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From: kennedy@kennedy.bridgewater.ne.hcc.com
Subject: Re: Curses: disordered (and SPOILED)
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 16:31:35 GMT

In <MATM.94Oct29011526@step.eng.umd.edu>, matm@eng.umd.edu (Matthew J. MacKenzie) writes:
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>If I did everything I've worked out by now in Curses I think I'd be at
>around 200 points.  But I missed a few early puzzles and I'm suffering
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>I never figured out what to do in the Unreal City.  I'm clueless about
>the chatlet-les-Halles, and haven't found any combination or order of
>cards to put into the tarot deck that gave me any sense I'd progressed
>in the game.

You have to visit this place several times.  Solve what you can, when
you can.  There is a clue somewhere in the game as to what to put in
the deck, but I don't think you've been there, yet.

>Also, I can get as many as four rods but have no idea how to mark them
>(I assume there's something sharp which could make an impression on
>the plaques at the ends; the assumption could, of course, be the
>problem, but I can get rid of the assumption and the problem will
>still be there.)  I can't even find a syntax which the game recognizes
>as meaning I want to mark the silly things.
>Since the game just assumes I mean to refer to whichever rod appears
>first in the inventory, I've resorted to leaving them in distinctive
>places around the attic so I won't blow myself up.  :-(

Investigate the Ace of Cups thoroughly, and sleep in the _second_ bed
in the attic.



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