wws@sfmag.UUCP (Bill Stohl) (10/08/85)
I loved phantasia, then I found the grail. Now I'm a Valar with nothing to do except help new characters. I thought I'd try to win with each character -- then I got the bright idea of throwing monsters at a low level character until it had both a charm and a blessing. Then the Valar relocated the character to 1000000001, 1000000001 and threw the Dark Lord at the character. Suddenly, the character died! But no, the scoreboard says he died of old age (alas, retired at level 10000 after an hour of play). My question, have I done all that can be done (except become an ex-Valar?) It is no fun to play the Valar! I guess I should think of it as having won. Another question -- aren't Valars a bit too powerful? My Bildo the halfling character turned out get retired before the Valar! Well, phantasia served its purpose -- I now have no desire at all to play hack ;-) Maybe I can regress to game-writing now... Bill Stoll, ..!attunix!wws
ryan@ucla-cs.UUCP (10/11/85)
In article <730@sfmag.UUCP> wws@sfmag.UUCP (Bill Stohl) writes: >I loved phantasia, then I found the grail. Now I'm a Valar with >nothing to do except help new characters. I thought I'd try to win >with each character -- then I got the bright idea of throwing monsters >at a low level character until it had both a charm and a blessing. >Then the Valar relocated the character to 1000000001, 1000000001 and >threw the Dark Lord at the character. Suddenly, the character died! >But no, the scoreboard says he died of old age (alas, retired at level >10000 after an hour of play). > >My question, have I done all that can be done (except become an >ex-Valar?) It is no fun to play the Valar! I guess I should think >of it as having won. > >Another question -- aren't Valars a bit too powerful? My Bildo the >halfling character turned out get retired before the Valar! > >Well, phantasia served its purpose -- I now have no desire at all to >play hack ;-) Maybe I can regress to game-writing now... > >Bill Stoll, ..!attunix!wws __________________________________ Basically, the Valar is the Head Honcho of the Realm and plays the role of "God" in a way... There is nothing really more to do except to start a new character and try to steal the grail from the existing Valar by finding a new one..