e65138@dartvax.UUCP (Paula Brittingham) (03/25/86)
>>In article <187@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP writes: >>>Something odd happened to me in a recent game that I was hoping someone on >>>of polymorph and I had polymorphed the 'h' into a nurse. >>>With only a couple of hit points left, I was hit by the nurse. Instead of >>>getting better, however, I was killed. >I have successfully utilised a wand of polymorph to do some fun things. My >dog has been a fog cloud, a Gnome, a long worm, and a demon before. I liked >it best when he was a demon- made for a really nasty pet. And it still ate >tripe rations. When I turned a shopkeeper into a quivering blob, he still >got angry, but when I killed him I had an ordinary corpse... With all the >gold, of course, hee hee. Didn't lose any powers, either, I don't think. There are better uses for polymorph wands. use them to polymorph unusable corpses into edible food. Use them on rings and wands to get the desired type. I find that zapping wands until I find a wand of wishing, or more wands of polymorph, works wonders for exploring the lower levels. you'll see what I mean if you try it.