WORZALA'S WEDNESDAY WORD 1-31-07
Today's Wednesday Word is "search" as in "When you're in, say, a Dragon Lord's lair, it is very important to search."
As was first mentioned back on 11/27 I have been playing Dragon Warrior rather frequently on my roommate's NES. Here's a bit of advice I have stumbled upon. If you are in the final boss' lair, and you've been informed by more than one towns person throughout your quest that there's a secret passage in the final castle behind the throne, and you've tried everything you can think of to find it. You might want to use your "search" function. I mean, if you've wandered over every square inch of the castle both inside and outside and still can't find the passage, you might want to use the "search" function.
I'm just saying, if you've wandered all around the throne area, all 5 squares of it, and you've tried every item in your inventory, and I mean every item; Rainbow stone, fairy water, fairy flute, fairy fairy, herbs, a second herb just in case it's a cumulative effect, fighter's ring, dragon scale and nothing works, you may want to choose from one of the 6 actions you can take. And don't choose talk or stairs or status. Or item. Or spell. Pick search.
It's up to you obviously, I mean, you could try all of the spells known to you. Radiant, Hurt, Heal, Hurtmore, Sleep, Sleep again just in case you needed to cast that after you play the fairy flute, but just remember to save 8 magic points so you can cast Return and go back to the castle to refill your magic points then. Sure it's a 10 minute walk back to the final castle, but no one ever died from being thorough. Well, you did, twice, because you kept running into blue dragons trying to push the throne from side to side, but still, what's two deaths and losing half your gold in the long run? But, if that's not your cup of tea, you might want to just click on that Search function that you've had since the very first second of the game.
You know, seeing as you've already been searching every tree, rock, and bridge you've come across the entire game in case there was some sort of hidden treasure cleverly buried in the middle of an 8-bit field. Seeing as you've searched every square of every town looking for possible dropped keys or armor. Seeing as you've spent two extra days leveling up your character thinking maybe at some magical "higher level" the door to the Dragon Lord would just be *poof* Opened To You, you might, just as a flailing, Hail Mary, swing for the bleachers, wild chance of a slim possibility TRY searching the throne.
Cause if the entrance was a bear it would have bit you, that's all I'm saying.
As was first mentioned back on 11/27 I have been playing Dragon Warrior rather frequently on my roommate's NES. Here's a bit of advice I have stumbled upon. If you are in the final boss' lair, and you've been informed by more than one towns person throughout your quest that there's a secret passage in the final castle behind the throne, and you've tried everything you can think of to find it. You might want to use your "search" function. I mean, if you've wandered over every square inch of the castle both inside and outside and still can't find the passage, you might want to use the "search" function.
I'm just saying, if you've wandered all around the throne area, all 5 squares of it, and you've tried every item in your inventory, and I mean every item; Rainbow stone, fairy water, fairy flute, fairy fairy, herbs, a second herb just in case it's a cumulative effect, fighter's ring, dragon scale and nothing works, you may want to choose from one of the 6 actions you can take. And don't choose talk or stairs or status. Or item. Or spell. Pick search.
It's up to you obviously, I mean, you could try all of the spells known to you. Radiant, Hurt, Heal, Hurtmore, Sleep, Sleep again just in case you needed to cast that after you play the fairy flute, but just remember to save 8 magic points so you can cast Return and go back to the castle to refill your magic points then. Sure it's a 10 minute walk back to the final castle, but no one ever died from being thorough. Well, you did, twice, because you kept running into blue dragons trying to push the throne from side to side, but still, what's two deaths and losing half your gold in the long run? But, if that's not your cup of tea, you might want to just click on that Search function that you've had since the very first second of the game.
You know, seeing as you've already been searching every tree, rock, and bridge you've come across the entire game in case there was some sort of hidden treasure cleverly buried in the middle of an 8-bit field. Seeing as you've searched every square of every town looking for possible dropped keys or armor. Seeing as you've spent two extra days leveling up your character thinking maybe at some magical "higher level" the door to the Dragon Lord would just be *poof* Opened To You, you might, just as a flailing, Hail Mary, swing for the bleachers, wild chance of a slim possibility TRY searching the throne.
Cause if the entrance was a bear it would have bit you, that's all I'm saying.
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