[net.games.hack] Getting your pick-axe into a shop.

kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) (06/05/85)

> 1) I really don't like the fact that a pickaxe can't dig into a shop wall.
> After all, what's the fun of playing a wimpy speleologist if you can't
> swindle the shopkeepers.  It's bad enough that the shopkeepers won't allow
> pickaxes inside (which is understandable), but even if you do figure a way to
> sneak them in past the shopkeeper, and bang the wall, you get a message like
> "This wall seems to be too hard."  (Which makes me wonder why the shopkeepers
> even bother checking in the first place.)
>
>          				Michael


   To get your pick-axe into a shop trying going to the room above and digging
down, if there is no room directly above dig a passageway.

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Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's sort of a threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."