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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: dead lizards
Message-ID: <2681@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 02:13:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.2681
Posted: Thu May  9 02:13:28 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 10-May-85 03:10:23 EDT
References: <353@desint.UUCP> <399@wjvax.UUCP> <4644@ucla-cs.ARPA> <579@mcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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In article <579@mcvax.UUCP> aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) writes:
>> ... ~ I don't like the way cockatrices and poison can kill you instantly ...

There are certain situations where it simply isn't reasonable to GET a
second chance. I've yet to be killed by a cockatrice that didn't hiss at
least once, and if you look at AD&D's Monster Manual on the beastie, that's
about all a cockatrice will give you (of course, this game has NOTHING to
do with TSR, AD&D, or any other trademark). If you don't like cockatrices,
why not change the thing to a basilisk, which can turn you to stone from
across the room, without needing to touch you first? THAT is something I'd
bitch about.

If you ARE going to 'fix' cockatrices, you need to deal with cockatrice
corpses. I'm not nearly as bothered by dying from a cockatrice as I am
picking up the stuff from some poor ghost and finding that there is a
cockatrice corpse in it. That is a good way to perpetuate ghosts
indefinitely...
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:From the offices of Pagans for Cthulhu:          Chuq Von Rospach
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Who shall forgive the unrepentant?