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Re: Re: "Opinion Poll" (SPOILERS)

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From: Patrick Traynor
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1986 15:45
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In article <2014@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) writes:
>
>In article <775@im4u.UUCP>, barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) writes:
>> around hell. But... (Spoiler alert...) I discovered by accident the 
>> other day that you really don't need to wear the ring around all the
>> time... only when you first enter Hell, and when you climb stairs.
>> (I think the last part is true, but I didn't verify it empirically.)
>> I found out by eating a tin of salmon while down there -- my hands
>> got slippery and my rings fell off...Anyway, once you're fireproof,
>> dragons are fun -- you can use them to kill off other monsters, etc.
>
>	In 1.0.3 this is NOT true.  I wanted to see if hack kept track
>of such things so I 'R'emoved my ring of fire resistance around level 29
>(coming up, no less) and immediately I was burnt to a cinder ( ... )

On 1.0.2 I did the same thing and got the same results:
'The fires of hell burn you to a crisp'  [r.i.p.]
Lewis, I think you must have eaten a dragon corpse and then forgot.  I
know how easy it is to forget that I HAVEN'T eaten one and then go to the
center of the earth. (I hate it when that happens...)

--pat traynor--

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From: ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Re: "Opinion Poll" (SPOILERS)
Message-ID: <2127@bbnccv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 10:45:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 10:45:38 1986
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