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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Crazy Infuriating Journey Problem *spoiler*
Message-ID: <1466@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 00:53:00 GMT
References: <2841@speedy.mcnc.org> <1991Mar8.152300.6282@bernina.ethz.ch>
Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS
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In article <1991Mar8.152300.6282@bernina.ethz.ch> maquelin@tik.ethz.ch (Olivier Maquelin) writes:
|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

	The REAL problem is that magic is different in *every game you play*,
as are some of the other puzzles.  IE, what color does what is *random*.
Meaning, any chart someone fobbed off on you is worthless- you have to compare
instances of magic use *from within the particular set of sessions you are
trying to solve*.

	I had to start the game over and print out the whole darned thing to
finish it...


dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com    Dennis Francis Heffernan	GEnie: D.HEFFERNAN1
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