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From: derelict@netcom.com (Daniel D. Miller)
Subject: Re: I've seen better days...
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 03:28:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

aranta@milton.u.washington.edu (Aaron Ranta) writes:

>Babs the Valkerie did not have a good day...
>Lv 1 :
>Lv 17 
>     Babs-V Killed by a long fall. [max level 17]   (No kidding!)


[fifteen minutes of laughing not entered here...]
(hee hee...)  wow... did you ever think of just letting
Babs stay in bed for the week!!!???

This gives a WHOLE NEW MEANING to the expression
	"having a ball" ...
From: ningwang@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ning Wang)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:40:35 GMT
Organization: UB


A couple of questions:

I just lost a very nice character due to a power-failure, I'm left with about
30 LEVELS.* files, each one named after a level, just like the BONES files
(i think) Are there any ways for me to retrieve this character?

Also, I'm playing the MSDOS version, but I don't have a printer.. So whenever
I hit the previous-message key CONTROL-P while the computer is doing something
else my game freezes, and it tells me no printer or something like that..
How do I stop that?? Can I redefine my previous-message key to something else?

I just found a copy of the spoilers file, what do I do with it?? It doesn't
look like a plain text file, can I run it or something??

Lastly, HOW DO I GET INTO THE CASTLE?? HOW DO I SURVIVE THE TRAPDOOR BEHIND
THE CASTLE?? :( :( :(

Thanks

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From: wen5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Stan "T2" Wen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Infinite gold
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:23:59 GMT
Reply-To: wen5@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I have found a way to get infinite gold on any level, but I'm afraid to
reveal it because people might abuse it.  What should I do?

Stan T2 Wen
From: alansz@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: How do you become visable?
Date: 15 Apr 1992 22:01:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

<BTL101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <21228@hacgate.UUCP>, hayes@ddemo3.aero.org (Brian Hayes 74-35
>x65129) says:
>>Being invisible is good...but, not recommendable until you have alternative
>>ways to get in and out of shops...  So, don't kill your self, just find that
>>pick-axe, and force entry...
>
>     I have a little problem forcing entry with a pick-axe... It always
> the wall is too hard to dig thru. Is there another simple way other
> than a wand of digging or polymorphing to a character that passes walls?
>
>      ?Brian

Spoiler:


"The wall is too hard to dig through"
"The wall seems too hard to dig through"

These are different messages. Think about it.

Maxi-spoiler:

If you get the 'seems' message, keep digging. Eventually (5 digs or so)
you will knock a hole in the wall.


----
Alan Schwartz                    | Disclaimer: I represent no one
alansz@cogsci.berkeley.edu       |
UC Berkeley                      | "Life is what happens to you while
Cognitive Science/Women's Studies|  you're busy making other plans"
                                 |          - J. Lennon


Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: bonnie@cco.caltech.edu (Bonnie Jean Wallace)
Subject: Re: down to level 50 ...
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 07:51:06 GMT

tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K.Vasi.) writes:

>I managed to get to the castle level, and conquer it. Now I need to go down
>to level 50 and work my way up. My problem is that I don't have a scroll of
>teleportation. And the level teleporters don't seem to be working for me. 

>I wonder why? I even removed my magic-prot cloak...I still keep getting 
>a "wrenching sensation". I am a little tired of waiting for creatures and 
>killing them, in the hope that they drop me a scroll of tele. I do have a
>wand of tele. but I it won't level teleport, when I'm confused.

>Any ideas???
>				- Taha


Only one.  What kind of armor are you wearing?
From: mehr@oskar.uchicago.edu (David Mehringer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: THE ONLY USELESS ITEM IN THE GAME
Keywords: Useless Mail
Date: 5 Apr 92 20:55:23 GMT
Organization: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

In article <1992Apr04.232932.26367@slate.mines.colorado.edu> agrimm@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Snarf) writes:
>In article <1992Apr3.201017.169@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> consp11@bingsuns (Brett Kessler) writes:
>>In article <silly.702288299@grate> silly@grate.ugcs.caltech.edu (Brad Threatt) writes:
>>>Here's the only truly useless item I know of...
>>>* A scroll of mail *
>>>[...]
>>
>>It's not all that useless.  If you erase it (no, I'm not going to give
>>the spoiler here on erasing scrolls) and then use your magic marker to
>>write a new spell on it, then it's not useless, hmmm?
>>
>
>BZZZTTTT!
>#dip a scrool of mail and you get a WET scroll of mail.
>Polymorph a scroll of mail and you get...a new scroll of mail.
>So it's still pretty darn useless, eh?
>
Can you sell scrolls of mail?  Will nymphs steal them?
--
Dave Mehringer            | "... But the most amazing thing to me is,
dmehring@zia.aoc.nrao.edu |   I/get paid
National Radio Astronomy  |   for doin'
Observatory, Socorro, NM  |   this." -- Steve Martin
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: picketsa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Subject: Alignment
Reply-To: picketsa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:55:14 GMT

I posted earlier asking about what good staying in your alignment is. Well,
I've partially just answered my own question.  My prayer time out was 
definitely over, but after robbing a shop with the help of about forty 
little jackal friends, my alignment was pretty low. A giant mimic had a hold
of me (he doesn't attack you while you're a jackal, etc.) and I was down to
three hp. I prayed, and a black glow went over me.  I died, and it said
I had strayed from my alignment.  So, in extreme cases, I guess your god
may ignore you or punish you if you aren't following your alignment.  But
what happens when you're really, extremely true to your alignment?  I'd
still like to know that.
D'spayre
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: LEBOLDUG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Geoff LeBoldus)
Subject: Re: All and the sundry ... a few questions
Organization: non-evident
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:15:04 GMT

In article <21229@hacgate.UUCP>
hayes@ddemo3.aero.org (Brian Hayes 74-35 x65129) writes:
>
>Is it true that gremlins can steal intrinsics?
>
Yes. If the gremlin "chuckles", you've lost an intrinsic.
 
I lost an intrinsic by killing a differently aligned priest once, too.
I had changed the altar alignment to my own. Could I have lost the intrinsic
(telepathy) because my alignment was lawful, and you just don't do that sort
of thing?
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BITNET:     LEBOLDUG@QUCDN             |  Kingston, Ontario
INTERNET:   LEBOLDUG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA  |  Canada
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From: andy@misha.central.sun.com (Andy Knipp Metro SE)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Converting altersDIR
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:28:52 GMT
Reply-To: andy@misha.central.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: misha.central.sun.com

In article 16727@yang.earlham.edu, marcs@yang.earlham.edu (Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt)) writes:
 
>I converted an alter with a preistess and then killed her, thus offending 
>my god. This leads me to believe that the priestess and the alter are a 
>package deal. This ws however a neutral priestes and I was lawfull.

You are lawful,  attacking a peaceful creature.  That is why your god is pissed.  As a 
chaotic,  or a lawful with lots of luck,  I alway toast the preist.  They carry lots
of good stuff.


---
Andy Knipp  SE                |
Sun Microsystems              | The secret of success is sincerity,
Schaumburg, IL                | once you can fake that,  you have it made.
andy@sunbird.central.sun.com  |
From: hayes@ddemo3.aero.org (Brian Hayes 74-35 x65129)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: How do you become visable?
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:34:27 GMT
Followup-To: hayes@hac2arpa
Distribution: usa

In article <92106.151848BTL101@psuvm.psu.edu> BTL101@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <21228@hacgate.UUCP>, hayes@ddemo3.aero.org (Brian Hayes 74-35
>x65129) says:
>
>     I have a little problem forcing entry with a pick-axe... It always
> the wall is too hard to dig thru. Is there another simple way other
> than a wand of digging or polymorphing to a character that passes walls?

As previously posted, it is difficult to dig through those 
shop walls, but it only *seems* too hard.  Be patient and keep 
at it. 

As for a simpler way, try a WoDeath or WoTeleportAway on the shopkeeper.
They may work to your satisfaction.
-- 
<<<<<<<<<< Brian Hayes hayes%bh_ddemo3@hac2arpa (310) 616-5129 >>>>>>>>>>>>
From: jflint@csws11.ic.sunysb.edu (Jesse Flint)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Why are my fingers glowing ?
Summary: Warnings...
Keywords: fnord
Date: 11 Apr 92 03:01:25 GMT
Expires: Fri, 1 May 1992 04:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: the below article
Distribution: na
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Apr5.234912.3057@emr1.emr.ca> jgairns@emr1.emr.ca (Jamie Gairns) writes:
>   I came across something a while ago about what each colour meant when
>your fingertips glow due to the warning intrinsic.  Help.
>   'Your fingertips glow ruby' ... is this some sort of ET emulation ?
>
>White
>Ruby
>Black
>Red
>Purple
>
>
>Jamie Gairns
>gairns@ccrs.emr.ca
>
Time for the patented "Multi-Screen Anti-Spoiler" (*sigh*):
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Warning colors I know:

White -- a monster nearby

Red -- dangerous monster nearby

Black -- ghost/undead nearby

I don't know what purple or ruby indicate... I've never seen them (but then
again, I rarely wear rings of warning).
						--Tog
					Items:
					a - blessed scroll of pornography
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#THE OPINIONS IN MY POSTINGS #  victory. It is (or may be) the formula of  #
#ARE MINE AND DO NOT REFLECT #  sloth and the gateway to stagnation."      #
#THE VIEWS OF MY HOME SYSTEM #   	               --A. Crowley        #
#OR THE OWNER OF THIS        #  Gary McCammon a.k.a. Tog                   #
#ACCOUNT. <FNORD>            #    c/o  jflint@sbcs.susb.edu	           #
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: kavuri@lips2.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Subject: A few more of them questions
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:50:33 GMT


  (Q1) Somebody suggested that the lowest level is 50. 
       Someone else claims it could be 99 !!.  How
       far down should I teleport ?

  (Q2) Liches do not seem as difficult to kill.  For 
       some reason they are not able to takeaway my 
       strength.  Did I gain some intrinsic ? 

  (Q3) I already acquired 4 amulets of Yendor in four
      different levels.  But there is no sight of the
      wizard.  Is he hiding in the mazes ? I hate to 
      search all the routes in the mazes.  I assumed
      the lowest level is 50.  Could he be below that ?

  Surya Kavuri


Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: jfinn@ll.mit.edu
Subject: Re: can anyone help me?
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 11:27:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.223021.20085@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ap531@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jessica Fox) writes:
>
>
>	I know you all are total nethack gods and
>	goddess, so would you mind answering a few
>	questions that I have?  Just started playing
>	a bit ago and can't seem to live long. 
>	(sure - they may be obvious to you but be
>	patient! ) :)
>
>	1)  how can you open up boxes with the key?
>	    had hexagonal key for a hexagonal lock but
>	    now what the hell do I do?
>

To open a box, you must occupy the same space as the box and then apply ('a')
your key.  When it asks you for the direction, press the period key.

>	2)  why won't the shopkeeper let you 
>	    out of the shop once you're in?
>
If you pick anything up in the shop you must pay ('p') for it before you leave.
If you don't have enough gold to pay, you must either drop the item, attack
the shopkeeper (not wise with a low level character), or find another way to
escape the shop.

>	3)  what good are statues? 
>
Statues can be broken with the proper tools.  They can be wielded and can
be used to bash monsters, open boxes, etc. just like any other weapon.


>	4) will your pet follow you down to other levels?
>	   a few times I came back up and the kitten/dog
>	   turned nasty on me.  Do you need a leash? 
>	
Your pet will follow you down to another level.  It must accupy a space
next to you before you go down or up a staircase.

>	these need answers! :)  please email to help
>	a new player!
>
>				thanks,
>					Jessica
>
P.S., keep playing.  I've been playing for a few months and the lowest I have
gotten is level 12.  I'm not looking at the spoiler file so I have to discover
things by experimentation (a good way to die fast, though !!).

Good Luck,
Joe



Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Subject: God gave me this blessed book which ...
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:39:48 GMT

  I prayed to God because the darned Wizrd cursed a lot of
  items with me.  I decided that it was time to pray. God
  was pleased, "restored to full health, ... and   ",  
   a book appeared near my feet.  Thinking God was nice to
   me I read it and then cast the spell.  
  I was prompted, the amulet around your neck (of life saving)
   tightens around your neck ???

  Can and does God give you strange items when pleased ?
   say blessed potion of sickness, blindness, scroll of fire ??
  

 Surya 


Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: d_jaracz@oz.plymouth.edu (David R. Jaracz)
Subject: I love this game.... (sigh)  :(
Reply-To: d_jaracz@oz.plymouth.edu (David R. Jaracz)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 01:38:33 GMT

Boy, I love this game.....

So there I was, my 9th level, non-spoiler aided Valkyrie kickin' some
serious butt.  Red Naga?  No prob.  Horde o' Hill orcs?  Hah!  So I'm
on level 9, and I FINALLY find an altar.  "Ok, now gimme some
corpses..."  I thought to myself.  I enter the next room and WAHA!
THE ZOO!  Corpses a plenty!  This is my lucky day!  I start
cuisinarting everything in the room!  Wight?  Level 10!  I LOVE IT!
So I loaded up on all the worthwhile corpses I could, booked down the
hallway....  And walked right into a floating eye.  I watched
helplessly as a tiger and Wood Golem slowly chipped away.....

(And YES, I do know the spoiler about esp..... Didnt have a chance....)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: pendy@ais.org (Paul Hohn)
Subject: Re: I Need General Help...
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 02:09:43 GMT

In article <4037@astroatc.UUCP> weeks%astroatc.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Pat Weeks) writes:
>
>	OK!  I've only played Nethack about 50 - 100 times and I just can't
>imagine every getting down to level 15 much less level 30.  I will not
>give up though.  I'll just keep plugging along like the rest of you, but I
>wondered if any of you could list any other ways of checking wands besides
>writing with them, or perhaps a list of what will get rid of that damn
>hallucination crap.  

Well just about the only two ways I've ever used to rid myself of
hallucinations without the wait is to pray when you have a streak of luck
running, or to use that good ole uni horn.  Of course, any unknown potion
that I lay my hands on gets dipped in by same horn. If its hallu., confusion
or sickness it turns it to a clear potion.
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Eating humans (Was: Killing a shopkeeper)
Keywords: human, corpse, kill
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:04:04 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

In article <1992Apr15.110334.24138@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au> dif@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au (David Faulkner) writes:
>jflint@csws5.ic.sunysb.edu (Jesse Flint) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr8.155128.4183@newstand.syr.edu> mitanu@mothra.cns.syr.EDU (M i t a n u  P a u l) writes:

[ most of article deleted ]

>That will give you the intrinsic, the same as eating any human corpse.


Am I correct that anything with the symbol "@" is considered to be human?

Thanks.
-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume)
Subject: Re: An interesting occurence
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:18:02 GMT

silly@plague.ugcs.caltech.edu (Brad Threatt) writes:
>Well... I never would have guessed it:
>
>As you kick the door, it crashes open!
>The mountain nymph stole a cursed cockatrice corpse.
>The mountain nymph turns to stone.  Welcome to experience level 2.

Bwah hah hah hah!!!!!!  That's great.  If only you had a lizard corpse...

The mountain nymph stole a cursed cockatrice corpse.
The mountain nymph is slowing down.
The mountain nymph stole a lizard corpse.
The mountain nymph eats the lizard porpse.
The mountain nymph looks more limber.

OK, I know you turn to stone instantly upon contact with a cockatrice, but
it would be funny....

--David
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: mikey@cs.mcgill.ca (Mike Gallop)
Subject: Re: down to level 50 ...
Organization: Tessier-Ashpool monitor, Maas-Neotek Corp
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:16:42 GMT

>>>
* tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K.Vasi.) Has publicly proclaimed:
*
>In article <1992Apr12.075106.19259@cco.caltech.edu> bonnie@cco.caltech.edu (Bonnie Jean Wallace) writes:
>>tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K.Vasi.) writes:
>>
[story about in ability to use a level telporter]

'der be Spoilers ahead ... 

>
>	1. blessed +3 gray dragon scale mail

Gee, I wonder what the dragon that breathes MAGIC missile's intrisic might
be... nothing happens when I eat him.....Why does everyone wish for it?

Gray dragon scale mail provides the functional equivalent of 

INTRINSIC MAGIC RESISTANCE.

Take off the old armour, and teleport away.

Besides GDS won't stop the teleport control, potion of confusion and scroll
of teleport trick.

							-mikey

-- 
|mikey@cs.mcgill.ca-Mike Gallop-Senior,well 4 of 5 :)(so far) McGill Comp Sci |
|Programming n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper.	              |
|	       	2. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but|
| but with fewer opportunities for reward.                                    |
From: hayes@ddemo3.aero.org (Brian Hayes 74-35 x65129)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Beartraps 'R' Us
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:21:33 GMT
Followup-To: hayes@bh_ddemo3.hac2arpa
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company; El Segundo, CA

In article <RCHAUNCE.92Apr4170010@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> rchaunce@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Rob Chauncey) writes:
>In article <1992Apr4.182123.24223@pellns.alleg.edu> binders@carr113.alleg.edu (Simon Binder) writes:
>
>..blah..blah..blah..regarding figurines..opening chests...

spoiler on opening chests...

I have found that the most effective way of opening chests is 
NOT: 1. using a weapon (although this may be a good way to break that cursed
	weapon welded to your hand.
     2. prying it open with a figurine or statue
     3. etc...

BUT:
     1. The obvious (keys).
     2. Kicking them!  Kicking them 1-3 times will usually open them...I 
     typically try from different directions although it probably doesnt
     matter.
-- 
<<<<<<<<<< Brian Hayes hayes%bh_ddemo3@hac2arpa (310) 616-5129 >>>>>>>>>>>>