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Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

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One can't cast spells in Covetous and some potion types also don't work, but spells already in effect, for some odd reason, persist. Even though it seems that the spell is practically recast upon map change, so the game could have the opportunity to deny it... unless the map change function is the exact same in all cases, but I somehow doubt it.

So I thought, the ethereal sight would be useful to reveal hidden objects. First I got terribly much mana through buying ghost armlets and placing them in the mausoleum (always with an additional item for double mana, that item doesn't get used up).
Then you can see on the first floor those diamonds, they would have stayed invisible. Further on, I show a camera object. A literal camera. I checked that it's not visible without ethereal sight. There's nothing in the direction where it points, but there are purple vision pools in the dungeon that show scenes, so maybe there are invisible cameras placed there so that the developers could keep account on them and when content was cut and a cave room was removed, its camera stayed there.
This is shows that it really worths to explore out of bounds with ethereal sight (and with occassionally switching fly mode off, since some objects appear only then).

It's interesting that I read that Covetous has the most hidden crystals, yet I only found those three diamonds that I showed in the video (plus 1-2 sapphire and such on the lower levels) but nothing else. Maybe I don't remember well and it was Destard?
Also, this dungeon has almost as much cut content remains like Hythloth. Levels 2 and 3 have big cave rooms walled off, both with a rail path, each, that look liked would have led to other maps, as well as several "fall below" and "arrive from above" wells without actual warp functions set.

Then as you can see, I load my test save and show an out of bounds area near the entrance of the lowest level. The strange buttons and all those floating things can be seen without ethereal sight and I didn't find offcamera that the buttons would do anything on any part of the map.
This again seems like a cave room was removed, but some objects were preserved there. It probably was something like the cave next to the final chamber and like the secret cave rooms that are part of the shortcut I showed in the other video. What is also interesting that there is a bloody axe that can't be removed and the examine text is "longsword". It's like the bloody short sword in the last cave before the exit that likewise can't be removed and says "sword".


Now, I wonder what other continous spell would be interesting there from the higher circles. Only time stop comes to mind, but I'm very far from that yet.

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