Spec Ops

Siege of Dragonspear.

After becoming polymorphed into a squirrel, the question of how our valiant hero is still able to hold and contain six tabby cats remains a mystery:

I was finally able to come back to Baldur's Gate II for a bit over the Victoria day long weekend.




Considering that the only way inside Watcher's Keep is by being in possession of the Vigil Stone, how Jaheira was able to somehow catch up with me to harangue me about Harper business is a complete mystery. Regardless, I need her slot in the party for Yoshimo right now thank you very much... a dungeon needs a rogue.

Not exactly pleased with this puzzle; as someone who is red-green colour blind I found it quite difficult to differentiate between the blue and the purple:


Then I went and killed my first dragon:

it has been a while since I exercised my Quake bits.

Just a friendly PSA that the native version of Dear Esther now works on (radeonsi) Mesa. It's one, of a fortunate few. native games that needed a compatibility OpenGL context.

I had no idea this existed. Quite fun, but the Linux port was badly broken, it needed a lot of files renamed. Presumably the person who did the port never tried running it on a native file system...

Got the Hexen + Heretic package from Steam today, I heard so much about these games and yet I never played them until today. It's a shame Heretic 2 is missing. Still, it's worth the 10€ price tag. I'm currently running them with GZDoom, as for Hexen 2 I've yet to setup a native engine for it, most likely will use Darkplaces.




A note to DRM-Free users: While these games can only be obtained through Steam (digitally speaking), you don't need the client and you can even use a native open source engine to play them.