I continued my policy of ignoring the main quest in Fable 2 in order to wander around Bowerstone some more, buying a few more shops, and getting some books that taught me more expressions and the dog how to find treasure and fight better. I also bought a set of better weapons, so I’m not using the Halo energy sword anymore. Armour doesn’t really do anything though, so I can still stick with the Master Chief suit a while yet.

Then it was off to Oakfield, where I saw the first real combat along the way, and it’s pretty easy so far. A lot of button mashing, making sure to switch between targets so they don’t block or gang up on me too much. Once I got there I helped out with a few quests until I could escort the first hero, a rather stout young woman named Hammer, and recruited her afterward.

A bunch of new areas had been discovered, so I wandered around and did side quests in them for a while, and now I’m out to rescue the second hero, who has been captured by Lucien and is being kept in some floating spire thing.