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From: otto@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (M. Otto, "Virtual Prisoner of the VAX")
Subject: Re: Leather Goddesses question
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 22:14:42 GMT

There be SPOILERS Below.























In article <C8qEvL.4xC@freenet.carleton.ca>,
 aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira) writes:

> I can't imagine getting through the catacombs without the book...it took me
> several tries to do it even _with_ the instructions.

I died several times in the catacombs before realizing that the comic book
held even more clues than just the cypher.  Once I realized this, and tested
my assumption, I sat down and wrote out an exact sequence of commands that
would get me through the maze to the "interesting" spots demarked on the
provided map.  It worked the first time through.  I did a save right after
grabbing everything that could be found, and never had to bother with it
again.

> IMO a particularly declasse maze, by Infocom or any other standards.

I don't agree.  I liked this puzzle in the way it linked the game to the 
comic book; the "aha" I experienced when rereading the book after being
eaten in the maze for the umpteenth time was something akin to rapture. :)

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