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From: wangsawm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Wangsawidjaja Mintardjo)
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Subject: Re: Ultima V
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Date: 1 Jun 91 13:15:37 GMT
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thinker@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71065000) in article <16394@darkstar.ucsc.edu> submit:
>
>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.        

I guess the manual has distracted you somehow. But, have you tried the
following:

A spoiler:


At any midnight, between 00:00 and 00:30 (If I am not wrong), try searching
one of the spots.

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