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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Cockatrices in backpacks
Message-ID: <5669@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 15:24:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5669
Posted: Fri May 24 15:24:32 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 01:21:55 EDT
Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <2289@decwrl.UUCP> joel@decwrl.UUCP (Joel McCormack) writes:
>
>(Now, ripping off a ghost's backpack is another story...).
>

I found a cockatrice in a ghost's backpack recently.  Fortunately I had
gloves on.  I didn't bother to pick it up, and when I returned to the
backpack some time later, it was still there.  So the question is, do dead
cockatrices in backpacks decay like other corpses?  Or do they stick around?
If they stick around then they are immensely useful, for obvious reasons.
All you have to do is figure out how to get down the stairs without tripping
(which is a pretty stupid feature anyway, in my book).

    Scott R. Turner
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