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Seraphim <gme6@cornell.edu> writes:
> "Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote in news:cv54kk
> $omd$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:
[Xorns passing through organic material]
> > For example, a test on the first level of the ranger quest shows that
> > Xorns may freely pass through trees.
> >
> > I think this may be an oversight.
>
> Arn't the trees on the first level of the ranger quest petrified trees?
> That would make the "trees" more of a tree-shaped-rock, so it makes sense
> that a Xorn could pass through them.
Except that a xorn can pass through any trees, not just petrified
ones.
(I don't believe this to be a bug; xorns can pass through other wooden
things such as doors and drawbridges, after all. I think this is a
case of NHIND&D.)
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