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Janis Papanagnou  
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 More options Feb 26 2012, 6:55 am
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanag...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:55:27 +0100
Local: Sun, Feb 26 2012 6:55 am
Subject: Re: Typo
On 26.02.2012 12:44, ais523 wrote:

> Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> but mistyped and triggered the drum, which, of course, had been
>> that rare drum of earthquake[*]. On my way to the tools shop which
> [snip]
>> [*] What is that item useful for? BTW.
> Its main use is waking up monsters at the other end of a level. (This is
> especially useful with quest nemeses, as it means that you don't have to
> leave the upstairs to wake them, and thus can stop them teleporting
> there, cutting off the covetous AI straight away; and it can also be
> useful with the Wizard of Yendor, luring him out of his tower without
> needing to actually enter the tower yourself.)

This is more of a special application useful only in a specific single
type of game context, somewhat comparable to the invocation artifacts.
So there is no other (more general) use for that drum?

Janis


 
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