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From: barry@adelie.UUCP (Barry A. Burke)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Shopkeeper Questions
Message-ID: <568@adelie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 08:54:03 EST
Article-I.D.: adelie.568
Posted: Wed Jan  8 08:54:03 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 06:31:40 EST
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Reply-To: barry@adelie.UUCP (Barry A. Burke)
Organization: Adelie Corporation, Newtonville MA
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Summary: Remember, there are other players!

> Help. I just got down to level 7 of the dungeon and was attacked by
> a shopkeeper for some unknown reason. I did nothing to provoke him
> and he just ran up a killed me in two swings. (I tried invoking the
> name of Elbereth, but it had no effect.) I wasn't even near a shop
> as far as I could tell, not had I ever entered and left any shop without
> paying. What happened? I did meet a ghost on level 6, but he finally
> left me alone.

If you haven't noticed by now, hack keeps track of the goings-on when there
are several players in the dungeon.  If another player had aggravated a
shopkeeper, and say teleported the sucker away, then that shopkeeper might
wander around looking for any "@"'s to kill (ie. YOU).  Just part of the
fun!

It's a neat feature, despite this.  Last night I found the remains of a
pretty hefty Wizard who'd been killed.  After I lost his ghost in the
bushes, and blasted away the moster that had killed the poor bloke, I
collected all his treasures (they were in a pile on the ground).  I wonder
what would happen if I ran into another player while in the dungeon (:^]).

	Gelmand the Vincible
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