Last Gasp Reviews

[erastes]

New Last Gasp Reviews that I missed.

Well Read Blogspot. Quote:To be honest, Erastes was always going to be on a winner with this story for me.  I studied the literature of the 1930s at College and have a great affection for that era.  This meant that I was thoroughly delighted to read about some of the prevailing feelings at the time, especially in relation to the First World War.

Sensual Reads. Quote: prepare yourself to be intrigued, entranced, and compelled 

Discrimination Fangirl: Quote:  James’s feelings for Louis were the most painful for me to read, but I found Guy and Louis’s growing relationship to be comforting and believable. All in all, this was a satisfying, well-written story.

Gerry Burnie: Quote: This story reads like an art-deco illustration—clean lines and decorated with fashionably beautiful people. It is 1930s-British to the core; sort of a ‘grand tour’ of distant lands while hauling along English-middleclass standards like a tortoise’s shell.

Sirius11214 Quote: Tributary was my favorite in this anthology as far as writing is concerned, I could clearly see places, characters, I felt as if I was standing right there when the action was happening.

Thank you all – seems to have got a good reaction so far, most people seem to “get” what the anthology theme was about. I’m crossing my fingers that someone like Dear Author or Band of Thebes (more relevantly!) does a review.

Oblivion: I cleared my bounty (I went to jail, and didn’t even REALISE I could serve my time and get all my stuff back and clear all my bounty) and now I’m all squeaky clean. OK. I have ONE infamy point, but at least I can walk into a town without doing the Benny Hill Chase everywhere. Guards even say “hello” to me. Heh heh. I found my horse, but now I’ve LOST all my stash. I could have sworn I left it in a cupboard in the Dark Brotherhood and now it's NOT THERE. Gah. There was a lot of great stuff - including some soul gems which i could really do with. I also dropped some goodies at Gathir's house but I doon't seem to have his key any more. I really need to buy a house. I think - when I've got cured from vampirism, I'll concentrate on some fighter's guild quests and start saving some money.

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Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Re: Oblivion - the first thing I normally do when I play that game is to buy a house. The first house, the shack by the waterfront is only 2000gp. It's a bit depressing at first, but once you've spent some money doing it up, it's quite cosy.

Why did you leave stuff at Glarthir's house? Enquiring minds want to know.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well - I didn't KNOW that you could put things into cupboards, and I didn't have any money to buy a house - still only got 4000 or so.... so I just dropped my stuff all over the floor and hoped it was there when i got back - i reckoned he was dead, I could squat, no-one would care....

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Really? This is one game where you can end up with masses of cash - it's worth doing some dungeon diving for money and remember almost anything you pick up can be sold in the towns for gp. You can even make some money for free by picking potion ingredients in the wilds, making the potions and selling them, and that adds to your potions skill, too. The "feather" potion (venison and flax) was a particular favourite of mine as it allowed the character to carry more treasure.

It gets so much that you can't spend it all, unlike Dragon Age: Origins where you're perpetually poor.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Stupid question: HOW do you make potion? I've got a ton of stuff and have no clue how to make things

[lexin.livejournal.com]

You have to have a mortar and pestle, but you can pick one of those up at any mage's guild or buy one if you have to. Then go to the "ingredients" tab on your tab view (I'm not sure if it's called that, look at the tabs and experiment).

Once you have a mortar and pestle, when you access the potion ingredients in the 'ingredients' tab, choose one, and the result will be filtered with all the other ingredients which mix with the one you've chosen. If you the click on the 'make potion' option (I think it's called that, it's been a while since I played Oblivion), the potion will be created with that effect. The most common effect is 'restore fatigue', but they can be sold. If the results have two effects, the potion will have both, which can be useful and can be pointless.

You can also create poisons, for poisoning your weapon.

More interesting effects come from rarer ingredients: never pass up a chance to collect ingredients, be they flowers, fruit, bread, meat...the only thing which is not a potion ingredient, it seems, is wine and beer. Odd, but true.

You can increase the power of your potions by adding a retort, an alembic and a calcinator to your equipment, and also by increasing the quality of your equipment. The best equipment can't be bought and has to be found in dungeons. Plus, spare alchemy gear makes great loot, when you consider the weight to value ratio.