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From: maquelin@tik.ethz.ch (Olivier Maquelin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Crazy Infuriating Journey Problem *spoiler*
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Date: 8 Mar 91 15:23:00 GMT
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In article <2841@speedy.mcnc.org> adjones@mcnc.org (Amy D. Jones) writes:
>
>The problem?  If you take all the times that magic was used and
>put them together to figure out what is what, you'll find that water is the
>same colored powder as fire.  This seeming unbelievable, I went through the
>game again, visiting all my saved positions to check on the accuracy of my
>color analysis. Yup, it doesn't seem like I made a mistake.  The color for
>the MUD spell is orange, and the color for FLARE is violet.  So, the pair
>of colors for EARTH and WATER is Red and Yellow, and the color pair for Air
>and Fire is Red and Blue.  Obviously something is wrong here.

You forgot that powders can be either fine or coarse (the residues can thus
be either fine, medium or coarse). In your case, water essence may be
coarse blue and fire essence fine blue (or the other way around).

Olivier