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From: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: "re: killer nurses (*spoiler?*)"
Message-ID: <2353@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 12:06:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 12:06:34 1986
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References: <439@excalibur.UUCP>
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Summary: 

In article <439@excalibur.UUCP> 188622462@excalibur.UUCP (Greene T Richard) writes:
>However, since you polymorphed a homunculus into a nurse
>while the power was avaiable, the creature still had the personality of a
>homunculus.  Therefore the attack was a normal one, not a healing one.

	No!  Whenever you polymorph any "regular" monster into another, the
new monster behaves exactly like all others of its type.  Thus a homunculus
that is polymorphed into a nurse will behave exactly like any other nurse.

	By the way, I checked this on our own local (essentially unmodified)
version 1.0.3 of hack and found this to be true.
-- 
Ray Allen  | "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
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