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From: thinker@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71065000)
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Subject: Re: Ultima V
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Date: 31 May 91 04:22:31 GMT
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In article <1991May30.080552.16501@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> wangsawm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Wangsawidjaja Mintardjo) writes:
>epfister@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ed Pfister) in article <283e8cba.197c@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> submit:
>>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?
>>>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 have the exact same problem as the original poster, whose question has not
yet been answered.  I know, from Saul, exactly where to look for mandrake and
nightshade, but I don't know WHEN (i.e. what phase of the moon).  Actually,
looking in the manual, under nightshade (I think it's nigtshade- whichever one
found in the forest), it says that it can be found when the moons are full and
in a certain conjunction.  Finding the right conjunction shouldn't be too hard,
but one should remember that it could be two different nights.  The main prob-
lem is finding when both moons are full.  I have been playing for a month or so,and I have never seen a time when they are full at the same time.  It always 
seems that one is full, and then it changes as the other becomes full (or sim-
ilar situations).  As for the Mandrake, again, it can be found in the damp
spot in the Bloody Plains (and also the Fens of the Dead), and I think at 
night, but I have no idea when.  I'm making a chart of all the possible phases
of the moon, but I really don't want to go through them all.  It isn't like 
Ultima IV, where it is available during two new moons- I've already tried that.
If anybody can help with this, I and the original poster, I'm sure, would be
most grateful.