[net.games.rogue] It hit.

wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (08/13/84)

I have just been slain by the first Umber Hulk I have ever met.

It happened so fast, I'm not sure I remeber the fight accurately,
but it was something like this:

I was on level 22, at experience level 9.  I had strength 19, I was
wielding a two-handed sword, and had armor class 4 (too many Rust
Monsters).  I was in a passage-way and came to a room.  When I
stepped on the "+", I saw a U waiting for me.  I had heard about
these beasts on the net, so I immediately quaffed a potion of
blindness.  It hit.  It dropped me from 78 to 60 Hp.  Wow, I
thought.  If you're confused, you don't stand a chance against this
thing.  I considered dropping a scroll of scare monster, but I
thought that, being blind, I might be lured off the scroll by the
dodging Umber Hulk.  So I swung instead, and hit.  Then It missed. 
I swung again and hit.  Then It hit and DROPPED ME ALL THE WAY TO
-7Hp !!!  This hardly seems fair.

So, I think it's time I learned some more about these critters. 
Like, what can be done for these things? Is genocide the only
effective weapon against the Umber Hulks?  

By the way, what does an Umber Hulk look like?
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				--Gimli the Dwarf

wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (08/13/84)

--
If it matters, we have 6.0CB(mctesq was here).  We call it cbrogue.
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				--Gimli the Dwarf

ab3@pucc-h (Rich Kulawiec) (08/14/84)

	[The Easy Way]

	You should have backed off, dropped the scroll of scare monster,
	and waited for the confusion to wear off...and then beat him to death.
	Of course, you've just used up your scroll of scare monster...

	[The Hard Way]
	I find that avoiding the confusion of umber hulks(5.2)/medusas(5.3)
	by quaffing the potion fo blindness is not a win...the best way to
	handle them is to lure them into a corridor, where your only possible
	moves, even while confused, are to retreat or to hit; thus you are
	guaranteed at least as many chances at hitting the critter as it
	has of hitting you...'course, if your armor isn't that good...or if
	something else sneaks up behind you...
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---Rsk

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Comes to a fix, not afraid to fight,
You got that, right?