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From: forbes@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Scott Forbes)
Subject: Re: Spellbreaker - We're Desperate
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 00:01:02 GMT
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+-- finnegan@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (Finnegan Southey) writes:
| 
|   All right... my friend and I have been playing Spellbreaker since
| the Reagan administration and we've been stuck since Bush.  We have
| 440 out of 600 points.  We need help from some kindly soul...
| preferrably an obscure hint rather than an explicit answer.  Let me
| describe our current situation:

Just as a minor aside, you *might* want to think about limiting yourself
to 80 characters per line or so.  Gets kinda hard to read otherwise.

Spoilers ahead:

|     Ok... as far as we can tell the only two areas we can't explain/
| resolve are the Volcano with the cube on the small platform in the
| middle of the lava flow.

Welcome to the hardest puzzle in all of Infocom's games.  [1]

There is only one way to get onto the lava platform.

You've noticed that each cube has a spare exit?

They all lead to the same place.

But for some reason you can't go there.

Try dropping all your possessions *except* a cube (and a light source),
BLORPLEing the cube, then walking through the mystery exit.

Then figure out why you ended up where you did.

That's it.  (You wanted an obscure hint....)



|     The other place is the Vault, with the piles of treasure/junk.

You need the cube from the lava platform to solve this puzzle.




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[1] As opposed to the Babel Fish puzzle from _Hitchhiker's Guide_,
which is the most *tedious* puzzle in all of Infocom's games....
