iv@trsvax.UUCP (02/19/85)
Re: /***** net.games.hack / cmu-cs-spice!nason / 6:48 pm Feb 5, 1985 */ [A piece of brocolli - for the line eater] > I have never gotten a fortune out of a cookie. Do they show up > randomly, or do I have to do something special like break them open? > I am getting exasperated to hear about all these hints without being > able to get my own. You eat them.... /* ---------- */ If your hack administatrator has not put the "rumors" file in the hack directory, then you won't get fortunes out of fortune cookies. We had this problem for a while here because our hack admin (*blush*) didn't know about the file. Once in place, hack will start giving you fortunes. IV (aka John Elliott IV) Tandy Systems Software; Fort Worth, TX ... {convex!ctvax,microsoft}!trsvax!iv ... cu-arpa.trsvax!iv@Cornell.ARPA
perry@hp-dcde.UUCP (perry) (03/10/85)
>Also, does anyone know what you tell the guards when they come for >you in the secret gold-filled rooms? > >What is "maude" and "elbereth"? In Hack 1.0, the response you give the guard is not even processed ! I have found that the guard doesn't attack - it just waits for you to 'd$' and follow. Therefore, I just '.' until I teleport back out (assuming that's how I got there in the first place). I used to know what 'maude' meant, but I forget. Grep the source for 'Elbereth', if you really want to know. Posting it here would be a real spoiler. HACKEM MUCHE !! Perry Scott, HP-FSD ...{allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hpfcla!perry-s
ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (03/22/85)
>>... >>I wiped out somebodies ghost in a hallway, and start carting the goods >>to a nearby room for sorting and keeping only the GOOD stuff. THE JERK >>HAD A COCKATRICE IN HIS PACK!!!! >>... >I have this bad feeling that this is the way it always works. >... >Leave a time-bomb behind for posterity.. carry a cockatrice ! Even better: Leave a cockatrice on the stairs to the previous level. There is *still* a bones file lurking on level 16 or so here that gives you a nasty surprise when you go down the stairs. Many of us have switched to the knight character, in spite of his general wimpiness. At least until someone disarms that booby trap. -- Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,isi,idx}!wjvax!ron "...so I did a 'fmt trip.report > trip.report' and..." -- -- Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,isi,idx}!wjvax!ron "...so I did a 'fmt trip.report > trip.report' and..."
perry@hp-dcde.UUCP (perry) (04/02/85)
> Not very long thereafter, I had a new 'C' quite a ways down. I wiped out >somebodies ghost in a hallway, and start carting the goods to a nearby room >for sorting and keeping only the GOOD stuff. THE JERK HAD A COCKATRICE IN >HIS PACK!!!! (and I found it before I found the gloves which surely must have >been in there somewhere)...... > >WalteR ( ...philabs!micomvax!walter) I have this bad feeling that this is the way it always works. The 'JERK' had to wear (and carry) the gloves before wielding (and carrying) the 'c'. When he died, hack unloaded his possessions in a..zA..Z order, putting the 'c' higher in the heap than the gloves. You will always encounter the 'c' before the gloves. Leave a time-bomb behind for posterity.. carry a cockatrice ! Perry Scott, HP-FSD ...{allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hpfcla!perry-s
perry@hp-dcde.UUCP (perry) (04/02/85)
You read a scroll of amnesia. Maybe it's called something else on your version.
Perry Scott, HP-FSD
...{allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hpfcla!perry-stower@inmet.UUCP (04/23/85)
***** inmet:net.games.hack / tower / 7:42 am Apr 12, 1985 > ***** inmet:net.games.hack / mcvax!play / 8:39 pm Mar 27, 1985 > >2) Some way to pick up stuff in the middle of a pile. I find it > > a useless waste of time to have to unstack the neat piles > > of stuff a ghost leaves in order to get at something in the > > middle of the pile. > > Give a detailed suggestion for the command syntax. If I like it, it'll > be in version 1.0.3 (this fall). Probably a simple extension of the ':' > command would do. > ---------- Possible Command Syntax: Add a command G (for Grab) that works the same way as the D (Drop) command does. You ask for object classes or " ", u, or a, and you are iteratively asked (ynaq) about each object in the pile under your feet. Adding an I command to display a list of the objects under your feet would be helpful. If this list was lettered, a g (for grab) command similar to the d command would also be useful. Orthogonal command sets are nice! ;-} I would leave the default action, when moving onto a square, picking up all possible objects. It might be nice to add an r (for recent) option to the D (and proposed G) commands that would Drop (or Grab) the objects picked up (or dropped) in the last Grab (or Drop) move. This would make recovering from the default action easy, and would also aid in re-dropping items when its time to eat a just-killed monster. BTW, should a multiple drop or grab take more time than a single move? Should it be 1 move or a fraction of a move for each object? Interesting trade off between realism and playing convenience. Yours, -len tower UUCP: {bellcore,ihnp4}!inmet!tower Intermetrics, Inc. INTERNET: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA USPS: 733 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA PHONE: (617) 661-1840 ----------
hmm@unido.UUCP (04/24/85)
I accidentally threw a potion of healing onto a monster,
and hack said something like "the XXX looks refreshed".
So throwing potions works, but obviously not with damaging potions.
Hans-Martin Mosner
Universitaet Dortmund (Germany)
ihnp4!hpfcla!hpbbn!unido!hmm
{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!unido!hmmmer@prism.UUCP (05/13/85)
I heard that killing shopkeepers gives you bad luck/karma. Not true?
meredith
{cca, wjh12, mit-eddie} !mirror!prism!merjona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham) (05/20/85)
> > I heard that killing shopkeepers gives you bad luck/karma. Not true? > > meredith > > > {cca, wjh12, mit-eddie} !mirror!prism!mer TRUE -- Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"
peterb@pbear.UUCP (05/29/85)
Sorry folks, forgot to tell you its in net.sources.games. You do all get that
newsgroup, don't you???
Update:
Those of you with non-PC/IX systems can grab the code and drop the assembler
stuff to get it running. The assembler just speeded up deficiencies in the
string package by a few percent.
Have Fun !
Peter Barada
{ihnp4!inmet|{harvard|cca}!ima}!pbear!peterbroot@xenixsp (03/21/86)
Try using a wand of digging and zapping it in ">" direction
or applying a pick-axe in the same ">", if you use a wand of digging
you will build a hole and fall though, if you use a pick-axe
it will take two turns....
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