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From: flanner@esvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Philip Flanner III)
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Subject: Re: UltraRogue -- questions/suggestions. (long)
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 05:43:31 EST
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I know a few people who have been playing UltraRogue 1.02 (myself 
included!) and so can answer some of the questions posted earlier.

1)  Artifact side effects.  Yes, the artifacts have very bad side effects
    and I never use them.  But a friend says that if you have time, you
    can a) take off your armor, b) drop your weapon, c) drop the most
    valuable items in your pack.  Then apply the artifact, and most of the
    worst side effects (weapon melts, armor shatters, items cursed) can't
    happen.  Of course, you have to pick everything up again...

2)  You can genocide the same monster repeatedly but it won't do you
    any good.  Currently you just have to remember what you've done.
    Also, a blessed scroll of genocide doesn't seem to do anything extra.

4)  A wand of cancellation cancels a monsters magical abilities such
    as blindheims blinding, umber hulks confusing, basilisks paralyzing
    or petrifying etc..  Nothing else.

5)  Rings have a limit of 3? (maybe 6 -- I've changed my version so I'm not
    sure), weapons 15 (hit + hurl), armor 8, and staffs 30?.  Thereafter,
    a die roll determines whether it will blow up.

6)  Rings : regeneration uses up food and gives you one hit point per move;
    vampiric regeneration USES UP FOOD (lots!!!) and gives you a percentage
    of the damage points you inflict on any monster (vampiric!); resurection
    gives you more life(s) with some side effects but who cares it's better
    than being dead!

7)  Throne rooms -- unless you have a very good character you don't have
    much chance (unless you have a blessed scroll of teleport).  The best
    thing is too read a scroll of electrification and stand in a corner.

8)  A cursed staff of drain life drains only your hit points and not the
    monsters.

9)  Pools are random.  When bad, they make your weapon -x,-x if it was
    enchanted, make it worse if it was bad.  When good, they make it
    +x,+x no matter how bad it was before. Poison pools are a little
    different.

10) If you are wearing crystalline armor, every lightning bolt that hits
    you adds charges to your [wielded] weapon.  I've had a weapon with
    over 1500 charges!

11) Black puddings, gelatineous cubes and evil sorceresses pick up magic
    items.  Black puddings never give up what they've taken, gel. cubes
    only drop one item when killed (I think they only carry i.e. pick up
    one item) and evil sorceresses drop as much as will fit in the 
    immediate vicinity when killed (but they are nearly impossible to
    kill - a prime candidate for genocide if you plan to make it to the
    lowest levels).  Thus a party room can be emptied of magic by the
    time you get into it.  Note -- a roving dot (.) seems to mean that
    a monster is picking up a magic item.

I haven't peeked at source to get these answers -- they come from hours
(days? weeks!?) of playing experience.  I'm trying to get urogue running
on an IBM PC to give my Microvax a rest........

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