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- From: coutu@cithe304.cithep.caltech.edu (Stephane Coutu)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
- Subject: fun with shopkeepers
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 21:49:47 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Reply-To: coutu@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu.UUCP (Stephane Coutu)
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- I just had a bit of fun (unfortunately, lethal fun) with shopkeepers.
- Playing a lawful archeologist, I found a great big bookstore full of
- appetizing scrolls and spellbooks. I start picking them all up, looking
- for a cheap scroll (identify). One of them turns to dust: uh-oh, I don't
- have enough money to pay the shopkeeper: I have no choice, but to rob the
- store. My pickaxe is on the next level, but I've got all these unidentified
- scrolls: surely one of them is teleport. I identify all of them (blessed
- scroll of identify): no teleport, but one blessed scroll of taming. I have
- three spellbooks: perhaps reading one of them will teleport me out of here.
- Learn the first two spells: no problem. The third one: "poof", I'm gone.
- Hurray! After I can move again, I run for the stairs, killing all Kops on
- my way (+5 bullwhip). Ooops, Ms. Kanturk is waiting for me by the stairs,
- asking why I forgot to pay. No problem, methinks, I just go down and leave
- the stupid old hag waiting for payment upstairs (I know, that's *not*
- lawful behavior, but I hardly had a choice...). SHE FOLLOWS ME DOWN!
- Ok, I'm a goner. I need something like 5000 zorkmids, FAST! She asks me to
- pay her back a few times, but wait! I have this blessed scroll of taming!
- I read it, she's not mad at me, but keeps asking for payment. Well, I'm
- fast, so I try running away (where are those goddamned stairs?). What do
- I find? A *HUGE* jewelry store! I go in, grab all the rings and amulets,
- and identify the first few: heh, heh, heh: I've got a cursed ring of
- conflict... I wait a few turns: Ms. Kanturk enters this shop, looking for
- me. *Evil grin*... I put on the ring of conflict...
-
- Ms. Kanturk swings her huge shiny sword at the other shopkeeper (I forget
- his name). And a whack-whack here, and a whack-whack there, and the guy is
- gone in no time at all. Ooops, Ms. Kanturk is *not* amused. She does *NOT*
- like customers who forget to pay. Next thing I know, I'm a message on
- a tumbstone. Oh, well. It was fun anyway...
-
- Anybody else ever got two shopkeepers to fight?
-
- Stephane Coutu
- - sigh - No, I don't have a .sig !
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