Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!gcc-opus!alien From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: net.games Subject: Re: Steeling from shopkeeps in hack Message-ID: <187@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:22:04 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.187 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:22:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:17:46 EST References: <616@cbosgd.UUCP> <237@harvard.ARPA> <519@qtlon.UUCP> Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 29 Summary: There is a much more 'elegant' way to regularily rip off shops. Here it is. 1) Kill a Leprechaun. This isn't so hard as it seems. Find a sleeping L, go outside the room, drop your gold, move to the door, wake the L with an arrow (moving slightly away from the door if needed), fight him at the doorway. Since you have no gold, he will not steal it and teleport away. You may end up having to chase him down, but he is always on your level. 2) Hopefully get a body and eat it (go back to 1) if you did not). I discovered that eating the body of a L puts you into a mode where you periodically teleport around. This is occasionally annoying, but it can be an aid in exploring. In particular, it lets you rip off shops and sometimes will teleport you into the vault! 3) Find a shop. Enter it. Sell any possesion you have (getting major $$, the shopkeeper will run out at some point). Pick all your posessions back up (now unpaid). Plunder the shop. 4) Wait till you teleport out. This technique allows you to rip off every shop you run across without requiring you to have found or identified any particular magic item. Alien PS: Anyone found a good way to take out zoos? I hit one once. I had major $$ if you could get through all the monsters, but there were too many for me. And they *seemed* to have all waken up and were following me. I made a bee line to the next level ...