Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stat-l Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Stat-L:ab3 From: ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: need help on SCROLLS & RINGS Message-ID: <106@stat-l> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 01:57:07 EDT Article-I.D.: stat-l.106 Posted: Thu Jun 14 01:57:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:23:14 EDT References: <1597@uw-june> Organization: Pucc Unix Systems Group Lines: 39 > How do you use a 'scare monster scroll'? Stand on it; monsters will not hit while you're on it. Dragons will, of course, flame at you from a distance, though. If you have 5.3 or some other version with the "move" command; or if you have a full pack, you can stand on it without picking it up; when the melee is over you can grab it and use it again later. > Also, are there other ways of finding out whether you've got one without > reading it or using an 'identify scroll'? I can think of three: 1) Drag a monster along so that he'll have to step on it to stay with you...if he avoids the scroll, it's a scare monster. Caveat: bats and phantoms are "confused" and "slightly confused" and may miss it just 'cause they walk funny. The lazy way to do this (in a lighted room) is to stand on the other side of the scroll from a monster and toss an arrow or dart at it to provoke it to start toward you. 2) Drop it. It'll turn to dust when you pick it up. Not recommended. 3) Process of elimination...when you've identified all other scrolls. > When a scroll doesn't say anything is that the 'create monster scroll' Could be the "scroll of nothing". "Create monster" makes a monster right next to you, and he usually hits you next round. "Teleport" doesn't say anything either, but does zap you somewhere else on the level. > What does a 'ring of protection' do? It desceases the chance that a monster will hit you. > Are there other nifty scrolls and magic stuff that deals with monsters > effectively and saves your skin? Yup...but too numerous to go into here. -- Rsk the Wombat UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk { allegra, cornell, decvax, hplabs, ihnp4, ucbvax} !purdue!rsk