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Subject: Hack comments + questions (SPOILER)
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 05:35:04 EST
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	SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!
	(somewhat)
	You may not want to read this if you haven't got very far
in Hack ..

	Well, 3 days after installing Hack and suffering
thru a bunch of *very* short games, I made it to lvl 28
and back.

	Random comments:

	I ate an L early and used that to rob shopkeepers blind.
With all the enchant armors I had, I would up with AC -7. Never
took off anything for Rs. On the way back, I killed all the
shopkeepers I saw, heh heh. Also, I identified a ring of teleport 
control later .. that's what caused the big game, I guess. It's 
great. Once I read magic mapping, and there was a vault on the level
(I suspect every level has a vault) .. so I teleported into
the vault, picked up $$$$ and left (after first trying to
kill the guard, which didn't work). Also, I encountered/killed 
all but (I think) 'c' 'g' ':' ',' 'w' (wumpus) and 'u'.
I didn't find the only demon I faced any trouble; dragons were
wimpy except when they roasted me (and other monsters!). And
once on a deep level I quaffed monster detection and saw a segment
of the dungeon absolutely congested with monsters .. just crawling all
over with real nasties, it was unbelievable. So I left. No
guts to fight *that* crowd. Although I was slaughtering everything,
for once, sigh. Sometimes I was just surrounded '%'s. 
A cute trick: lead a string of Orcs after you into a teleport ^,
and watch them pop off somewhere. Amusing ..

I have some questions:

	Is there anyway to get in/out of vaults (other than
some kind of teleport + ring of teleport control) non-randomly?

	Is there anything special about lurkers above and nurses ?

	What does a worm tooth do ?

	and the big one: in lvl 28, where the maze started (neat
stuff!), I quaffed object detection, and found the amulet. Well,
I marked the spot on the crt and made for there pronto. But
there was a rock over it in such a position that I couldn't
move the rock, and so I couldn't retrieve the amulet. What's
the deal ? Come to think of it, should I have applied the
worm tooth to dig or something ?


				Andrew Royappa
		{ihnp4, pur-ee, decvax, ucbvax}!purdue!avr