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From: wws@sfmag.UUCP (Bill Stohl)
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Subject: What's a Valar to do?
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 18:06:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 18:06:38 1985
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I loved phantasia, then I found the grail.  Now I'm a Valar with
nothing to do except help new characters.  I thought I'd try to win
with each character -- then I got the bright idea of throwing monsters
at a low level character until it had both a charm and a blessing.
Then the Valar relocated the character to 1000000001, 1000000001 and
threw the Dark Lord at the character.  Suddenly, the character died!
But no, the scoreboard says he died of old age (alas, retired at level
10000 after an hour of play).

My question, have I done all that can be done (except become an
ex-Valar?)  It is no fun to play the Valar!  I guess I should think
of it as having won.

Another question -- aren't Valars a bit too powerful?  My Bildo the
halfling character turned out get retired before the Valar!

Well, phantasia served its purpose -- I now have no desire at all to
play hack ;-)  Maybe I can regress to game-writing now...

Bill Stoll, ..!attunix!wws