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From: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Why wasn't I invulnerable? (*SPOILER*)
Message-ID: <383@bbnccv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 11:36:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 11:36:13 1985
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Reply-To: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
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In article <631@h-sc1.UUCP> gts@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (G. T. Samson) writes:
>>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?

Yes, that is exactly what I did.  After wasting every shopkeeper I came 
accross (lots of loot & experience points) I accidentally killed my dog
while I was blind (I hadn't eaten a Floating Eye yet).  If that wasn't
bad enough, I mistook a unicorn for an Umber Hulk and death-rayed five
luck points.  From then on, I landed about one in every thirty blows.

So let that be a lesson for you youngsters:
"Do unto others before \e\r\o\f\e\b as you would have them do unto you..."
Don't piss off the shopkeepers (Someone gave a great method of getting all
their money, not too long ago).
BE NICE TO THE UNICORNS!!
Luck plays an important part in the game.

Thanks for the tip, G.T. Sampson!

--pat traynor--