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From: d88-cbr@alv.nada.kth.se (Christian Beijner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Pool of Radiance
Keywords: undead sword
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.104047.23303@nada.kth.se>
Date: 6 Nov 90 10:40:47 GMT
References: <3808@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <3808@male.EBay.Sun.COM> bgahl@scuba.Ebay.Sun.COM (Robert Gahl  Sun Federal  SE) writes:

> we get the nice +1, +3 vs Undead Sword. Having two
>fighters, the 1st fighter got the sword. She didn't do too well with
>it, so I traded it to the dwarven fighter. Now, he really stomps some
>undead butt, but that mission is over and I want him to have a higher
>plus sword in normal battle (until I face more undead). He cannot
>unwield it, trade it, or anything. When I try to unready the weapon,
>I get a message saying it is already readied. Any ideas on how I can
>unready this weapon? I've tried Dispel Magic on him to no avail. The
>
>Secondly, I found a +2 sword that seems to be cursed (or that's what
>I think the problem is). When a character wields it, they automatically
>loose hit points. Of course, it could be Intelligent?!? Anyway, has
>anyone else seen this?

The first of these is a bug in the original program. I wrote
to SCSI about this and they replace my 1.0 disks with 1.03 or something.
They responded real quick, and overseas, so I can commend them for
their user support.

Probable programming explaination
The +1/+3 sword is just to wide for the Macs List Manager as they have
is set up.
In the original program they reserved space for all characters in the name
of the sword but the last, this last character ending up somewhere else,
causing havoc.

The +2 sword has an alignement, and burns followers of another alignment.
To bad there isnt some alert, suddenly I found one character unconscious.
/Chris