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In article <439@excalibur.UUCP> 188622462@excalibur.UUCP writes:
>Yes and no.  It seems the special power of the nurse is a voluntary one.  Your
>hitpoints will increase only when the nurse is in the mood, aka when all your 
>armour is off.  However, since you polymorphed a homunculus into a nurse
>while the power was avaiable, the creature still had the personality of a
>homunculus.  Therefore the attack was a normal one, not a healing one.

Not quite true.  You are correct in that monsters retain 'personality traits'
after being polymorphed, however that isn't the reason the nurses attack 
killed the previous writer.  Nurses always attack, pretty nasty too, until
you're stripped off etc.

>Spoiler:  If you are being chased by an angry shopkeeper, and you have the wand
>          of polymorph, zap him with it.  He is still mad, but is no longer as
>          strong,  I like polymorphing the shopkeeper and watching him change
>          into an acid blob.  

I did this once and got a unicorn, which stayed mad, I was a bit unnerved
at first, but I soon realised it was a hell of a lot easier than chasing
round and round trying to corner a unicorn to throw gems at it. Instead
it kept rushing up to attack me, and as soon as it was standing next to
me I threw it a gem. My luck should have been massive, unfortunately I
got pulled into a pool by an eel. So much for luck.

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Regards,
Bruce Munro.  <bruce@stc.UUCP>
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