Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site CS-Mordred Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!avr From: avr@CS-Mordred Newsgroups: net.games Subject: Hack comments + questions (SPOILER) Message-ID: <181@CS-Mordred> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 05:35:04 EST Article-I.D.: CS-Mordr.181 Posted: Wed Jan 9 05:35:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 07:57:15 EST Sender: avr@CS-Mordr Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 53 SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!!SPOILER!! (somewhat) You may not want to read this if you haven't got very far in Hack .. Well, 3 days after installing Hack and suffering thru a bunch of *very* short games, I made it to lvl 28 and back. Random comments: I ate an L early and used that to rob shopkeepers blind. With all the enchant armors I had, I would up with AC -7. Never took off anything for Rs. On the way back, I killed all the shopkeepers I saw, heh heh. Also, I identified a ring of teleport control later .. that's what caused the big game, I guess. It's great. Once I read magic mapping, and there was a vault on the level (I suspect every level has a vault) .. so I teleported into the vault, picked up $$$$ and left (after first trying to kill the guard, which didn't work). Also, I encountered/killed all but (I think) 'c' 'g' ':' ',' 'w' (wumpus) and 'u'. I didn't find the only demon I faced any trouble; dragons were wimpy except when they roasted me (and other monsters!). And once on a deep level I quaffed monster detection and saw a segment of the dungeon absolutely congested with monsters .. just crawling all over with real nasties, it was unbelievable. So I left. No guts to fight *that* crowd. Although I was slaughtering everything, for once, sigh. Sometimes I was just surrounded '%'s. A cute trick: lead a string of Orcs after you into a teleport ^, and watch them pop off somewhere. Amusing .. I have some questions: Is there anyway to get in/out of vaults (other than some kind of teleport + ring of teleport control) non-randomly? Is there anything special about lurkers above and nurses ? What does a worm tooth do ? and the big one: in lvl 28, where the maze started (neat stuff!), I quaffed object detection, and found the amulet. Well, I marked the spot on the crt and made for there pronto. But there was a rock over it in such a position that I couldn't move the rock, and so I couldn't retrieve the amulet. What's the deal ? Come to think of it, should I have applied the worm tooth to dig or something ? Andrew Royappa {ihnp4, pur-ee, decvax, ucbvax}!purdue!avr