chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) (05/18/85)
In article <21200004@prism.UUCP> mer@prism.UUCP writes: > >I heard that killing shopkeepers gives you bad luck/karma. Not true? >meredith >{cca, wjh12, mit-eddie} !mirror!prism!mer True. It decreases your luck points by two and TAKES AWAY TELEPORTATION ABILITIES! Killing tamed or peaceful monsters takes away 1 luck point, and killing a unicorn (definitely a no-no!) takes away another 5 luck points. When your luck points are low, you fight less effectively and you would be more likely to get nothing when you zap a wand of wishing. ("Unfortunately, nothing happens.") -- "Some say that knowledge is something that you'll never have" - "Sat in your Lap" Kate Bush Henry Chai Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai
ron@uthub.UUCP (Ron Wessels) (05/19/85)
> From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) > Message-ID: <142@utflis.UUCP> > > True. It decreases your luck points by two and > TAKES AWAY TELEPORTATION ABILITIES! Not quite. It takes away telepathic abilities, not teleportation abilities. Telepathy is when you get to see all the monsters on the level when you are blind. While I'm talking about it, there's a bug in that code, too. If you do anything that overlays the screen (like reading a scroll of gold detection or taking inventory), only monsters that have moved are redrawn. I have sent my analysis and suggested fix to aeb@mcvax with the request that a correct fix be posted. Stay tuned, folks. -- Ron Wessels Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto UUCP: {decvax,floyd,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsri!ron CSNET: ron@Toronto ARPA: ron%Toronto@CSNet-Relay