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From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: mimics
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Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 17:22:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 10 17:22:11 1985
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Damn mimics!  Here I had nursed my spelunker down to level 20, just
finished off a dragon, and got swallowed by a lurker above.  "No problem,"
I think, "I'll just dig my way out.  This guy will be sorry he tried to
eat me."  Well, I don't even get one swing in with my pickaxe, and I'm
digested by the 'mysterious monster'.  Turns out I was swallowed by a
mimic!  When I tried to hit it (from its inside, no less), it showed
its true colors (?-)).  Of course, since a mimic doesn't have enough
of a stomach to hold a rotting gelatinous cube, that was the end of me.
The worst thing was, I had a ring of protection from shape changers
in my pack, but my fingers were all busy with other rings.

I guess there is some warped logic by which a mimic gets the ability to
swallow me just by imitating something else that does have that ability,
but you'd think it would have the decency to keep that ability.  I guess
the only way out of a mimic-cum-lurker-above is to read a scroll of
teleportation.  (Or will that even work?).

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Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp