A2 - Why am I getting ill everytime?

[Dado]

Message: "You start to feel very ill. You are filled with nausea, and bits of your hair start to fall out."

Why?!?!?!

[John S]

Quote:

Originally written by Facsimilicious:
If you have any metal bars, check them. Unidentified ones just may be uranium, which diseases your entire party. Gauntlets may be Pyrrhic Gauntlets, which also cause disease. Those are the two big mysterious sources of contagion in A1 and A2.

—Alorael, who doesn't think the gauntlets are cursed and who knows the uranium isn't. Drop them and everything is fine except for very angry Avernites.

The search function can save you a lot of time that would be spent waiting for a reply. Not that it did in this case, but still. Self-reliance and all that. Makes you a better person.

[Old Scratch]

Quote:

Originally written by St. Ashby the Martyr:

Quote:

Originally written by Facsimilicious:
If you have any metal bars, check them. Unidentified ones just may be uranium, which diseases your entire party. Gauntlets may be Pyrrhic Gauntlets, which also cause disease. Those are the two big mysterious sources of contagion in A1 and A2.

—Alorael, who doesn't think the gauntlets are cursed and who knows the uranium isn't. Drop them and everything is fine except for very angry Avernites.

The search function can save you a lot of time that would be spent waiting for a reply. Not that it did in this case, but still. Self-reliance and all that. Makes you a better person.

I don't think he would have been able to find this text with the search feature, since "ill" "nausea" and "hair falling out", all key terms in the message displayed by the game, don't appear anywhere in the text you quoted. Even "sick" doesn't appear; only "disease" or "contagion" would have done the trick.

So what exactly did you want him to search for? The text you found doesn't make a strong case for the use of the search function.

[Dado]

Oh, it was the uranium bar that I have, thanks for the information

[John S]

A search for "ill sick" yields three threads, two of which answer the question. I found these results on my second try, after narrowing down my terms.

 

Search didn't lead me to Alorael's post; it led me to the thread the post was in.

[Old Scratch]

Quote:

Originally written by St. Ashby the Martyr:
A search for "ill sick" yields three threads, two of which answer the question. I found these results on my second try, after narrowing down my terms.

Search didn't lead me to Alorael's post; it led me to the thread the post was in.

No worries; I'm just being difficult. (Sorry!)

It's just that I've been through the whole "search for a pre-existing, relevant thread for hours before starting your own topic, lest you annoy the board veterans" song and dance a number of times before. It can be a real pain, and it almost always takes vets less time to answer a repost than it takes the newie to look for a pre-existing topic that answers his question.

[Tycho Maudd]

Quote:

Originally written by Facsimilicious:
—Alorael, who doesn't think the gauntlets are cursed and who knows the uranium isn't.

Just being nitpicking, but both the gauntlets and the uranium are cursed items, but since you can't equip a uranium bar, it doesn't "stick" to you and therefore can be dropped at anytime.