Quest items

[Purgatory]

one of the winners i remember well and reading up on it here was great, was the team who didnt get the quest item, but won, i cant remember what they did but they got back and the eye shild had changed to the quest shiled.. i thought that was rarther cool

[GrimaldineGrimwold]

That's the last team of Series 7. I rather liked it too, even if the shield switch thing seems a little cliched in retrospect. Basically they reached a room where their quest shield and a hammer (which was needed to stop a troll destroying Treguard's lovely antechamber) were in separate force fields. Greystagg could only release one, so obviously they chose the hammer. The rest I guess you know.

Loads seemed to happen in that quest. There was the whole end of season thing with the Brollachan digging a shaft for the troll to get to the antechamber.They had to reassemble the pieces of Grimaldine's staff (I still have it!). I seem to remember that being the team who had the story about Lissard being disguised as Marta to fool Hordriss, which I thought seemed a little superfluous and silly. I did love Hordriss' "Would you care to spy?" line at the end. Clifford Norgate, we miss you.

[Purgatory]

oh yes i remember that hole troll and hammer thing,

[JamesA]

Indeed, I think everyone remembers Barry's quest quite fondly, esp. as it was in the later series  

[Brendy]

By the way Barry had to assemble the pieces of the Arken shield in Leverl three to get the spell. The assembled Grimaldines staff in level one to wake him to get a firestone

[JamesA]

Brendy, you are wrong as it was Julie (Series 7 Team 6) who had to retrieve the pieces of the Arken shield - the fully formed shield was then available as a spell to help her defeat Lord Fear (or 'your Lordship   ) and get the sword.  

You're correct about Barry retrieving the pieces of staff though  ;D

[GrimaldineGrimwold]

And despite what everyone may think and what it looked like on camera, I was not asleep. I was just thinking. Yes, that's right. Thinking.

[JamesA]

You mean - like this:

[GrimaldineGrimwold]

Yes. Thinking. Don't you all lean over the side of a chair to think? It's far too awkward a position to sleep in. I don't know how any of you could even suggest I'm asleep.

And even though I didn't come back for Series 8 (Grrr! Why Brother Strange and not Me? Hmmm?) I can rest safely knowing I had the most gorgeous staff in all 8 Series.

I had it designed by the acclaimed smiths of Truro. Just look at the craftsmanship.

[Pooka]

IMO Barry's quest was the best ever. The plot was well structured, it was very funny, and Barry was a fantastic dungeoneer.

[rachelesque]

as i see it, barrys quest could either have worked very well or very badly.  the production basically needed filler before the end of the episode so they put in the sly hands, gwendoline, barry scene (which i think is even longer than the insult challenge in series 1).  as barry interacted so well with the other characters, it was great and didn't seem like they needed to time waste before the end of the episode at all.

IMO...

[JamesA]

Indeed, it was a good scene to include as Barry was at Play Your Cards right at the beginning of the final episode of Series 7    ;D