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From: samson@h-sc1.UUCP (gregory samson)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Why wasn't I invulnerable? (*SPOILER*)
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:40:05 EST
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>In article <333@bbnccv.UUCP> ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor) writes:
>>
>>Ok, I got a wand of wishing!  After Christmas was over, I was the prowd
>>owner of:
[Many wonderful magical items.]
>>
>>Not too long after that, I came upon David's treasure zoo.  I was kicking 
>>butt like nobody's business and after eating four Wraiths, found myself at
>>experience level 12 with 89 hit points and 18/76 strong.
>>
>>Several dungeon levels later, I started noticing that I wasn't as tough as I
>>thought.  As a matter of fact, I was having a really rough time with every-
>>one.  I survived, but it was taking three or four direct hits to put away
>>monsters as mundane as Yetis and killer bees.  If not for the incredible
>>armor class of -21 I would not have gotten as far as I did.  
>>
You had so many magic items, I'm assuming that you squeezed the extra wishes
out of your wands of wishing, and wished for extra wands of wishing.
I believe that squeezing the extra wish out costs you one luck point from
your total; receiving a fully-charged wand of wishing from a wish does the
same, too.
So by the time you finished you were pretty down on luck.  Had you killed any
defenseless monsters, or your dog, or something?
>>
>>Perhaps next time I'll wish for 52 scrolls of genocide.
>>
Never thought of that... would be nice, though, wouldn't it?


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Microwizard Evil, Inc.
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