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	"Damn mimics!  Here I had nursed my spelunker down to level 20,
	just finished off a dragon, and got swallowed by a lurker
	above.  "No problem," I think, "I'll just dig my way out.  This
	guy will be sorry he tried to eat me."  Well, I don't even get
	one swing in with my pickaxe, and I'm digested by the
	'mysterious monster'.  Turns out I was swallowed by a mimic!
	When I tried to hit it (from its inside, no less), it showed
	its true colors (?-)).  Of course, since a mimic doesn't have
	enough of a stomach to hold a rotting gelatinous cube, that was
	the end of me."

Nope.  You were swallowed by a chameleon.  It changed from a lurker
into a mimic, spelling your doom.  Mimics only mimic inanimate objects,
never monsters.

	"The worst thing was, I had a ring of protection from shape
	changers in my pack, but my fingers were all busy with other
	rings."

It doesn't matter.  If you had put on the ring, the creature would have
reverted to a chameleon, which also has a tiny stomach.  Same result.

	"I guess there is some warped logic by which a mimic gets the
	ability to swallow me just by imitating something else that
	does have that ability, but you'd think it would have the
	decency to keep that ability.  I guess the only way out of a
	mimic-cum-lurker-above is to read a scroll of teleportation.
	(Or will that even work?)."

That might work.  (Is there enough light to read?)  Or you can carry a
mondo weapon (like a crysknife) and carve on its stomach; this usually
works for me.  Or you could have waded onto the level wearing the ring
of protection from shape changers.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

In article <1899@orca.UUCP> andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>	"I guess there is some warped logic by which a mimic gets the
>	ability to swallow me just by imitating something else that
>	does have that ability, but you'd think it would have the
>	decency to keep that ability.  I guess the only way out of a
>	mimic-cum-lurker-above is to read a scroll of teleportation.
>	(Or will that even work?)."
>
>That might work.  (Is there enough light to read?)  Or you can carry a
>mondo weapon (like a crysknife) and carve on its stomach; this usually
>works for me.  Or you could have waded onto the level wearing the ring
>of protection from shape changers.
>
>  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
>                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

How about using your pick-axe or wanding of digging and peirce throught
its stomach? 

I came accross an interesting incident, I was standing on the !WORD!,
and began to eat (emtpy handed) a tin. Well a monster came up to me,
and I "stopped eating". Well this monster was whimpy, so I wielded my
mace (letter a.), and began attacking the monster. While beating on
him, I did a ')' to see my weapon, and found that I was wielding the
tin (letter a.). So, how the heck did the tin that was at the end of
my inventory move to the very top??? This has happened to me 2-3 times,
and our version of hack (1.02, who'd want 1.03?), hasn't been tampered
with. Any help would be most appreciated.

Jeff

{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!beyer
               Jeff Beyer; John Fluke Mfg. Co MS 223B;
                   PO Box C9090 Everett WA 98206
                          (206) 356-5986

+====+

Yup, teleportation will work, but it'd better be your first move.

In article <2919@vax4.fluke.UUCP> beyer@fluke.UUCP writes:
>and began to eat (emtpy handed) a tin. Well a monster came up to me,
>and I "stopped eating". Well this monster was whimpy, so I wielded my
>mace (letter a.), and began attacking the monster. While beating on
>him, I did a ')' to see my weapon, and found that I was wielding the
>tin (letter a.). So, how the heck did the tin that was at the end of
>my inventory move to the very top??? This has happened to me 2-3 times,
>and our version of hack (1.02, who'd want 1.03?), hasn't been tampered
>with. Any help would be most appreciated.

  What happened to you is this:  When you pick up an item and start eating it,
Hack puts that item at the BEGINNING of your inventory.  If you successfully
manage to finish eating it, it gets taken out of your inventory and all returns
to normal.  The above situation was caused by the interruption... The tin
had been picked up, placed at the start of the inventory, and stayed there as
item 'a'.  This seems to happen when eating something from your inventory as
well.  Sound okay?

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-- Lewis R. Jansen   UUCP:  {decvax,ihnp4,allegra,vax135}!cornell!lasspvax!lrj
     ___.-.___     Bitnet:  uxhj@CornellA.BITNET
   ['  `(o)'  `]     Arpa:  lrj@lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu.ARPA

 Fire for'd phasers!

	      (My opinions are mine alone, but are for sale...)

Zap a wand of polymorph, then attack. If you've polymorphed it into something
relatively easy to off, you're out easy.  It's always worked for me.

Diane Holt
Interactive Systems, Inc.
ima!ism780

P.S. Did you know you can't genocide trappers (,). I tried it, and it just
kept re-prompting for what monster I want to wipe out.

D.H.

In article <28800002@ISM780.UUCP> dianeh@ISM780.UUCP writes:
>P.S. Did you know you can't genocide trappers (,). I tried it, and it just
>kept re-prompting for what monster I want to wipe out.
> Diane Holt

Sounds like you've got hack 1.0.2.  In this OLD version the only 
monsters you *CAN* genocide are the ones that are represented by a
letter of th alphabet.  In hack 1.0.3, which we have here, the only 
monsters you *CAN'T* genocide are "12 &:".

-- 
Henry Chai, just a humble student at the 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
{watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai