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- From: rji@trellis.cs.nott.ac.uk (Rob Ingram)
- Subject: Re: Unusual Death...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.123906.8677@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:39:06 GMT
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- In article <0f1h3b_00iV383HFdL@andrew.cmu.edu>, jbbb+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joshua John Buergel) writes:
- |> I'm just not having very good luck with wizards. You'd think that since
- |> I've won with a tourist I could win with a wizard. This time, I had
- |> pretty damn good loot to begin with. Rings of invisibility and conflict
- |> and a wand of cold. First store I saw, I was gonna lob my potion of
- |> sickness at the storekeeper, and then blast away with the wand. Yeehaw.
- |> The other potions and scrolls were pretty sad, but who cares. Also, I
- |> had 18 CON and 18 INT. Not bad.
- |>
- |> I find a lock pick on the first level. "Great," I think, knowing I
- |> wouldn't have to boot the heck out of chests to open them. On the
- |> second level, I stop a chest. # loot. "Hmmm...this chest is locked."
- |> "No problem," I think, whipping out my trusty lock pick. (a)pply. q.
- |> "You succeed in picking the lock." "Groovy shoes," says I. # loot.
- |> "You are zapped by a jolt of electricity! -more-" "Your ring of
- |> invisibility turns to dust! -more-" "Your wand of cold explodes!
- |> -more-" "You die..."
- |>
- |> @-W died on level 2
- |> Killed by exploding wand.
- |>
- |> In all my time playing nethack, I have never seen an electricity trap.
- |> Fire traps, yes. Electricity?
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- Sounds like you learned a valuable lesson:
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- #untrap those chests before you touch them!
-
- Rob.
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