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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Leather Goddesses question
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References: <1993Jun5.210630.21322@nmt.edu> <9JUN199314011795@isvax.lmsc.lockheed.com> <C8qEvL.4xC@freenet.carleton.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 01:10:42 GMT
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In article <C8qEvL.4xC@freenet.carleton.ca> aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
>
>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.

No kidding - I even wrote a TSR for my IBM PC which counted carriage-returns
so it could tell me when to HOP, CLAP, and KWEEPA. Never would have made it
through without such a tool. Cheating? No - just an extracurricular part of the
game!
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