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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Re: turned to stone (cockatrice vs. basilisk)
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 22:22:14 EST
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> As far as I know of (in the versions in which I have used), there
> is no way to "protect" from turning to stone.  Cockatrices will
> turn you to stone, BUT ONLY IF THEY HIT you.  Probably the same
> with basilisks.
> 
> hou2e!ksl

True for cockatrices, but not for basilisks.  (I assume we're talking about
some variant on Advanced Rogue 1.0.)  They freeze you with their gaze, and
with some probability will petrify you.

Several times, I've frozen quartermasters with a blessed wand of slow monster
and spent a lot of turns stealing stuff from him until I've stocked my
character to the teeth with magic only to have him killed by the gaze of a
basilisk.  This happens so often that I get the feeling that the game is set
up to punish you for all that theft.

If your armor class is better than -10, the cockatrice can't touch you, but
there's no defense from being suprised by a basilisk.  This is the first
monster I eradicate once I get hold of a scroll of genocide.
-- 

Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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