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From: mnd@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Martin Dunstan)
Subject: Re: advanced CURSES question from a slow learner
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:28:32 GMT
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In article <3ffa81$b70@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
Gary Stonum <gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu> wrote:




>
>1.  (the problem) Where is the fershlugginer skull for that
>lame-brained (no, he's not even that yet, is he?) knight.

   Hmm, have you risen from the dead yet?


>2.  (the question) where within the game is one cued and clued
>to keep on sleeping on the couch that eventually deposits one
>in present time, 'neath the crypt?  Only a solution file 
>solved it for me, and I'd been at or up to this point a number
>of times.

   Is this in Alexandria? If so then the clue came from the description
you get after sleeping once: you are told that time has gone by so why
not experiment and see how far in time one can travel ... after all one
is supposed to do _some_ exploration ourselves without having to have
clues all the time.


    Martin


