Fountain of Tears and Jarulf

[--Pete]

Hi,

My question is, where does the Fountain of Tears fit in in all this?

Sorry, don't know.

. . . (which makes you wonder if Blizzard then _purposefully_ wanted those particular shrines NOT to be random)?

By my best recollection of how the bug works, I'd say it's not on purpose. As I recall, the game does generate a value for what the shrine should be. But then it fails to store that value. So, whatever happens to be in the memory location used to store that value when the game is started is what you get. If it is the first game of a session, then that value is, I think, zero, and you get whatever shrine corresponds to the first one in the shrine array. Since that location may be used for different things as the game is played, the second or later games of a session will be filled with whatever the previous sessions left there.

However, this is all based on my memories of discussions by the people who actually read the code. I may be mistaken in some or all of the details.

--Pete