[Corylea]

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on a totally different note .... lookee what i found while digging through some files: missing / abandoned quest information from the game

The stuff there is what i found in dialog_3.tlk ... there are many more interesting things in there that are not in the actual game. I thought this crowd might be interested ...  :peace:

Wow!  Looks like we were originally supposed to have a lot more contact with Foltest.  I wonder if we'll be seeing those quests in the expansion pack/Witcher II/whatever's in the works.

Thanks, game widow -- that's very interesting!

[Stanley Smith]

As far as I remember this could be one of the first quests made for TW - I remember some interview with the developers where they were mentioning the moral/painful choice you had to make. A can also remember one screenshot with Geralt threatening one pretty lady which was part of the article. It is quite possible that that was just another quest similar to quest where Geralt had to decide how to deal with a prisoner of the witchers - Kaer Morhen surroundings used in that quest were later used in the Price of neutrality.

[She-Wolf]

*rubs eyes* Reading through 23 pages of this is very satisfying, but so very hard on the eyes.  :dead:

Anyway, one little thing I haven't seen mentioned here yet that just cracked me up: At the end of chapter IV, when the elves take hostages in the village, Geralt walks in on a very grim scene indeed. People are covering, Alvin is scared sensless, dwareves are waving their axes menacingly and elves talk about soon exchanging their squirrel tails for human sculps... And in the middle of all that strain and fear, one peasent woman looks thoughtfully at one of her elven captors and, in a meditative tone of voice, says "Hmmm... Handsome..." I can't remember when was the last time I laughed so hard!  ;D

[game widow]

Are you sure she didn't mean Geralt ?  ;D

... technically those bits of conversation occur when he is "percieved" by an npc ... but they don't always look at him when they say it, so it may well have looked exactly as you describe, giving it a definitely hilarious aspect :)

[She-Wolf]

I could have sworn it was the very same peasent woman whose card Geralt picked up earlier in the chapter, so she most likely meant Geralt. However, her head was turned just so, and she looked at the elf just so and... I fell off my chair just so.  ;D

edit: Fixed for typos... How many of them can you make in two short sentences?

[Beorn_Longar]

at the hermit in chapter 4 there is an empty grave for a hero to come in fable there is also a grave for a yet to come hero.
and a very obvious one the lady of the lake telling about the holy grail(both come from the Arthurian tales?) also the hermit mentions a bors who went missing on a holy mission in the Arthurian tales bors is the one who finds the grail 

[Cassandra31EEE]

Today i saw something i 've never seen before  :-[  When you return from Ice Plains and talk with Dantellion, you can see that Raven's Armor has scratches on the left shoulder. I can't believe it i just saw it!

[Petra_Silie]

Sure?  :o Maybe it's the "blurred / pixel bug"  :whatthe:

btw... did the Golem reanimatiion remind you of something?  :whistle: Think of the procedere before you check

http://witcher.wikia...lem#Monsterbook

I didn't notice it until I found it in the monsterbook.

[Cassandra31EEE]

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Sure?  :o Maybe it's the "blurred / pixel bug"  :whatthe:

Why you find it so weird?  :D When Geralt took this armor, it was new, just crafted. But after all these fights at the Ice Plains it has many scratches!  ;) Every armor would be harmed like that with Geralt.  :D

(About the Golem... Sorry. I didn't get what you mean.  :teeth: )

[Petra_Silie]

Of course you are right... after such intense fight the armour eventuelly gets scratches.... this is realistic. But I wonder why Geralts previous armours remain always the same no matter how hard he fights or spend hours in the muddy swamp forest or even stinky sewers  ;D

Golem

The way how to reanimate the Golem was taken from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the legend of this rabbi who created an artificial human being

[Cassandra31EEE]

I don't believe i didn't think of this before:

I am a huge fan of Asterix comics. Now, the story of the silver sword doesn't ring a bell (Memory of a Blade quest)?
Asterix, "The Chief's Shield"!  ;) It's almost the same story:

At the battle of Alesia (sorry for the names, i can't write them correctly in English), the heroic chief of the Galatians, Versizentorix, after the bitter defeat by the Roman armies,  gave his weapons to the Caesar (Julious). Then,  the weapons were not touched by anyone, because of the fear of the great Galatian warrior. Only one Roman soldier, took the shield. But, a higher rank soldier took it from him. Gambler as he was, he lost it to a game of dice! ... And the story goes on and on... until you find out that an innkeeper gifted a Galatian warrior with this shield, because he was too sad about the great defeat from the Romans. (Now, who was that warrior, is another story. Read the comic and you 'll know. It's one of the best stories of Asterix  ;) ).

I don't know if this story with Versizentorix 's shield is true, (it wouldn't surprise me), but i 'm sure that the developers of our beloved game read Asterix!  :beer:

[Grandempereor]

I won't call them "eastereggs", but I think they're funny enough to be mentioned here:

1. I made a "mistake" in Alchemy and "invented" Perfume - as the potion was marked as "unknown", Geralt drank it, got drunk and made a funny comment (translated into english from memory): "tastes awfull, but it makes your breath smell beautifull..."

2. When finishing  the "Rat" Quest for Coleman in Act II (after combining it with a little Salamandra-Hunt in the night) during the conversation with Coleman after you found out, that he works for Vincent, Geralt aks, if they made any advances on the Salamandra-case, Coleman replies, that they are close, but that there is some guy running around at night killing the persons in the Salamandra who they used to get closer to the people behind them. Geralt seems a little bit shocked and frightend (at least in the german dubbing) and with unsecure voices askes, if they have a description of that guy, which Coleman has not. Geralt seems relieved and assures him, that they will have more sucess in the future...
(Might be intended to hint something that will happen later, but at the moment in play, it seemed so fitting, that this passage was ment to point to Geralt, and the cutscene was so fitting, you could almost read his thoughts from his face if he might have done something wrong - good programming! I had to pause for a while to laugh)

[game widow]

For that second one, in the english version, i'd interpret Geralt's reaction as more 'hmm .. interesting.." not letting on anything but aware that the reference is to him :) .. it's ironic

[Mad Bohemian]

I was able to get ten rune swords from the blacksmith early in chapter four. You get there at night so I completed killing the drowners and Zypher for  the Old Habits Die Hard quest, got the moon rune from the corpse by the collapsed bridge,and while I was on Black Tern Island for those drowners got the rune from the chest. So three earth, two moon, one sun, was in inventory. In the morning  I fought The Rock and got another moon rune went to see  the blacksmith's son at 900 AM and bought two sun runes so I had three of all runes. See the blacksmith and do the forge sword and buy the cheepest (lol), then go into Adams house and in the bookcase were the other swords, doubled clicked on all of them and they fell on the floor. The swords stayed there so I carried them one at a time to the inkeeper to put them in my inventory. I've done this four times now so thought I would post it.   Later all     DC         

[game widow]

i have never seen swords in the bookcase at adam's place  :hmmm: perhaps it's just a lucky bug for you (if both times were from one saved game -- otherwise, i got nothin;  ;D )?

[checkoutmythong]

sorry if this is a repeat, I did not read all of the other threads

If you are in the swap, you may hear two of the loggers talking to each other, they are quoting the Montey Python Flying Circus " I'm a lumberjack " song

[cinarea]

check out the bard, who asks you a donation and composes a song for you, in the Vyzime Trade Quarter...

.doesn`t he remiond you someone from the RED team ?  :whistle:

[th3Cr0w]

'Go ahead, make my day' - one of Geralt dialogue options (i do not remember with who)

sounds familiar?

pretty much Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan AKA Dirty Harry

from the 1983 film Sudden Impact.

[Nayld]

What does the temple on black tern island look like to you?

[Geralt the White Wolf*]

Did anyone notice the similarity between Siegfried of Denesle and Siegfried Sassoon, the World War 1 poet?