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>Help. I just got down to level 7 of the dungeon and was attacked by
>a shopkeeper for some unknown reason. I did nothing to provoke him
>and he just ran up a killed me in two swings. (I tried invoking the
>name of Elbereth, but it had no effect.) I wasn't even near a shop
>as far as I could tell, not had I ever entered and left any shop without
>paying. What happened? I did meet a ghost on level 6, but he finally
>left me alone.
>
>                                        The ever clumsy Gilgabit
>                                          (a.k.a. Scott A. Stewart
>                                                  LMSC - Sunnyvale)

The only time this has ever happened to me before was if I had made the
mistake of bumping into a shopkeeper in a previous game (and thereby making
him ``angry''), gotten killed by him, producing a ghost level, and then
entered that level again in a new game *with the same player name* -- that's
the key...this guy doesn't forgive, and he doesn't forget, know what I mean?
But, I've never had a shopkeeper that was angered by somebody else attack
me. Also, you can run across a shopkeeper asking you for money if you got
killed some other way on that level (or you took him down with you to some
other level that you did get killed on).

Won, but still in second place,
Diane Holt
Interactive Systems Corp.
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