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From: dpb@cbosgd.UUCP (Daniel Bidinger)
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Subject: Re: Steeling from shopkeeps in hack
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Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 15:33:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  6 15:33:35 1985
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> 
> 	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.