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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Neophyte hack player would like help
Message-ID: <249@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 11:10:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 11:10:05 1985
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References: <299@ur-laser.uucp> <781@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <781@kuling.UUCP> christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) writes:

>>4: Does a wizard have any magical abilities, and if so, how does one use them?
>
>No, he only starts out with some magical items.
>
Not quite true; a wizard can use a magic whistle and can teleport(^T)
much sooner than the other chars.

In the case of the magic whistle, its magical effect manifests itself
whenever a wizard uses it ("a strange whistling sound" and voila`!
Rover is there right beside you).  For the other chars, they must wait
until their experience levels is >= 9 before the whistle, if it is a 
magical one, will produce the "strange whistling sound".

For ^T, a wizard can teleport after experience level >= 6,(provided a
teleporting creature has been eaten, ie one of L,N,t) but the other 
chars must wait until their exp.level >= 10 before ^T works for them.

>>2:  What are gems for, and how does one use them?
>
>You can sell them too the shopkeepers, by dropping them in a shop, and
>you can throw them at unicorns, thereby increasing your luck.
>
I've got a question of my own: do unicorns never stay in your 
"line of direct throw"? They seem to jump about everywhere except where
you can throw something directly at them.

-- 
Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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