Reorganized talents a bit. Helped out an injured Loremaster. I'm given a choice between Disarm, a melee skill, and 2 ranged skills. Mind Sear's cooldown of 2 looks awesome but my failed attempt at a wilder summoner has left me with a bad impression of equilibrium-related skills. Disarm it is then.

As a sidenote, the sucessful quest completition text reads "press j to read the quest log" even though i've since mapped the quest log to Q. Same happens when i press = btw, i get "hotkey not defined - tou may define a hotkey by pressing m and following the instructions there" even though i've since mapped the talent bar to S.

Since i'm nitpicking - it would be great if i were given an indicationt hat talent catagories can be imprived only once. Oh well.

Almost got killed while alt-tabbing: i hit the teleport skill instead of remapping it. Looks like the game requires me to click ont he taskbar.

Run into a glade with 4 honey trees. I've been hacking bees and bears for 10 minutes now. Make that 15. My reward was an orange pointy har called Pitchfurnace. I'll be keeping my rough leather cap of 20% resist stun.

Found a house full of cutpurses. Hah! I far- er, flame at your general direction.

Failed an escort mission: the NPC was suicidal, run straight into a glade of honey trees. I did my best but once he was down i teleported outta there asap.

Gah, failed another one, 2 squares away from the portal. I hate sand drakes. My @ icon keeps disappearing after i recover from blindness.

Got a third escort mission in a row. I better not fail this one! ...died from poison 3 steps away from the stairs. Oh looks, it's the dungeon boss. No wonder. A part of the screen turned blue and i died again.

This time when i saw the blue spell i climbed up the stairs to rest. When i came back the spell was still there. Thankfully Stunning Blow managed to stun the monster and gave me the time needed to finish it. It dropped a pair of boots called frost treads. Had to dump 3 points into dex to wear them. +1 Light radius, nice. Would hae preferred the extra 2 lives though.

Came back to the town - elemental time. It takes 2 flame spells to take them down. With a bit of dancing around house corners i managed to take even the big one. Now to see how Angolwen's jewlery shop works.

Gah, the staff shop had Gwai's Burninator! That would have been handy 5 minutes ago against the elementals. Oh well, i can spare 50 gold, let's try this on other, innocent creatures.

Made an opal ring int he process, much better than the +3 con stitution one i've been wearing for ages now. Let's hit the maze next door. Found a Behemoth Hide at the 2nd level. This is fast,i just keep clicking towards the bottom right and mow down everything. One creature at a time makes this a piece of cake. At level 5 i found an orange armor but it's no match for the Behemoth. Found an orange dagger too.

Wait, did i just kill the dungeon boss? he dropped the steel helm of garkul. I guess i have to put a point in heavy armour now. Finally, this last level up allowed me to have enough Strength to equip that voratum greatsword i've been lugging around. Let's find the teleport rune back to the surface.

Angolwen is selling interesting amulets but i prefer my current one. According to the quest log i have to visit the sandworm tunnels now but since my previosu character died there i'll for the hidden city mentioned in the "storming the city" quest. WHile searchign for it i run into the thieves/merchant quest. So i went to Last Hope to see how he was doing after rescuing him. His shop is kind of... random.

Hey it turns out Angolwen was the city mentioned inthe quest. Duh. The head-honcho teleported me to a mountaintop - wow, lotsa lighting-themed enemies around here. Fiery Hands & Flame to the rescue. Is there a recall rune in this level? Oh well, rod of recall, back to Derth, they seem to be doing fine. No new entries in the questlog - but i don't want to do the sandworms!

A random wolf ambush bumped me to level 20. Looks like i'll buy that divination telent category afterall. Run into a crypt. Nothing bad can come out of this. Died after 10 turns to some disease spell. Died again. Noticing that the orb of recall is still recharging.

Managed to survive the level. Felt reassured and went down the stairs. Lost my remaining two lives in a couple of rounds. Next time i'll be less cocky and stick to the questlog order.

On the positive side i unlocked the storm wizard class, i'll give it a go next time.