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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Special abilities of the wizard (* SPOILER *)
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:14:49 EDT
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>>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.

This isn't strictly true.  There are a few ways in which the wizard
character has an advantage over other types of character.

If you would rather preserve the mystery, don't read any further.

A magic whistle differs from an ordinary whistle in that its
application causes your dog(s) to teleport to your side.  When a
non-wizard whose experience level is less than 9 encounters a magic
whistle, it looks and acts just like a normal whistle.  Wizards of any
level can recognize and use magic whistles.

When a non-wizard "wastes" a spell (e.g., reads a scroll of destroy
armor while not wearing armor), then if she has fewer than 2000
experience points, the generic "You have a strange feeling" message is
displayed.  With 2000 or more points, she sees a more specific message
(such as "Your skin itches" for destroy armor.)  A wizard begins to see
these specific messages upon attaining only 1000 experience points.

A wizard can begin using ^T when she attains experience level 6.  A
mundane begins using ^T at level 10.  ^T also requires that you be
teleporting, i.e., have eaten an 'L', 'N', or 't' or be wearing a ring
of teleport, and it uses 100 units of food.

All this is true of hack version 1.0.3.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]