YASD: A surprisingly bad Polymorphing experience

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I'm going up sokoban. Everything is fine. Then a gecko materialized in
the hallway while I'm pushing the rock. I ran out of darts to kill it
from my side of the boulder but I had three ebony wands. Now, this
is pretty early in the game so they are probably something pretty safe.
If I'm lucky they will be an attack type.

I fire. The boulder turns into a statue and the gecko turns into a white
dragon. He breathes, I die, end of story.


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Mark Healey
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com

 

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On 2005-04-02, Mark Healey <die@spammer.die> wrote:
> I'm going up sokoban. Everything is fine. Then a gecko materialized in
> the hallway while I'm pushing the rock. I ran out of darts to kill it
> from my side of the boulder but I had three ebony wands. Now, this
> is pretty early in the game so they are probably something pretty safe.
> If I'm lucky they will be an attack type.
>
> I fire. The boulder turns into a statue and the gecko turns into a white
> dragon. He breathes, I die, end of story.

Why didnt you engrave ID them? Even if you were going for illiterate
conduct, you can still do that by writing a single X...

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Andrew D. Hilton
UPenn Phd Student

 

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Mark Healey wrote:

> I'm going up sokoban. Everything is fine. Then a gecko materialized
> in the hallway while I'm pushing the rock. I ran out of darts to
> kill it from my side of the boulder but I had three ebony wands.
> Now, this is pretty early in the game so they are probably something
> pretty safe. If I'm lucky they will be an attack type.

> I fire. The boulder turns into a statue and the gecko turns into a
> white dragon. He breathes, I die, end of story.

With three wands of the same type, why didn't you engrave-ID them? Fear
of loss of a single charge cannot have been the problem, if you have so
many.

Also, when you're already in Sokoban, you should have found some rocks
somewhere already which you could have gone back for (even if it was a
rock trap...

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Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:13:30 +0200, Boudewijn Waijers wrote:

> Mark Healey wrote:
>
>> I'm going up sokoban. Everything is fine. Then a gecko materialized
>> in the hallway while I'm pushing the rock. I ran out of darts to
>> kill it from my side of the boulder but I had three ebony wands.
>> Now, this is pretty early in the game so they are probably something
>> pretty safe. If I'm lucky they will be an attack type.
>
>> I fire. The boulder turns into a statue and the gecko turns into a
>> white dragon. He breathes, I die, end of story.
>
> With three wands of the same type, why didn't you engrave-ID them? Fear
> of loss of a single charge cannot have been the problem, if you have so
> many.

Oops It didn't occur to me.

> Also, when you're already in Sokoban, you should have found some rocks
> somewhere already which you could have gone back for (even if it was a
> rock trap...

I hate backtracking.

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Mark Healey
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com

 

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Mark Healey wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:13:30 +0200, Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
>> Mark Healey wrote:

>>> The boulder turns into a statue and the gecko turns into a
>>> white dragon. He breathes, I die, end of story.

>> Also, when you're already in Sokoban, you should have found some
>> rocks somewhere already which you could have gone back for (even if
>> it was a rock trap...

> I hate backtracking.

I hate dying more.

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.