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In article <618@tymix.UUCP> stimac@tymix.UUCP (Michael Stimac) writes:
>Several weeks ago I posted the outcome of a game in which I had
>retrieved the amulet, only to find out upon leaving the dungeon
>that it was a cheap, imitation amulet, worth only a couple of Zorkmids.
>
>No one offered any suggestions why this had happened. Since then,
>rather, I have seen more discussion about going down to level 39
>(via confusion, certain rings, and a scroll of teleportation),
>killing the wizard and his dog, and thereby gaining the amulet.
>
>I obtained my amulet by precisely this method. I know that amulets
>obtained from a wishing wand are imitations, but everyone still
>seems to think that the one from the Hound of Hell is the real McCoy.
>
>Not so! At least not so under certain unknown conditions. My suspicions:
>
> ....
>
>2) I had read a scroll of mapping to find the Wizard and his Hound.
>In the middle of the moat I noticed an "@" which I did not go near.

The '@' is the ghost of someone who died on level 39.  On bones levels
with the amulet, the amulet is made fake in case the ghost was carrying
it.  If you would have walked up to the next maze level you would have
seen another wizard's moat, with the true amulet.
-- 
	Don Kneller
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