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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Jym wrote:
> >
> > At DL2, I just found a (cross-aligned) altar and a huge (10x6) frozen food
> > store !
> >
> > A bit more than 40 ice boxes are waiting to give me intrisic, convert the
> > altar and get artefacts
>
> I would expect monsters created in an ice box to already be
> aged. Did sacrafices actually work? I won't have access
> to wizard mode to try it for myself until tomorrow so I'm
> being lazy by asking on the group. In game play ice boxes
> are heavy enough that I've always eaten them empty before
> carrying them to a stash near an altar.
>
> > I'll probably take a cockatrice corpse out of the 17th box because of
> > boredom. Or simply die before I grab enough money to buy all this.
>
> Did you try any before the spore did you in?
No :-(
But in another game, there was an ice box in Minetown and I sacced all its
contents without trouble. (it was in nethack, not in slash'em)
Concerning heavy (ice) boxes, I had sort of a YANI (maybe it was already
proposed) :
with some mean of levitation (either dipping in a potion, a spell or maybe
adding a wand) you could make the boxe levitate for some time. During this
time, it behaves like a boulder : you can puch it easily provide the next
square is empty.
This just looks like the best way to carry this stuff.
[of course, the trouble is that this will allow you to cast levitation on
other objects and monsters, with some new behaviour to handle, OTOH, just
think about a ranger with lots of arrows being zapped with a wand of
levitation and starting to travel all around the big room with
backfire...]
[and you could say that heavy shoes (iron boots) would prevent you from
levitating]
Hypocoristiquement,
Jym.
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