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From: beyer@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: mimics
Message-ID: <2919@vax4.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:40:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:40:46 1985
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In article <1899@orca.UUCP> andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>	"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?)."
>
>That might work.  (Is there enough light to read?)  Or you can carry a
>mondo weapon (like a crysknife) and carve on its stomach; this usually
>works for me.  Or you could have waded onto the level wearing the ring
>of protection from shape changers.
>
>  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
>                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

How about using your pick-axe or wanding of digging and peirce throught
its stomach? 

I came accross an interesting incident, I was standing on the !WORD!,
and began to eat (emtpy handed) a tin. Well a monster came up to me,
and I "stopped eating". Well this monster was whimpy, so I wielded my
mace (letter a.), and began attacking the monster. While beating on
him, I did a ')' to see my weapon, and found that I was wielding the
tin (letter a.). So, how the heck did the tin that was at the end of
my inventory move to the very top??? This has happened to me 2-3 times,
and our version of hack (1.02, who'd want 1.03?), hasn't been tampered
with. Any help would be most appreciated.

Jeff

{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!beyer
               Jeff Beyer; John Fluke Mfg. Co MS 223B;
                   PO Box C9090 Everett WA 98206
                          (206) 356-5986