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In article <170@NCSUVM> NETOPRAM@NCSUVM.BITNET writes:
>While playing PC HACK (1.0.3), I was teleported to a vault (no exits, just
>gold).  Having nothing to teleport me out, I # PRAYed.  I female appeared
>at a door which had not previously existed (I had searched for quite some
>time for one).  She asked me my name, and I replied.  She said that she
>did not know me, but asked me to follow her.  I new hall appeared and
>I followed her down it.  After reaching a previously existing hall, both
>the female and the new hall disappeared, not to be found again.  Prayer
>did not do anything in any other life-threatening situations, and I did
>not get a chance to see if it would work again in the vault.
>     
>It would be interesting to find out exactly what prayer will do.
>     
>By the way, I don't remember how I knew she was female.. something she
>said indicated it.
>     
>Jay (NETOPRAM at NCSUVM via BITNET)

The vault guards are standard in Hack, her/his appearance was inevitable
and would have occurred whether you prayed or not.  One side-effect of
meeting a vault guardian is that when they find you in the vault and
realize by your name that you have no business being there, is that when
they take you back to the main dungeon they relieve you of *all* your
gold not just what you picked up in the vault, assuming that you stole
it as well.  If you haven't innate teleport (ie., your level is high enough
to teleport at will, or you have eaten a leprechaun, a tengu, or a nymph)
there is *NO* way you can get out of the vault without a guard relieving
you of all your cash and leading you back to the main dungeon complex.
Possibly you can dig your way out, but I haven't tried that yet.


*****SPOILER ALERT*****


If you *can* teleport, to get the guards to leave you alone until you teleport
with your ill-gotten gains back to the main complex, simply tell them when
they ask your name that it is:  "Croesus".  The derivation of this is very 
obvious.

-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
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