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From: ron@uthub.UUCP (Ron Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Luck in hack 1.0.2  (* SPOILER *)
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 13:55:38 EDT
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> From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
>
> If you kill a human (shopkeeper, guard, etc ... any '@') you lose any
> telepathy (the ability to see monsters when blind) and your luck goes
> down by 2.
>
> If you kill a monster that's peaceful or tame (like your dog), your
> luck goes down by 1.

Just to make it quite explicit, note the combination of the two
statements above.  If you have a wand of death and you want to kill a
shopkeeper, just zapping him (her?) loses you 3 luck points (2 for '@'
AND 1 because he's peaceful).  A better move would be to throw an arrow
at him to get him mad, THEN zap him.  Only 2 luck points lost.

Contrary to popular belief, killing a wild dog or a nurse does not lose
you any luck.  Eating the corpses, on the other hand, is like swallowing
a ring of aggravate monster.  Not nice.
-- 
Ron Wessels	Computer Systems Research Institute	University of Toronto
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