U9 - Am I screwed or what?

"John Crane" <john_crane_97(at)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Well, I left the glyphs & sigils at the shrines after I cleansed them. I
> didn't think I'd need them and I didn't want to carry around a bunch of
> useless stuff. Well, you do need them in the endgame. I've retraced my
> steps and retrieved all but one - the Ankh of Spirituality. And to get to
> the Shrine I recall needing a red candle - which was "consumed" when I
> first used it. Any body know of other red candles? (BTW - I do have a
> backup demon skull)
>
> -J
>

I made it back, looked around and... at first I thought the glyph and sigil
had disappeared!

But as it turns out, they are suspended maybe 30 feet in the air in some
light above the altar. I get a yellow cursor so I can't reach them. What's
even wierder is that you can't jump or climb onto the altar (but you can
jump around the perimiter of the disc the entire shrine is suspended upon)

A couple of fireballs dislodged it, and it fell to my feet. Is this normal?

-J
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With a deafening roar and a whoosh of spray, John Crane swings about and
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> Well, I left the glyphs & sigils at the shrines after I cleansed them.
> I didn't think I'd need them and I didn't want to carry around a
> bunch of useless stuff. Well, you do need them in the endgame. I've
> retraced my steps and retrieved all but one - the Ankh of
> Spirituality. And to get to the Shrine I recall needing a red candle
> - which was "consumed" when I first used it. Any body know of other
> red candles? (BTW - I do have a backup demon skull)

You're screwed unless you use the cheat mode. There's a second candle in
a box underwater along the beach on the east side of the Isle of the
Avatar, but once you go back into the Abyss, you can't get back out.
Apparently the game only will move you out of there once - LB's still
down there and goes through the exit dialogue again, but then the game
stops instead of letting you go.

You'll need to bind one of the following commands in your default.kmp
file:
spells_0-2
spells_3-5
spells_6-8
After that load the game and DROP EVERYTHING!
That's every last item you're carrying or wearing.
THEN, and only then, use the cheat command. That will reset your
inventory to the beginning of the game, fill your spellbook with the
spell level range in the cheat, and add the quest items, including the
Sigils.
Then you can pick up all your stuff. Note that these cheats will cost you
all your current gold and arrows.


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> But as it turns out, they are suspended maybe 30 feet in the air in
> some light above the altar. I get a yellow cursor so I can't reach
> them. What's even wierder is that you can't jump or climb onto the
> altar (but you can jump around the perimiter of the disc the entire
> shrine is suspended upon)
>
> A couple of fireballs dislodged it, and it fell to my feet. Is this
> normal?

Bug, and an irritating one. It seems to be related to computers that run
the game faster than originally designed, as it only appeared years after
the release.

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-==(UDIC)==- u++ uC++ uF uG+ uLB- uA+ nC+ nR nH+ nP+ nI nPT nS++ nT+ y
The Other Codex http://www.ultimainfo.net/Codex/

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Greetings.

In article <Xns988A9D700DE92spampaulonultimainfo.TakeThisOut@127.0.0.1>, Paulon wrote:
>> But as it turns out, they are suspended maybe 30 feet in the air in
>> some light above the altar. I get a yellow cursor so I can't reach
>> them. What's even wierder is that you can't jump or climb onto the
>> altar (but you can jump around the perimiter of the disc the entire
>> shrine is suspended upon)
>>
>> A couple of fireballs dislodged it, and it fell to my feet. Is this
>> normal?
>
> Bug, and an irritating one. It seems to be related to computers that run
> the game faster than originally designed, as it only appeared years after
> the release.

You think they would have learned not to write system-speed-dependent code
after what happened with Ultima II.

Regards,
Tristan

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