Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!amdimage!prls!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!h-sc1!samson From: samson@h-sc1.UUCP (gregory samson) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: Why wasn't I invulnerable? (*SPOILER*) Message-ID: <631@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:40:05 EST Article-I.D.: h-sc1.631 Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:40:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 04:30:58 EST References: <333@bbnccv.UUCP> <3716@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: gts@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (G. T. Samson) Followup-To: net Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 33 Keywords: wands of wishing... >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? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- G. T. Samson Microwizard Evil, Inc. gts@wjh12.HARVARD.edu