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Does anyone know what you can do if you find the Mystical Spear missing? (I don't know if one of my retard party "threw" it at someone or what?)


Also, somehow my lockpicking skill just disapeered? I had it, then I didn't? Anyone have a similiar experience?

Thanks for your attention.

-Hyperion

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My guess is that one of your party members threw it at something and lost it. If you left that screen, it's probably gone forever.

I seem to remember something about lockpicking skill disappearing, though I think it was corrected in a recent version.

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Slayer's guide to Cythera:
[url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/cythera.htm"]http://www.macclassi...era/cythera.htm[/url]

The only way to get back the spear, is to chop up the corpse of whatever got hit by it. It usually happens to me when fighting the crabs.

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Talk, talk, talk to myself!

Well, is the spear really necessary for anything then? (In other words: "Should I Care?")

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The spear is fairly useless, as there aren't any really, really tough enemies.

Lockpicking isn't much good either, since a mace works just as well as any lockpick.

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Slayer's guide to Cythera:
[url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/cythera.htm"]http://www.macclassi...era/cythera.htm[/url]

I enjoy having the spear. I find it a nice weapon because it tends to quickly end battles.
The easiest way of not losing it for me is to just have myself equip it.
When you use it, it doesn't fly off randomly as much.
I like its ability to shread enemies.
You could easily have a weapon as nice by upgrading a sword 10 times.

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Talk, talk, talk to myself!

If losing the spear because an idiot throws it and you don't want to use it and be the one keeping it safe, I'll build an AI that prevents characters from throwing it.

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Talk, talk, talk to myself!

That would be nice to include for other people buy my spear is long gone!

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Did you save your game? You know the saying: "Save often!" (It's for those strange ones who break their computers while trying to turn them on!) I was not implying anything, really! I am serious. By the way, has anyone seen my parrot, Mr. Hectór? (Notice the French accent? Or is it called "accident"?) Nevermind that...

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A smile is a curved line
that bends the world...

[This message has been edited by Lusankya23 (edited 04-10-2000).]

Well, yes I did save(often!), but...this leads to a new topic technically. When I approached the mystical castle, you know, the one that disappears if you aren't wearing the proper attire, well let's just say I was appropriately dressed for the occasion.

So, once I was in the castle, I changed into some more comfortable, and healthful clothes(if you know what I mean) and then promptly saved my game.

I ventured forth, slayed, and killed, and cast, and battled. And died.

So, I reverted to my saved game. And guess what happened!

Many of my items were missing but most of what remained had been duplicated! Weird hunh?

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the items that you found in the castle duplicated, or all your items that you originally had?

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A smile is a curved line
that bends the world

I think I good idea is to not only save, but make backups or copies of your player file.

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Talk, talk, talk to myself!

OK, I intentionally repeated the experiment, achieving some truly bizarre results:

First, here is what I did:

(Note: I have a backup of my game before doing all this so I can go back and undo all this if I want.)

I went to the Mystical Disapearing Castle(hereafter to be reffered to as the 'MDC'). I entered the MDC first without wearing the special item of apparel. I don't want to spoil the mystery of the MDC so I am being intentionally vague when necessary, I hope you can understand. Of course, instead of entering the MDC, I was in a giant grassland instead. I saved my game here. I exited the grassland, returning to the main map, where the MDC is once again visible.

I now put on the necessary attire for entering an MDC; one should always be properly dressed for such a special occasion!

I entered the MDC, removed the special apparel, and saved my game again. For my final step, I chose "Revert to Saved" from the "File" menu and wallah!; I was now in the Twilight Zone!

Here are most of the results:

(Please note, many changes occured, I am sure that I have ommited some!)

1. Most, but not all of the items in my inventory were duplicated. Items that you can not duplicate in any other fashion that I know of except maybe using file editor(which I did not!) Some example are: the "Sword of Heroes", the Crolna, my Magic Book(can't remember the proper name), and pretty much everything else.

2. Items which were in my inventory before when I think I visited the MDC, but have been used or left behind, were copied back into my inventory. For example, the Disks of Maayti, the small black stones, and some random other equipment which I had dropped like a fishing pole.

3. Most, but not all the items my character was wearing, could be removed TWICE! from my character's body. That's right: I now had a spare copy of all the mystical armor stuff: the helm, the dead animal cape, the aligator skin boots(I know their not exactly mystical), Alaric's Amulet Necklace, and the belt.

4. Most of my party also was wearing duplicate copies of their equipment. I don't know if they would have gained any extra benefit from wearing two layers of steal armor, but it did register in their encumbrance.

5. My character was no longer equiped with the weapons I went in with, but was now equiped with a third copy of the magic staff which I had been using the first time I visited the MDC previously in the game. Interestingly enough, I still had a short sword equiped in one hand even though I had a two-handed staff(under normal conditions!) in the other hand!

The weapon that the staff replaced was gone forever, which is why I made sure to put the sword of heroes into my equipment but not have it in my hands ready to use as a weapon. This effect of losing a weapons seems to be one of only two negative effects I can identify.

6. The second negative effect is hard to explain. I was wearing the mystical belt which increases your body stat. Since I now was wearing two belts however, my character's body was not increased for the second belt.

But, when I removed each belt, my character's body attribute was penalized normally resulting in a net loss of 6 body points(I think). The lesson here is this, to be safe, don't equip(that means wearing it or having items in your hands). Just keep everything you want duplicated in your character's inventory.

Well, in conclusion, I am sure I don't yet fully understand this anomoly, but it seems that you could use repeatedly to create a full set of mystical armor, aligator boots, sword of heroes, etc., one for each party member.

A final note:

My system is loaded up with extensions and control panels which do seem to interfere with Cythera from time to time. I have not yet tried to repeat this using a clean system. I would love to hear from other people who try this out, if it works on your system or not?

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