overlord@spock.UUCP (Rick Link '85) (02/01/85)
For forwarding to the News...
Mr. Ashley Taft (metalion) and myself, Mr. E. O. Costello (spectre),
who were very good at rogue and are rather good at hack (I won rogue, and
Ash has been very close) have come up with some interesting things about
hack they you may want to know about. If you know these already, ignore
them.
Re: Shop looting--
1) Use a wand of digging to blow a hole through the wall adjoining the
passageway. While the shopkeeper guards one door, you waltz out the other.
Can be done any number of times.
2) After digging the hole, and prior to exiting, drop ALL the stuff you
possess and collect the sucker's gold. If you have a lot of stuff, you
will give him so much stuff he can't pay you anymore. Then pick up your
stuff and clear out. (Resale of stuff you have taken from stores to the
store you stole it from is impossible, even after you have transcended
levels.
3) By using teleport traps and trapdoors (Which DO exsist in shops, by the
way.) You can accomplish the same things in 2)
4) As stated in a previous note, wands of sleep work, as do wands of fire
and cold. Magic missile is weird; from my experience it seems not to work
whenever the guy is awake, but works when he is asleep.
Re: etc.
1) Eat a wraith, you gain a level (Thanx, rhorak)
2) Eat a floating eye, and when you are blinded, you see monsters
(fantastic for when you've quaffed potions of blindess)
3) Eat a leprechaun, and you teleport (Hope you have a ring of teleport
control
4) If you read a scroll, and it does nothing but ask you what you want
to call it, it is a scroll of taming, which when read just makes a monster]
not attack you and just wander around (but it does not fight for you
5) Unicorns accept blue gems thrown at them. They then disappear. Haven't
tried it out with other gems.
6) In a book shop? Pick up all the scrolls, and read 'em till you find
a teleport scroll. Works best in big shops
7) Cursed weapon? Eat canned salmon, it will slip from your fingers
8) Cursed armor? Dust it, enchant it, bless it, or get raped by a nymph.
9) Question--What happens when you eat a yellow light? I've only managed
to kill those buggers once (I don't go after them too often--the one I
killed was sleeping
10) Wear a ring of conflict when entering a zoo--the monsters will proceed
to fight each other in a civil war--funny as hell
11) If you have gloves, wield a cockatrice--if you hit, the monster will
be turned to stone!!
12) But if you fall down stairs while wielding a cockatrice, you will touch
it and die. Why? I don't know.
13) Iron balls are removed by someone helping you--bless scrolls
14) VERY IMPORTANT!! A kid I know had a +3 spear and walked into a scroll
shop. He read enchant weapon scrolls until he had a +7 spear. He read
one more ew scroll, and the weapon grew violently green--and disappeared.
The moral: don't get greedy, kids. (I think the same goes for armor, too)
15) spectre tip of the week; when getting a genocide scroll, blast 'k';
killer bees. Their ganging up and poisoning of you is a killer. I hate
those bastards.
If you have any more tips you would like to exchange, comments, et. al.
send a message to me, spectre (or the prince of the metal gods himself,
metalion) here at Choate Rosemary Hall, for now care of overlord. Me
n' the Metalion are constructing a hack tips file including a lot of
the fortunes for hackers here at Choate and elsewhere.
Keep on Hackin'
decvax!yale!spock!spectre
(Special Executive for Counter-Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion)
(I'm a 007 fan.)
colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (02/09/85)
["Kittens bark for it!"] > 4) If you read a scroll, and it does nothing but ask you what you want > to call it, it is a scroll of taming, which when read just makes a monster] > not attack you and just wander around (but it does not fight for you It may indeed fight for you. I've tamed Ants and had them attack moderate-size monsters. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (02/14/85)
Tamed monsters can and will fight for you. I tamed a ghost last
night, and it fought for me. It also started consuming food! As
a matter of fact, I left him on a level because he was so slow,
and he died of starvation.
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