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Subject: Re: hastened monsters - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 14:42:00 EDT
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/* Written 11:11 am  Sep 10, 1984 by phil@amd in uiucdcs:net.games.rogue */
/* ---------- "hastened monsters" ---------- */

Has anyone noticed that there are monsters even on level 1 that
are hastened? What I mean is that if you meet one at the other end
of a lighted room and wait by doing ., you see the monster moving
two spaces each time. When they hit you they seem to do a
disproportionately large amount of damage. However if you run
from them they don't get any hits in. This is a little confusing.
I have seen H, S and K do this.
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Not H and S, unless you've zapped them with a wand of haste.  What you're
thinking of is the ability of K and sometimes B to move two spaces at a
time.  They run fast, but are not truly hasted, since in battle, they get
only one swing in as opposed to two by hasted creatures.

Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)

"How do you like my new ring of telepor