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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: On Crysknives and Fortunes (possible ** SPOILER **)
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 01:51:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 14 01:51:58 1985
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Although not currently a Hack player, I recently took the time to catch
up on net.games.hack, including the hint files. Putting the fortune file
together with one person's experience with a crysknife, I think that I
may have found a meaning for a previously unspecified fortune.

One hack player complained that he was wielding a crysknife, then decided
to put it away and wield something else, only to find when he later
wielded it that he was now wielding merely a worm tooth. When I later
hit the file of observed fortunes, I found the line:

*You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded.

Shai-Hulud is the Arrakeen (Dune) name for the deified sandworm; thus, it
is my guess that the fortune refers to wielding a crysknife and then
unwielding it without first using it against a monster. This "offends
Shai-Hulud", and the enchantment which makes a worm tooth into a crysknife
is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud. Any verification on this?

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill