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From: wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: It hit.
Message-ID: <526@burl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 08:44:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.526
Posted: Mon Aug 13 08:44:49 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:27:09 EDT
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I have just been slain by the first Umber Hulk I have ever met.

It happened so fast, I'm not sure I remeber the fight accurately,
but it was something like this:

I was on level 22, at experience level 9.  I had strength 19, I was
wielding a two-handed sword, and had armor class 4 (too many Rust
Monsters).  I was in a passage-way and came to a room.  When I
stepped on the "+", I saw a U waiting for me.  I had heard about
these beasts on the net, so I immediately quaffed a potion of
blindness.  It hit.  It dropped me from 78 to 60 Hp.  Wow, I
thought.  If you're confused, you don't stand a chance against this
thing.  I considered dropping a scroll of scare monster, but I
thought that, being blind, I might be lured off the scroll by the
dodging Umber Hulk.  So I swung instead, and hit.  Then It missed. 
I swung again and hit.  Then It hit and DROPPED ME ALL THE WAY TO
-7Hp !!!  This hardly seems fair.

So, I think it's time I learned some more about these critters. 
Like, what can be done for these things? Is genocide the only
effective weapon against the Umber Hulks?  

By the way, what does an Umber Hulk look like?
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				--Gimli the Dwarf