I love how instead of going in and getting myself killed, I basically hung back the entire time, hiding behind my shield, watching everybody else die, and asking for blessings from the heavens. It sounds fairly accurate.

Blame it on that damn bone caster then :D

You were close enough though. A little bit of bad dice luck, really. Your step 10 Berserker Freak-Out dealt you 6 damage, and on step 11 the die result was only a 1, the worst heal you could get. Thanks to you as well for joining in :)

It's called survival I guess ;) Thanks for being part of this.

33, 26, then 17, surely? :)


Thanks for giveaway once again, it was fun!

Glad to hear :) That resurrection right at the end provided for a great moment!

Ah, must have missed that you survived, whoops.

Well deserved :) Having pen & paper roleplaying experience sure offered some advantage getting into the right mindset with this. That last charged Spear Throw, let's just consider it a critical (which it basically is, 2d6 that gave a perfect result of 12). Nicely done.

Have fun with Volgarr and think about posting in the Unofficial GOG Leaderboard! thread when you've made it through. Volgarr has grown to be one of my favorite games.

Thank you, chevkoch, for this very creative giveaway, and congratulations to te_lanus for winning. I'm surprised my character actually survived! (Although I dealt out very little damage to the boss)

You obviously chose a good blend of getting out of the way and healing up at the right moment :) In that cooperative effort, yours was absolutely a valuable contribution damage-wise too.

But of course.
Next time, I'm using Puzzle Throw and seeing where that gets me.

Regarding the riddle, was that not your thing? I reckoned that could've been a challenge you'd have been eager to get into :)

Honestly, I considered trying to solve it, but it didn't make any sense to me. Now that I see the answers, I know that I never would've gotten it. I'd never heard of any of those songs/poems you mentioned, and I had no idea how the steps would fit in for 8/9 (how was I supposed to know that there'd be fire?). 5 is the only one I understood, but I thought it meant that the monster's attack would automatically fail somehow (rolled a 1?) and give me a rest at which point I could pray. It's not like anybody would notice anyways since it was already on the example sheet, so I didn't bother saying anything.

I figured that Google would've offered a rather quick lead to get one going on the right track, but like I already said to adaliabooks above, when you know the solution it naturally looks way easier than if you're trying to solve it :) Cheers for your thoughts.

It's just a personal preference that, whenever I'm attempting to solve a puzzle, I never revert to Google unless it's a last, desperate resort. I feel like it's "cheating" in a sense. Good puzzle you had there, though.

I see... It's true I pretty much expected people to go the research route to solve this. Thanks :)