From: boelter3945@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction
Subject: [SPOILER] Re: hgttg, how do i get the pot?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:48:56 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Sep28.175319.14686@tolten.puc.cl>, ocooper@malloco.ing.puc.cl
   (ocooper) writes:
> i'm about to finish the game (i hope)
> i have 350?400 points.. but i can't get the pot to solve hatch puzzle.
> i've tried using the driver, but it only leads me to the bugblaster,
> trillian,ford,zaphod,space fleet puzzles
> 
> (now sometimes i get into the vogon ship and in my own head, a nasty experience)
> but i can't get to any place to get the pot...
> 
> is something i'm missing?

   Well, not really, but there is a way around this.  When you use the driver,
you obviously start up with the tea substitute.  This, not being real tea,
doesn't give you control over where you go when you use the driver.  There's a
way around this, though.

   Seeing as you've been to the Bugblatter beast lair, I assume you've found
the interface card for the nutrimatic.  If so, you must use this card to obtain
a cup of real tea.  I assume you've got that as well, seeing as
> 
> btw i opened marvin's door, and landed in magrathea...

  you've opened Marvin's door.  The tea is a _great_ source of Brownian motion,
use this in place of the substitute tea.  Then, when you invoke the driver, you
will have some control over where you go.  When you are in the dark, you are
missing one of your five senses.  If you then smell/feel/look/listen to the
dark, you will get a message.  Each message is different, and corresponds to a
different place in the game.  If the message comes up that you've already
visited, simply 'look' again, and you will rotate through all the 'darks',
until you find the one you want.

   The one with the pot is one where you feel something warm and wet beneath
your fingers (missing your touch sense).  There is one that is cold and wet,
that's a different one.  There are eight in all, two each for touch (or was it
taste), sight, smell, and sound (sorry, I don't remember which ones correspond
to which place).  I _think_ they are as follows, but I could be wrong:
   Place                Sense description
Inside the whale        Warm and wet (touch)
At the party            Cold and wet (touch)
As Zaphod               Stabbing light at back of eyes (sight)
As Ford on Earth        Stabbing light at front of eyes (sight)
Vogon Hold              Smell being waved under your nose (smell)
Bugblatter beast        Smell waving under your nose (smell)
Space Fleet/Your brain  Sound of engines far above(?) (listen)
Heart of Gold ship      Sound of engines far below(?) (listen)

> there's another thing i have never solved: what's the thing your aunt gave
> you don't know what it is for? (once in a dumbness luck i tried to open it
> and found it was open..it can hold tons of stuff, and follow you (you can't
> get rid of it))but, is it anything important in the game?

   That's the best thing in the game! :)  You're right, it can hold everything
in the game, if you so desire (infinite portable hole?).  And it always returns
to you!  So that is one solution to get the pot (when you find it).  Simply put
the pot in the thing, and after you return to the ship, wait until the thing
returns to your inventory, and tada!

> ocooper@malloco.ing.puc.cl

                                        John "Nightwind" Boelter

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