Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:rsk From: rsk@pucc-h (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Answers to some questions Message-ID: <1320@pucc-h> Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 20:28:04 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1320 Posted: Sun Oct 7 20:28:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 02:54:31 EDT Organization: Purdue, THE Indiana University Lines: 81 > From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) > > Could someone explain to me just exactly how to use rods/staffs/wands/long- > cylinder called 'teleport from' and 'teleport to'? I've tried just about > everything with these things and have gotten nothing from them. We're running > Rogue Version 5.3. > They're "Teleport Away" and "Teleport To"; #1 will zap a critter off to another location on the current level; hopefully, not a location right next to you. #2 will zap a critter right up next to you; useful when encountering a monster room with one wimpy monster, such as an Aquator, and a number of other ugly uglies--zap the wimp in order to block the doorway, and then use bow&arrow/shurikens/darts to knock off the bad guys while they're on a diagonal, and unable to hit you. I believe both staves always hit. (version 5.3) > From: lahren@sunybcs.UUCP (James A. Lahren) > > 1) at what level do i first have a chance to find the amulet of yendor? > and, if i miss it on one level, what is the possibility of it appearing > on the next level down, ect. > > 2) for some reason, everytime i get a good game going 4500+ i seem to > get killed by a black unicorn. know assuming i don't have anything > interesting, how do i kill it. ( last time, as in about 10 hours ago > from this posting, i was killed having about 55 hit points, a > +3,0 two handed sword, +7 enchanted armour, and strength of 20. > i didn't have any scrolls, or potions that would help, but when > i ran into it, i had a wand and a staff that i as yet hadn't > identified. > The Amulet will first appear on level 26. It will keep appearing on every level as you go down--if you're not carrying it. I don't think 55 HP are enough to go up against a U, even with the stated weapon, armor, and strength; I think I'd try out some of the magic items, even unknown ones, rather than slugging it out toe-to-toe with him. The usual bag of tricks that one would employ on a (T,G,J) are what's called for. > From: wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall) > Subject: Interesting use for slow monster staff/wand > I'm not sure if this is any great insight, but I found a new use > for the slow monster staff/wand. Say you have the following: > First, zap (and hopefully hit) the troll. He will hit you once, but then > hit him, step back (or diagonal), hit him, step again, etc., etc. This way > you get "free" hits while you back up. Of course, if you back into another > monster, then you're up the creek again: > I'm curious; what else would one use a Slow Monster staff for? > From: midkiff@uiucdcsb.UUCP > > The maniacal laughter scroll is not a hold monster, but rather the > more useful SCARE monster. Strange sense of loss does indeed come > from reading a hold scroll or an enchant scroll when nothing is available > to enchant. > > From: rcook@uiucuxc.UUCP > > No, that is not correct. The hold monster scroll would say "you hear > maniacal laughter in the distance". I believe that the message > "you feel a strange sense of loss" is associated with not having any > armour on when you read a scroll of protect armour. Okay, in 5.3, the Scare Monster scroll generates the "maniacal laughter" message when read; the Hold Monster scroll generates the "sense of loss" message when read if no monsters are present; and the enchantment scrolls, and the "rustoleum" scroll, as far as I can recall, generate NO message if nothing's available to enchant. -- ---Rsk UUCP: { decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs } !pur-ee!rsk { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax } !purdue!rsk When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.