🚀 go-pugleaf

	"Okay, i think that eating nymphs and lepies might be good for
	me, but..  How can one possibly kill them?  Lepies always steal
	my gold, and i'm lucky if a nymphs doesn't seduce me a steals
	only one item."

When stalking a lep, leave your gold behind.  If you're not carrying
gold and you're not standing on gold, it won't teleport away from the
fight.

Nymphs are much harder.  A wand of cancellation will remove their
ability to seduce you, but they'll still often teleport away from a
fight.  I use up my wands on these critters, or genocide them.  If a
nymph takes something you've GOT to have (like your elven cloak), be
sure you've eaten a floating eye, then quaff a potion of blindness;
this will let you see the nymph wherever it is and you can run it down.
Even stripped naked, a strong character can defeat a nymph bare-handed
and retrieve the stolen goods; the danger here is from other wandering
monsters who catch you with your armor down.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]