Arkose: 1. You don't take part in their meeting, from what I recall; you deliver the message that the meeting is taking place but don't see it yourself.

bushwhacker2k: So I took a break from the harsh G2: NotR to play more G1, and I realized with my last character I had missed several things which I thought were important in the story...

1 - I never met the 4 companions (Diego, Gorn, Lester & Milten) at their camp in the Orcish territory...

Am I just imagining that it was their camp? For some reason I could swear you met them all there at some point... maybe it's because I couldn't find Gorn when they were supposed to gather?

2 - How did the Old Camp guys get to the Free Mine? I recall them talking about a special route through the mountains, but I don't think anything ever came of it, it was basically just an excuse for how they got there in the first place.

This is a slightly different note, but is it conceivably possible to beat the game with the Fire Storm spell? I'm pretty sure at max charge it gets past the invincibility of the Sleeper minions. (Not that I was playing a very heavy mage, I only just went from circle 0 to circle 6 in the last little bit of the game (Which really shows that points are given out generously in G1)) Or maybe Cor Kalom is unbeatable like that? His spell is ridiculously obnoxious, and I'm not actually sure how the player is meant to fight him (I actually hit him through a wall with the uber-spell).

bushwhacker2k: There's a camp with a bunch of NPCs called Thugs and one named NPC, Quentin ... To my knowledge this camp is never explained and has no story purpose.

lordhoff: Ah, those black market types never like unknown visitors :). I've been amused all along at how the hero can just stroll up to a place, often in the uniform of the enemy, and people just volunteer info. If not an outright attack, at least the script options should have been substantially different (IMO) and not change if you later change your uniform. Oh well, that's spilt soup :)

bushwhacker2k: Ah, also, there seems to be some kind of minor Orcish Temple near Cavalorn's hut (It's just the most accessible notable area I could list from it) with two Orc Guards that seems to have no significant purpose or meaning.

I was just beating up people in the Old Mine and taking their stuff (for reasons those who've beaten the game would likely understand) and I found something called the "Sign of the Brotherhood" on Gor na Bar (one of the three named templars, anyway). Since I didn't know this existed I'm relatively sure it has no use :D

Another one!

This was an obvious one that doesn't seem to play into anything. In the Swamp there is a kind of altar made out of a tree-stump, surrounded by the skulls-on-sticks the Orcs seem to like so much. I've played as all three camps and it doesn't seem to play into anything.

kojocel: 2. Sign of the Brotherhood: I have no memory of that item from Gor na Bar (and it made me curious), although I had beaten those templars on several occasions. Could you upload a screenshot of it please?

kojocel: * ...and speaking of Old Mine: although you know it should collapse (the reason Gomez attacks New Mine), it never does. You can go back there anytime you want.

bushwhacker2k: Wooow... I never knew that! I must have messed it up in my last game because I was playing around and used a wench(did I spell that right? xD) to close the grate BEFORE it 'collapsed' then I think the wench got jammed. I'll have to check that out next time I play...

kojocel: It's a known bug.
You should get all templars to the nest entrance, and then save the game, and only after that you should attempt to use the wench.
And yes, I recall the item. It's an amulet, but wearing it has no effect (or none that I know of).

bushwhacker2k: I meant the Wench OUTSIDE of the Old Mine, which, unless I'm quite mistaken, actually does cause you to be unable to reenter the mine if you closed it when it 'collapsed'.

Does Scatty ever actually host a fight? I've heard he's the arena master and when I comment on betting he says to return in a few days... but to my knowledge nothing ever actually happens...

kojocel: 1. The wench: no, the one at the entrance to minecrawler's nest
2. Scatty: not to my knowledge. I spent once two weeks (game time) every evening there to "watch" a fight, but there was none.

Arkose: Uniform consequences were implemented in their later games (starting with Gothic II) with varying degrees of severity; of course this leads to some situations where putting on enemy armour in the wrong place makes all your new friends instantly attack you. :)