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From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Steeling from shopkeeps in hack
Message-ID: <187@gcc-opus.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:22:04 EST
Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.187
Posted: Wed Jan  9 12:22:04 1985
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Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman)
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Summary: 

There is a much more 'elegant' way to regularily rip off shops.  Here it is.

1) Kill a Leprechaun.  This isn't so hard as it seems.  Find a sleeping L,
go outside the room, drop your gold, move to the door, wake the L with an 
arrow (moving slightly away from the door if needed), fight him at the doorway.
Since you have no gold, he will not steal it and teleport away.  You may end
up having to chase him down, but he is always on your level.

2) Hopefully get a body and eat it (go back to 1) if you did not).  I discovered
that eating the body of a L puts you into a mode where you periodically teleport
around.  This is occasionally annoying, but it can be an aid in exploring.  In
particular, it lets you rip off shops and sometimes will teleport you into the
vault!

3) Find a shop.  Enter it.  Sell any possesion you have (getting major $$, the
shopkeeper will run out at some point).  Pick all your posessions back up (now
unpaid).  Plunder the shop.

4) Wait till you teleport out.

This technique allows you to rip off every shop you run across without requiring
you to have found or identified any particular magic item.

					Alien

PS:  Anyone found a good way to take out zoos?  I hit one once.  I had major $$
if you could get through all the monsters, but there were too many for me.  And
they *seemed* to have all waken up and were following me.  I made a bee line to
the next level ...