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What On Earth?

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:17 pm
by Darendor
Alright, Mangar's Tower, Level 5, at 8N, 10E.

There's a square that seems to teleport...to 8N, 10E...the funny thing is, is that if I approach it from the north, the disk drive runs as though scanning my party for an item (a la Master Key, for instance), but then stops. If I approach it from the south (as when you dive into the boiling liquid to teleport), the drive doesn't spin, it just acts like a malfunctioning teleport.

This is on the C64 version. Anyone have any idea as to what this is?

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:57 pm
by Horpner
I wonder if it's supposed to have a random effect.

You can sometimes face a Lich or two there (on the Apple ][, I think), which to me was always a much harder battle than facing Mangar.

As I wrote elsewhere recently, on the Amiga game crashes if you step there.

The best policy is to go around it through one of the side passages to the south.

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:23 pm
by Marco
Is this true? I tried walking over that square hundreds of times on the Apple version and never encountered anything. I heard that once before about the Liches, but was never able to reproduce this.

Marco.

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:21 am
by Horpner
I'll be darned if I can remember if this is true or not, now. I'm filled with doubt.

I certainly can't check on the Apple any more, but I should be able to check for liches on the C64.