Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!dpb From: dpb@cbosgd.UUCP (Daniel Bidinger) Newsgroups: net.games Subject: Re: Steeling from shopkeeps in hack Message-ID: <651@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 15:33:35 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.651 Posted: Sun Jan 6 15:33:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 03:30:12 EST References: <616@cbosgd.UUCP> <770@ttds.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 21 > > Yes, as a matter of fact I know of yet another > way of handling shopkeepers; > > Use a wand, either a very powerfull one such as > cold, fire et c, or a teleport wand, and "play > billiards", using the walls to direct the ray at > the greedy shopkeeper. (He is clever enough not > to stand in your direct line of fire.) > > You could probably polymorph him, too, but then > you run the risk of ending up with something > a lot more agressive... > > By the way, has anybody out there been able > to lay hands on a crysknife? > > /NPN I have only once killed a shopkeeper. Used a wand of polymorf and turned him into an Orc. But i turned a mimiic into a Xorn and he killed me.