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From: brosenstein@watarts.UUCP (Barbara Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Demon princes & Lesser gods
Message-ID: <8473@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 20:25:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 20:25:43 1985
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Reply-To: brosenstein@watarts.UUCP (Barbara Rosenstein)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I'm posting this in reference to Herbert Ko's earlier article.  I would like to 
inform Mr Ko that he is one very fortunate individual.  You see, here at
University of Waterloo we have something known as Herbie Chong.  Herbie makes it
a habit to continualy update our version making it more and more difficult.  We
too used to be able to up our hit points with the good ole wraith trick (Wights
work too) but herbie decided to change it so there is only a 50% chance of
regaining the lost level.  In our version things can explode if enchanted too
much (do you know what it's like to lose a weapon when you're way down there!?)
We also have crystalline armour that can shatter. That's also fun to try to
replace. We also have a thieves market that randomizes the prices.  There's alot
more weird and wonderful features to our version but I'm getting depressed just thinking about them. - some other time.
    In closing Mr Ko all I can say is enjoy while it lasts cause herbie
is friends with your wizard so pretty soon you should be enjoying all the 
benifits we waterlooers recieve from our grand wizard and his great wizardwess.

As to the black pudding question I've found wands of drain life work wonderfully
(if you've made the mistake of hitting one of them before you knew what they
were, drain life will kill all of them in one zap).  A wand of cold also works,
(you freeze them and then you can hack away and they won't split). Try it 
sometime.