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From: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen)
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Subject: Re: Opinion poll results - long - spoilers (some more spoilers)
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:41:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 13:41:27 1986
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In article <3377@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>Somebody asked what you got for eating certain monsters; here's 
>the list of what I know:
>

	Ed has just begun to ask about 1000 questions.  I will
add comments as necessary.

>a: poisonous; rumoured to give some sort of immunity to c's

	Not exactly.  In version 1.0.3 ONLY, eating a dead acid
blob will save you if you about to be turned into stone by the
hiss of a cockatrice.

>b: makes you sick
>c: DEADLY
>d: edible (True, but gives you PERMANENT aggravate monster characteristics)
>e: edible
>f: edible
>g: edible
>h: poisonous
>i: edible
>j: edible
>k: poisonous; gives you poison immunity.
>l: edible
>m: haven't eaten one yet (Is edible and is a BIG mouthful)
>n: haven't eaten one yet
>o: edible
>p: edible
>q: edible
>r: edible
>s: poisonous (But gives you permanant poison resistance.)
>t: gives you teleportation ability
>u: never killed one (Don't ever kill a unicorn.  You lose 5 luck points.)
>v: edible
>w: edible
>x: makes you sick
>y: makes you sick (Will also confuse you for ~50 moves.)
>z: edible
>A: makes you sick
>B: makes you confused (Also about ~50 moves.)
>C: edible
>D: edible, gives you fire resistance
>E: makes you sick, gives you monster detection when blind
>F: gives you cold resistance
>G: edible
>H: edible
>I: makes you confused and invisible, gives you see-invisible

	As a further bonus, if you quaff a potion of invisibility before
eating a dead stalker, you will be permanently invisible to all monsters.
As well (I think) you will also gain searching characteristics (exactly
as if you were wearing a ring of searching).  This is true for version
1.0.3.  Other versions?  I have no idea.

>J: edible
>K: makes you sick
>L: gives you teleportation ability
>M: try it, it's fun
>N: gives you teleportation ability
>O: sometimes edible, sometimes makes you sick (see note below)
>P: edible? (Usually makes you sick)
>Q: edible
>R: makes you sick?
>S: poisonous? (Yes, poisonous)
>T: edible
>U: makes you sick?
>V: makes you sick?
>W: gives you one experience point (Not one point, one LEVEL!)
>X: edible
>Z: edible
>
	Note about monsters that make you sick:  Once in a while (but
rarely) you will be able to eat a monster that normally makes you sick
or is poisonous
without any ill effects.  When you see the message "You feel sick" it means
that you will lose some hit points and get NO food value from the corpse.
Thus, it is advisible to never eat such monsters.

>spinach: increases your strength
>royal jelly: increases you strength (Also restores your carring ability)
>salmon: makes you drop your weapon & rings.  Useful for getting rid
>	of cursed things.
>
>The ones marked "?" I may have wrong.
>
>Poisonous things take a lot of hits and reduce your strength.
>Things that make you sick take hits.
>Things that are "Blecch" have little or no nutritional value.
	(about 1/4 the usual value)
>
>Don't eat poisonous things unless you have medicine or natural poison
>immunity or don't mind the bad effects.
>
>
>
>Now for some questions of my own:
>
>Has anybody ever caught or killed a unicorn?  What happens if you
>eat it?
	See above.
>
>What happens if you eat a dead nurse?

	Your hitpoints are completely restored but you also obtain
permanant aggravate monster characteristics.
>
>What happens if you eat a dead human?
	See above.
>
>A couple of people mentioned potions of speed and royal jelly as
>safeguards against xans.  How does this work?
	Xan pricks lessen your carrying ability.  Potions of speed
and royal jelly restore this.  In version 1.0.3 your carrying ability
will be restored by itself after some time.
>
>I wasn't paying much attention to the "stuck at level 29 or so"
>discussion, and now I find I'm stuck there myself.  My pick-axe won't get
>through the floor, so how do I get down?
	You must have already found a wand of wishing. (If you haven't then
its because you didn't look hard enough.  Try looking under some rocks in
maze dead-ends.)  To survive (or even make it to) the lower levels you must
have:
	A ring of teleport control
	A potion of confusion (or some other means for becoming confused)
	A scroll of teleportaion
	Fire resistance (either a ring or eat a dead dragon)
	
	After becoming confused and while wearing the ring of teleport
control, read the scroll.  Because you are confused you will mispronounce
the words and, voila!, you inchant a spell of teleport level!  Because
you are wearing the ring you will be asked to which level you wish to
teleport to.  Always go to level 40 since you final score is affected by
the lowest level to which you travelled.  Once there, you are on your own.

	Oh, one other thing.  You can never go down maze levels so once
you go from level 40 to 39 you will not be able to go down again unless
you teleport there as described above.
>
>Somebody mentioned making a trapdoor on the level above with the pickaxe,
>but how do I know that won't just drop me in the maze again?  What if
>I can't find scrolls of teleportation?
	See above.
>
>If you go down by carving holes in the floor, how do you get back up?
>I assume the ring of levitation is the secret, but how do you find the
>hole again?  Do you have to do the whole rest of the game with 
>teleortation/confusion?
	To go up you just use the stairways.
>
>How do people cart so much stuff around?  Somebody mentioned having
>70,000 gold pieces.  I never carry more than a few hundred.
	Leave all your gold in one place.  When you are ready to finish
the game, pick all of the gold up and use the confusion/teleportation
method to teleport to level 0.
>
>What good is money besides buying stuff and raising your score?  How
>does it raise your score, do you have to have it on you when the game
>ends?
	Nothing else.  One point per gold piece (I think).  Yes.
>
>What good are gems besides selling in shops and giving unicorns?
	They are also worth points if you are carrying them when you
leave the dungeon.
>
>Are unicorns good for anything besides raising your luck?
	No, but that in itself is pretty good.  Try throwing an identified,
valuable gem at one sometime.
>
>How do you get close enough to a unicorn to give it a gem?  I find them
>to be much too elusive.
	You just have to keep trying.  Being invisible helps.
>
>Why do wands of wishing not always work ("unfortunately, nothing happens")?
>Does this have something to do with your luck?
	Yup.  You must have killed a "d", "n", "u", or "@".
>
>What does the ring of stealth do?
	Causes monsters not to wake up unless kicked.
>
>What does the wand of cancellation do?
	Removes monster's magical properties.  (e.g. A's sting, R's rusting
ability) 
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