Posted by Lortaen on December 30, 2000 at 09:29:49:
In Reply to: My answers: posted by The Arcane(VIP) on December 30, 2000 at 09:22:25:
> Now, as far as why seaweed is ok... well, it's simple. If you played a Rager, you'd know this. Eating pills will make you sick. If you pick up seaweed off the Aryth surface and eat it, because it's a "pill" it hurts you and weakens you. Eating the seaweed from Hamsah or from Ruins will not do this. If the gods do not consider this form of seaweed to be an impurity and do not punish the Rager for beseeching it, they it is acceptable. Why make the seaweed that is sold be unmagical, and the seaweed that's found naturally be magical? In truth it's a coding problem, obviously... but I find it funny, since once a shopkeeper gets a hold of it, they can enchant it while in theory in nature it should be in its pure, unenchanted form. Do the shopkeepers get their seaweed somewhere else, do you think, or do they have some way of removing the magic from the seaweed on the ocean?