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Post by outspaced on Dec 9, 2004 8:12:42 GMT
Yes, it's stated in Newsletter #7 Monastery Mailbag:
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Post by Sol on Dec 9, 2004 15:19:40 GMT
I remember being jailed and losing the Sommerswerd... it just seems a bit of an anti-climax for the sword of thousands of years legends. Ends up propping open a door in a city guard post, or something. But I don't recall getting it back after beating the Zakhan (you can kill him with the Dagger of Vashna too I think). It would be anticlimactic... but then again, the same thing happened to the Loresotne of Varetta... that one ended up at the bottom of a river... for that matter, the same thing happened to the Ring of Power in LOTR. Go figure!
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Post by Zipp on Dec 9, 2004 17:50:23 GMT
This one was cleared up in the Newsletters (Summer 1987). Incidentally, looking back over the thread, it occurs to me that Zipp's party-of-ten approach provides a good way to illustrate the "statistically impossible" point for those who're still unsure. The idea was that, if you had ten 1-in-10 chances of instant death through the series, it would be statistically impossible to complete. This is the same as saying that one of Zipp's Lone Wolfpack would be statistically expected to die on each one. Makes sense, right? Well, it works for the first roll. You have ten Lone Wolves, and each has to survive a 1-in-10 shot at death. Statistically speaking, nine should survive, and one gets crushed by that mast. Now you come to the second 1-in-10 roll, but only nine Kai Lords have to pass it. Nine times 1-in-10 odds means 0.9 Kai Lords should die; or in other words, eight survive, and one has a 90% chance of being dead. (Damn, PurpleTurtle spotted the Schroedinger reference before me. ) Actually, I wasn't the one who proposed this. I've never used more than one character.
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Post by Peregrine on Dec 9, 2004 19:40:20 GMT
Actually, I wasn't the one who proposed this. I've never used more than one character. Ack! Sorry, I meant Sol, really! His was "Kai-Team-10", yours was "the penultimate read through"... *crawls under a box*
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Post by Scarecrow on Dec 10, 2004 3:12:04 GMT
Arrrggghhh! I bought that character all the way through to book 8, into Castle Death, and then...
My brain was eaten by a severed hand.
My brain.
A disembodied hand.
I can't believe that. I never should have turned my back on it. And I'd come so far, too - the last time I'd received an instant death refernce was in Fire on the Water (there's no justice like Gorn Cove angry mob justice).
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Post by Zipp on Dec 10, 2004 5:14:54 GMT
Arrrggghhh! I bought that character all the way through to book 8, into Castle Death, and then... Wow. You bribed Kai? Awesome. Although, I guess your last payment was unnacceptable. I for one, never turn my back on disembodied anythings that are still moving. Not without first delivering righteous justice with my large sword. And flamethrower if available. One Kalte Firesphere + CO 2 = Flamethrower
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Post by Scarecrow on Dec 10, 2004 7:37:54 GMT
Oh. I meant to say brought.
The alternative to turning my back and leaving it was staying near it. Neither seemed like good options.
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Post by columbob on Dec 10, 2004 13:12:58 GMT
I for one, never turn my back on disembodied anythings that are still moving. Not without first delivering righteous justice with my large sword. And flamethrower if available. Except that will make book 6 unfinishable for you.
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Post by Sol on Dec 10, 2004 15:58:01 GMT
Scarecrow,
You have learned a hard but good lesson: never turn your back on the hand! Book 7 can be tough - there are just a couple of VERY dangerous sections. Once you learn where they are (hopefully not all the hard way) you will be OK!
Don't give up! For the Kai!
Sol
PS - Kai-Team-10 thanks you for your support!
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Post by Zipp on Dec 10, 2004 19:21:31 GMT
Except that I did finish Book 6. Numerous times. With righteous justice administered to all.
Besides, I didn't turn my back on the Dakomyd, I kept it very much in sight until obliterating it into tiny pieces with the Lorestone.
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Post by Peregrine on Dec 10, 2004 20:51:05 GMT
I think the priorities ought to be: grab the important items (Lorestone, Sommerswerd), take care of living enemies, make sure of dead enemies, then turn your back and walk away. Takes care of the Dakomyd and that blasted hand, but I'm sure someone could find a counterexample...
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Post by PurpleTurtle on Dec 10, 2004 21:54:40 GMT
One Kalte Firesphere + CO 2 = Flamethrower I'm no chemist, but I'm pretty sure that CO 2 is going to put out your firesphere, not turn it into a flamethrower.
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Post by Zipp on Dec 11, 2004 6:10:29 GMT
Meh. Prove it. If you can put together some C02 and a firesphere, photgraph it, and send it to me with a detailed explanation, than I'll believe you.
And if you're right, well, still meh. That's here on Earth. We're talking about Magnamund.
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Post by Peregrine on Dec 11, 2004 7:07:15 GMT
I considered the point myself, but this thing can keep burning in a sealed sphere. CO 2 probably would make it flare up more.
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Post by Sol on Dec 11, 2004 22:49:44 GMT
You know, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. In Book 4 (tell me if I've got the wrong book!) you go into the tomb and if you have a torch, it goes out. But if you have the Firesphere, it keeps burning! So if the torch went out, that means there was no oxygen to speak of in the tunnel... just CO2. Wow, it is true - the Kalte Firesphere really does burn on CO2!
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