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Hi, Y'All,
The elven wizard was up to level 9, draining the life (a great spell for
sokoban and those pesky nymphs!) of all that had crossed her, and had
just picked up the bag of holding atop sokoban. Denizens of the Mines
had yielded a +4 orcish helm, a pair of +4 iron shoes, and a +1 elven
dagger, and her faithful cat had collected three unicorn horns for her
along the way. "Oh, look," she noted, "there's a boulder in one of
those other 1x1 chambers, it must be a mimic."
Oops. That last sokoban zoo took more magical power than she thought,
and by the time she realized (well, okay, it was *me* who failed to
realize what was going on...) that there wasn't enough left to use on
that mimic, it had grabbed her and wouldn't let go. Her dying bolt of
force hit the mimic, but to no apparent avail. All of her un-ID'd wands
of course, were (a) in her stash on the first lavel of sokoban, or (b)
lying on sokoban's floor so she could pick them up on her way back down.
Lesson (re-)learned: You don't have to kill everything. Let it go;
it's only a few more experience points, and whatever it may be holding
or may drop upon its death isn't worth the risk. OTOH, the next time a
kobold drops Frost Brand, I'll forget this lesson all over again.
Regards,
Dan
--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>
Hi, Y'All,
The elven wizard was up to level 9, draining the life (a great spell for
sokoban and those pesky nymphs!) of all that had crossed her, and had
just picked up the bag of holding atop sokoban. Denizens of the Mines
had yielded a +4 orcish helm, a pair of +4 iron shoes, and a +1 elven
dagger, and her faithful cat had collected three unicorn horns for her
along the way. "Oh, look," she noted, "there's a boulder in one of
those other 1x1 chambers, it must be a mimic."
Oops. That last sokoban zoo took more magical power than she thought,
and by the time she realized (well, okay, it was *me* who failed to
realize what was going on...) that there wasn't enough left to use on
that mimic, it had grabbed her and wouldn't let go. Her dying bolt of
force hit the mimic, but to no apparent avail. All of her un-ID'd wands
of course, were (a) in her stash on the first lavel of sokoban, or (b)
lying on sokoban's floor so she could pick them up on her way back down.
Lesson (re-)learned: You don't have to kill everything. Let it go;
it's only a few more experience points, and whatever it may be holding
or may drop upon its death isn't worth the risk. OTOH, the next time a
kobold drops Frost Brand, I'll forget this lesson all over again.
Regards,
Dan
--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>
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