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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Faery Tale
Keywords: Beginer
Message-ID: <1991Feb08.163317.7773@convex.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:33:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.213401.17045@tc.fluke.COM> logden@tc.fluke.COM (Leonard Ogden) writes:
>I'm in the earliest stagest of the game, having explored town and
>investigated the graveyard south. I'm looking for a key to the crypt
>in the graveyard, and any general pointers to the game.

You will find keys later.  The "key" in the beginning is to build up your
character and obtain a decent weapon for him, and your best bet for
accomplishing this objective is to stick around the grave yard.

Go into the graveyard and wait at the Eastern fence (the one that runs North
and South).  Then, when bad guys show up to attack you (which they will -
just be patient), the first thing you will notice is that you can stick them
through the fence, but they cannot reach through the fence to you.

Just keep killing them.  Try to get a sword as soon as possible.  Kill them
at the fence until you are good enough to slice them from a step back (your
reach extends as your strength increases).  Then you are strong enough to
roam the countryside without dying from the first "engagement" that you
stumble into.

>How do I handle this three brothers deal? Should I expect to winit with
>the first one (ie save every few moments?), or do I kindof use one guy up
>and then go on to the next, or do each of thebrothers have something
>specific to do?

You can easily win on the first guy, if you build up before launching out.

This is a huge game, with a lot of territory to explore, including a large
underground labyrinth (which is not reached through the crypt, BTW).  Don't
expect to win it in only a couple of days.  I played for probably 100s of
hours of entertaining exploration, and I never did actually finish all of
the quests (you will encounter various people in your game, each of whom
will request that you perform a different quest for them. - Hint - be very
nice (don't hit them - if you can, give them money) to the neutral people
and/or animals that you encounter on the road.  If you are too aggressive
to the non-combatives it will mess you up (you won't get cooperation when
you need it later on in the game).

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