Banner on 28/7/2025 at 16:09
[I figured this out - am not stuck.]
I am stuck, unable to progress.
Here is the only potential cause that occurs to me:
I "entered" the black gem in the center of level 5, using the only lighted facet.
I encountered a room with various items, including a food voucher, which I tossed aside.
Upon entering the next level, I encountered some goblins.
Upon speaking with one, he challenged me, asking for a password.
The dialog offered me an opportunity to pretend that I was delivering food.
Using that option prompted the goblin to ask for proof (which was, obviously, the food voucher that I had discarded). Worst case, to use this option, I'd have to restore a backup game, and bring the voucher.
However, I chose the "I don't need no stinking password” dialog option, causing the goblins to attack me. I killed the goblins, including one beyond a portcullis.
I have no saves from before this, having overwritten them all.
If fighting the goblins has painted me into a corner, I think that is poor game design.
The game offered me a dialog option of “I don't need no stinking password”.
If the game provides a dialog option, the selection of which will permanently prevent a player from completing the game (which I consider dubious design), the game should immediately make the consequences very clear, so that a saved-game may then be loaded.
I assumed that the game would not back me into a corner, this way.
That, either, there would be an alternative means of getting past locked doors, or that doing so was not essential.
And, consequently, following the goblin fight, continued playing (resulting, eventually, in my overwrite of all prior saved-games).
If killing the goblins has precluded further progress, I'll have to either start completely over, or abandon the game, out of disgust.
Did I paint myself into a corner (with a massive assist from the game designers)?
Thanks
P.S. I almost always look for a peaceful solution. I always look at creatures, to avoid attacking a non-hostile creature.
However, I find it hard to resist "we don't need no stinking badges" (or, so to speak).
Had I entered the room, and simply attacked the goblins, that would be one thing. But, selecting a dialog option is another, IMO.
P.P.S. Unable to make "actual" progress, but not yet realizing that I might have painted myself into a corner, I killed the tree creature on level 4, the gazers on level 3, and pretty much did all I could find to do, out of boredom. This resulted in a fair number of game-saves.
