wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) (04/14/85)
Although not currently a Hack player, I recently took the time to catch
up on net.games.hack, including the hint files. Putting the fortune file
together with one person's experience with a crysknife, I think that I
may have found a meaning for a previously unspecified fortune.
One hack player complained that he was wielding a crysknife, then decided
to put it away and wield something else, only to find when he later
wielded it that he was now wielding merely a worm tooth. When I later
hit the file of observed fortunes, I found the line:
*You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded.
Shai-Hulud is the Arrakeen (Dune) name for the deified sandworm; thus, it
is my guess that the fortune refers to wielding a crysknife and then
unwielding it without first using it against a monster. This "offends
Shai-Hulud", and the enchantment which makes a worm tooth into a crysknife
is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud. Any verification on this?
Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbilljona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham) (04/15/85)
> ... > One hack player complained that he was wielding a crysknife, then decided > to put it away and wield something else, only to find when he later > wielded it that he was now wielding merely a worm tooth. When I later > hit the file of observed fortunes, I found the line: > > *You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded. > > Shai-Hulud is the Arrakeen (Dune) name for the deified sandworm; thus, it > is my guess that the fortune refers to wielding a crysknife and then > unwielding it without first using it against a monster. This "offends > Shai-Hulud", and the enchantment which makes a worm tooth into a crysknife > is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud. Any verification on this? > ... Sounds bogus to me. I do know that dropping or throwing a crysknife will cause it to change back to a worm tooth. Beware of Tins of Salmon. -- Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"
chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) (04/16/85)
In article <6225@ucbvax.ARPA> wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) writes: > >*You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded. > >is my guess that the fortune refers to wielding a crysknife and then >unwielding it without first using it against a monster. This "offends >Shai-Hulud", and the enchantment which makes a worm tooth into a crysknife >is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud. Any verification on this? > > Bill Laubenheimer >----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science > ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill Not exactly. Just tonite I was wielding 3 crysknives (yes I got'em from a wand of wishing) when I found a tin. It turned out to be salmon. the crysknives slipped out of my hands, and when i picked them up they were reverted to worm teeth. I have been slashing monsters left and right before that. SOOO... took a peek into the source file ,and found that (SPOILER COMING UP! DIVERT YOUR EYES WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!) :-) whenever crysknives are dropped they become worm teeth. You have to read a scroll of enchant weapon to change them back into crysknives. In the old version (1.0.1) throwing crysknives will not demote them, but in the new version (1.0.2) it *will* turn them into teeth. -- Henry Chai {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai o.- Faculty of Library and Information Science \_/ U of Toronto