Jerakeen

True. Bind Foe works fine against shamblers. It was the hint file that made me think it should be useful with slimes. Anyway, problem solved, thanks all.

Yes, Capture and Recall both now work perfectly. Now if only Bind Foe would function--the animation runs and I might even get a message about such-and-such cleaning webs, but it doesn't seem to slow them down for even a moment. I don't know enough about it to tell if there's something wrong with the code:

put_effect_on_char(who_is_custom_item_target(),10,4,0);

run_animation_sound(7);

set_char_status(who_is_custom_item_target(),6,2 + (3 * get_flag(292,1)) + ((get_stat(who_used_custom_item(),2) + get_stat(who_used_custom_item(),11) + get_stat(who_used_custom_item(),25)) / 5),0,1);

It would be nice to have, but not essential to the game. Thanks.

I'm happy to help, and I do get the dialogue, but I don't have the foggiest idea how to insert a code into the script! If you could dumb that down a little, I'd be only too glad to comply. Thanks.

Well, I got through the pits anyway, gradually, with judicious summoning and Major Hasting, and lots of missiles and healing. I would like to tell Kass where to stick his tapestry, but oh well. An interesting thing happened when I tried to Capture Soul again after acquiring a second level of it: a hostile null appeared--luckily it was equally useless. I guess I can do without these spells.

I'm playing on a Mac.

Yes, both kinds. No problems with Major Haste, Filth, Flight. Bonechill and Inferno also seem to work. Haven't had much need for Safe Travel yet. Hey, could I use flight to float above the wretched slimes? Somehow, I doubt that would work.

I'm fairly new at this, so this may have been covered before, but I'm having issues with the special spells in Exodus. Ok, I admit the slime pit has me completely stymied. I checked the hints and found them unhelpful. To wit: Bind Foe doesn't seem to slow them down at all; Destruction I unfortunately missed getting; most irritating of all is that Capture Soul doesn't work! Any attempt to use it results only in the appearance of a useless humanoid object identified only as a "null". It doesn't do anything except die. All four of my slots remain empty, so I can't use Recall Soul.

Up to now, I got by without these spells just fine, but now it appears that I need them--does anybody know what the problem is?

Also, can anyone tell me if there is a finite number of slimes? Maybe I could stand at the entrance and try to pick them off a few at a time. Nothing else has worked.

Thanks.