Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uthub.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!uthub!ron From: ron@uthub.UUCP (Ron Wessels) Newsgroups: net.games Subject: Misc. hack spoilers. Message-ID: <195@uthub.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:25:32 EST Article-I.D.: uthub.195 Posted: Mon Jan 7 13:25:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 14:42:26 EST Distribution: net Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 36 Some clever person recently suggested zapping your friendly neighborhood Fido with a haste monster. Has anyone thought about what would happen if you zapped him with a polymorph? He (she?) stays tame! So you can have a pet Dragon following you around the dungeon (I had to settle for a pet Purple Worm when my wand ran out of charges :-). As for wild dogs in the dungeon, has anyone tried throwing food at them? They prefer tripe rations, although they'll take cadavers or regular food rations. Speaking of food, I presume people have noticed that various cadavers give various intrinsic properties when eaten? Such as teleportation for Leppies. Others exist too. Try eating a floating eye and watch what happens next time you are blinded. As for chrysknives, you know that long worms give a "worm tooth" weapon when killed. You also know that a crysknife can be produced from this tooth (type "/w"). Now what sort of enchantment would it take to turn the worm tooth into a crysknife? Beware, though. The crysknife you get is unfixed (read Dune for details). Finally, you get some really interesting results when reading certain scrolls while confused. I won't give details ... go ahead and experiment. Some of the results are quite useful, too! To start another branch of this discussion, what type of characters do people generally start off with? I have successfully returned from level 28 with the Amulet of Yendor running a cave-man (gloat!). The good strength means that you can carry lots of stuff. Others insist that wizards are the way to go ... two tins of Spinach and you're set in the strength department, and you've got all that initial stuff. Nobody that I know of has managed to get past level 2 with either a tourist or a speleologist. Fighters aren't bad, and knights have good armor. What's the general opinion of the net? -- Ron Wessels Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto { decvax , floyd , ihnp4 , linus , utzoo , uw-beaver }!utcsrgv!uthub!ron