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From: ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: tactic ***SPOILER***
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 14:17:14 EDT
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	Yes, I've used it too...but it's tricky.  The idea is to polymorph, 
say, a bat, which is only worth a few experience points, into something like 
a black unicorn or a jabberwock, and then to kill it.  Now, when you try
to do this at experience level 1, with 12 hp, you had better have some
firepower on your side.  I'd say a scare monster scroll is necessary,
unless the critter is about 6-8 squares away and you have a wand of 
fire/lightning/whatever.  Even then, if you miss a few times, you stand 
the risk of letting the monster get next to you; one smack from the critter, 
and you're history.

	The toughest part of this is that you have to identify the wand of
polymorph and the scare monster scroll...the few times I've done it, I've
dragged a monster around the scroll to discover that it was indeed "scare
monster", and then "moved" onto it (i.e. the "m" command in 5.3), and
then experimented with the whatever wands/staves I had available.

	Of course, at least half the time you wind up polymorphing something
like a kestrel into something like an emu, which does you no good at all...
-- 
Rsk the Wombat
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