Tonight's
Diablo game went fine. We did all of Act 5 in Nightmare level, then
went back and did the Infernal Pit. Other than the Infernal Pit it was
all relatively easy. We made good time and stayed close enough
together. The Infernal Pit was amazingly tough. First off Woo's machine
kept freezing, probably because of the amount of activity in the Pit.
Without Woo's skeleton wall Eric and I went down like lumps.
Actually it wasn't quite that hard. Woo found a nice amulet that casts
Salvation when worn which means I can have another aura up and still
have good resistances. The amulet also increases the number of Angels I
can create to two. With two Angels the Infernal Pit is merely very hard
without Woo. Still, Eric and I died a lot.
At this point my Paladin can kill Lucifer in Kagero's Dungeon without
much trouble. The Gauntlet is also not that hard -- I have very high
defense now and lots of hit points. The Gauntlet treasure room has lots
of miscellaneous items you can use in special recipes. But it also has
lots of bags of experience, about 3-10 skill points worth of books,
maybe a Space Fragment or two, lots of stones that you can use to imbue
magic abilities into items, and magic mirrors that let you duplicate
items.
The amulet I have also triples the experience I get from bags of
experience. So I usually go up at least a couple of levels from the
experience in the Gauntlet treasure room. Since the Gauntlet takes me
about 10 minutes to run through it's very good bang for the time. Oh,
there is also a good amount of gold in the treasure room. The only
stuff it lacks is magic equipment.
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In tonight's
episode of Enterprise they had Brent Spiner playing one of Noonian
Soong's ancestors, a genetic professor and criminal. Wow, that was a
really good performance from Spiner. Enterprise has gotten fairly good
this season. The advantage of short story arcs is that people don't get
bored. It also means that if you have a bad arc it'll be over soon. And
without having to prolong the storyline each episode has lots of stuff
going on.
In last week's episode Trip finally realized that he's in love with
T'Pol and I thought that he wasn going to do something during the
T'Pol's marriage ceremony but then the episode ended. Next week we're
in the Brent Spiner episode. There is a little bit of Trip and T'Pol
talking about how he left suddenly and she stayed behind for the
honeymoon. Oh well, I guess they'll continue to develop that storyline.
It's actually nice that it's the Chief Engineer who has the romantic
plot and not the Captain.
In this week's West Wing they tried to solve the Israel-Palestinian
conflict. The problem with taking on a topic like this is that you
can't resolve it since that would break the suspension of disbelief.
It's also hard to do it without bias. But it was interesting and tried
to present reasons why it's very hard to come to any sort of peace
agreement.
It looks like John Spencer is leaving the show. At the end of the
episode Leo McGarry seemed to have a stroke or heart attack.
Unfortunately he was in the woods in Camp David and everybody left, not
realizing in the confusion that he was in trouble. Chances are that Leo
died. Not sure if this bodes good or ill for the rest of the season.
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