In this part of my notebooks are complete
transcripts all NPC conversations in several of the games in the
cardinal Ultima series, through Black Gate. I originally extracted
Ultima IV's conversations just to see if I could do it, and
realized in the process that there were several "hidden" items I'd
never found in the game. That is true play for real for most of the games; there
are usually easter eggs or other funny conversations that the
player never sees unless they know exactly where to look. Also, a
complete transcript makes a very effective walkthrough tool. For
example, if you want to know who in Ultima V tells you about the
grappling hook, simply view the Ultima V transcript and perform a
text search for that term.
Also listed here are lists of the books, scrolls, and signs found
in each game. Most of the signs are not very interesting, but the
book lists serve as a sort of "Project Gutenberg" for the Ultima
series. And the gravestones in each game were often used as hidden
kudos to various people on the development teams; where possible,
I've identified for you the developers and testers being credited.
For Ultima Online fans, see also the UO Vault's list of books
included in that game.
Due to space limitations, some of these resources are provided as
archived (zipped) files. You can use a utility like WinZip to extract them.
One more thing: for those of you who wish there were online copies
of the Ultima documentation as well, there are! Micro Dragon's
Ultima
Documentation Project has beautiful copies of all the docs from
the first six macintosh pokies games, with color graphics and everything, and links
to where you can find exact copies of the originals in Acrobat
format. |
