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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness (1993)

Duration: 3:50:32

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00:00 Starting Soon ("Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle)
06:05 Beginning
10:53 Leaving Castle Borgov
31:11 Investigating the Hanging Tree
44:33 Another Reading From Magda
1:07:15 Catching Up with Yuri and Bella
1:15:15 Hero, Prince, Paladin, Marriage Counsellor
1:32:24 Wandering the Woods
1:53:48 Return to the Mad Monk's Monastery
2:05:00 "Am I Overthinking the Maze? Probably Not"
2:28:25 Another Reading from Magda!
2:38:54 Now What?
2:53:30 Dreams Approaching Climax?
3:02:31 Another Reading from Magda...
3:14:00 Another Return to Castle Borgov

Well, this is it: the first session of this playthrough where I ended up with NO IDEA what to do next!

That's not to say that nothing happens this time around: the Hero has a deeper conversation with Yuri and Bella, fixes Boris and Olga's marriage, and gains some vague new-ish information from Magda's readings and Erana's dream-invasions.

I've got a few ideas for what might get us back on track here--for one, as you can infer from the chapter title, I'm starting to think that I *am* overthinking Dr. Cranium's maze, in light of the fact that the useless hint for the puzzle didn't allude in any way to plugging the holes. Perhaps *cranking down those CPU cycles* in the emulator will turn out to have been the trick all along?

Other than that, next time we've got to keep getting readings, keep having dreams (it occurs to me that I've never actually received any indication that there's a quest involving the Mad Monk's rituals: that was all an overeager Hero sequence-breaking upon arriving in Mordavia!), and keep talking to NPCs we've already talked to again (what are the odds Baba Yaga won't just Hero-sicle me if I pop by for a visit?).

Fingers crossed!

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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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