[net.games.hack] How to handle those pesky Killer Bees

ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold) (08/10/85)

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> 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?  
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> 
> 					Michael
> 
> I'm not addicted, I can switch terminals any time I feel like it.

Try gobbling down a dead bee (one is enough).  It will make you poison 
resistent.  However, it will NOT make you impervious to their regular 
damage.

Dan Gold

...ucbvax!ucdavis!minnie:ccrdan

rlr@avsdT.BERKNET (Rhode L. Roberts) (08/16/85)

> Try gobbling down a dead bee (one is enough).  It will make you poison 
> resistent.  However, it will NOT make you impervious to their regular 
> damage.

Be sure toe eat the bee right after killing it, otherwise
hack times out and the be becomes deadly poison if ingested.
( This is hard to do because of the swarm, but you must eat
  it while it's fresh )

ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold) (08/20/85)

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> > Try gobbling down a dead bee (one is enough).  It will make you poison 
> > resistent.  However, it will NOT make you impervious to their regular 
> > damage.
> 
> Be sure toe eat the bee right after killing it, otherwise
> hack times out and the be becomes deadly poison if ingested.
> ( This is hard to do because of the swarm, but you must eat
>   it while it's fresh )

Quite true.  This is also true for any of the other "delectable" monsters
that the player might wish to eat.