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From: ryan@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: What's a Valar to do?
Message-ID: <7070@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 21:21:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7070
Posted: Thu Oct 10 21:21:25 1985
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Summary: 

In article <730@sfmag.UUCP> wws@sfmag.UUCP (Bill Stohl) writes:
>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
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Basically, the Valar is the Head Honcho of the Realm and plays the
role of "God" in a way...  There is nothing really more to do
except to start a new character and try to steal the grail from
the existing Valar by finding a new one..