From: prock@penguin.micro.umn.edu (Andrew Prock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: EOB 1 help wanted (for hard cores only)
Keywords: EOB
Date: 24 Aug 92 01:33:40 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS

In article <1992Aug22.000304.16312@news.iastate.edu> rjk@iastate.edu (Russell J Kraemer) writes:
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>1. There are areas on the dwarf levels with the spiders that I can not 
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simply attack the web and it sould break.  I'm not sure if you need
a blade weapon to do this or not but I never had troubles cutting the 
webs.

>2. There seem to be level bonuses (sp) but I have not been able to hit
>   a single one of them....my first "test" party hit a few, but I have
>   no idea how.  I would welcome outright spoilers.

I can't seem to remember any of them.  For the most part I ignored them.

>3. My ice storms seem to be hitting me back... any one else have this happen?
>   How can you stop it?

If you cast the spell towards an enemy that is next to you it will hit you.
You must use this as a ranged spell.  If the enemy is not next to you 
the spell will not hit you.

>4. How are you supposed to use the wand of silvas?  Giving it to my magic 
>   user and having her use it dosent seem to do much except make the
>   beholder back up a bit, but he moves up faster then I can advance
>   on him.

I never used the stupid wand.  I just did _a lot_ of running around and
hit and run when fighting the Beholder.  The idea was to get him to follow
you and attack him when he couldn't attack you.


>5. Do you get any bonous for reserecting (sp) bones?  Other then having the
>   characters?

None

>And for the fun of it, for those wondering, the party I am currently
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>Finneas: 5th cleric/5th thief male gnome
>         another back row type, works for emergency healing, cant seem to
>         pick locks to save his life.  I'm planning on playing it
>         through without a thief and see what happens.  Stays in back
>         and tosses daggers.

It has been my experience that theives are worthless.  I think they may
make some parts of the game easier but I'm sure the designers made the
game to be solved w/out a theif on purpose.

>Got a better one? Lemme know.

Get rid of the theif and get another mage.

>Oh, and I want to clean this place out before I take these characters to
>EOB2, so anyway to keep the 4 primarys alive would be nice.

If you kill the beholder the game will abruptly end so do this before you
go and kill the beholder.

>Thanks!

Before you do this go to the Kenku level and kill, kill, kill to get up to
as high a level as you have time for.  Just hack and slash and you should find
going up in experience reasonably fast.
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>P.S. Anyone know when Software etc or elsewhere will be selling eob2 cheap?

not till after the holidays I'm sure.  Maybe in time for the next summer 
break.  You might want to try and buy it from someone on the net who has
played it already.  Used prices generaly run about 20-30 dollars for 
this kind of adventure game.

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>rjk@iastate.edu                 
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>I think therefore I.......shoot, was I saying something?

Andrew Prock.
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