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Re: The Point Of Magic Carpet.

#265
From: am... Andrew Smith
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 21:56
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In a previous posting, Moss A D (mos...@sunlab42.essex.ac.uk) writes:
> Okay, okay.
> 
> Want to know what you're supposed to /DO/ in Magic Carpet?
> 
> *) Fire your 'castle' spell at a likely looking piece of ground
> *) Fly around and kill absolutely everything that's remotely unfriendly.
> *) They'll drop spheres when they die
> *) Use the spell that changes the spheres' colour
> *) The balloon that you get with the castle will come and pick them up
>    when you change their colour
> *) You're competing for these spheres with other dudes on carpets, who'll
>    come change your-coloured spheres to ones which are their colour, then
>    /their/ balloon will come pick up the spheres.  But you can always change
>    the sphere colour back again or destroy their balloon.
> *) Spheres are good.  Keep marking as many as you can.
> *) There are at least two more spells in the demo.  A lightning bolt spell,
>    in that enclosed area full of wasps, and a sort of a turbo-boost spell
>    in some village.
> *) Keep your eye on the power-meter for the castle spell.  When you get one
>    or more white pixels in the power bar, it means you can go beef up your
>    castle.  Do this by firing the castle spell at your own castle.  Each
>    successive time you do this, you get a cooler castle, with more towers,
>    archers, walkways, etc.
> *) There's a transporation sphere amidst a ring of stones, I think it's
>    sort of north from the starting position.  It'll take you to the
>    tall enclosed area which is full of wasps.
> *) F1 for help.
> 
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
> --Adam.
> --
>              PGP key & stuff: http://cswww2.essex.ac.uk/Web/mossap.html
>      |\   /|           ------------------------------------------------
>     /| \_/_|           Adam D. Moss                  mos...@essex.ac.uk
> __--|\_/   _\          ------------------------------------------------
>     /_    (o \___o      "A smartass once accused me of being subtle. I
>    /_      ----= /     decked him with a short right over the heart and
>     /__  \ -----'         an elbow in the trachea." - Harlan Ellison
>        \ //            ------------------------------------------------
>       _/           And the men looked up in wonder
>  __/_/               And the hounds ran back to hide
> /_-/                   For the fox had changed to the Devil himself
>                          Where he stood on the other side
BTW, yes I am quoting the whole article because it was goo dbandwidth..

Anyways.. if you go thru the transport window to the other world..
(thru the Stonehenge thingies.
then if you finish that level... then you can continue on into
another level with Guys that ride on horses and birds and Ape-like 
thingies that throw rocks at you.


Then I died.

*shrug*

Too bad you can't save a game in the demo..
but I think it was neat.. plus you get Multi-Mana Savers (white ball spells)
and Speed up, and Multi Fireballs.. but you can't seem to use them.

Also a health improver.. and an Eye... dunno what that is for.

Bye.

Andrew

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|Andrew R. D. Smith - Carleton University Computer Science
|am...@freenet.carleton.ca                + Psychology
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