[CF List] How many blue mushrooms? (CF 0.95.6 Baron quest)

[Kimmo Hoikka]

Frank McKenney wrote:

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      If I sound a little vague here, it's mostly because I'm trying to avoid
     
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      spoiling this quest for any new players.
     
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      I undertook the Baronial quest, the Search for The Blue Mushroom.  I
     
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      followed the clues and fought my way past _swarms_ of assorted monsters
     
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      (I was not nibbled to death by ducks, but I may have just missed that
     
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      part of the quest (;-)).  I found a Blue Mushroom, and I brought it back
     
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      to Scorn.
     
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      Unfortunately, when I drop _my_ Blue Mushroom on the required pentagram,
     
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      nothing happens.  This kind of takes the fun out of questing, since (I
     
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      assume) I can't advance in rank until I become a Baron.
     
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      I can think of two possibilities (I'm sure others exist):
     
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       1) It's a bug, and I'm out of luck.
     
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       1a) It's a bug, and was fixed in the CVS drop as of xxJul00.
     
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       2) I've been successfully "faked out" by an Evil Counterfeit Blue
     
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          Mushroom, and I need to go back and look harder for the One Holy
     
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          True-Blue Mushroom ("They got _rooms_ for that stuff?" (;-))
     
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      I _thought_ I had read a discussion on this in the mailing list, but the
     
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      official list archive search engine turns up very little for 'mushroom'
     
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      or 'baron'.  Looks like I was mistaken.
     
     
It was me who wrote about this bug a while ago (28.6.) and the answer is 1.
it is a bug as Peter admitted after doing some testing :) I hope it will be
fixed soon though.

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