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Subject: Re: Ulitima III Questions
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 17:09:29 EST
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SPOILER WARNING:

Answers to some Ultima III Questions:

Powders are used to stop time.  Issue the N command.

There are four different types of fountains.  You can't tell which
is which until you drink from them.  After you drink, see what reaction
the machine has:
	Yuck, horrible! -- you are now poisoned.
	Ugh, Awful! -- you've lost some hit points.
	Ah, that's nice -- if you were poisoned, you are now cured.
	How Wonderful! -- puts you up to full hit points.

It is useful to walk into lava in several instances: to talk to the Jester
who is in the middle of the lava in the castle of Lord British; to talk to
the demon who is in the middle of the lava in Death Gulch; and when you are
finally ready to take on Exodus in his castle (position a boat between the
right hand shore and the lava; this lets you walk to the castle from the
shore, and you can get to this shore via moon gate).  HOWEVER, you do not
have to take hit points.  If you get the Mark of Fire, you can walk on
lava without hurting.  To get the Mark of Fire, just wander around in enough
dungeons.

Sorry, I don't know how to tame horses either.

As soon as you fight anyone in a town, the guards come after you.  Every
guard you see on the normal screen turns into a squad of guards in melee
and the suckers are tough!  HOWEVER, you don't have to fight the guards!
BRIBE them!  Costs 100 GP to bribe a guard and that guard just disappears.
If you kill or bribe all the guards in a town, you can then kill all the
citizens at your leisure and recoup your losses.  Don't worry about losing
the town to posterity -- if you leave the town then come back, it will be
back to normal.  The obvious thing is therefore to pillage the town with
the fewest guards every time you're in need of gold.

By the way, a good strategy is to fill your pockets with as many gems as
possible before going down into a dungeon.  PEER into a gem on each floor.
You get a map of the dungeon, including ? characters to show where there's
something interesting: gold, a fountain, a brand to give you a mark, etc.
If you draw a map of the floor, you can whip through the dungeon with ease
and make a killing in gold.

			Jim Gardner