I finished whatever quests I could in Ben Erai and Lago, without liberating any towns or cities. I really don’t want the Hashishins to be angry at me before I master the 2-sword fighting skill. As I remembered, the guy guarding the pass up to the tunnels in Ben Erai is the one teaching the 2-sword fighting skill. I guess to master it, I need to be able to enter Ishtar so I can find someone who is able to let me master it.
In the meantime, I learnt to make poison arrows. They are pretty useful to take down difficult targets. I find that with the new poison arrows, targets go down faster, but it could just be my imagination. I should actually think about getting my hunting skills up and buy the 36,000 gold “Silent Death” bow which could deal out 115 damage. It’s much less than the crossbow I have now of course, but there is a serious lack of fire/poison quarrels. With the bow, arrows can be made to be fire/explosives/poison. Besides, crossbows are slow to reload. In the same time that I take to reload a crossbow I could have fired off 2 or 3 shots from a bow. Also, I have heaps of normal arrows, which is more than enough to slowly whittle a difficult target down to size.
In any case, right now I’m near Ben Sala, running around one of the ruined temples. On the “Orc Excavation Map” it’s to the west of Ben Sala. Maybe I should skip the stupid place and head on into Ben Sala itself and see if there are any quests to “clear the ruins of undead”. There are heaps of undead at the temple I tell you! So much so I gave up looting the cudgels from the zombie corpses.
