center and middle-right sections, but the Drakkar sniper is deadlier than everything else in the book! I might just switch to Huntmastery just to get past this section...

Which 8 awards line up in book 12 with a perfect RNG?

[Ofecks]

That is horrible RNG indeed. Sections 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the RNT are all tied for having the highest chance of rolling a 3 or better (81%). Center and middle-right are 5 and 6 I think? So you've been doing that optimally. Reminds me of all the problems I had with making the roof jump in book 1 during the BtB High Score run. Even after the changes implemented once it brought to light that ridiculous 10/20 no-death run in the HoF was only possible due to botched RNG, I suspect SS/S still might not have the best RNG algorithm. When results such as ours keep repeating, it makes me wonder.

Interesting soft-lock situation you found there! At this point, with both versions of SS on indefinite hiatus, it probably won't do much good, but that's something appropriate to put in the bug reports thread.

Aug 13, 2020 1:09:56 GMT norshire said:

Which 8 awards line up in book 12 with a perfect RNG?

Fresh start, High Combat, Item Collection (500 Kika), Charitable, Bounty Hunter, Mischievous (Adgana), Heroic, Death-Defying

The only discipline you absolutely need for this run is Curing. I can't imagine it's easy, though.

[norshire]

Hmm, I think that will only be 7 awards; IIRC, you need advanced Psi-surge or Invisibility, or the Medal from Book 10 to avoid bribing the Drakkar Death Knight sergeant in Argazad. If you have to bribe him, I don't think you can loot + gamble enough Kika to fill your pouch.

And yeah, it's not an easy run. Weaponmastery, Psi-Surge, and Curing help a lot to make it feasible, but there are enough combats to drain your EPs too far with a couple of bad rolls at the wrong times.

I have 6 of the Book 12 awards in my profile: Min combats, Healer (is this Charitable?), Bounty Hunter, fresh start, and overusing Helshezag. I think I picked up bounty hunter, high combats, and Helshezag in my fresh start run. I tried for Adgana in the same run, but the RNG didn't cooperate.



My Book 10 luck changed on the next run! I picked up Liberator of Torgar (8+ combats), Rescuer of Lencia (help the knight whose horse fell on him), Coin Collector of Ghatan, and Elite Pathfinder of Eru.

Hey, that's one more award than I had planned

I'll need to start a brand-new character to get epic fail (this one has Nexus from book 9) and the kill-partisans one (I also have Invisibility). My next run could probably net the 'yellow-streak' award, though (I'm assuming it requires going to the battle planning session but not volunteering, then staying at HQ when Graygor advances), along with no-equipment. Or maybe 'protect Sebb Jarel'

[Ofecks]

Right before you get to Argazad, if you don't have Invisibility or Huntmastery-Principalin, you can opt to murder the entire wagon party and score 400 Kika. In fact, possibly due to design oversight, this is the only way to get the Kika award, as the other possible Kika drops in the book plus gambling on Lajakeka only add to 300 max. Unless I'm missing something.

But I forgot the bribe at the Argazad gate takes ALL of your Kika (I even had that fact in my notes, doh), regardless of how much you have. You can still get 8 awards in this book if you replace the fresh-start with Mischievous (medal bribe): fresh-start with 10, acquire and carry the medal over, and not pick Invisibility. Will make getting the Adgana and Kagonite Mail slightly more difficult due to the extra disciplines, but those extra disciplines will make the rest of the book easier.

Are you using vanilla SS for your current award-hunting project? From UrQuan's post in the SSS thread, the High Combat award in 10 was actually nerfed to 6 in that version.

e: It's 7 awards in book 12 after all. You can't do Death-Defying and Bounty Hunter simultaneously unless you unsheath the 'Swerd against Kraagenskul. The Ictakko needs to be killed for the latter, and, without having the 'Swerd, you need one of the points on the other path in that part of the book to get Death-Defying.

[Ofecks]

It's that time again. Once in a rare while I get the bug to do some award stuff in SS/S. This time, I think I might work on getting 100% in vanilla, and possibly looking at highscore routes like I did with version S. It might be easier to get a higher score in vanilla due to the more lenient High-Combat requirements. Anyway, I'm starting with a fresh profile using the standalone download. Which, by the way, was a little tricky to set up because vanilla standalone doesn't use the user-documents folder or appdata to store the book and profile data. I got it working now, though. To start, I thought I'd complete a Hardcore run so I can unlock all the hints. Not that I need them, but I like clicking through them in the app for some reason. My Efficient Gamer mode kicked in and I had an idea to knock out several HC-only awards at once:

1-5 Hardcore
1-12 Hardcore
1-12 HC using the 'Swerd in 75% of combats
1-12 HC without Weaponskill/Mindblast
1-12 HC without Hunting/Weaponskill
1-12 HC without Animal Kinship/Healing

So my only disciplines will be Camouflage, Tracking, Mindshield, Sixth Sense, and Mind Over Matter (and their MK equivalents). I thought about it a bit, and while it's obviously going to be a challenge and have some brick walls (book 11), I think it might be do-able if I play smart and get some lucky rolls. I made it to book 4 and I've picked up all the treasure that I could so far (the uber-Laumspur from #3 can't be picked up without Healing, unfortunately).

Book 2 can be really nasty due to having to get the Magic Spear but I rolled extremely well (2-9-9-8-2 at -3 CR). Book 3 is a serious drain on EP due to starvation, environmental, and some combat damage. I chose to fight the Crystal Frostwyrm for the Silver Key but it's a 70% roll to unlock the helm chest with MoM/SS so that was a bit of an unnecessary risk. There were some pretty important rolls in the first part of the book needed to skip combats (the Baknar and one-round Ice Barbarian on the Hrod Basin route) but I made it through.

I'll be interested to discover the various specific challenges as I make my way through this run. I believe SS tracks restarts but they're not visible to the user and I wish they were so I could quantify its overall difficulty.

e: Kai series finished!


I made sure to end book 4 with a full backpack of potions and store them for later. Similarly, my goal for book 5 was to finish with as many potions as possible, specifically the Oede. Unfortunately, this book is pretty tough with the restrictions I'm using (plus having to fight the Elix having been afflicted by limbdeath), so after a couple restarts, I ended up quaffing everything except the Oede, just to make it through. One run, I even scored the goatherd's bottle of wine (20% chance) but I stupidly chose to 'Swerd the Crypt Spawn (and Haakon) but rolled very poorly and died to the former. My status might've been better entering the MK series if I had made the right call on that run (fighting Dhorgaan instead), but I'm moving on regardless. Now comes the choice of MK disciplines which I need to figure out. For probably the first time ever, I will have zero discipline-related loyalty bonuses in the MK series.

The progress of the 'Swerd cheevo so far is: 13 fights total (assuming one-round fights and evades count), 9 'Swerd uses. If the code rounds down, I've met the 75% as of right now, but only just barely. Makes me wonder how I'm going to handle Kimah. My initial thought is to get arrested in book 9 and throw the Dagger of Vashna, but that means I'll have to make up for the 'Swerdless fights elsewhere.

e2: Cool, I got the Minimum Combat award for book 5 as well. Guess vanilla SS can't display more than one medal simultaneously at the end.

e3: I did indeed end up having to chuck the dagger at the Zakhan, while leaving the 'Swerd at home and taking the Minimum Combat route. Unfortunately, I have some bad news. Having barely scraped by book 10 with astronomical luck in combat rolls, it appears book 11 is the end of this lofty challenge. Specifically the infamous Chaos-Master. The +6 "dark champion" bonus for the HC 'Swerd rules and quaffing the +4 Alether gets me to exactly -11 CR. With the nerf button in version S, -8 CR might be do-able in 100+ attempts, but vanilla SS forces the pre-nerf 47 CS, and I don't think it's feasible to slam my head against this wall for the massive number of attempts it will take. I suffer a 40% insta-death chance just to even get to that point. I collected and brought a backpack full of drugs (potions) with the plan to use most of them after Chaos-Master, but I guess it's pointless.

The take-away here: do not try to stack HC awards in vanilla Seventh Sense!

[Ofecks]

I started over and just went for doing 75% of combats with the 'Swerd. Success!



I had 63 combats with the 'Swerd, out of 84 total. That is exactly 75%.

My strat was to leave it at home for books 9-11, so I needed to unload the 'Swerd on many other targets when I had it to offset the forced combats when I didn't. Since I aimed to be fighting a lot, I chose Weaponskill, Mindblast, Healing, Hunting, and Sixth Sense as my disciplines. That last one I probably could have switched with Animal Kinship to trade one fight in book 10 (Krorn pack) with another (Drakkarim Garrison), but I think I made the right call, since Animal Kinship/Control would have blocked other fights I'd need with the 'Swerd (and clearly, I needed them all!).

I started to get anxious towards the end of book 12, as I failed a 50/50 roll in Helgedad and had to fight a Xaghash without the 'Swerd. But my calculations were correct and I carried on to victory.

A number of other awards were gained along the way:
- High Combat for books 3-7
- Minimum Combat for 9 & 11
- Executioner of Nightmares (Kai series "boss fights"); Spear Helghast without Mindshield was a butt-clencher!
- Hand Eradicator (book 7 Bounty)
- Ishir's Messenger from Phea (book 9 Charitable); this was from the failed attempt at stacking HC awards when I had the right disciplines to get it done on the way.
- Tahou's Hand of Doom (book 9 Epic Failure); on that same campaign, I failed my first attempt at throwing the DoV.
- Deserter of Brol River (book 10 Mischievous); from the successful campaign, I aimed to stay out of trouble in books 9-11 and this award lined up perfectly
- Coin Collector of Ghatan; totally unplanned for, cool!
- Grave Robber from the Zhamin Plateau (book 11 Mischievous); I didn't actually loot the Silver Rod but it counted anyway. I assume that's a bug.

It was an interesting run and I learned a lot, especially about HC mode. Some highlights from each book:

Book 4 - at first I went through and killed one of the Bounty award targets (in this case, the Stoneworm), but I realized the treasure chest route is the only way to get a +2 (ie, expendable) Alether potion until part-way through book 6, if I plan on getting Oede in book 5. So I restarted and grabbed it, figuring I'd use it on Haakon...

Book 5 - I did use it on Haakon but it turns out it was a waste because I forgot the 'Swerd in HC rules gives the full +8 bonus against him! Also wasted a Rendalim's Elixir before fighting him (I had 12 EP remaining after finishing the book). D'oh

Book 6 - I picked Weaponmastery, Psi-Surge, and Curing for my initial MK skills. Mainly because I wanted the Silver Bow of Duadon. The Alether that I wasted would have been useful on Altan; I had to use Psi-Suge on him to get to a -4 CR, and I nearly died from using it for the victory. Thankfully that damage is fixable with Curing, but I went into the Skellies fight pretty weakened, plus I didn't have Nexus to block the 2-per-round extra cold damage. Would have died there if not for the 'Swerd's double damage bonus. I needed a Mirror to avoid one combat in book 9 (one where I don't have the 'Swerd) and murdering/looting the graverobbers outside Varetta is the only way to get one. Funny how a seemingly red-herring item actually has a use a few books in the future. I forgot about the HC restriction to only 3 weapon proficiencies. I am grateful that I happened to make the wise (ie, correct) choice of bow, dagger, and broadsword.

Book 7 - I thought I needed Divination for this book, but with the route I took, turns out Huntmastery would've completely negated an insta-death roll in the maze. Thankfully I survived anyway. I got the amusingly-named "Hand Eradicator" award on the way.

Book 8 - Skipped the Helghast but I massacred all of the swamp's inhabitants. Except the big spider because you have to roll to meet it and I didn't get it.

Book 9 - Put the 'Swerd into storage before starting, and aimed to stay out of trouble for the next 3 books. On my first attempt, I discovered that being favorably voted on by the senate gives access to weapons with +2 CS bonuses in HC mode: I took the broadsword for two-handed-free-first-round shenanigans while the 'Swerd isn't with me. I also survived the cauldron drop on the first try, only to realize I didn't bring the Mirror with me, so I had to restart. And that started a chain of restarts where I didn't get the senate vote, I lost the Mirror in the cauldron drop, or I didn't survive it at all. Once those fell into place, I landed the DoV throw on the first try. Whew.

Book 10 - There's a way to get through this book without a single combat, but dealing with Demonlord Tagazin is really risky (plus I'm missing a ranked discipline that's needed), so I went the relatively safe Battle of Cetza route. And in my goal of staying out of trouble, I earned an award: "Deserter of Brol River". I also happened to get the coin collector award. I hadn't planned this out at all, so that's cool. The award flavor text says Paido jokingly gave this one to me as well (I guess after you rescue him at the end of the book, but before the finish?), it seems the Seventh Sense devs envision him as a bit of a comedian! For my bag of drugs that I brought to use in the Daziarn, I had 4 Alether potions, but I really should only need 3, so I used one on Big Ugly Sarge since I failed the roll to avoid him. I also brought a disposable dagger to pick the lock of Paido's cell (the weapon gets destroyed and I want to keep the DoV!), should I actually avoid him. Turns out the Alether wasn't really necessary. Oh well, I need an empty slot for the bottle of cosmic wine next book anyway. One last thing about this book: I really only went to the trouble of getting the Silver Bow of Duadon mainly to avoid the Drakkarim Garrison fight in Torgar.

Book 11 - My meta-strat proved successful: I won on the first try, even had both doses of the Flask left unused. I used a +2 Alether on Chaos-Master, and the +4 on the villians. I may not have won if it weren't for the SS-exclusive full heal when meeting Kai after the Shadow Reavers. I am so very grateful Dave & co put that in there. Another possible bug in this book: I'm not sure if Psi-Surge is counted in the CS total for the Shadow Reavers. At least, it wasn't added at the start of the combat with the bonus sliding CS boxes. It also didn't deduct 2 EP per round.

Book 12 - Absolute murder-fest. During the intrepid attack, I deliberately won the first combat but evaded the 2nd so I'd get 3 fights (with 'Swerd) out of the event. I was not expecting to be able to access the Kagonite Chainmail, but I forgot that I only had 5 disciplines! My roll was low enough to get me there. I used the Adgana on Kraagenskul, plus an Alether and the Dagger of Vashna... completely decimated him in 3 rounds at +13 CR. And I can proudly say that I finished the run not an addict! But it wouldn't have mattered much: I had one fight at +8 CR and the rest were max. I may have been able to also get the Bounty for this book if I had killed the Plaak, but that'd only have been if I could 'Swerd it, and I'm not sure if that was possible at that spot in the book.

Now it's time to fire up Prodigy mode and start planning a High Score run! Hopefully this will be easier than the one I tried in version S on BTB rules.

[Ofecks]

Well, I didn't do a High Score run. On the previous campaign, I had picked up every GM-carry-over Special Item... except the Jeweled Mace! I then got to wondering if it would be possible to get all of the item collection meta awards in one pass. Turns out, it is! Behold:





The potion and weapon ones were pretty easy. I just stockpiled everything I could and I had met the requirements without much effort. It's the treasure/trade/currency one that's the real problem: it requires some really careful planning and some oddball strategies. Some items from the Kai series don't count for MK, and the Gold Ring gets demoted to a single point. I also attempted to get as many other awards as I could along the way, but kept my focus and priority on item collecting. Several times, I had planned out awards but had to scrap them mid-adventure because unforeseen outcomes got in the way of meeting the item requirements. Here's the full breakdown:

Book 1:
Restarts - 20 (old route), 2 (revised route)
Disciplines - WS (spear), MB, HL, 6S, MS
Awards - High Combat (8), Heroic, Bounty, Death Defying

Item Collections:
Weapons
.(1:255) Prince Pelethar’s Sword
.(1:307) Hermit’s Warhammer
Items
.(1:193) Scroll
.(1:304, 76) Vordak Gem
Potions
.(1:113) Meal of Laumspur {+3 EP}

Combats:
(55) Giak
(170) Burrowcrawler
(208) Giaks
(255) Gourgaz
(340) Giak + Doomwolf
(29) Vordak
(180) Bandits
(339) Robber

Synopsis: At first I wanted to get the Death-Defying Feat, but unfortunately, it wasn't feasible on the route for the other awards. If you want to do both Heroic and Bounty as well (or just get the Crystal Star Pendant), you need to do the swamp and survive the Marshviper without taking any damage. After 20 attempts (and that's including optimal RNT guiding!), I gave up and dropped it. I had an idea for a future run where I will have an easier time getting that particular award. It took 13 re-rolls to get Weaponskill in Spear. In hindsight, it's a good thing I bothered. There were a couple more restarts in failing the robber and roof jump events. That damn roof jump! It is the bane of my existance.

Book 2:
Restarts - 1
Discipline - CF
Bring - Shield
Awards - High Combat (10), Bounty (Helghast), Epic Failure, Death-Defying

Item collections:
Weapons
.(2:132) Szall Spear
.(2:79, 242) Sommerswerd
Items
.(2:283) Gold Ring [costs 8 GC, counts as 5 items!]
Potions
.(2:103) Meal of Laumspur {+3 EP} [hopefully]
.(2:40) Potion of Laumspur {+5 EP}

Combats:
(268, 348) Harbour Thugs
(326, 34, 146, 345) fight on Green Sceptre [0, 1, 8, 9 rolls] OR (306) Border Guard
(60, 158) Halvorc or Parsion
(106) Spear Helghast
(332) Helghast #2 [need 0-4 on (31)]
(30) Zombie Crew
(5) Helghast #4
(128) Zombie Crew #2
(237) Helghast #5
(66) Zombie Captain

Synopsis: Between books, I stashed pretty much everything I picked up from the previous, gold included. Again, I planned on doing the DDF since I conveniently had the CSP, but I totally forgot you can't get to it from the fishing boat route. You can't have tracking to get the Gold Ring, so I picked Camouflage as my bonus discipline. Thankfully you can get exactly 8 GC to buy it by going back to the fishing boat after waking up (3 GC), plus the 5 from getting back the Seal of Hammderdal. Thank you, Dave & Co., for including the option to get back the CSP along with the Seal. Is it possible to keep the forged documents? They actually count for the treasure metas, but I didn't test to see if they could be bought, kept, and not forced to use when having the Seal. Thanks to RNT guiding, getting the gold I needed for the coach ticket (plus extra!) was easy via Cartwheel. There's one section of the RNT with a bunch of 6s, 7s, and 8s (3 each!), so I bet 1 GC every round on 7 and cleaned up. The first 2 Helghast fights went fine, thanks to having Mindshield this time, as well as the Prodigy-rules Magic Spear bonus! That +3 CS vs All ended up being my most-used weapon throughout the run. The one restart was from doing the Epic Failure. I got the real run done on the first try!

Book 3:
Restarts - 1
Discipline - MM
Bring - Padded Leather Waistcoat
Awards - Bounty, Epic Failure, Death-Defying

Item collections:
Weapons
.(3:210) Bone Sword
Items
.(3:218) Diamond [Special Item]
.(3:223) Rope [2 slots]
Potions
.(3:233) Vial of Red Laumspur {+5 EP} [need HL]
.(3:311) Potion of Distilled Alether {+4 CS} [need SS or WS]
.(3:156) Potion of Green Gallowbrush [need AK or Aspirant]

Combats:
(78) Baknar
(147) Kalkoth
(161 or 260) Ice Barbarian

Synopsis: The DDF was actually do-able on my route, but I messed it up! I took the Glacier route and was supposed to ignore the Ice Barbarians after losing a sledge (and an escort!) to the ice-bridge, but I scouted them instead so I missed the last point I needed for the award. The reason I didn't go back and do it over is because I was aiming for the dreaded Kalkoth bounty, and I rolled a K on the first round of the one I needed to fight with the combat system. I also picked lock on the Silver Helm chest with Mind Over Matter. Didn't let that good luck to go waste. Oddly, the Bone Swords you can pick up, while effective against Kalkoth, are past the point where any more Kalkoth appear! My first run, like last book, was to get the Epic Failure done, so that was the only restart.

Book 4:
Restarts - 1
Discipline - AK
Bring - Shield, Chainmail
Awards - Heroic, Mischievous

Item Collection:
Weapons
.(4:350) Dagger of Vashna
Items
.(4:84) Scroll [Special Item]
.(4:10) Onyx Medallion [Special Item]
.(4:118) Whip [Backpack item]
.(4:213) Hourglass
Potions
.(4:12, 302) Potion of Laumspur {+ 4 EP} x 3
.(4:302) Flask of Holy Water
.(4:302) Potion of Alether {+2 CS}

Combats:
(233) Bandit Warrior
(186) Vassagonian Warrior
(310) Vassagonian Warrior #2
(77) Vassagonian Captain
(193 or 260) Vassagonian Warhounds
(90) Bandit Horseman
(122) Barraka

Synopsis: I intentionally picked Animal Kindship just so I could get the Mischievous award. It's not often I end up at this book without Hunting or Tracking. I had to do the Chest Route in the mines since I wanted all the potions from it. Looking at the pickup list, there's 1 backpack slot unaccounted for and I don't remember what I did with it. Maybe I kept a meal on hand since I lacked Hunting and knew I was going to fight Barraka. I failed the 2nd bow shot on my first run, hence the 1 restart. No Epic Failure this time, as Eshnar isn't on the Chest Route.

Book 5:
Restarts - 1
Discipline - HT
Bring - GC?
Awards - Charitable, Death-Defying, Epic Failure, Heroic (Haakon)

Item Collection:
Weapons
.(5:281) Jewelled Mace
Items
.(5:16) Coil of Rope
.(5:100) Prism
.(5:341) Canteen of Water
Potions
.(5:27) Vial of Larnuma Oil {+2 EP}
.(5:130) Herb Pad [Special Item]
.(5:27) Rendalim's Elixir {+6 EP}
.(5:211) Bottle of Kourshah {+2 EP X2 or X1}

Combats:
(20) Horseman
(135) Sharnazim Warrior
(57) Elix
(387) Drakkarim #2
(231) Drakkarim #3
(361) Drakkar
(316) Drakkar #2
(223) Crypt Spawn
(353) Haakon

Synopsis: Finally a Death-Defying award as planned! I also fought some extra enemies to get items (like the Herb Pad). I don't recall what I brought to this adventure, but it was probably just enough gold to buy the potions and Kourshah. I thought it might be feasible to pick up the 'Swerd-Haakon-with-3-or-less-EP-left award, but I ended up "K"-ing him on the first round, lol.

I'll write up the MK series later, in a separate post.

[uziel]

This is great stuff Ofecks. I haven't gone back to SS in ages. The only award I never got from the Magnakai series was the treasure/trade/currency one. I kinda always wanted to get that one, before I attempted the Grandmaster awards. Must be the completionist in me.

Your stuff makes for fun reading, keep it up!