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> >          I have killed the minotaur, got his wand of digging, and moved
> > the boulders with it, but it has run out of charges.  I have quaffed a 
> > potion of object detection and no amulet has shown up on the screen.  Is
> > it hiding under the boulder so I can't see it or what?  If I go up the
> > level and then descend once again, will I get a new minotaur (and a new
> > wand of digging)?
> 
> If you're playing hack 1.0.2, you don't get off that easily!  The amulet
> is somewhere below level 29!  And there's NO STAIRWAY.  And you can't
> blast a hole through the floor of a labyrinth, either.
> 
> But you should be able to find a wand of wishing.  I'm not sure what to
> wish for ... have you discovered a sure way of making a quick trip to
> the cellar, no matter which level you're on?
> -- 
> Col. G. L. Sicherman
> ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel

Try wishing for:
	(1) Ring of teleport control.
	(2) Potion of confusion.
	(3) Scroll of teleportation.
Hopefully you are fire resistant by now. Put on the ring, quaff the
potion, and then read the scroll of teleportation. You'll get:
	What level do you wish to teleport to?
A few other things to remember, you'll need a ring of levitation and
you had better be pretty studly as the amulet's guardian is quite
dangerous.

As to genociding priorities, killer bees go first. You'll still find
plenty of royal jelly and a dead scorpian body makes you just as
poison proof. Next go Xan's and then I'll begin to save them up for
a pinch. 

Personally, the only horror story I've heard concerning cockatrices
concerns the guy who teleported on top of the one he had killed
earlier. That'll teach him to eat that poor Leppie.

					--Jim Gath
					..ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrjimg