ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) (03/24/86)
In article <3385@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes: >Remember when I warned everybody not to believe everything I >say? Well I was right. It turns out that you can STILL die >from eating tainted meat, even if you've got poison resistance. >I think the reasons I survived before were that I drank potions >of medicine and/or healing as soon as I got the warning message This is all true BUT, in version 1.0.3 of hack, if you eat a tripe ration after eating tainted meat AND you vomit then you will see the message "What a relief" and you will not die from food poisoning. This is an alternate way of saving yourself. I found this out by peeking at the code. (So 20 lashes with a wet noodle are in order.) -- Ray Allen | "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." utcsri!ray | - Oscar Wilde as quoted in "Parachutes & Kisses" by Erica Jong