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In article <322@l5.uucp> laura@l5.uucp writes:
>when I drop an item that a shopkeeper is uninterested in, it is marked
>as unpaid when I pick it up and I can't leave the store.  Is there any
>reason for this that I don't understand?  Has anybody fixed this already?
>If not, I guess I'll have to delve into the source.  I am running hack
>version 1.0.3 (last edit 23 June 1985).

(I tried to mail this but the mailer at Harvard doesn't like me )

This isn't a bug as such, many times there are specialist shops (ie
non-antique shops) with odd items in them - usually scrolls in non book shops.
While this isn't the normal stock in trade you will still be charged for it.
The same thing happens if you drop something in the shop - but the shopkeeper
is too mean to pay for it.

[follows reply to Laura's earlier query - it just got returned for the third
time]

In article <306@l5.uucp> you write:
>I just got hack working on Friday. One weekend later, I have 2 questions.
>Are you guaranteed to get a dog-whistle somewhere on level one?  And is
>there any sneaky trick to avopid getting killed by your own ghost on level
>3 or so?  

i) no


ii) Yup sure is - run like hell.  Alternatively don't wake it up  -  at level
 3 it's unlikely to have anything you're really desparate for.  (A possibility
 is to keep playing a knight until you leave a ghost on approx level 4-5 and
 then snaffle the goods while playing a wizard.  This gives a well armed and
 armoured magic user who can teleport on experience level 6 [use ^T] - which
 can then steal the sh*t out of shopkeepers [sell them everything first - that
 way you get their gold as well] and is strong enough to carry enough kit to
 be useful)

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Regards
  Derek

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