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In article <623@ark.UUCP> boomsma@ark.UUCP (Boomsma Raoul) writes:
>>If there's a wand of paralysation, it would be nice to hit a
>>shopkeeper with..  Then get the hell out in a hurry..
>
>There is something like a wand of sleep, which has a paralyzing
>effect. This is a very difficult way to rob a shop, since the 
>shopkeeper will block the doorway or stay out off the wand's
>rays.


Anyone who plays billiards should have no trouble getting past a shop-
keeper.  You all know that the clever shopkeeper always ducks out of
your direct firing line if you are >= 3 spaces away from him.  But if 
you bank the sleep ray off a wall:


Manlobbi gets angry! --more--


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Manlobbi is angry, but has entered la-la land, and from my experience,
stays there for quite a while.  On one occasion, I zapped him off the 
wall, but the ray bounced again and hit my dog.  I hung around for about
1000 moves (till I was out of food) waiting for the dog to wake up
before I gave up on him.  The shopkeeper also remained asleep.

Extra household hint:  Don't waste those wands of polymorph on monsters.
polymorph lousy wands (make invisible, create monster) into useful tools
(death, fire, digging, polymorph).  I find that a wand of polymorph can
transform five wands if they are lined up in a row and you zap down the
line.

--pat traynor--

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