🚀 go-pugleaf

	I found a new wand!!! (At least I think it's new). I don't
	know what it's called, so I can't tell you what to wish for,
	because I died immediately after using it. I zapped it at a 
	floating-eye, and it told me the eye's status!!! It told me
	what the eye's hit points, damage, armor class, and level
	were! I have only gotten this once, so please tell me if this
	was just a bug or a new wand.

Ben Liberman

Definition of quarantine: Come in Kids! Free Ice-Cream!

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Has anyone else noticed the code for the wand of probing?  it is usually
#ifdef'd out, since PROBING isn't defined.  When you zap a monster with
it, you get a message which is the monster's stats (HP, AC, etc).  Not
terribly useful, but interesting.

Merlyn Leroy
"...a dimension between stupidity and substance, between science and
superficiality, a place we call...The Usenet Zone"

> 
> 	I found a new wand!!! (At least I think it's new). I don't
> 	know what it's called, so I can't tell you what to wish for,
> 	because I died immediately after using it. I zapped it at a 
> 	floating-eye, and it told me the eye's status!!! It told me
> 	what the eye's hit points, damage, armor class, and level
> 	were! I have only gotten this once, so please tell me if this
> 	was just a bug or a new wand.
> 

You shouldn't get this wand unless your hack maintainer has been tampering
with the source.  The wand (I forget what it's called) is basically used
for debugging.  The code that defines it's properties in the source is
delimited by a bunch of #ifdef's so someone at your site must of changed
something.
			robert
-- 
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert
...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert

In article <3510@alice.UUCP> benl@alice.UUCP (Ben Liberman) writes:
>
>	I found a new wand!!! ... I zapped it at a 
>	floating-eye, and it told me the eye's status!!! It told me
>	what the eye's hit points, damage, armor class, and level were!

Most people will not find this wand as the code is between
#ifdef WAN_PROBING ... #endif conditionals. It was meant
for debugging purposes only, but if your hack installer
liked it he may have added it to the usual assortment of
wands (thus diminishing the chances for some other type of wand).

> 
> 	I found a new wand!!! (At least I think it's new). I don't
> 	know what it's called, so I can't tell you what to wish for,
> 	because I died immediately after using it. I zapped it at a 
> 	floating-eye, and it told me the eye's status!!! It told me
> 	what the eye's hit points, damage, armor class, and level
> 	were! I have only gotten this once, so please tell me if this
> 	was just a bug or a new wand.
> 
> Ben Liberman
> 
> Definition of quarantine: Come in Kids! Free Ice-Cream!

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR EXPLANATION ***
No, this is not a bug, although some may think it is.....
It is actually in the source code and is called a "Wand of Probing"

The effects of it has allready been explaned by the previous message.

The line in which the wand is declared is as followed:

		case WAN_PROBING:
			mstatusline(mtmp);
			break;

In article <3510@alice.UUCP> benl@alice.UUCP (Ben Liberman) writes:
>
>	I found a new wand!!! (At least I think it's new). I don't
>	know what it's called, so I can't tell you what to wish for,
>	because I died immediately after using it. I zapped it at a 
>	floating-eye, and it told me the eye's status!!! It told me
>	what the eye's hit points, damage, armor class, and level
>	were! I have only gotten this once, so please tell me if this
>	was just a bug or a new wand.
>
>Ben Liberman

Wand of probing.  It is conditionally defined in the configuration file,
so not every version will have it.  (In fact, I don't believe all the
code for it is actually there, so your administrator must have added this.)

						-- Scott Turner