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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
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Subject: Re: On Crysknives and Fortunes (possible ** SPOILER **)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 01:25:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 01:25:52 1985
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Summary: 

In article <6225@ucbvax.ARPA> wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) 
writes:
>
>*You will offend Shai-Hulud if you sheath a crysknife unblooded.
>
>is my guess that the fortune refers to wielding a crysknife and then
>unwielding it without first using it against a monster. This "offends
>Shai-Hulud", and the enchantment which makes a worm tooth into a crysknife
>is withdrawn by Shai-Hulud. Any verification on this?
>
>                                        Bill Laubenheimer
>----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
>     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill


Not exactly. Just tonite I was wielding 3 crysknives (yes I got'em from a
wand of wishing) when I found a tin.  It turned out to be salmon.
the crysknives slipped out of my hands, and when i picked them up they
were reverted to worm teeth. I have been slashing monsters left and right
before that.  SOOO...

took a peek into the source file ,and found that
(SPOILER COMING UP! DIVERT YOUR EYES WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!) :-)

whenever crysknives are dropped they become worm teeth. You have to read
a scroll of enchant weapon to change them back into crysknives.
In the old version (1.0.1) throwing crysknives will not demote them,
but in the new version (1.0.2) it *will* turn them into teeth.
-- 
Henry Chai {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai        o.-
Faculty of Library and Information Science                  \_/
U of Toronto