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- Ultima ][ cheat sheet
-
- 1. The basic basics.
-
- The object of the game is to kill Minax, evil apprentice of Mondain who we
- met in the original Ultima. In the instuctions, it tells you about certain
- commands, but not which objects are necessary. These are:
-
- View (V): This gives you a bird's eye veiw of the village, town, castle, time
- zone, or planet you are on. To use this command, you must have a helm. Enemy
- fighters often carry helms.
-
- Board (B): There is no problem boarding a horse or a plane; however, this is
- not the case with frigates (boats). To board a frigate, you need a blue tassle.
- Once abord, you can use thefire (F) command, which is more effective then any
- weapon a charactercan carry.
-
- Launch (L): Firstly, to launch a plane ora rocket, you need to have boarded
- it first. On a plane, you need to be carrying a skull key and a brass button
- to launch. To land, press L again while over grass land. If you try to land
- on a mountain, you die. If you try to land over water of forest, it will
- ignore your command. To launch a rocket, you need two things. First, you need
- to be wearing power armor. Second, you need to be carrying tri-lithiums. One
- tri-lithium is needed for each launch and hyper. Rockets can be found in a
- village in the aftermath (2112) time zone, on an inlet in the area that is
- currently Russia. The village is called Pirate's Harbor. You can get there
- only through the use of time doors and frigates. Rules for landing are the
- same as with planes.
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- Negate Time (N): This eliminates the enemy's ability to move, but not attack.
- You need a strange coin to negate. Each negate will eliminate one coin.
-
- 2. What can I do so that I do not die so quickly?
-
- I keep on running out of food. Food can be bought at a variety of villages
- and towns. If you are a thief, You can steal (S) the food; however, should
- you do this, beware of guards! If they see you, they will pursue and attack.
-
- I get the crap beaten out of me, and run out of hit points. By time door and/or
- frigate, go to
- England in 300 BC or 1990. Enter the castle. On the North central area of the
- castle, there is a sign that says British. Under this sign, there is a king.
- This is Lord British. Transact with him, and he will take fifty gold, and
- raise your hit points by 300. Later in the game, he gives you 200, and then
- 100. You can have up to 9999 hit points.
-
- 3. Other problems.
-
- I work my rear end off to buy better armor and weapons, and when I buy them,
- the game tells me that I am either not agile enough to use the weapon, or not
- strong enough to wear the armor. What can I do? In North America in 1990,
- there is a town in the New Mexico area. On the Southwest corner of this town,
- there is a building called The Hotel California. In the South end of this
- building, there is a merchant. If you transact with this merchant, he will
- say "Welcome to the Hotel California". Offer him 100 gold. He will either
- reply "Thank you very much." or "Alakazam!". If he thanked you, nothing
- happened. If he said Alakazam, one of your atributes went up by four.
- The attribute is chosen by random. If strength is chosen, you will be able
- to wear better armor. If agility is chosen, you will be able to handle a
- better weapon, or achieve more hits with your current weapon. If intelect
- or wisdom is chosen, your spell casting ability will increase, if you are
- a magician or cleric. If your stamina was chosen, your ability to denfend
- from attack increases. If intelligence or charisma is chosen, your
- bargaining ability increases, causing prices to go down.
-
- I launched a rocket and exploded! You are not wearing power armor!
-
- I went through something that looked like arrows moving up, and the game
- said "Field takes 1000 hit points!" Ah, you have encountered the force field.
- To go through this unharmed, you need the ring. I will tell you how to get
- this later.
-
- What about that Quicksword you mentioned? Ok, this varies. First I will give
- in-structions for users of any version that does not allow diagnal movement.
- First, get 500 gold. Then go to New San Antonio (the town with the Hotel
- California) and go to the upper left hand corner. There is a building marked
- "Airport". To get in you need three keys. To get keys, kill guards in any
- village where it is not to deadly. I suggest Pirate's Harbor in the aftermath
- time zone in Northern Russia. Steal a ship from their port,and fire away!
- Now, after you get to the inside of the airport, you will need to kill the
- fighter who owns it. This will get the guards on your tail. Quickly, board
- the plane, and launch. Do not leave the town. Head East towards the prison.
- Land on the grass directly outside the prison, since cobblestone can not be
- landed on. Taxi to the door, and unlock it (need a key!), and kill the guard.
- X-it the plane at the doorway. It will serve to block additional guards.
- Go to the cells, and enter the one containing a fighter (another key!).
- Offer him your 500 gold, and he will give you the Quicksword. Try to ready it,
- if you can't, you will need to return for more atributes. Go back to your
- plane. There will be several guards lined up there. Board your plane, launch,
- and get the hell out of there! The reason that you should not go directly to
- the prison is that without the plane there, those guards would enter and kill
- you. Okay, now for those who can move diagonally. For you, you need atotal
- of two keys, and 500 gold. Go straight to the prison. Unlock the door and go
- past the guard peacefully.Go to the fighter, open his cell, give him 500 gold.
- You can then try to ready the Quicksword, leave the prison, and move around
- the town without anyone bothering you. The Quick sword is the only weapon that
- can kill Minax.
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- 4. Venturing onward.
-
- Note: Do not do this until you have both power armor and the Quicksword. Also
- have at least fifteen tri-lithiums. Why should I leave the Earth? It is fun,
- and neccasary for attaining the ring. Ok, how do I leave? Find Pirate's
- Harbor. It is in Aftermath, in North Russia. In the town, there is a boat
- dock that you might have used to raid this village. Steal a boat from there.
- Insted of going down and killing guards, go up. There is a building marked
- mission control, and many rockets. Board one. Launch it. After achieving
- Earth orbit, hyper to co-ordinates 9-9-9. You will either achieve orbit
- of planet X, or drift off course to deep space. If you drift, hyper again,
- if not, land. If you geta CMD: prompt, wait until you are over grass, then
- (L)and. If you get a <PRESS ANY KEY> prompt, again wait for grass and press
- any key. If you hit mountain, trees or water, you will die. If you land
- succesfully, X-it the rocket, and look for the castle. If you can't find it,
- try (V)iewing. Once you get there, you can go to the top and replace your hit
- points. Inside the left side maze, there is a cleric named Father Antos.
- To get to him you will have to go through swamp and avoid an attack. When
- you find him, (T)ransact with him. He will say "You have my blessing.
- Now return home and claim the ring!" You can get the ring now. From here,
- you can go to any of the other planets, or back to Earth (6,6,6).
-
- Fine, I ventured and was blessed, now what? When you land on Earth, go to the
- AD time zone. Go to New San Antonio. Above the armory, there is a door to a
- forest. Open the door and go in. There is a sign that says "ATREE". There
- is an old man under atree. If you (T)ransactwith the response will be "An
- old man wispers 'I'm an old man.'". Give him 900 gold. He will give the ring.
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- 5. Winning
-
- Here we go...First get as many hit points as you can, and get an airplane.
- Go by time door to the legends timezone. Launch, and go South. Land near the
- castle, and enter it. You will most likely be attacked by two devils. Do not
- attack them! The would let the guards loose on you. To get rid of them, I
- suggest (N)egating time. In the Northwest chamber, there is a maze of fields,
- which at the end of which is Minax!!! Attack her. When she get'slow on hit
- points, she will teleport to the other chamber. As you walk to the other
- chamber, you will be attacked by several monsters. Go to the other chamber,
- and kill Minax.
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- You have won!!!
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