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From: ulrich@ma2s3.uucp (Ulrich Elsner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: clone Mr B.
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:22:05 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany

I am really disappointed :-(
I worked my Dwarven Priest all the way up to level 40 because I wanted
him to be the first (well, locally) character to kill not one but two
Balrogs. He was fully loaded with everything to take on a couple of
Balrogs at a time, but whenever he cloned Mr. B, the second (and third..)
B's disappeared after a few 'rounds'. They just seemed to teleport away
but after I finished the first B, I searched the whole level but found
nothing.  

So, why won't the game allow me my triumph?  Is it a bug, a feature ?

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Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
From: rstimets@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets)
Subject: Answer me this!
Keywords: Curatives, Mushrooms, Boasting
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:49:33 GMT

Please tell me if you can, what do the following items do:

1)  Mushroom of Light Cures
2)  Mushroom of Minor Cures
3)  Mushroom of First Aid   (Can these things be all that different?)
4)  Potion of Cure Light Wounds (Numbers, please!)
5)  Potion of Cure Serious Wounds
6)  Potion of Cure Critical Wounds
7)  Potion of Healing
8)  Jewel-Encrusted Crown [+0,+3]


I'd love to tell you about how I found a Mature Green Dragon at 1000',
how my 14th level warrior killed it, and how he was rewarded with an item
#8 above and (get this) an Amulet of the Magi.  That made my Ring of See
Invisible (900') obsolete, but that's OK because in the next room there
was a Ring of Lordly Protection {acid} [+5] !!!
Anyway, I'd love to tell you about it, but I'm short on time right now,
I'll probably need to drop down a level or so to find a ring of speed!
From: spectatr@milton.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: Re: Monster difficulty/Source code...
Date: 25 Jul 92 21:08:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul25.210849.22443
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
                                                                          Ju

And now for the other question.  A while back, I tried to d/l the source for
Umoria, which some helpful soul was kind enough to point out to me.  Unfortuy
Unfortunately, the README files in the ftp sites weren't detailed enough to t
tell me what to d/l so I could get it to run under Borland C++ 2.0, on an IBM
386 color machine.  Could someone else with a similar configuration, tell me wh
what they did and which files they used?  THANX!

(Starting over from scratch thanx to the 500' AMHD... ;)
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: augh.
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:59:42 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

Trivia:

Q: What is a quasit?

A: It is something that's easily killed.


Q: What is a death quasit?

A: It is something that easily kills.


Buuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

My 29th level mage just met a death quasit! They're supposed to be
common at 2000 feet; what the hell was it doing?

AAAUGH!
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From: grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: Wizard's Quest--Chapter 27
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:34:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: zariski.GRABINER.92Jul25113435
Organization: Harvard University Dept. of Mathematics


I can defeat everything here except for an ancient multi-hued dragon,
but I cannot survive a single breath from the Balrog.  This means that I
must just wait here, collecting items, until I have the necessary skills.

I save potions of invulnerability, scrolls of destruction and genocide,
and a few other items which may be useful.  But I can't find enough of
the potions of gain constitution that I need.  Like the average human
wizard of the fifth circle, I could now barely survive the Balrog's
breath if I could increase my health to the maximum possible for a
human, but I am nowhere near that point.

A hostile priest drops a morning star, which turns out to be a Holy
Avenger, the most powerful type of magic weapon.  The morning star
increases my strength by as much as two potions, and has been magically
enhanced more than any other weapon I have seen.  I discard my sword of
undead slaying, as thje morningstar can do the same job better.

My spell shows no monsters as I run down a corridor, but the Holy
Avenger quickly reveals one, a full-fledged ghost.  It makes a horrible
wail, but I conquer my fear.  Then it claws me.  I've had this
unfortunate experience before, and I expect my brain to be damaged, but
it doesn't happen; instead, I feel a magical field protecting my brain.
This must be another power of the Holy Avenger.

I phase door away and dispatch the ghost with some lightning bolts.  In
the next room, eight frost balls and two frost bolts destroy an ancient
red dragon, but also use up most of my mana.  While I am searching the
treasure, my haste self spell runs out, and a lich teleports me across
the room.

The lich has me cornered, so I try to teleport with the last of my mana,
but fail, and then the lich drains my staff of teleportation.  I'm out
of genocide scrolls, and I really don't want to use a scroll of
destruction and obliterate the dragon's hoard; do I have another choice?

Yes, I do; this is just an ordinary lich, a creature whose power of evil
is no longer any more powerful than my power of good.  I read a scroll
of protection from evil, and suddenly the lich can no longer touch me.
I don't even need to haste myself, just to strike with my morning star,
and drink potions when the lich casts annoying spells.

The battle takes a while because of the energy the lich gained from my
staff, but it is an easy victory.  I can now search the dragon's hoard,
where I find a cloak of protection.
--
David Grabiner, grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu
"We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary."
"Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again."
Disclaimer: I speak for no one and no one speaks for me.
From: magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: "Wizard's quest" available with FTP
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:08:21 GMT

I've made the recently completed story "Wizard's quest" by David Grabiner
avaliable with anonymous FTP from leif.thep.lu.se [130.235.92.55]. The
filename is pub/Misc/wizquest.txt.

An MS-DOS version of Umoria 5.4 is available in the same directory.


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From: cdb@waikato.ac.nz (Craig D. Beere)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: <None>
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:27:58 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Suggestion for Moria...

For all thos people like me who occasinally don't hit the right key...

It is really annoying when you use up your last Identify scroll and identify
something you already know, just because you hit R instead of T!

Identify spell should not work on items already identified, it should say
something like "you already know what that is, what do you really want to
identify?"

A question...

What do I have to do to find ego weapons?  My 31st level Ranger has found two
ego weapons, one SA and one SE.  He has BOUGHT two ego weapons, one SA and one
HA (which he is currently using).  He has BOUGHT no less than three ego armors,
a RC, a RL, and a RC, but has found none.  He's currently on 1950 ft, and
driving deeper and deeper (now he has the see invisible to stop G's disking him
royally, as they have been!)

{*******************************************************************************
** Craig D. Beere  (a.k.a. ++Byron)
** University of Waikato, New Zealand
** CDB@waikato.ac.nz
*}
{$I standard_disclaimer}
{$I witty_quote}
From: gelinasp@merrimack.edu (Paul T. Gelinas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: Re: Elvish Waybread?
Date: 26 Jul 92 02:23:54 GMT
Organization: Spiffy Computing, Ltd.

In article <jonok.0v2c@terapin.com>, jonok@terapin.com (Jonathan Keller) writes:
> In article <1992Jul21.180045.22068@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
> Scott.Maxwell@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Scott Maxwell) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul21.005615.24332@physics.ucla.edu>
> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.e
>>du writes:
>>>So, like, what's it do?
>>
>>       It makes you full, no matter how hungry you are. I don't know of
>>any other effects.
> 
> Not really, It counts for 1.5 times as much food as the ration.  If you eat one
> after 500 turns have passed since the Hungry flag has come up then it won't
> quite fill you up...and if you're hurt you will see a message about feeling
> better.

	Last I checked, it also cured poison.
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From: grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: Wizard's Quest--Chapter 29
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:27:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: zariski.GRABINER.92Jul27122759
Organization: Harvard University Dept. of Mathematics


The first thing I try to do when I reach the new level is genocide the
Balrog.  Of course, the Balrog can resist the spell if it is nearby, but
I will feel its resistance, giving me a warning to leave the level.  And
that is what happens this time.  I stay in place and word-of-recall
back to town; if the Balrog hasn't yet found me here, it won't find me
if I stay here.

Returning to the depths and trying again, I cast the spell of genocide,
and this time no Balrog resists it.  I continue by genociding bats and
ancient dragons again, and then start searching.  There is lots of magic
treasure here which I have never seen, and other items of which I saw
only one or two are common at this depth.

I find a maze room, full of treasure, but also containing several
monsters; my spell locates an orc, an ant-lion, an ooze, and a skeleton.
Something in there is picking up treasure; it's probably the ooze, so I
had better hunt it down.  

I open the door, and am quickly approached by a human, who must be
invisible since he didn't show up with my spell.  I've heard of Evil
Iggy before, but never met him in person, and he isn't polite; he
weakens me with a poisoned dagger, insults my mother, and steals one of
my spellbooks while I try to think of an appropriate response.

I teleport away, and eat a mushroom to restore my strength, since I
don't want to have to return to the city and risk meeting the Balrog
again.  After hasting myself up to Iggy's speed, I try to fight him from
a distance, as I did with the emperor liches.  He isn't especially
vulnerable to any of my magical attacks, and I quickly run out of mana
and have to teleport out again.

This time, I find a wand of fire balls in a ninja's pack; he probably
wasn't even able to use the wand, since it is so powerful.  Using it
against Iggy from a distance, I exhaust the five charges, recharge it,
exhaust the charges again, retreat until Iggy is no longer next to me,
recharge, and so on.  While the wand lasts, I don't use up mana very
quickly, needing only to haste myself and charge the wand.  After twenty
fire balls, the wand explodes when I recharge it, and Iggy is still
alive.  He teleports away, and I rest.

I approach him once more, and keep going with fire bolts.  After a total
of twenty fire balls, thirty fire bolts, one frost bolt, and one
lightning bolt, he dies, or at least vanishes, and his hoard is larger
than a dragon's.

There is only one item of interest in Iggy's hoard, but it is certainly
of interest; I find the most valuable item in the game, a ring of speed.
--
David Grabiner, grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu
"We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary."
"Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again."
Disclaimer: I speak for no one and no one speaks for me.
From: templin@grayling.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Fred Templin)
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: Re: Fishing Stories
Date: 31 Jul 1992 18:43:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grayling.cs.berkeley.edu

Fishing for walleyes and pike in Northern Quebec a few years
back, my father and I were about 15 miles out from camp fishing
jigs and trolling. My dad picked up about a 10" shiner and we
both turned our noses up in disgust as he flipped it over the
side. An overly aggressive gull saw this and jumped on the
hapless shiner and started making a meal of it. Well, we
went back to fishing and drifted away from the gull about 50 ft.
or so. Next thing we knew, a BALD EAGLE swooped down on the
gull, made it cough up the shiner, and took off with it's
pirated catch! Helluva rough day for the shiner, eh?

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	Fred L. Templin
	(templin@grayling.Berkeley.EDU)

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From: douthit@convex.com (Ronnie Douthit)
Subject: Re: Fish stories & introduction
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:37:25 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

lucia@savvy.gsf.dec.com (Tim Lucia) writes:

>has only had 2 90 degree + days.  Should have had at least 7 or 8 by now.

     Come on out to Texas, you won't have that problem.

>Anyhow, I'm looking forward to some interesting discussions.

     Ooopps.


	-Ron (how do you install an air conditioner in a Jon boat ?) D.

Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
From: jjmorey@athena.mit.edu (John J Morey)
Subject: Another Fish Story
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:37:23 GMT


This guy went out fishing for tuna when he hooked
into a 700lber, there boat wasn't rig'd for such a big
one and they basically got drag'd around, burned out there
engine and got hull damage and called the coastguard.  The coast 
guard could only tow them in so far and a private tow co had to 
finish bringing them in.  It's around 2am and the tow co wanted
$1500 for the tow before they could get their boat back or the tuna.

The guy had to call his father to bring a credit card up to hingham
from cape cod that night.  Talk about getting the catch of a lifetime
and regretting it.

Details may be off a little.

John
From: mdr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Mike Rogoff)
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: Fishing in BA/NorCal
Date: 31 Jul 1992 00:03:35 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: tempest.berkeley.edu
Summary: where to go...

  Hey there........I'm a relatively inexperienced fisherman with a friend
who is in the same boat (ha ha).  I'm killing me!  Sorry...
  Anyway, we live in Berkeley and are interested in fishing in the Bay Area
and Northern California.  (our car can't go much farther).  What are some
good spots for afternoons near Berkeley and weekends around the area?
Thanks in advance......

  Also, what is the difference between this newsgroup and alt.fishing?

Mike
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: It's here!
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:58:52 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

We'll I was of the first people to post to alt.fishing so I figured that
I ought to do the same thing here.  Anyone for a best fishing story contest.
I got into a fishing story contest a few weeks ago on a trip with a bunch
of other guys.  "Tom" had the winner:

Tom and two of his buddies were mooching for salmon in 17' bayliner about
a mile of the coast near half moon bay.  They were fishing in a area sometimes
know as the triangle.  The triangle extends from Davenport (south) out to
the Farallon islands (just north of SF) up to Bodega Bay.  The triangle
contains many of the great white shark sitings along the California coastline.
Tom had dropped in his bait when all of sudden the boat leaned over a bit 
and as he turned his buddy came flying across the boat and practically knock
him into the water.  After regaining his balance he found out why his buddy
had been forced to this side of the boat.  A sea lion had bumped up against
the boat and actually come part way out the water right in front of his buddy.
A couple of seconds later another sea lion came completely out of the water.
Something was down there chasing them.  About the time they both thought
"great white", the sea lion comes out of the water again, up the side of the
boat and over the railing.  They now have a full grown female sea lion in the
boat with them.  The sea lion goes right after Tom and he's fending him off
with his fishing rod.  The sea lion has him pinned against the stern of the
boat and Tom has got his rod cross-ways in the sea lions mouth.  Somehow
Tom managages to get around the sea lion and heads towards the bow.  Tom
considered going overboard at this point and then remembered why the sea
lion was in the boat in the first place.  Tom got up on the elevated bow of 
the boat.  One of his buddies was a rather large person and a former football
player.  He saw an opening and ran from the back of the boat and gave the 
sea lion a body block and knocked it back into to water.  They got out of 
there quickly and called it a day.


-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: fishing story
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:16:38 GMT
Organization: American Math. Society

Here's a fishing story:

We flew into a lake by float-plane from Anchorage.  The rainbow trout
in this lake hit like crazy, and they averaged about 16 inches.  In
two days I personally caught about 25 'bows.  These rainbows were
fairly acrobatic, but I hooked into one that never stopped jumping, a
"circus fish".  Well, this thing jumped four or five times on one side
of the boat, and then shot under the boat and started jumping on the
other side.  So my rod was on one side, the line was under, and the
fish was busily jumping on the other side of the boat.  All of a
sudden, the fish wasn't jumping anymore, and I it felt like the fish
had gotten tangled up in some weeds, or something.  That's when my
friend started laughing.  I asked what was so funny, and he pointed
out that the 'bow was laying in the bottom of the boat.  The last time
it had jumped, the line was tight against the bottom of the boat, and
it just flipped the fish in.  My friend and I laughed pretty hard for
a while after letting the fish fish go.  It deserved it for putting on
such a good show!
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From: cloyd_j@apollo.hp.com (John Cloyd)
Subject: a looong story :->
Originator: cloyd_j@face_plant
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:54:44 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA

sorry if it's too long...

    Nothing interesting ever happens to me when
I'm fishing, so I'll tell you a fly tying story.
I grew up in Salem, Mass., across the street from 
the ocean, and so naturally did a lot of fishing.
I guess I was 8 or so years old when a kid traded
me a fly rod with an automatic reel for my spinning
outfit. I'd never seen one of these rigs before,
couldn't cast it, and couldn't figure out how my
seaworm could sink if the line floated. Thus, I
caught no fish for a year. Over the winter, though,
I saw a guy on TV cast. A few weeks of backyard
casting and I began to catch on. However once
spring came and I tried the new technique my sea-
worm kept flying off the hook. Still I caught noth-
ing. 
    Fate set in one day at the YMCA, when in a copy
of Field & Stream I saw a picture of a fly. Ahhh!
I didn't have one, or know where to get one, but I
was a resourceful little bugger. That box mom kept
marked "Xmas Decorations" was a good start. Aha,
silver tinsel, just like in the picture. Next stop
the sewing machine for thread, then some of that 
airplane glue Dad snif..er uses for his boat models.
Perfect, all I needed was a wing.
    The fly cast great as my best pal and I sat in
our 8' pram. Below us the water was changing color
like the northern lights, as schools of mackerel
passed under the boat. Jackie was catching them on
a diamond jig, and I was catching nothing, as usual.
Then, as I was pulling the line out to cast, I got
a strike. It hooked itself and put up the fight we'd
grown to love so much, but for me it was like no
mackerel I'd caught before- probably because it had 
been so long since I'd caught one. I caught 2 more,
then hook a fat pollock and broke the rod at the 
ferrule. Undaunted, I proudly went home to display
my catch.
    The door was open when I arrived and somehow
there was blood in the air. I hesitated a second,
then strode in to find my mother, father and sister
sitting at the kitchen table. My sister was crying.
On the table in front of them were her three Barbie
dolls. They were missing much of their hair, in fact
they looked like Cyndi Lauper, Grace Jones and Sinead
O'Connor, but unfortunately such hair styles were
not in vogue in 1966. 
    The incident, as it was called at our house, re-
sulted in my becoming a landlubber for the rest of
the summer, which taught me the most important
lesson there is to learn in fly tying; uh...ummm er,
well ah...OK I didn't learn a damned thing, ask my
dog, my cats, my wife, the barber, grandma's mink,
the night watchman at the pet store...
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