Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!uwvax!caip!im4u!barnett From: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: Wand of teleportation Message-ID: <805@im4u.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 11:34:01 EST Article-I.D.: im4u.805 Posted: Sat Mar 8 11:34:01 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Mar-86 01:43:23 EST References: <280@luth2.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 22 In article <280@luth2.UUCP> d2b-pk@luth2.UUCP (Per K{rrman) writes: >The only way to (indirect) use a wand of teleportation on yourself >is if you have read a scroll of punishment, and zap's the wand on the >heavy iron ball. This will cause the ball to teleport away, with you >following. (This is the only good use of a heavy iron ball that i have >found -- It's another way of getting out of a shop). > >-- Per Kaerrman (seismo!mcvax!luth!luth2!d2b-pk (UUCP)) > University of Lulea, Sweden This is very interesting -- I knew you could throw the ball and be yanked along, but this is the first I had heard of teleporting it away and and following it. However, I must differ on the utility of the heavy iron ball. Wield it as a weapon; it makes a two handed sword look like a willow wand! Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 "Frankly, there's something about reality that gives me the shivering willies!" -- Hank the Hallucination -- -- barnett@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU, barnett@im4u.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!im4u!barnett