Genociding priorities

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5 total messages Started by Joel McCormack Tue, 21 May 1985 20:20

#631

Author: Joel McCormack
Date: Tue, 21 May 1985 20:20

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xans are the biggest hassle of the game, as far as I'm concerned.  Speed
cures their bites, and it seems royal jelly does the same.

If I run across a scroll of genocide by reading a random scroll, I ALWAYS
wipe out xans, regardless of what level I'm on.  Cockatrices don't seem to be
that much of a problem - I have only been turned to stone fighting them once.
(Now, ripping off a ghost's backpack is another story...).

I recommend NOT wiping out dragons, nor killer bees.  I invariably have a
ring of fire resistance by the time I get to them, and if I don't, I'd like
to eat a dragon corpse.  If you kill off killer bees, how are you going to
get royal jelly?

Nymphs are annoying when your dog attacks them, but you can always chase them
down and get your stuff back.

In fact, after genociding xans, I save the scrolls to use in a pinch...it's
great to have a monter about to kill you as you genocide it and its siblings out
of existence.

WARNING: I ran into a xan in the first maze.  I don't know if the rules of
genocide don't apply to the mazes, or if it was a chameleon, but keep that
royal jelly and potions of speed around for just this case.


-- 
- Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
		 joel@decwrl.arpa

Re: Genociding priorities (SEMI-SPOILER)

#646

Author: Allan McKillop
Date: Wed, 22 May 1985 17:24

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> Joel McCormack writes:
> 
> I recommend NOT wiping out dragons, nor killer bees.  I invariably have a
> ring of fire resistance by the time I get to them, and if I don't, I'd like
> to eat a dragon corpse.  If you kill off killer bees, how are you going to
> get royal jelly?
> 
> -- 
> - Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
> 		 joel@decwrl.arpa

I must assume that you have never genocided killer bees.  Are
you SURE that you can't get the royal jelly if you genocide the
killer bees off?  Try it sometime, you might be suprised...

As for what I like to genocide, I must sail with the prevailing wind: xans!
I find these the most annoying creatures in the game.
-- 

Allan McKillop
(...ucbvax!ucdavis!minnie!ccs019)

" Where there's a will, there's a relative..."

What good is Royal Jelly?

#660

Author: Sean Casey
Date: Thu, 23 May 1985 22:25

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I haven't run across it yet.  How do you get it, and what is it good for?
-- 

-  Sean Casey				UUCP:	{cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
-  Department of Mathematics		ARPA:	ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA	
-  University of Kentucky

Re: Genociding priorities

#667

Author: Dave Lane
Date: Sat, 25 May 1985 00:55

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the line-eater hits --more--
>  If you kill off killer bees, how are you going to
> get royal jelly?
> 
> In fact, after genociding xans, I save the scrolls to use in a pinch...it's
> great to have a monter about to kill you as you genocide it and its siblings
> out of existence.
 
well, you sort of answered your own question there.  you wait until you find
a bee-hive and then genocide the killer bees. works like gangbusters -- unless
you run into a lot of them before you get a hive, but since you're carrying
a scroll of genocide around....
> 
> - Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
> 		 joel@decwrl.arpa
-- 
Dave Lane, User Assistant, Office of Computing Services,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia  30332

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

Re: Genociding priorities (SEMI-SPOILER)

#699

Author: Bob Nebert
Date: Thu, 30 May 1985 15:06

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> As for what I like to genocide, I must sail with the prevailing wind: xans!
> I find these the most annoying creatures in the game.
> -- 
> 
> Allan McKillop
> (...ucbvax!ucdavis!minnie!ccs019)
> 
> " Where there's a will, there's a relative..."

>>>> As for me I like to genocide Leppies. For some reason I cant
>>>> kill them (dont know how, hand to hand dosent seem to work)
>>>> and every time I'm loadedwith $ they hit me on my way to
>>>> my favorite store. I'm not about to chase them either.
>>>> Any help on killing them.

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