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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: The Quendor World
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:58:50 GMT
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ian@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Xiphias Gladius) writes:

>I've always been impressed by the way that the Quendor - universe
>adventures fit together.  What follows is a first attempt at a
>cronology.  This is just the order in which I imagine that the
>adventures happen:

>Zork Zero, Zork/ Enchanter, Zork II, Zork III, Sorcerer, Beyond
>Zork/Spellbreaker, Lurking Horror, Planetfall, Stationfall.

>It seems like Zork and Enchanter happen at the same time, as do
>Sorcerer and Beyond Zork.

>For this, I have assumed that, for an adventure to take place in the
>Quendor Universe, it is sufficient for it to mention one of the
>following: GUE, brass lantern, grue.  Planetfall mentions both a brass
>lantern and grues, and Stationfall mentions grues.  Lurking Horror
>takes place at GUE Tech (mentioned in Beyond Zork).

Both grues and rat-ants can be found on the Artifact in STARCROSS.  Also,
one of the characters in SUSPECT owns a horse called "Lurking Grue."


                               --Steve Stelter
                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
