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From: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: need hints
Message-ID: <1984@bbnccv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 13:53:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 13:53:29 1986
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In article <3246@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>	now for some questions of my own..
>
>How do you wield a cockatrice without getting turned into stone
>yourself?  How do you get past invisible force fields?  What do you
>do when an eel is attacking you from the water (you can't attack
>back, because the eel might swim away and you'd drown yourself)?
>
>		-ed falk, sun microsystems

You must be wearing gloves to wield a cockatrice.

The only invisible force field that I know about is the one that is
created when Hack cannot write to the directory where it saves the
current dungeon level when you try to go down to a new level, and
a message like:
'A mysterious force prevents you from going down'
appears on the screen.

Several things to do with eels... If you can see invisible (wear
the proper ring, or previously eat an Invisible Stalker) you can
see, and therefore attack, the eels.  If you have a wand of fire, 
you can evaporate the muddy pools, thus forcing the eels onto land,
where you can see them, and force them to fight you on YOUR turf!
The only problem that you are trying to overcome with eels, is not
knowing if they are in the pool that you attack.  If they are, you
hit them...fine.  If they aren't, you swing and fall into the vacant
pool...and drown.

--pat traynor--