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diego - 09 August 2012 02:38 PM

BTW, I’m still at Seedrot’s. I don’t have idea what I’m supposed to do.

No big secret… Alias talked to Seedrot about her first fruit and that triggered the Emp-Tel. You’re supposed to drop a fruit. Which is what all women female plants are supposed to do. So go drop a fruit, mister.

Fien - 09 August 2012 03:42 PM

So go drop a fruit, mister.

I’m right on it, Sarge! (Hey, I should had saved this line for Soldier’s emp-tel )

Fellow bar patrons, I’ll post the next episode later today. I need to play a little more in order to keep ahead, or I’ll get us all killed. 

Harald, I think I found the answer to your question about the Residue Printer. The results don’t show up because Zelda sends them to the Sergeant and at some point she comes in with a message and the results on your PDA.

Yep, it’s from our shapeshifting friend. All incoming messages are recorded on your PDA and you can replay them in a less noisy environment, for instance the Vestibule. Here’s the text as I understood it:

This is a message for the security officer operating undercover in the Thirsty Tentacle. I do not know who you are, but your partner is now my hostage. I hope you will be as simple to identify. If you ever wish to see your partner alive again, place the data cartridge on the table outside the restrooms and then leave the premises. I give you one hour to comply.

BTW, I do want a word with the Audio Director at Boffo Games! What in the world possessed him to mix background noises and voices together. It was bad enough in the van in the Fleebix/Thud emp-tel, where everybody was talking at the same time. At Seedrot’s place that awful television sound made it impossible to do something while listening. Then we had to listen to the constant droning of Soldier’s swarm, which drove me insane. And I’d forgotten all about the terrible, rasping voice of the drugdealer, with the thunder in the background. I couldn’t hear a word that mixing machine said.

I’ve fallen behind in the past few days.  Now that the Olympics are over, I should have more time to get caught up.

I think it might be best if we spend some time in the bar, after completing the Click emp-tel, because your life will be in danger pretty soon, as you can tell by the messages the friendly shapeshifter sends you. 

At 19:50 an important new area opens up, the U’bleek theme bar. (I’m not revealing any secrets, this info was available from the start.) U’bleek is Cilia’s home territory. Too bad we haven’t experienced her memory yet, but the clues you got from the emp-tels we’ve done are crucial to your survival.

If anybody is interested, I could post the approximate time of the attack in spoiler tags, so you know how many turns you have to prevent it.

PS: I’m currently playing the Deven-7 emp-tel (the next one) and I’ve run into problems with my Win95 computer.    I don’t know yet how bad the problem is.

PPS: After posting about my irritation with the sounds/voices, I want to add that I really like this game a lot. It’s hard, too hard in places, but there are so many things that make me laugh out loud. The animations are a pleasure to watch too. Just talk to the repairman in the gambling area and ask about his boss. Last but not least, the clever maps are so much more than just maps. I loved watching the egg float in Soldier’s emp-tel.

Fien - 14 August 2012 10:48 AM

If anybody is interested, I could post the approximate time of the attack in spoiler tags, so you know how many turns you have to prevent it.

I stopped playing TSB, but I’m still very much interested in it, so please give us all you got.
There hardly were an adventure game where one needed all the help they can get.

Okay. Why are you still interested, are you by any chance going to play it with your daughter? 

Approximate time of attack on Alias:I got killed around 20:65. I don’t know the exact time cause I was dead instantly, so no opportunity to look at my PDA.

Make sure you prevent the attack well before that time. We have other stuff to do in the bar later, so we need to all the turns we can get.

Fien - 14 August 2012 11:51 AM

Okay. Why are you still interested, are you by any chance going to play it with your daughter? 

No, she’s into other things now, but I still like the humo(u)r and the characters of TSB (although I can’t get much of what is said ), so I’m still interested.

I must confess: like Diego usually does , I started playing something else and the game is so good (as expected) that I won’t be able to play anything else for a couple of days.
And it has subtitles!

Yeah, shame on me , but that’s the way the things go atm.

Anyone else stuck with dropping a fruit?

Come on, I need a companion

Diego, if you need a hint, just holler.