the magic memory vault help
zmut...@kew.hotkey.net.au
I have arived at this vault and every time I try digging there, a guard comes and chases me away. At one stage I'll try to dig through the walls, then someone starts chanting and the walls will reform themselves again. What is this vault and what should I do in this situation
Jonathan Ellis
zmut...@kew.hotkey.net.au wrote in message ...
one turn. A wand or spell of digging will do. Or dig through the floor
and go down a level.
Alternatively, grab the loot and *teleport* out before the guard
arrives. It is also usually fairly safe to dig your way to the vault
from outside and you can then usually (though not always) grab the gold
and get back out again before the wall seals up or the guard arrives.
If you have no means of digging other than a pickaxe, you can put
the guard off when he asks who you are, by pretending to be the rightful
owner of all the money in the vault. The owner in question is known in
ancient Greek mythology as one of the richest kings that ever existed -
though he was later to lose all his wealth, following his failed war
against his neighbouring kingdom: when asking the advice of the oracle
at Delphi about the result of the future war, the oracle replied "A
great kingdom will be defeated." He didn't realise it would be his
own... If you say that your name is [insert rightful owner's name here]
the guard will go away, in which case you can continue digging your way
out.
This owner does also appear in the game of Nethack, as the final
guardian of the special level called "Fort Ludios" (its appearance is
not guaranteed every game, as the special portal to it can only appear
inside a Magic Memory vault: it is not certain that any such vaults will
appear in the game at all, nor that one of those that are generated will
contain the portal.) If he is dead, pretending to be him won't work and
you will have to fight the guard or drop all your gold in the vault and
leave. (Keeping your gold in a bag also helps, he can only see the gold
in your main inventory.)
Jonathan.
Wingnut
<jona...@franz-liszt.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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> This owner does also appear in the game of Nethack, as the final
>guardian of the special level called "Fort Ludios" (its appearance is
>not guaranteed every game, as the special portal to it can only appear
>inside a Magic Memory vault: it is not certain that any such vaults will
>appear in the game at all, nor that one of those that are generated will
>contain the portal.) If he is dead, pretending to be him won't work and
>you will have to fight the guard or drop all your gold in the vault and
>leave. (Keeping your gold in a bag also helps, he can only see the gold
>in your main inventory.)
Not true. "I repeat, drop that hidden gold and follow me!"
Wingnut
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Dathcha
"Jonathan Ellis" <jona...@franz-liszt.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> (Keeping your gold in a bag also helps, he can only see the gold
> in your main inventory.)
Actually, I did that the last time I looted a vault. The guard told me
to drop my "hidden gold" too. I dropped all my 60000+ bagged zorkmids
to the floor. My dragon dragged them to the corridor as I was follwing
the guard and as the corridor disappeared the gold vanished too never
to be seen again.
-Dathcha-