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From: esr@iheds.UUCP (E. Rieback)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Wand of Fertility???
Message-ID: <365@iheds.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 11:16:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 11:16:42 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jul-84 01:38:03 EDT
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I had a rather strange thing happen when using a wand.  I use version 9.0
and had read a scroll of Devil's Curse, which cursed everything in my pack.
As I understand it, this means that the cursed items don't work as well, if
at all. I met up with a ulodyte, and thought I would try zapping it with
one of my two wands (both unidentified at the time), in spite of the
fact they were cursed. I figured the wand either would do nothing or
diminish the effect, but I never expected what was about to happen!
I zapped the ulodyte, and presto-chango! It split into 8 ulodytes.  With
each subsequent hit of my sword (I didn't want to risk the wand again!)
the number of ulodytes continued to increase until the room looked like
a convention hall. I noticed that the mob rarely hit me (it seemed that
as they multiplied, their hit potential diminished), and I somehow made it
out of the room and down a staircase in one piece. After being killed later
on in the game, I checked my identified pack items to determine what
that wand of fertility really was.  Lo and behold, all I had were a wand
of magic missile and a wand of pyromania!  Which of these two wands, when
cursed, could have caused such a spectacular result?  Or did I encounter
a very unusual bug in the program???  If not a bug, does this mean that
an item with a Devil's curse can have a totally different effect than
what it was intended for??

E. Rieback    ihnp4!iheds!esr