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I removed the strategy of waking the MA with a mind flayer blast.  The blast has a range of only seven, so no matter where you stand in the up-stairs room, he'll be out of reach.--[[User:Darth l33t|Darth l33t]] 01:52, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
 
I removed the strategy of waking the MA with a mind flayer blast.  The blast has a range of only seven, so no matter where you stand in the up-stairs room, he'll be out of reach.--[[User:Darth l33t|Darth l33t]] 01:52, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
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== Using a mind blast ==
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I was able to alert the nemesis of my presence both in game and again in wizard mode. It is very possible.
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All of the spots marked 'M' should be within range. Unless I'm miscounting, all are within a 7x7 square. The solitary M is where I did it in both wiz mode and in my one real game, so I know that one will work. All are within the block that has neither the assassin nor the upstairs, so you can dig a hole in the floor above and keep dropping down until you end up in either the assassin's block or the other block. I was fortunate enough to have a polymorph trap that I used to get a tame mind flayer and just got it as close to the marked position on the wiki's map as possible, and he suddenly attacked me. It certainly works. -- [[User:Qazmlpok|Qazmlpok]] 23:06, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

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i just started rogue and i got blessed short sword - so i guess there is that 5% chance for being blessed too... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.229.178.176 (talkcontribs) 9 February 2009

I removed the strategy of waking the MA with a mind flayer blast. The blast has a range of only seven, so no matter where you stand in the up-stairs room, he'll be out of reach.--Darth l33t 01:52, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

Using a mind blast

I was able to alert the nemesis of my presence both in game and again in wizard mode. It is very possible.

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All of the spots marked 'M' should be within range. Unless I'm miscounting, all are within a 7x7 square. The solitary M is where I did it in both wiz mode and in my one real game, so I know that one will work. All are within the block that has neither the assassin nor the upstairs, so you can dig a hole in the floor above and keep dropping down until you end up in either the assassin's block or the other block. I was fortunate enough to have a polymorph trap that I used to get a tame mind flayer and just got it as close to the marked position on the wiki's map as possible, and he suddenly attacked me. It certainly works. -- Qazmlpok 23:06, October 8, 2009 (UTC)