Once you start AE, AO is even harder! I bought AE first, thinking it was the first game. Anyway, I beat AE then purchased AO. It was so weird playing the games in that order because I was used to the improvements in AE. I was used to talking to more than one mud at a time, quicksaving and secret areas having brew bottles around. I suggest you beat AO first, then move onto AE. It's the way it was meant to be played anyway.
-oddguy
