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From: brahms@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Hack: How do you know about potions?
Message-ID: <351@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:12:53 EST
Article-I.D.: spp2.351
Posted: Wed Jan  9 13:12:53 1985
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References: <616@cbosgd.UUCP> <187@masscomp.UUCP> <1324@eosp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: brahms@spp2.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
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Summary: 

In article <1324@eosp1.UUCP> robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) writes:
>The riskiest way I pulled off was with potions alone
>to escape from a liquor shop:
>(1) quaff speed potion.
>(2) Hit shopkeeper.  He mauls me down to 4 hp.
>(3) quaff potion of extra healing.  back up one step.
>(4) shopkeeper mauls me down to 2 hp.
>(5) quaff potion of extra healing.
>(6) step around shopkeeper.
>(7) another maul and another potion of extra healing.
>(8) run out of the shop.
>
>I saved the other 17 potions for later.

How did you know what the different potions were?  Had you gone done far
enough in the dungeon to have already tested enough potions?

			-- Brad Brahms
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