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- From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: Ultima 7, advice needed.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.215049.5696@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:50:49 EST
- References: <17550@mindlink.bc.ca> <c60a-gx.722052368@danube.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Nov18.115221.24861@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.115221.24861@panix.com>, ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes) writes:
- > In article <c60a-gx.722052368@danube.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-gx@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey Twu) writes:
- >>Valaria_Vorlop@mindlink.bc.ca (Valaria Vorlop) writes:
- >>>I just started playing Ultima 7...wow! Is it okay to pick things up and keep
- >>>them? I'm finding all sorts of food, gold, gems and armour, but I don't know
- >>>if I will get in trouble for stealing...will I stray from the path of Virtue,
- >>>or are those things mine to take?
- >>
- >>Taking items is perfectly legal (at least, to the game) in Ultima VII--
- >>not a blemish on your record. However, moving certain items is "bad" and
- >>may arouse unwanted attention and even cause some of your characters to
- >>leave. In the same way, <using> something lying around may also be bad.
- >>The way you can usually tell is if one of your characters (or, the
- >>Voice!) says something about it.
- >>
- >>But, as far as consequences go, that's all that happens. No block to
- >>solving the game; no NPCs who will ignore you.
- > not quite, if you steal in Britannia where a guard can see you, you
- > get arrested and thrown in jail in Yew. It doesn't end the game, you can get
- > out - but it's embarassing - you are the Avatar after all.
- > -Liz
- >
- Not if you kill all the guards ! :) :) I just love Death Vortex.
- Of cours, I always immeidately restore the game, but it's still fun.
-
- John Stewart
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- >
- >
- > --
- > Liz Stokes | Wool is the easiest fiber to spin, it has scales on
- > Ilaine de Cameron | the surface which interlock, making a very strong
- > | thread. It practically spins itself.
- > ilaine@panix.com | I can see by your expression that you don't believe me.
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