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Article #1432Re: bad advice WARNING: ***SPOILER***
From: Raymond Allen
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1986 18:56
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1986 18:56
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In article <3385@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes: >Remember when I warned everybody not to believe everything I >say? Well I was right. It turns out that you can STILL die >from eating tainted meat, even if you've got poison resistance. >I think the reasons I survived before were that I drank potions >of medicine and/or healing as soon as I got the warning message This is all true BUT, in version 1.0.3 of hack, if you eat a tripe ration after eating tainted meat AND you vomit then you will see the message "What a relief" and you will not die from food poisoning. This is an alternate way of saving yourself. I found this out by peeking at the code. (So 20 lashes with a wet noodle are in order.) -- Ray Allen | "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." utcsri!ray | - Oscar Wilde as quoted in "Parachutes & Kisses" by Erica Jong
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcsri!ray From: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: bad advice WARNING: ***SPOILER*** Message-ID: <2392@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 13:56:30 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.2392 Posted: Mon Mar 24 13:56:30 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Mar-86 15:26:46 EST References: <3385@sun.uucp> Reply-To: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 17