sysnmc@UUNET.UU.NET (Matt Cohen) (01/16/90)
I have been playing way too much Omega over the last few weeks and now am: Level 1 Master of Omega, Ultimate Avatar of Chaos, Archmage, Shadowlord, Prime Sorceror, High Priest of Destiny, Commandant, Duke of Rampart, and Adept (if you don't know what that is, then you've got a long way to go.) The way I killed the Eater of Magic was to be invisible, stand just around the bend in the hallway, map the EoM's cave with clairvoyance, and disrupt him to death. (You can tell where he is because there are "."'s where he and the priests are and he's in the middle.) This method works rather well in general. Raymond seems to be having several wierd problems. What version are you using? I run under Unix, on a Sun with Omega 0.75. I had some wierd similar problems with earlier versions. Be careful when skipping levels, you might miss the "special" monster. This happened in the Goblin Caves to me; I used an elevator and skipped the 10th level (where the king is) and got to the 35th level before I realized this must be going on. The "special" levels are: Rampart Sewers 18, ArchMage's Castle 16, Goblin Caves 10, and Volcano (whew!) 20. You cannot warp to a special level. Try the level above and walk down. (In rogue and moria, any level at or below the special level triggers the big monster. In Omega, if you miss it, you have to go back...) The Demon Emperor is on level 20 of the Volcano and he is NASTY. Does anyone know how to not become afraid of demons and ghosts without a potion of banishing fear? (That's what I used.) I killed him by casting sanctuary and then disrupting him. Has anyone found the Dragon Lord? He's also extremely nasty. Much fun. Getting cursed items uncursed is wierd. Basically, you have to bless them, some more than others. Items appear to have a bless/curse value. The more cursed an item is, the more blesses it takes to fix it, and the more blesses an item has, the more a monster has to curse it to make it cursed. This is independent of plus, except that when an item initally becomes cursed, its plus goes down one and/or stops working or _reverses_ effect. You can either cast the bless spell, if you have it, or if you are a priest (of Destiny, at least) and you sacrifice enough to your God, he/she/they/it will give an item a mondo bless/enchant (ask for Blessing). This took me forever to figure out: the alchemist's "pay for transformation" is not to transform you (I initially thought it was for if you get canged into a toad or something), it is for transmuting certain monster remains into magic items! (You figure out which ones...) How long did it take folks to figure out how to mount a horse? Another hint: Orbs - collect the whole set and redeem a valuable prize! (Black Orbs don't count.) -- Matt