🚀 go-pugleaf

>    I have found a way to bring a pick-axe into a shop...
> ...Well the dog finally
> followed me carring the pick-axe into the shop and dropping it so I
> could pick it up.

That's a little too unreliable for me.  My favorite method is to dig a hole
in the wall of the shop from the outside, before I go in and rip the guy
off.  You have to be pretty persistent to dig through such a hard wall,
but it doesn't take long.

By the way, when ripping off shopkeepers don't forget to first sell him
everything you are carrying.  It's a great way to load up on gold.  You
can sell him the bodies of things you killed outside the shop.  Also, when
selling things that come in bunches (e.g., rocks or arrows) sell them one
at a time:  the price is the same whether it's one or a bunch!

All this applies to hack 1.0.2.

A final note:  I removed a 'usa' distribution from this message.  Hack was
*written* in Europe, folks;  let's be nice enough to share our findings
with our many international friends who also love the game.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff