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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Damn xans (*** SPOILER ***)
Message-ID: <1963@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-May-85 18:56:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 18:56:32 1985
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> 
> to meet xans. As in the description they keep on pricking your
> legs and reducing your strength so that you "collapse under
> your load" making you drop things to be able to do anything.
> 
> Has anyone else found this problem and hoe did they deal with it??
> 
> (potion of Restore Strength would obviously help and Royal Jelly
>  similarly but are there any other items or ways of dealing with
>  xans apart from genocide)

Nope, restore strength won't do it.  The only cure to run-ins with
xans is a potion of speed.  Don't ask me why, but after having your
legs pricked, a potion of speed gives you the message "Your legs 
begin to feel better."
> 
> As a matter of interest what do people genocide as their first,
> second and third choices assuming you are on level 8 say ??
> 
> Brian Winstanley
> (bww@ukc)

Well, I go for c's first, which seems to be the prevailing wisdom,
though I've only been stoned a couple of times when tangling with
them.  Then D's, and after that... well, xans have earned my eternal
dislike, too, so I take them out.  k's would probably be a pretty
good choice, too.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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