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From: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: confusion and scrolls (really about Hell)
Message-ID: <2214@bbnccv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 10:06:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 10:06:18 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 07:49:27 EST
References: <678@tymix.UUCP> <794@im4u.UUCP>
Reply-To: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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In article <794@im4u.UUCP> barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) writes:
>In article <678@tymix.UUCP> stimac@tymix.UUCP (Michael Stimac) writes:
>>
>>I mentally kicked myself when I read a scroll of magic mapping immediately
>>I arrived in Hell. I should have waited until I was no longer confused.
>>
>
>Yep.  The effect is less than satisfactory.  Happened to me too once.
>I've decided that unless you're just looking to get from one place to
>another very fast, using mapping scrolls in Hell is not such a hot idea.
>This is particularly true if you're looking for that elusive wand of
>wishing -- once you read the scroll of mapping, how do you tell where
>you've looked and where you haven't?  
>

What??  I think you must have been REALLY confused to be teleported to hell 
when reading a scroll of magic mapping!  My experiences are that you have to
read a scroll of teleportation while confused to be popped onto another
level.  Reading a scroll of magic mapping while confused just prints the
map all jumbled (and therefore useless).  But I've found maps invaluable
when looking for a wand on a maze level (aka hell).  First I print out
the map, then quaff an object detection, marking all the important items
with little stickers.  Then, when I've hit the space bar and the objects 
disappear, I can see exactly how to get to the important stuff.  After
THE WAND, the most important things to find (as far as I'm concerned) are
the boulders.

--pat traynor--
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