Planet Bob

So the battle between the two thieves groups turned into a rescue-the-princess quest after a while, once I realized that the "Fire Knifes" where the bad guys.

 

After entering their hideout through the sewers, I think I must've killed almost every single member of them tonight...

 

After killing their leader as well I got rid of the first azure bond, only four more to go now

 

BTW: I found some excellent maps for the game here in this walkthrough:

http://www.gamebanshee.com/curseoftheazurebonds/

 

(I'm actually not reading it, but I use printouts of the maps.)

This third night I spent a lot of time with item organizing and traveling through the wilderness. Some strange person told me I could get rid of another bond in the south, so I went to a town called Hap.

 

Even though it was very small, it took me the rest of the night to free it from a group of evil drow elves. They're insane fighters - I'm sure you all remember Drizzt from the Forgotten Realms novels ;) (If you ever read them of course!)

 

One thing I learned to love in this game is the "Fix" button that is available in camp. It'll automatically make your clerics heal your party to the maximum

 

BTW: I've updated the main entry with a better screenshot.

Meh... I spent almost the whole night more or less with a boring level-up break. Most of it happened in a rather small dungeon, but I couldn't go anywhere there safely with my weak party.

 

That evil wizard tower I planned to visit tomorrow better be more rewarding to play...

Thank heavens that 5th and final night was fun again. Okay, actually I was fighting another 100 Drow (Dark Elves) troops, but still, there were several very challenging and rewarding scripted battles.

 

I got another bond removed and beat the evil wizard in a really furious battle

 

I must say playing this was more fun than Pool of Radiance already. The AD&D system allows for much more interesting battles once your magicians can reach level 9 or higher.

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see its sequel "Secret of the Silver Blades", but first it'll continue with something else.