Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!aunro!ukma!rex!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Ultima V Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 17:59:31 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: Starbound Software Group Lines: 34 In article <283e8cba.197c@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> epfister@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ed Pfister) writes: > > > Followuepfister@polyslo.calpoly.edu > Distribution: usa > Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407 > Keywords: > > In article <1991May24.080149.23373@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mnfriedr@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (M. Friedrich) writes: > > > >>I found out from Saul where mandrake and nightshade can be found. > >>I went to the Bloody Plains and waited until midnight and searched the > >>one swamp area. There was nothing there. I also went to the one jungle > >>square in Spirit Wood and found nothing there. What am I doing wrong? > >>Spoilers would be appreciated, thanks in advance. > > > >Hmmm...this is Ultima IV you're talking of. In Ultima IV you'll find > >mandrake in the swamps and nightshade in the woods, but in Ultima V > >you can buy it in herbs shops. > > No, this is Ultima V. Saul, in Skara Brae, will tell you where to find > them if you ask him about either Nightshade or Mandrake. They can also > be bought in certain areas though. I don't know about Ultima V, but in Ultima IV, not only did you have to search at midnight, you would only find it when the moons were in proper phase (I believe both had to ne "new" (black)). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft.hou.tx.us Starbound Software Group | "The large print giveth, the small print Houston, TX | taketh away." -- Tom Waits in "Step Right Up"