Subj : Identify that game
To   : All
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Thu Jul 14 2005 04:29 pm

Years ago, I played a game whose name I've forgotten.  I believe it was 
one of the "Ultima" or "Ultima Underground" or similar games.  it might 
have had another sub-title like "The locked gate" or "The holy quest" or 
something.  It ran under DOS.

It was a first-person-shooter, except there wasn't much shooting, unless 
you consider crossbows and slings.  It starts with your avatar being 
thrown through a gate into a "dungeon" of some sort, where you are 
expected to acquire a number of (eight?) artifacts.  The bottle of 
whistling, and the helm of wossit and the breastplate of something else, 
and so forth.

You picked up objects along the way, tools, weapons, treasures, and such, 
including (if you were a magic-user) rune-stones which you kept in a 
purple sack.  You also learned spells, which were combimations of runes.  
If you knew the spell and had the rune stones, you placed them on a little 
shelf in your control-panel area, and clicked something to fire the spell.  
There were two bottles on your control-panel, one red, and one blue.  One 
indicated your hits-to-kill and the other indicated your manna.  You had 
to have enough manna to cast the spell.

There was a plant which bore a silver seed.  If you died, you were 
reincarnated next to the plant.  If you picked the seed, the plant died, 
but you could re-plant the seed somewhere else (like on a lower level, so 
you wouldn't have to walk from back so far if you died).  If you got 
killed carrying the seed (IOW no plant growing anywhere) then death was 
permanent.

I can't remember much in the way of other details.

Can anyone identify this game for me?  Can they tell me where I might 
acquire a copy?




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