[net.games.hack] Killer bees & poison resistance

df@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Fox) (08/19/85)

>>Help, they're after me.  I'm a recent hack player and got down to level
>>11 when I started searching for a secret door.  Surprise!! A killer bee
>>attacks me from behind.  Poisoned -- dead.  Are there any other ways
>>of resisting poison other than the ring?  
>	Yes! You can kill a killer bee and *eat* it, this will give
>you a permanent immunity to any sort of poison.
I believe this effect can also be achieved by eating a giant beetle
or a homunculus. Now I just wish you could get the effect of potion
of speed by eating a jaguar, or at least have it repair your legs after
a xan has pricked you.

Dave Fox
..!ptsfa!df

andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (08/20/85)

>>	Yes! You can kill a killer bee and *eat* it, this will give
>>you a permanent immunity to any sort of poison.
>I believe this effect can also be achieved by eating a giant beetle
>or a homunculus.

Only killer bee and scorpion corpses confer intrinsic poison resistance
on the eater.  Eating a giant beetle or homunculus has no effect other
than to make you sick.

All this is true of hack v1.0.2.  Like most of the world, I'm unable to
create v1.0.3 without a context diff.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]