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  1.             S P E L L B R E A K E R
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  4. Below follows a text from the manual to Infocom's Spellbreaker. This is
  5. perhaps the most difficult adventure from Infocom, so it is a luck for 
  6. you that I found the below mentioned text on a disk with manuals. (This
  7. is the only Infocom help on this disk, not written by Mr.Who ???)
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  10. BARBEL OF GURTH, Artibter, Diplomat BERKNIP, Oldest Active Necromancer  
  11.                                     (662-750, 841-present)              
  12.   "When I was a boy, I was told                                         
  13. that any Enchanter could become a   "No one weeps for a necromancer."   
  14. Guildmaster. Now I'm beginning to                                       
  15. believe it"                         Survived by 7 children and 39       
  16.                                     grandchildren in 750 G.U.E.(he has 
  17. Son of Delbor, advisor to Lord      since out-relived them)             
  18. Dimwit Flathead                                                         
  19.                                     Greatest skill: assisteing          
  20. Inventor of the golmac spell        historical biographers              
  21.                                                                         
  22. Buildmaster of Gurth City chapter   Hobby: antiques (making and         
  23. since 933                           collecting)                         
  24.                                                                         
  25. President of GAC (Gurth Arbiters    Inexplicably afraid of swords and   
  26. Congress)                           powdered milk                       
  27.                                                                         
  28. Greatest skills: arbitrating,       Vegetarian (adapted nitfol spell    
  29. speaking in tongues                 for raw oysters and cripsy whole    
  30.                                     fish)                               
  31. Respnsible for restoration of hight                                     
  32. enchantment dues                    Double Fanucci handicap:            
  33. Double Fanucci handicap:42          unmeasureable.
  34.                       
  35. DIMITHIO OF BORPHEE, "The Cheerful  GUSTAR WOOMAX, Chronicler of Magic  
  36. Sorcerer" (Founder of the Borphee                                      
  37. Enchanter's Guild)                  "If history can teach us the        
  38.                                     difference between good and bad     
  39. "Magic doesn't have to be great to  magic, it can teach us anything."   
  40. be useful, nor does magic have to                                       
  41. be useful to be great"              Author of "A Brief History of       
  42.                                     Magic," "Bizboz at Galepath,"       
  43. Studied under Yooman, the Musician  "Mage versus Archamage," "Revenge   
  44. Mage                                of the Dormbeasts", "The Granola    
  45.                                     Riots" (co-authoured by Wilbar      
  46. Animal lover (adapted nitfol spell  Memboob), and "The Coconut of       
  47. for egg-laying mammals)             Quendor: Reality or Illusion?"      
  48.                                                                         
  49. Tremendously well read and good     Born in Greater Borphee,880         
  50. natured                                                                 
  51.                                     Attended G.U.E. Tech, 907-911       
  52. Greatest skill: fireworkds display                                      
  53. Dispised by Holnac the Cynic        Favorite author:Bizboz              
  54.                                                                         
  55. Double Fanucci handicap: 127        Greatest skill: none known          
  56.                                                                         
  57.                                     Double Fanucci handicap: 620        
  58.                                                                         
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  60. FORBURN THE WILY, Double Fanucci    BARSAP, Royal Magicain              
  61. Champion                            (Turned into newt, 972)             
  62.                                                                         
  63. "The Encyclopedia Frobozzica calls  "The hardest trick is making it     
  64. Double Fanucci a `game played with  look easy"                          
  65. cards.' I don't play games; I don't                                     
  66. play anything."                     First performed before royalty, 850 
  67.                                     Appointed Royal Magicaian, 875      
  68. Never formally studied magic        Greatest skills: juggling, creative 
  69.                                     accounting                          
  70. First won a spell book from an                                          
  71. unsuspecting G.U.E. Tech student in Guild membership revoked for dues   
  72. a 902 Fanucci match                 evasion, 960                        
  73.                                                                         
  74. Raised the level of play in Double  Last book read: "Magic with         
  75. Fanucci championships               Mirrors"                            
  76.                                                                         
  77. Brought new meaning to the word     Double Fanucci handicap: 19         
  78. "chiseler"                                                      
  79.                                                                         
  80. Greatest skill: drawing Trebled                                        
  81. Fromps                                                                 
  82.                                                                         
  83. Double Fanucci handicap: 0.01                                           
  84.  since 933 
  85.  
  86. Mr.Who ??? wishes you good luck with this Infocom...
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