Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ab3 From: ab3@pucc-h (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: It hit. Message-ID: <934@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:09:11 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.934 Posted: Tue Aug 14 11:09:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 01:17:30 EDT References: <526@burl.UUCP> Organization: Purdue, THE Indiana University Lines: 24 [The Easy Way] You should have backed off, dropped the scroll of scare monster, and waited for the confusion to wear off...and then beat him to death. Of course, you've just used up your scroll of scare monster... [The Hard Way] I find that avoiding the confusion of umber hulks(5.2)/medusas(5.3) by quaffing the potion fo blindness is not a win...the best way to handle them is to lure them into a corridor, where your only possible moves, even while confused, are to retreat or to hit; thus you are guaranteed at least as many chances at hitting the critter as it has of hitting you...'course, if your armor isn't that good...or if something else sneaks up behind you... -- ---Rsk UUCP: { decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs } !pur-ee!rsk { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax } !purdue!rsk I like to drink and dance all night, Comes to a fix, not afraid to fight, You got that, right?