From: jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu (James Reed)
Subject: Re: MM4 gold/gem hack, endgame announcement and other spoilers
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:45:10 GMT

I have also finished the game, and I thought it was moderatly good -- but to 
short!  When my roommate finished it, neither of us could really believe it was
over.  Details and spoilers bellow.





















Firstly, we weren't even over 20th level (when we weren't enchanced, that is),
and had /no/ problem killing xeen -- Xeen's PET was much harder to kill than 
Xeen himself was (I suppose having scrolls of the GODS! helped some, but still,
you could have gotten the same effect with rest and careful planing).

The endgame sequence itself is /way/ to long, and really stupid -- you spend
the majority of the time watching EVERY SINGLE MONSTER in the game attack 
and get hit.  Boy, you could just see me quiver in excitment at the thought :)

However, don't give up hope quite yet (BTW: you can continue playing after 
killing Xeen, just reload your last saved game -- it automaticly re-saves when
you start the endgame).  See the bottom of this message for something 
intresting to do.

In article <91801@netnews.upenn.edu> spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman) writes:
>What's in the Dragon's Lair?  I never did that.

I would be suprised if their was much in their -- but we couldn't get through,
either (of course, by that time my room-mate and I had solved the game).

>Where is the generator for the poison dragons and the fire(lava?) 
>golems around the volcano?  I couldn't find them.  (You know what I
>mean, their home hut, camp or whatever)

There doesn't have to be one, you know :)

>What's in Dragon Tower and how do you enter?

You don't (probably need Darkside)

>What's in southern Sphinx and how do you enter?

see above

>What's in Darkstone tower and how do you enter?

see above 

>How do you enter the dungeon just west of Pitchfork Creek (next to
>the skull on the enclosed map)?

see above 

>What do the 4 corner radar dishes do?  (you must teleport to get to these)

good question!  If anyone has an answer to this one, I'd love to hear it 
(probably related to Darkside, based on everything else)

>Is there some point to the warzone?  I've killed 20 creatures at level 10
>but didn't get any reward (explicitly). (in MM3 you could only fight 75
>arena fights, after that the game crashed, so at least there was some kind
>of endpoint for it. :-)

Gain xp from killing monsters?

[...]

>1) Go to NightShadow and drink from the fountain.  This raises each chars
>   levels by 10 for the day.
>2) Go to Vertigo (via mirror) and drink from fountain to bring hit points up
>   to max.
>3) Go to Rivercity and drink from fountain to increase all spellpoints by 100.
>   Some chars may be able to drink more than once here!
>4) Go to Asp and drink fountain to add 100 hp to each char.
>5) Go to Winterkill for a final drink to add 50 to each char's Might sttrib.
>
>If you add to this the spells Day of Magic and the corresponding cleric
>spell (I forget the name) you make quite a formidable party.

This is by far the best strategy to get anywhere in this game, but...  You can
get 250 spell points in a fountain in the far southwest (Use loyds beacon to
get there quickly), and (depending on how long you need everything to last),
you might wan't to quickly duck outside of veritgo for +5 (10?) AC, and maybe
+60 Luck -- But make sure you /don't/ take the +5 levels, or +25 hp -- as soon
as your scores exceed normal maximums, nothing else will enhance them.

Oh yes, make sure you don't cast the Day of Sorcery and Day of Protection 
spells until /after/ you have +10 levels -- Because their effectivness is based
on the current level of the caster.  


>
>The only problem with the above strategy is that you have to pray that
>the bug involving the maps does not occur.  For example, I did this in
>the Golem dungeon while I was fighting all the Diamond Golems.  Unfortunately,
>3 times when I re-entered (via Lloyd's Beacon) the dungeon, the map was
>reset.  Note that resetting the map doesn't only mean you have to trudge
>over all the spaces to remap them.  BUT, you also have to kill all the
>monsters again.  The good thing about this was that I got so many
>King's Credits since they kept reappearing.  But then again, now that I
>have my own castle, what can I do with an aditional 16 or so credits? :-)

This is very annoying.  But hey, if a new game was released without any bugs, 
what would we complain about :)

BIG SPOILER BELOW





















Well, ok, not that big, but try going to the bottom of the volcano cave (What,
you didn't know their was one?  Look at the map you got in your package).  The
correct one is sitting in the middle of some lava, so expect to have fun 
getting in.  Work your way down, just take your time and sleep everytime you
get low on hit points, and use teleport to avoid some of the puzzles, and you
will get a real suprise when you hit the -5th floor...  have fun! 

jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu
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