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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 03 Jun 97 15:17:31 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg01058.html">339d0493.732054138@neptune</A>>, on 06/02/97
at 09:00 PM, alexo#bigfoot,com (Alex Oren) said:
>Consider the following quest:
>Your guild leader says "Bring me a shrub^H^H^H^H^Hgolden egg".
>The golden egg is actually a holy item of the orcs, possessed by the
>orcish shaman, who usually sits in his hut, in the middle of a medium
>sized orcish village.
>The player in question has to determine the egg's location in
>whatever (non-linear) way he fancies.
>Then he has to (non-linearly) arrive at the shaman's present
>location, persuade him (in a less than linear way) to part with the
>egg, etc.
>This may involve hacking the whole village apart or just casting a
>few spells in a creative way.
>As ChrisL demonstrated in an earlier post, it can be creatively done.
A standard solution for me would be:
Go steal an Orcish body.
Walk into the Orc village unassaulted.
Find the shaman.
Steal his body.
Take the egg.
>The problem is when Buffy tells Biffy of her incredible adventure and
>Biffy exclaims "Posh! I'd have handled it much better", she has
>practically no way of proving it (apart from dragging Boffo,
>screaming and kicking, to the same cliff, tossing him down and
>finally offering to heal him).
<guffaw>
>Anyways, ChrisL's orc scenario demonstrates that reset-less quests
>are viable. I consider my question answered and will nag you with
>others. Stay tuned...
<bow>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00848" HREF="msg00848.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 23:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00891" HREF="msg00891.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00996" HREF="msg00996.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01058" HREF="msg01058.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01119" HREF="msg01119.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 04 Jun 1997, 05:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00960" HREF="msg00960.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 00:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01056" HREF="msg01056.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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