Re: Ultima IV wanted

[vsp@unix3.netaxs.com (have clue--will travel)]

 <fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu> wrote:
>
>> Right -- I say 'Ankh alcove' because there was an Ankh there in U IV.
>> They handled this well, if I recall.  You can get more than one glass
>> sword... but only one at a time.  Whack a dragon, go back, get another,
>> whack a dragon, go back, get another, whack Blackthorn, go back...
>> 
>> The number may well be finite, however.  Never kept it up until they
>> were all gone. 
>
>you may be able to get more than one.  I was able to get lots of flying
>carpets as I recall.  Just get one, leave the castle, and go back
>in.  There will be another one there waiting for you.  Get 99 if you
>like.  They are great stepping stones!  Just plop them down on streams
>and such.  Unfortunately, all items left laying on the britannia map
>are wiped when you go to the underworld. (and I think dungeons, too)

Hmmm.  This works, but as the alcove is on the main map it's a little
pickier than a location on the Castle disk.  

>As for the sword, try getting one, and then putting it somewhere.
>(like one of your fellows in a 'hotel')  It may work.  I think there
>was another somewhat "unique" item you could get more than one of...
>forget which.

This is something I may test.  If it works, it'd make the game WAY too
damn easy -- load up on glass swords, then hack through Dungeon X one
room at a time in whack-shatter-thud fashion.

Like six magic axes aren't enough.  ;)
 
		jeff.  and what the hell IS the riddle answer for
			the Daemon guard in the Shadowlords' citadel,
			anyway?  He's easy enough to kill, but... 

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