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From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Polymorphing
Message-ID: <124@proper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 17:55:39 EST
Article-I.D.: proper.124
Posted: Fri Mar 21 17:55:39 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 03:34:52 EST
References: <187@moncol.UUCP> <449@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
Organization: Lunatic Laboratories Unltd.
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Keywords: wand of polymorph

In article <449@snow.warwick.UUCP> sfsoc@warwick.UUCP (Science Fiction + Fantasy Society) writes:
>In article <187@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP writes:
>>Something odd happened to me in a recent game that I was hoping someone on
>>the net could explain.
>>Playing as a caveman, I found a wand. Not knowing what it was, I zapped a
>>homonculous that was clobbering me. It turned out that the wand was a wand
>>of polymorph and I had polymorphed the 'h' into a nurse.
>>With only a couple of hit points left, I was hit by the nurse. Instead of
>>getting better, however, I was killed.
>>What happened? Is a polymorphed nurse not the real thing?
>  I think (and someone will probably verify this from source) that polymorph-
>ing creatures only alters the mode of attack, and probably hit points. I
>once polymorphed a shopkeeper into a xorn; when the xorn killed me, it took my
>possessions! This would indicate that it was still attacking as a shopkeeper?
>Does anyone have similar experiences? What about polymorphing the dog into
>something more useful? Does it still attack as a dog?
I have successfully utilised a wand of polymorph to do some fun things.  My
dog has been a fog cloud, a Gnome, a long worm, and a demon before.  I liked
it best when he was a demon- made for a really nasty pet.  And it still ate
tripe rations.  When I turned a shopkeeper into a quivering blob, he still
got angry, but when I killed him I had an ordinary corpse...  With all the
gold, of course, hee hee.  Didn't lose any powers, either, I don't think.
								Carl Greenberg