ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor) (10/02/85)
I've yet to make it past five levels with a faithful dog at my side. Sometimes it's just inconvenient to keep him, especially if you have a dead Nymph or Leppie in your gut, because you keep teleporting away from him. Getting him to follow you successfully to the stairs without one of those turbo-whistles is a little much to ask of the poor bugger. But even if I'm not randomly popping around, I always find out that he's gone too long without food when it's too late, and he's chewing on my ankles. I've seen the message 'You feel worried about your dog' on occasion, but usually after the damage is done. Is there some control character that I don't know about to check on your dog's present state of hunger? If not, does someone have any handy rule of thumb to feed him? Does he like food rations? Is he getting enough vitamin B12 in his tripe ration? Perhaps even more important, after I've past the first few levels and have 30-40 hit points to play with, do I really need him? (Sorry if that sounds heartless...) I've heard rumors about taming a dog to rip off a shop, but in all the games I've played, I've found a grand total of ONE scroll of taming (and that was long after my dog starved). --pat traynor-- arpa-=> ptraynor@bbncc7.arpa ptraynor, didn't you forget to feed your dog? --more-- --------------- |.............| |......@......+ |..%..@.......| |.............| --+------------
chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) (10/07/85)
In article <105@bbnccv.UUCP> ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor) writes: >I've seen the message 'You feel worried about your dog' on occasion, This means that doggie is REALLY hungry, but you only get this message when doggie is not in sight. > >Is there some control character that I don't know about to check on your >dog's present state of hunger? If not, does someone have any handy >rule of thumb to feed him? Does he like food rations? Is he getting >enough vitamin B12 in his tripe ration? > I don't know of any such commands, nor do I think one exists. Generally, I try to feed it some of the dead monsters that's acceptable to a dog's palate but not a human's, e.g. bats, orcs etc. If I got more than, say, 3 tripe rations I'll give one as a treat. Also I let it munch on edible corpses when I am "Satiated". Note that if a dog is tame it will not eat food rations. >Perhaps even more important, after I've past the first few levels and >have 30-40 hit points to play with, do I really need him? (Sorry if >that sounds heartless...) As doggie eats, it grows. When it is a large it does help when you are fronted with say a flock of orcs. But don't let it fight a swarm of bees because the poison can kill it quite quickly. >I've heard rumors about taming a dog to rip >off a shop, but in all the games I've played, I've found a grand total >of ONE scroll of taming (and that was long after my dog starved). > The dog you start out with is ALWAYS tame. What the rumor means is that if you treat it nicely (i.e. keep it well fed) it will follow you into a shop and take something out of it (one thing at a time). A scroll of taming works on MONSTERS. If you read one, all monsters in the room will be tamed. *THEN*, if you throw some <food> at it, you will see "The <monster> devours the <food>." and it will fight FOR you. If you go up/down a level without your dog, if you go back to the level the dog will become confused and will perhaps bite you, and you have to feed it to regain its 'respect'. -- Henry Chai Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai