Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!swa From: swa@talcott.UUCP (Steven Augart) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: HELP! Message-ID: <331@talcott.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 23:07:47 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.331 Posted: Wed Mar 6 23:07:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 05:53:18 EST References: <2188@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Sociology Dept., Harvard Univ. Lines: 52 [eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it...] > From: t2@fluke.UUCP (Tom Thompson) > I am fairly new to Hack and the net so please excuse any questions that > may have been asked before. > > 1. Is there any advantage to naming your dog? > > 2. Are blank scrolls good for anything? > > 3. What does the scroll 'You feel as if someone is helping you' do? > > 4. What is the whistle used for? > > Also if anyone has a list of the scrolls and what they do, please post > them, it would be a big help. > > Thanks --- 1) naming your dog is mostly just for fun. If another dog appears on the scene, it can help you keep track of him, especially since you can C) an unknown dog, find out whether it's yours, and abort the command. Also, your dog keeps his name If you become a ghost, so when you see a named dog, or any named animal, you are on a ghost level. 2) I have never found a use for them, but I've also never managed to hit one with an identify scroll. I usually assume they are blank, and useless. 3) The scroll that makes you feel like someone is helping you is one of the most important items in the game--the remove curse scroll. This will cancel stickeycurses which you are under, and detatch the scroll of punishment's ball and chain. (A stickeycurse is when you put something on, or wield it, and it won't come off.) 4) There are two kinds of whistles. The kind that makes a "high" sound is just a whistle. If your dog is in hearing range, he will head towards you and follow you for a while. (This may depend on his loyalty, which is built up by feeding him.) The kind that makes a "strange" noise will teleport your dog to you. If there are monsters in all adjacent squares, he will appear in a next- to adjacent square and fight his way to you. 5) scrolls: I am working on a bunch of hints files, but I am not sure I am quite ready to send them out yet. Maybe soon. David Harmon, c/o swa@hu-talcott.ARPA ps -- please post any queries/replies to harmon%h-sc4@harvard.ARPA -- Let the beauty we love be what we do. Steven Augart {harvard,wjh12}!hscvax!augart hscvax!augart@harvard.arpa AUGART%HARVUNXU.BITNET