mantle of the force

so i got out of contol again the past three days and have been abandoning my reading assignment for my 4th round of knights of the old republic. no regret though. far from it, in fact. i discovered cool new things.

what i didn't know before is that there's more to yavin than it looks. go to yavin after you're done on tattooine and you'll meet suvam tan, a rodian. talk to him and ask about other visitors. after you get 3 starmaps, go back to yavin again and most likely you'll find suvam being bullied by 2 trandoshaans who want his latest unfinished inventions. persuade or force persuade them to go. even if you're using the darkside, DO NOT threaten or kill suvam. he's useful. really useful. then after you get all 5 maps, before going to the starforge system, visit yavin again and you'll find suvam being ambushed by 7 trandoshaans. kill all these ugly aliens and suvam will show you his latest innovation: THE MANTLE OF THE FORCE and THE HEART OF THE GUARDIAN.

they're crystals, by the way, that you can put on your lightsaber. but not power crystals; they replace the main crystal that gives out color. mix these with opila, solari, sapith, and the krayt dragon pearl, and you've got yourself the best 2 lightsabers you can ever find. these cost a lot by the way. i believe mantle of the force costs 25000 credits and heart of the guardian costs 20000 credits. but they're worth it. your lightsaber also looks cooler. mantle of the force gives the saber a greenish blue color, and heart of the guardian gives it an orangish red. they don't just look cool, though. they KILL good. it only takes one master flurry to kill one dark jedi apprentice. combine stasis field with force speed, and you can kill three jedi apprentices while they're all still paralyzed and offer you no resistance. ah, the beauty of quick kill.

another cool thing about yavin that i just noticed, is that THEIR PRICES ARE WAY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE. yes, for the same item. then why would it be cool? well, think about it. that means they also give you MORE money for the items you're selling. plus a bonus. in other planets, they buy your items HALF the price they're selling it. so a hold-out blaster for example, that costs 100 credits, will be bought for 50 in other planets. well, in yavin, they give you 65 for the hold-out blaster you're selling. so that's 65% the original price. so all those weapons and whatnots you plunder along the way, SELL THEM AT YAVIN. you'll be making money like a prostitute. also, play some swoop. it's not hard and it gives you cold hard credits. winning the swoop in manaan gives you 5000 and tattooine gives you 120 racebonds. each racebond in yavin pays 196 credits. you do the math. so there you go. sell all your crap and invest on cool stuff like the mantle of the force and the heart of the guardian.

also, LIGHT EXOSKELETON looks so cool on the character. it costs 10000 credits but it's well worth it. the problem about this is that armor-restricted forces cannot be used. so stasis field, force speed, force immunity (that's what i had in this 4th game) cannot be used while wearing this thing. heal still works though. not only cool, it gives you +2 strength, +1 dexterity, and +8 defense. best armor, i'm tellin ya. heavy exoskeletion gives you +9 defense, but it requires proficiency for medium armor. if you were a sentinel scoundrel like me, it's not worth it to invest your feat points on armor proficiency. if you're fighting a shitload of people, it's better to take off the exoskeleton and use your jedi master robe or the qel-droma robe. jedi master robe gives +3 to defense and qel-droma robe gives +5. not as good as the exoskeleton, but at least your stasis field works now.

i'm still getting hits from people who googled "bastila naked." imagining it makes it even more tempting and now i really wanna see bastila naked. she's so hot. especially with that british accent. this 4th round i used a male character and i successfully romanced bastila. some memorable lines from bastila are: "just shut up and kiss me, you fool" and "be careful, my love. may the force be with you." ha ha ha ha. cracked me up so hard. like virtual sex, almost, only without the sex scene. too bad lucasarts and bioware did not set up a kissing scene. boo. they'd better have some kissing scenes in knights of the old republic 2.

i took some captions while playing the game:



that's me all excited after getting the mantle of the force and heart of the guardian. the orangish red one is the lightsaber with heart of the guardian, and the greenish blue is the one with mantle of the force



this one's in kashyykk's czerka dock. in qel-droma robe wielding the heart of guardian and mantle of force lightsaber.



in manaan, sith's hangar bay. i forgot that they've got 5-6 soldiers and a dark jedi in there so i haven't switched back to the robe. that's the cool light exoskeleton i was talking about. i want something like that for my birthday. =)



character page. the name seto rodin i made up myself, i browsed through kotor's random name database for five minutes and couldn't find a decent name that looked appealing. so i made up my own. don't ask where i got the inspiration for such a name.



fighting rancors in the rakatan temple exterior. with heart of guardian and mantle of force in the lightsabers, it only took two master flurries to take out those huge mofos.



killing a paralyzed female dark jedi in the rakatan temple. i know stasis field makes it an unfair fight, but who cares. those are weaklings; they're not worth the time. hope the feminists won't come chasing me now.



fighting darth malak in the starforge. that's what happens when malak uses master power attack against you.



malak dodging my master critical strike. that's the good thing about wielding 2 lightsabers. when one misses, you've still got the other one inflicting 24 points damage. the yellowish glow around the hilts is because of the dominator gauntlet, which gives a good +5 to strength.



regular attack on malak. not quite as cool in the freeze frame, but in realtime it looks hella cool even though regular attacks don't inflict much damage. about the robe, yeah it looks hella ugly and girlie and whatnot, but that's the starforge robes that i got with 23 computer spikes ---even after using calrissian's utility belt and interface visor--- and it gives +5 defense, +8 dexterity, +2 saves for all, and +5 to wisdom. i figured i'd need hella wisdom so that my force powers work on malak, and hella dexterity to avoid his stupid master power attacks, so i used that ugly robe and the circlet of saresh (which gives +5 to wisdom also).



look carefully and you'll see that my mantle of the force lightsaber cuts through malak's stomach. boo. he should have died instantly.



the last scene in the victory celebration right before the credits rolling. left to right: jolee bindo, mission vao, carth onasi, seto rodin, zaalbar, canderous ordo, bastila shan. they didn't show HK-47 or T3-M4. i guess they're not human enough to be in the picture. juhani isn't there either. she couldn't fit in the picture so they kicked her out. =)