Talk:Wizard of Yendor
It is now 14 July. Is the featured article going to update this month, or is Rodney's page the featured article in perpetuity?
Losing the Book of the Dead?!?
I finally made it my first time to the correct Wizard's Tower and pulled out my handy Wand of Death. I dug a small hole in the walls around him and aimed...
I missed Rodney with my first shot, and he teleported next to me (on the moat surrounding the walls). I then hit him with the second shot! My celebrations were short lived though as the Book of the Dead dropped in to the water and I got the message along the lines of "The Book heats up! Steam rises from the Book!". Problem is, I can't for the life of me find the book. It appears to have dropped in to the moat and disappeared!
I have tried freezing the moat and digging down in a pit, using a grappling hook from the shore, water walking boots, fire to evaporate the water, everything I can think of to try to get the book back. PLEASE tell me if I can get it! Alternatively, if I am barking up the wrong tree, please let me know what happened to it (TP'ed off with Rodney? When does he come back?) I do NOT want to have to abandon the first game where I have made it to the Bell and Candelabrum, only to be symied by an... "undocumented feature"! --Kalon 03:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
- This happened in my game and I was able to freeze the moat where he was last standing, and recover the book. It appeared on the square once the moat was frozen. Maybe try magical breathing if there's any water sqaures left to search... and it might be worthwhile to quaff a potion of object detection if you have one, I get the impression that book is pretty durable. MysterX 04:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
- Unique items can't be destroyed, so it must be somewhere. Keep looking! :) Fredil Yupigo 21:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- This happened in my game and I was able to freeze the moat where he was last standing, and recover the book. It appeared on the square once the moat was frozen. Maybe try magical breathing if there's any water sqaures left to search... and it might be worthwhile to quaff a potion of object detection if you have one, I get the impression that book is pretty durable. MysterX 04:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Having managed to ascend once, I decided to fight the Wizard this time. So I dug into his lair and started swinging (I had a +5 Stormbringer, gauntlets of power, and was very fast). I hit him a couple times, then he teleported and came back a few rounds later. This senario repeated twice, and then the Wizard disappeared and did not come back. He didn't die, he is just gone. I have searched much of the Underworld for the little coward and he isn't showing his ugly face anywhere. And I wouldn't care, but he still has the Book of the Dead with him.
Last time after I had his book, I kept hoping he wouldn't show up all the way to the Astral Plane. Now I *want* to find the sucker and he just isn't around. Any thoughts on how to locate him? 172.166.142.91 03:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- The Wizard has fled downstairs from me at least once. If all else fails, you might head down to the vibrating square level (you have found the vibrating square, haven't you?) and climb back up with a blindfold on. Look for @ on the up-stairs.--Ray Chason 03:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
