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Re: Werner Fareber

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From: Big MAd drongo
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:00
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Detonate wrote in message
>Actually, now you mention it, my current (sloppy) game hasn't met with
any
>MC attacks yet - I'm just paranoid. :-)

Finished with my woman 'cos she couldn't help me with my mind.

<stops singing>
<faces down stony disaproving silence>

>Actually, besides the limited novelty of the cinema, there wasn't much
going
>up there.  Just strikes me as strange that I've never, ever found an
alien
>up there.
Once I found a Triscene in the bottom room on the top level.  Killed two
'naughts before I finally fried the begger with sonic pulsars.  I seem
to remeber another alien up there as well, but that might just be my
memory.

>And I've only ever found a Triscene lurking in the upper galley, at the
>back of the cargo ship.
Found all sorts up there.

>How the heck it got in there, I don't know - the doors are only one
square >wide!
It was born there.

>ROFL  Do the aliens go upstairs, on the second level of the shipping
>missions, if you increase the difficulty level, or is this some kind of
placement >bug I wonder?
Not sure, they might start up top and migrate downward as soon as
possible?

>Yup.  I can usually cover the cabins fairly quickly if I don't meet
with
>instant opposition at the first corridor behind the galley.  I've taken
to
>causing absolute mayhem round the galley area nowadays, by saturating
the
>corridors with sonic pulsers. <g>  I hate to break up their party in
the
>kitchen, but it gives me the most grief. arf.
I have great fun in there, very tense :o)

Big MAd drongo
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From: "Big MAd drongo" <bigmad...@virgin.net>
Subject: Re: Werner Fareber
Date: 2000/04/02
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