I must first explain the current run I'm doing in Fable: The Lost Chapters, not because it's necessary to understand the story, but because I'm actually ashamed of how much free time I have on my hands when school isn't in session, (this week is winter break), and need someone to tell me how stupid I'm being.
Basically, after completing all the training quests, up to the point where you get that first Wasp quest, (but without taking it), I took what little gold I had made up to that point to Bowerstone South, and began playing Card Pairs. The goal I had in mind was to purchase the Master Longbow before I did anything else. I started off with less than fifty gold, and constantly bet everything I had (it's a really easy game to win) until I reached the point where I could bet the max amount (1,000 gold). For those who don't know, the Master Longbow (at the Hero's Guild shop, anyway), costs around 35,000 gold. I don't even want to consider how long it took me to get the gold I needed, but once I had it, I took my newly purchased bow to the Hobbe Caves.
Understand this: what I was ultimately planning on doing was seeing just how long it would take me to max out all my strength stats (and the 'Speed' stat in the skill stat tree) by killing nothing but the Hobbes in Hobbe Cave. In order to do that, my plan was to use the Master Longbow to tear through the Hobbes in Hobbe Cave to get my combat multiplier up high enough to open the Demon Door just outside of the cave that contains the Cutlass Bluetane. Once I got the Cutlass (which is a legendary weapon), I proceeded to run back and forth through the first corridor of the cave and the area just outside it, ripping through Hobbes with this legendary weapon, gaining piddly amounts of experience as I did so. Spoiler: it took me a long freakin' time. I played for almost twelve hours at a stretch, and was still only nearing my goal.
Anyway, the other important thing to note is that I wasn't leveling up periodically. I would eventually use the entire mass of EXP in one shot, driving my character from the age of 19 to about 38 in the blink of an eye. This means that I was running through Hobbe Cave with that laughable little health bar that you start with, no armour (I was wearing the apprentice robes), and nothing but the items I was picking up off the Hobbes.
In Fable, when you die, your character is given a random scar on their body. What I found out is that, even if you use a health potion just before you're about to die, you still get scarred, even though you don't use up any of your resurrection phials, and the game doesn't actually tell you that you've died (the very first time it happens, a little info bubble is supposed to pop up; I haven't seen it yet). I didn't realize this until I stopped to take a break, and realized that my hero's face and chest were covered in the most badass network of scars that you'll ever see in your life. It's a good thing I'm eventually going to play toward an evil alignment: no morally virtuous person should ever look the way he does right now.
A broken death system that counts you as dead even when the game doesn't tell you you've actually died? Stupidest deaths ever.
