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From: tony@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tony Movshon)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: ROGUE MAGAZINE (*semi-spoiler*)
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 22:32:51 EST
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> > >TOPIC:	stick identification
> > >
> > >If	Condition			Then it's
> > >	...				...
> > >	monster disappears 		teleport away
> > 
> > In 5.3 it could also be invisibility.  You can tell the difference if
> > the monster was standing next to you, because it will hit you.  It could
> > also be polymorph, since you might have turned it into an Invisible
> > Stalker.
> > -- 
> >     Barry Margolin
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seems to me that in 5.3, if you zap a critter with teleport-away, then you'll
> see it pop up somewhere else on the level.  Even if it reappears in another
> room.  I remember this pretty clearly since the last time it happened the
> monster's image reappeared in a darkened room.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
> 			     uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl
> 


Not so fast. It seems to me that the critter pops up visibly only if it is
teleported to a room you have already explored. Sometimes they just plain
disappear.

Tony Movshon		Dept. Psychology, NYU
			uucp: {seismo|ihnp4}!cmcl2!hipl!tony

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