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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness (1993)

Duration: 3:17:23

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00:00 Starting Soon ("Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle)
06:03 Beginning
21:43 Friendship and Fortunes
1:11:24 Investigating the Rusalka
1:56:00 Midnight Rendezvous with Katrina
2:02:08 A G-g-g-g-g-ghost!
2:28:05 Bad News for Nikolai
2:48:30 Getting to Know You(-ri and Bella)
3:01:09 Reunited and It Feels So Good

Our Hero keeps it moving this week!

First, we meet the travelers under better circumstances than "them tearing me limb from limb while disguised as wolves"! Even though I'm a Gorgio, Magda the Fortuneteller can tell that I'm one of the good ones, and she gives me a tarot card reading that *mostly* serves to make allusions to aspects of the plot we're already familiar with. That's not to say there isn't some cryptic information in there, though; and certainly not to say that a separate conversation about the nature of Rusalka's doesn't give us yet another quest chain!

From there, I start trying to learn who the Rusalka was, although, as we'll see, my initial strongest theory (that she's Nikolai's lost Anna) doesn't quite pan out.

Returning to town after dark, I have a second meeting with Katrina. There's more to come here, I can tell! As it happens, the Hero doesn't have the climbing skills to surmount Mordavia's walls (and, of course, he forgot the Levitate spell on the portal-ride to East Fricana), so an unplanned "wander the woods at night" session breaks out. Good thing, too, because...

...I find a ghost! Not just any ghost, but the non-Rusalka ghost of Nikolai's Anna. After some sad conversations with both of them, Nikolai wanders off into the woods to be reunited in spectral form with his long lost love, and all the Hero gets for his services is this lousy wide-brimmed hat--sayyyy... you know who might like a new hat?

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*Intro Song*: "Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle. Aaron has an extensive catalog of "video game music to study or fall asleep to" on his Bandcamp page: https://aaronhodges-boyle.bandcamp.com/

This playthrough was originally broadcast live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/58dreamstreet

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