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Started by William J. Laubenheimer
Sun, 14 Apr 1985 06:51
On Crysknives and Fortunes (possible ** SPOILER **)
Author: William J. Laubenheimer
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1985 06:51
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1985 06:51
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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is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud.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
Re: On Crysknives and Fortunes (possible ** SPOILER **)
Author: Jon Allingham
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1985 16:10
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1985 16:10
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> ... > 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 is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud.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? > ... Sounds bogus to me. I do know that dropping or throwing a crysknife will cause it to change back to a worm tooth. Beware of Tins of Salmon. -- Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"
Re: On Crysknives and Fortunes (possible ** SPOILER **)
Author: Henry Chai
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1985 06:25
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1985 06:25
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In article <6225@ucbvax.ARPA> wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
writes:
>
>*You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded.
>
>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
Not exactly. Just tonite I was wielding 3 crysknives (yes I got'em from a
wand of wishing) when I found a tin. It turned out to be salmon.
the crysknives slipped out of my hands, and when i picked them up they
were reverted to worm teeth. I have been slashing monsters left and right
before that. SOOO...
took a peek into the source file ,and found that
(SPOILER COMING UP! DIVERT YOUR EYES WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!) :-)
whenever crysknives are dropped they become worm teeth. You have to read
a scroll of enchant weapon to change them back into crysknives.
In the old version (1.0.1) throwing crysknives will not demote them,
but in the new version (1.0.2) it *will* turn them into teeth.
--
Henry Chai {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai o.-
Faculty of Library and Information Science \_/
U of Toronto
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