#maze engine

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Neverwinter - Maze Engine Marketing Art by Chris Dien

[mx-lamour]

How it started vs. how it's going...

Yeah, I haven't completed an art piece in a dozen years, but I should definitely start with the Maze Engine. 🤦 Solid plan. Ambitious.

I know there is a design for the Maze Engine from the 2016 Neverwinter video game, but I don't think it's intricate enough for a reality-warping piece of machinery. It needs more layers, more clockwork, more delicate pieces to discover and repair (plus it does have some kind of link to the modrons).

Inspirations consist of: the Great Wheel, armillary spheres, and these ivory puzzle balls. (I especially like this example because of the extra little balls carved into the outermost layer.)

[mx-lamour]

Gotta say it: I immediately overwhelmed myself.

I didn't let myself go to art school for college after high school in 2012 (because complicated things) but I realized it's not too late and I should apply to an illustration program this fall. It would be my second bachelor's degree but who cares (I'm not in it for the paperwork this time).

And then I was looking up financial aid and whatnot and realized Oh gods, I need a portfolio. I don't have a portfolio!?! Sketches are as far as I ever get. Do I need finished works? How good should they be? What are they for? asfgjkdfjdk

In a fit of inspiration, I drew this little epilogue glimpse of my one cleric oc. I want to finish it and have this beautiful thing in my head, but literally this is why I want to go back to school, because I don't necessarily know how to get there from here. And tbh I get frozen by concept of time; idk what to do about that (guess that's a topic for my therapist).

I dunno. Clearly I could do the thing (right?) but I'm panicking. Help. Meanwhile Astreia is totally at home and in the zone, listening to the tick-ticking inner mechanisms of this unfathomable device that has the power to alter reality in a moment... doing her life's work.

[sinsofsinister]

Celebrate!

[neverachieve]

Demon Archeologist

This is how to get the Demon Archeologist achievement and title in Neverwinter. You must be at least level 60 to get the Maze Engine questline, and it scales up to level 70. This achievement is earned in Chapter Four of the Maze Engine. 

Shortly after you fall through the seemly never ending tunnel, run past or fight some baby dragons, there is a large moat of lava that has rocks sticking out of it that you must jump across to progress.

Don’t worry if you lag to much or cannot jump over, Mako will make a portal to the other side after a set amount of time if you cannot jump over!

Jump onto the first rock and turn to the right. See that tiny chest back there?

You need to get to that chest to get the scroll. This might be hard and doing so will not get you the Hot Feet title/achievement as it will take to long if you go for the chest first.

You can however earn Hot Feet first by dashing across the lava river and then going back to get the scroll in the chest.

The red and orange lines here show how to get to it by different ways. Both are hard, and falling into the lava makes you restart the entire jumping event. Both paths lead to you ending to jump on a small rock that you can easily over jump before the rock that holds the chest at the end.

Once you open the chest there will be a new quest to accept, it requires you to speak with Sage Bradda, to decipher the scroll. Accept it and either die or complete your way across the lava river and finish the quest and then go to her.

For those who have forgotten or cannot figure out where she is located: Sage Bradda is found in the Sage Shop in Protectors Enclave. Talk to her and give her the scroll and you will get the title and achievement Demon Archeologist.

[theartguyplays]

Leveling just got easier...

Mounts in Neverwinter now give bonus stats to characters. These stats do not scale, they just are.

The mount my wife uses on her level 18 Paladin gives her an additional 2,000 power.

On a level 18 character.

...

Biiiiig bada-boom.