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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Help! (SPOILER  ** Elbereth )
Message-ID: <1707@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 12:19:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 12:19:28 1985
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> In article <523@x.UUCP> john@x.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> >	Capital-EE el bee ee are ee tee aitch.  Elbereth.
> >
> >	If that doesn't work, your hack is broken or hacked.
> 
> 	Alright, Elbereth is a magic word, but what does it DO,
> I seem to have missed this.
> -- 
>> Whenever you want, (surrounded by O's A's whatever) type the 
>> upper case letter   E    . It will ask you what you want to
>> Engrave and with what. I forgot the exact syntax and order
>> but it is self explanitory when you do it. Engraving with
>> a - means barehanded. Engrave < Elbereth > and no monsters
>> will attack you. You can do anything you want ( zap, read,
>> quaff etc.) as long as you dont move off the square or get
>> involved in hand to hand combat. Dragons fire penetrates 
>> Elbereth as well as ANY other human, (shopkeeppers, nurse etc).
)) When you leave the square it is gone but you can rewrite it
>> at any time.