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From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: weapon questions
Keywords: Excalibur, Crysknife
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:48:45 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


I am playing a Barbarian, and I've created an Excalibur.  I thought
Excalibur was lawful.  Is it OK to use it?  Also, I now have two enchant
scrolls, and I am wondering whether to create a chrysknife, or
enchant Excalibur.  Is there any way to create Stormbringer?

-steve
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From: gregs@polari.online.com
Subject: Re: Sacrificing
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:15:16 GMT

bgodot@halcyon.com (Buck Godot) writes:

>> Minor Spoiler:
>> Found out that if you wished for a blessed scroll or recharging, you can 
>> re-charge your wand of wishing once (so you can get 5 wishes total!)
>> 
>> Flurr {tm}
> 
> That's the darn BEST hint I've ever heard! extra wishes are... well... 
>FANTASTIC! :) :) I'm gonna go try it...

The first thing I wish for: 2 blessed scrolls of charging.

-- 
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gregs@polari.online.com               :: Please don't let me hit the ground.
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From: prospero@hardy.u.washington.edu (Don't look at me!!)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Bug in the code results in segmentation fault
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:19:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug19.041919.6883
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug17.000206.7206@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@lips2.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
>
>     
>
> When moving the cursor to identify nurses, the game has
> segmented fault and crashes.  This, of course,does not 
> happen every time, but has occurred four times to report
> this possible cause of segmentation.  
>
>
>   Surya 
>
>    

Can you by chance tell us what machine you were playing on and what
you were using?  :)

Thanks
Prospero
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Subject: Re: Genocide failed?!
Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:12:14 GMT

Spoiled questions ahead....


In article <1992Aug17.144910.1534@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>With a high enough Charisma, a succubus is a good way to gain a level or two.

How does this work?

>Oh, yeah, a cool trick with temple priests: raise your AC as much as possible
>by paying off a non co-aligned priest, Kill him, get his spell books and his
>gold, and go pay off another priest. Repeat untill you run out of non -
>coaligned priests.

How do you avoid getting roasted by an angry diety when you do this?

	Alec
From: muettert@husc10.harvard.edu (Mark Muetterties)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Graphics based hacks
Summary: Looking for ..
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:49:50 GMT
Distribution: rec.games.hack


	I first played hack on an Amiga that had wonderful graphics for
all the characters and objects (from FISH #25 ?).  My question is 
simply:  is there an IBM, or MAC based hack or nethack version that
will display these graphics as I no longer have access to my brother's
Amiga.  I have both IBM and MAC machines available with color monitors
and would like to put them to use.
	I really miss the red bricks and my yellow dog Fredd.

				thanks, Mark
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From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Re: Graphics based hacks
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-249-5366) 24hrs.
Distribution: rec.games.hack
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:13:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.173356.19734@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS) writes:
>Well, its not Amiga graphics, but there is a program that I wrote
>called CHRHACK that alters the default font so that the symbols used
>in the game are 'graphic' based.  (Like realistic dungeon walls, altars
>that look like altars, etc.)  It should be available at places like
>wuarchive, and it was posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc about three months
>ago.
>
	Anything similar available for UNIX based?  I just got the
newest and latest release of Nethack 3.0j PL10 comiled and notice
that there is a -ibm option (so the walls are graphical) and
a color one.  the -ibm works, the color doesn't.  Yes, I #defined
TEXTCOLOR also.  Does any one have something running similar on
UNIX (w/o X-windows)?>

Marc
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From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Subject: Help with teleportation
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:25:14 GMT


Okay - I now have one kickass character... ac -18, 187 hps, level 19
(okay, I found a morgue with 5 wraith corpses! and tried out that
trick about paying off other priests LOTS of money. The +5 protection
ring helped too of course...)
   Now, I have one huge annoying problem. I teleport spontaneously.
No reason at all. I dunno why, and I can't stop it. Is there anything I
can do to get rid of this attribute? I've eaten about 8 tengu corpses,
but I don't seem to have teleport control yet. Any reason why? Am
I doomed to teleport every 100 steps or so? It's absolutely mind boggling.

thanks in advance.
   steve 
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From: madmax@cellar.org (Alex Strumpf)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Ring of Polymorph Control
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:00:27 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

shane@hisfood.Corp.Sun.COM ( Shane White ) writes:

> I found a ring of Polymorph control and don't know how to use it.
> 
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> 
> Shane

Just type P..then type letter representing the ring( i.e. l, x, etc. :-) )   
Type l or r for the ring finger.




madmax@cellar.org
PREFERRED mailpath: madmax%cellar@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."

Doctor Who, ROBOT
From: lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Lisa C. Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Yet one more question:  Is there a create-monster intrinsic?
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:34:38 GMT
Reply-To: lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University



From time to time, I get the message, "You feel vaguely nervous," and
periodically (at different random times) a whole bunch of nasties will
appear out of the thin air around me - dragons, a vampire lord, a minotaur
or two, purple worms, and the like.  I'm just bumbling around the upper
levels, trying to get my things blessed before returning to hell.  Pray
tell, what has happened to me?  Am I just naturally charismatic?  At least
it gives me lots to offer and eat!

Thanks, all...

(Hey, I've never gotten this far before, so all is new now! :^)

--
Lisa Caroline Lewis   		    Our country, right or wrong.  
lcl@csa.bu.edu      -or-	    When right, to be kept right; 
lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu     when wrong, to be put right.
                  	             - Carl Schurz, January 17, 1872
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From: ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu (kevin soutor)
Subject: Need Sage Advice!
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 18:46:35 GMT

To All 'Hack Wizzes!

Chad (Cannabalistic Humanoid Above-ground Dweller) the
      ^             ^        ^            ^
13th, Barbarian of Utter Ill Repute, has survived long
enough to reach the level of his *many* predecessors'
demise.  He now has a pile of rings, wands, scrolls,
weapons, etc.  This being a Bones level I surmise that
most of the items are cursed, rendering normal testing
procedures impractical.  This is an old game so I 
haven't kept track of which items were lost by each
member of the dead barbarian horde (question: do the
items left behind by a dead character retain the same
identity from game to game?).  

Does anyone have any suggestions for identifying these 
items?  Chad13 is rarin' to go down further into the
dungeon complex.  His goal is reaching level 11, an
area unexplored by his forebears.

Thanks,

Kevin

ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu

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       Kevin Soutor        | "Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!" |
 ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu   |               -- Outlaw Josey Wales  |
From: rhelbig@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Roger Helbig)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: My best start for a LONG time
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:49:15 GMT
Organization: Electrical & Electronic Eng., The University of Adelaide

Started this game last night, playing a wizard.  Looked at my stats;
hmmm, not bad for a wizard.  Even better after that blessed potion
of gain ability I started with!  Other starting equipment?  Ring of
regeneration (this is one of the BEST items there are - it got this
character through more than a few scrapes).  Magic marker, wand of
cancellation, ring of stealth, enchant weapon scroll, other stuff I
can't remember.

Found an axe called Cleaver, just lying around, on level 2.  Ran
across a huge general store with a lot of good stuff.  Excalibur
from a bones level (about level 4) plus a lot of other goodies.
Strength is up to 18/02 thanks to a tin of spinach and a stone giant.
Heaps of zorkmids from a zoo; also cleaned out a throne room (no
wishes, but the throne gave me a genocide (liches) and increased my
hp by about 8 points).  Got the intrinsics of telepathy, poison res,
fire res very easily.

Currently on level 9, with a few goodies including a pickaxe,
expensive camera, jumping boots, 2 unicorn horns, Hawaiian shirt
(+1 so far), wands of teleport and digging.  Waiting for a
stupid death to happen :-)

One thing puzzles me: at one stage, my maximum hp dropped from
55 to 50, and stayed at 50 until I went up a level.  I also
noticed later that some memorised spells were gone.  It's not
the first time this has happened to me.  What causes this?

-=-
Roger
From: kartyja2@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Student Extrordinaire)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Two questions--one simple, one even simpler.
Summary: 2 fairly nubi questions.
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:05:34 GMT
Reply-To: kartyja2@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Student Extrordinaire)
Organization: Purdue University


  Hellooooo, net.land! This is Skyfox the Wizard coming atcha from level 51
of the Dungeon via special telepathic linkup. (I put a LOT of upgrades in that
helm of telepathy... :) Anyway, two questions. First, where can I ftp the
FAQ file? (or do I have to wait a month for it to be posted again?) Second,
what on Earth do I do to finish this level??! I've killed all the monsters 
that don't say "Really attack the whatever?" when I menacingly brandish 
Mjollnir, re-killed the Wizard twice, and generally wreaked havoc. If there
is a staircase, I missed it... If I'm supposed to #offer the Amulet at the
appropriate altar, I need instructions on how to uncurse it without a scroll.
(dratted malignant auras...) But anyway, if someone could help me before I 
go crazy, it would be much appreciated... and here's waiting for version 4.0!
From: ericc@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com (The Mad Monkey)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Yet one more question:  Is there a createmonster intrinsic?
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:35:44 GMT
Organization: SII Telco Systems Divisions

In article <LCL.92Aug12183438@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> Lisa C.
Lewis, lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu writes:
>periodically (at different random times) a whole bunch of nasties will
>appear out of the thin air around me  dragons, a vampire lord, a
minotaur

Occasionally, before getting the WoY, when walking around on the upper
levels, I suddenly find myself surrounding by nasties. I assume this is
a magic trap and it goes away after stepping on it? Or is this just a
bunch of newly generated monsters on that level and I happen to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time? If that is the case, then I end up
in the wrong place quite often. Too often.
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From: sophia@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Sophie Cormack)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Sacrificing
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:32:14 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

flurr@iastate.edu (Flurr {tm}) writes:

>In <1992Aug18.044904.29087@wixer.cactus.org> trav@wixer.cactus.org (traveller) writes:

>>well, gee, as far as that goes, just use one of the wishes for a new
>>wand of wishing..

>    Doesn't work...  you get a wand of wishing (0) that can't be charged... 
>Same way with the magic lamps...

Try three blessed glowing potions (that works).  I don't know what the
chances are of getting a happy djinn and therefore a wish - out of two
lots of 3 glowing potions I got one wish each time.  However 'glowing
potions' turned out that time to be potions of enlightenment so I got
some extra bonus intelligence and wisdom (a heaven-sent gift for a
very dim valkyrie).  A bit of a gamble, it seems.
						   Ophelia
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Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
From: sas@TIS.COM ("Steven A. Sturges")
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: How to maky your pet friendly...
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:55:05 GMT
Reply-To: sas@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems

dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle) writes: 

>
>  The hints say that you can throw food to a wild dog to make them happy.  
>How?  Say my poor kitty hits the trap door.  By the time I find it again it 
>doesn't like me.  Anyway to make them happy again?


Get in line with your pet (former).  Then throw, but instead of throwing
a weapon, use the letter of a tripe ration.  The food will miss the pet,
and the pet will chow down.  The pet is now friendly again.  You can
also use things like geckos, jackals, etc.  Anything that the pet would
eat normally.


Another thing throwing food is useful for is having your pet rob shops.
When your pet brings an item to you, you can throw food at it, and it
will learn - see Pavlov Dog Slalvation Theory.

-steve
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From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Dragon Armour.
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:49:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)



On a related note, every time I have been polymorphed while wearing
gray dragon armor, I've merged with the armor, and polymorphed into 
a gray dragon.  Pretty handy, since the armor doesn't get ripped
apart.  Does the armor eliminate system shock?  Another question:
when using #monster as a gray dragon, all that's happened was
a loud belch, or something.  What is a gray dragon's real breath
weapon?

-steve
From: afc@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu (Andrew F. Cockburn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Wasted by Wizard (SPOILERS)
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:29:01 -0500
Organization: USDA/ARS/MAVERL

In article <47692@licra.dn.mu.oz.au>, DAVIS@licra.dn.mu.oz.au writes:
> SPOILERS IN FOLLOWING QUESTION:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am currently playing the best game I have had to date, although 
> admittedly not without using save files!  Still, it's my conscience, and 
> that's another issue anyway.  When I finally beat this game I'll go back 
> and do it honestly.
> 
> Anyway, I cleared out the castle and amongst other things I wished for a 
> blessed +3 gray dragon scale mail, and received a black mantelet which is +
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you saying that the mantelet is what you got when you wished for
GDSM?  If so, you got cheated.  The mantelet is a cloak of some type
and provides no magic resistance.  GDSM shows up as GDSM in your inventory.

> 3 and did very good things for my AC.  I worked up from lvl 50 and found 
> the Wizard on lvl 43.  I can kill him, but he always gets me with his 
> finger of death, and even if I survive the first battle it is usually at 
> the cost of my amulet of life saving.  He then gets me next time which is 
> soon after.
> 
> I was under the impression that +3 GDSM gave anti-magic protection.  Was I 
> wrong?  Should I have wished for a cloak of magic resistance?

No and no.
> 
> Ian Davis                             DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au

Andrew Cockburn
From: chore@neumann.une.edu.au (Prince Of Darkness,Silent,Lucidity,.)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Rust Monsters ( Re: Various Questions )
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:25:05 GMT
Reply-To: chore@neumann.une.edu.au
Originator: chore@neumann.une.edu.au



Speaking of rust monsters, my Samurai found some crystal plate mail, it was only +0, and he
was currently wearing platemail +3, so donning the crystal platemail dropped his AC somewhat...

Was this a wise choice, i assumed that anything crystal would not be affect by things that
damage regular armor, that's why i put it on, am i right?

also what's better bronze platemail or crystal platemail (he also found some bronze stuff too)??


Thanks
From: scavanag@neumann.une.edu.au (Steven Cavanagh)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: weapon damage
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:47:57 GMT


could somebody send a list of weapon damage please?
I never know which ones are better.


Cav.
From: richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Pray time-out (was Re: Newbies)
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:39:53 GMT
	<1992Aug10.034205.23029@polari>
	<1992Aug10.230922.5327@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


In an article whose ID I've lost, CUFFEL said:
CUFFELL> If you are in good favor with your god, haven't pray in about 600
CUFFELL> turns  [...]

  Now is really the time to ask: what *is* the dreaded Time-outs for
Praying?  My old nethack guru had a feeling that you should not pray
more than once per experience level and I have found that a good
guideline through my few years of nethack.  Buuuut,  now I've really
got to ask: what *is* it?  Time?  Experience level?  Time since last
praying?  Condition?  Relation to your god?  Your luck?  rand()?
  Or, most likely, a subtile blend of them all?

  Somebody *must* know ...

  Richard

--
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From: amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Craig Amundsen)
Subject: Re: How can i get better AC from priests ?
Organization: U of MN
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:56:30 GMT

In article <markus.714154068@colores> markus@colores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Markus Steinberg) writes:
>Hello,
>
>almost every time i give money to a priest, he will bestow a blessing on
>me, so i get a kind of magic mapping.
>Which is the correct sum i must give him, to receive an AC bonus ?
>
>Please mail soon to
>
>markus@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Please let us newbies know what the answer is


-- 
                  Craig Amundsen (amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu)


                           <Insert Standard Disclaimer>
From: angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Djinni's
Keywords: Magic lamps and glowing potions
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:35:11 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug19.144852.12513@bmers95.bnr.ca> snelling@bnr.ca 
(Peter Snelling) writes:
>I have some questions about djinni's:
>
>Does anyone know the chances of djinni's appearing from magic lamps or
>potions?
>
>Does the blessed / cursed status of the lamp affect the chances of it 
>appearing, or just the chances of it being peaceful / granting you
>a wish?

If the lamp has a charge on it, a djinni will appear when it is
rubbed.  You may need to rub the lamp a few times (I usually give it 5
tries), but it will come out eventually.  The blessed/cursed status
affects the chance the djinni will be aggressive/peaceful/tame/
generous when it emerges.

>Do genie's only appear from glowing potions (whatever that happens to 
>be in your game) ?  If so, that's a big drag if the glowing potion 
>turns out to be poison or hallucination.

Yep, them's the breaks.

>Peter Snelling
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Disclaimer:  I could be wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.

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From: esot@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Sotnak)
Subject: 'nother neophyte question
Summary: magic marker use
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 17:25:36 GMT

  I have a blessed magic marker (58) and 6 blank scrolls (ala w. of
cancellation).  So, I tried writing a scroll of genocide by writing
"genocide".  The result was a message to the effect that "you don't know how
to write that."  So what do I need to do?  I also have the option of
blessing the blank scrolls.  Would that help?  What other scrolls might be
good to create?

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