Diablo 2 Mutterings

[omimouse]

So, a week ago I made it to Nightmare level. Yesterday, I made it into Lut Gholein. I despise this Act. Lightning, lightning, poison, more lightning, desert, poison, and did we mention the lightning? So I'm really eager to get the hell outta there. I have my nifty Horadric Staff, am in the correct Tomb, click on the Orifice, and . . . nothing? The name of the Staff had gone red. Ten minutes later, I realize my problem. You can't leave Act 2 until you have completed the Tal Rasha's Tomb quest. The game won't let you complete the Tal Rasha's tomb quest until you have completed the Horadric Staff quest. You can't complete the Horadric Staff quest until you have picked up a Horadric Cube in the Halls of the Dead. You can't pick up a Cube in the Halls of the Dead if you already have a freakin' Cube on you from a previous difficulty level. The Cube will not appear when you open the gold treasure chest.

The game will, however, let you make a Horadric Staff in your old Cube, and the name on the Staff wil be gold. Until you enter the Tomb, and trust me, I was not looking at my Staff once I got into the True Tomb of Tal Rasha. I was looking at the screen and occasionaly going, "Oh shit!" "EEEEP!" "Run away!" "No, you stupid Shadow Master, get in front of me and absorb damage!" "I know I had a full potion belt a few seconds ago, what happened?" "What the fuck is that?!"

I still had my Horadric Cube from Normal difficulty level. We also discovered that you cannot enter multiplayer and have someone else hold onto the Cube for you, in case you misjudged being able to get another Cube. Not even if you drop it on the ground. The game just won't let them pick it up.

So, I ditched the Cube overboard, crossed my fingers, saved and exited, reloaded the character, and went back into the Halls of the Dead. I got mobbed several times, and finally hacked my way through to the third level, where I clicked on the gold treasure chest with crossed fingers and toes. Yes, there was the cube.

I then had to go back to the Maggot Lair and the Claw Viper Temple to remake the Staff, as the game still would not accept the old Staff. By the time I got to Duriel, he was in between me and my way out of an Act that I was well and truly tired of, and I beat the ever-lovin' shit out of him.

I am now in Kurast. I intend to spend the next week getting obscenely rich.

Comments

[dimers.livejournal.com]

I've spent the last week not-remembering why it is I quit playing Diablo ... gots stress and boredom, too much time on my hands, wanna PLAY! Seeing this helps a little, I think. Having gotten stuff done today and blown some time making a D&D character (based on Complete Arcane, which I just got) yesterday and this morning, that helps too. =)

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

I swear that every citizen of Kurast traded their life and soul for material wealth, considering what you run across on the begger bodies!

[griffen.livejournal.com]

What's scarier: that I understood all this, or that I sympathize with your frustration? ;)