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Re: hack scoring

#485
From: Chuck Simmons
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1985 08:33
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> 	Another hack suggestion: Instead of quitting, you commit suicide
> (and possibly leave a ghost). Also, how about some " Boots of Water-Walking"?
> Another thing that could be added would be to be able to throw potions at
> monsters, and if the potion breaks on it, the potion affects it! (That gives
> potions of blindness useful).

Actually, that would make potions of poison useful since potions of blindness
are already quite useful.  (eg, you've just eaten a floating eye and you
don't have any gloves [or dead lizards] and you've found a zoo on level
12 with 5 cockatrices running around that you don't want to inadvertantly
run into.)

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From: chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons)
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Subject: Re: hack scoring
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 03:33:25 EST
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