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From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: Leather Goddesses question
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 20:42:56 GMT
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In a previous article, burchard@access.digex.net (Laura Burchard) says:

>In article <9JUN199314011795@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com> buliavac@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com (ISVAX  7750 BULIAVAC      23882) writes:
>>The bad news is that you need to have read the comic book from the 
>>documentation to survive the catacombs, a map of which is included
>>with the game.
>
>Actually, this is not quite true.  It is possible to map the catacombs.
>It requires a great deal of patience and a lot of saves, but it can
>be done; I did it when I went away to college with LGOP on my hard
>disk and left my documentation at home.

Possible LGOP spoiler looms large below this next character:


I managed to solve another comic-book puzzle without the book (which was
in another province :) - the cypher. I worked from the premise that there
might be gender-specific words in the message (ie. "husband" and "wife")
that would give me something to start from (too lazy to brute-force try
every letter-shift). I found a difference, but it did take me a few minutes
to clue in to the fact that it was _backwards_. ;)

I can't imagine getting through the catacombs without the book...it took me
several tries to do it even _with_ the instructions. IMO a particularly
declasse maze, by Infocom or any other standards.

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