======== From: mitch45678@aol.com (Mitch45678) Subject: Exercising Stats: A list of what to do Date: 3 Aug 1998 02:04:21 GMT Here is my own compilation of various other spoilers, because I don't get much out that last one. Hope it helps! Dave These are the things which you can do which will gradually increase (exercise) or decrease (abuse) your statistics. Intelligence and Charisma cannot be exercised. The game checks occasionally to see how many things you have done to exercise or abuse your stats. The more you exercise a stat the more likely it is to increase. If you want exact probabilities of increasing stats then see the spolier before this. The first check is always made at the 600th move. Every next check is made 200-1000 moves later (determined at random).When a game is saved and restarted this will make the interval longer. STRENGTH The following activities exercise your strength: - Attacking a monster - Quaffing a potion of healing or extra healing - Kicking open a non-booby trapped door - Throwing an iron ball - Moving or throwing a boulder - Trying to open or close a door and failing - Being hit by a nurse - If you "feel restored to health" after an encounter with a succubus/incubus - Reading a blessed or uncursed scroll of enchant armor when not wearing any armor - Carrying enough so that you are "stressed" or "strained" - Regenerating - Being hit by electricity or fire if you're an iron golem The following activities abuse your strength: - Allowing yourself to become weak from hunger - Losing grip on an iron ball and getting smacked by it - Doubly abused if you then get dragged downstairs by the iron ball - Kicking stairs, a ladder, a wall, empty space, or a booby-trapped door - Attempting to kick while levitating - Taking damage from an explosion (exploding chest, mixed potions exploding, exploding wand, booby-trapped door, etc.) - Being choked or crushed (i.e. by an owlbear, etc.) - Having your leg pricked by a xan - Taking damage from any acid attack if not acid resistant - Being digested by a monster that has swallowed you - Being pummeled with debris by a creature that has engulfed you - If you "feel exhausted" after an encounter with a succubus/incubus - Breaking out of your armor by polymorphing into a large creature - Reading a cursed scroll of enchant armor when not wearing any armor - Reading a scroll of destroy armor when not wearing any armor - Being strangled by an amulet of strangulation - Being hit by a falling rock trap - Falling into a pit trap - When hit by acid from a "passive" attack (i.e. acid blob) - Zapping yourself with a force bolt or wand of striking - Being hit by magic missiles from a magic attack - Being hit for more than 1 hp and dividing when you are a black or brown pudding DEXTERITY The following activities exercise your dexterity: - Successfully kicking a monster - Kicking open a door or secret door - Kicking a throne and destroying it - Kicking an altar - Kicking a sink - Catching a returning boomerang - Hitting a monster with a missile weapon, an iron ball, or a boulder - Getting the "It's hard to walk in thin air" message on the air level - Attemping to pick a lock - Playing a wooden flute, magic flute, wooden harp, or magic harp - Spinning a web when polymorphed into a spider - Trying to disarm a trap - Fighting monsters - Stealing gold when polymorphed into a leprechaun - Sucking a monster's brain when polymorphed into a mind-flayer - Zapping a wand or spell of speed monster at yourself The following activities abuse your dexterity: - Being satiated - Being heavily or extensively encumbered - Wounding your legs - Fumbling - Getting stunned - Missing a kick at a very small non-flying monster while levitating (esoteric, eh?) - Kicking a sink badly (i.e. "Ouch! That hurts!") - Kicking open space - Falling onto a sink (i.e. trying to levitate over one) - Tumbling in place on the air level - Bumping into a door - Being paralyzed by a monster attack (i.e. floating eye) - Getting your legs pricked by a xan - Being hit by a monster that slows you down - Getting stoned (turning to stone) - Getting caught in a bear trap or a pit - Getting paralyzed by a chest trap - Zapping a wand or spell of slow monster at yourself CONSTITUTION The following activities exercise your constitution: - Keeping from being hungry - Being hit beneficially by a nurse - When "you feel raised to your full potential" or "you feel good enough to do it again" after an encounter with a succubus/incubus - Digesting a monster when polymorphed into a monster which can egulf others. The following activities abuse your constitution: - Passing out from exertion when carrying too much - Fainting - Being extensively encumbered - Being sick or vomiting - Drinking contaminated water from a fountain if not poison resistant - Drinking water that's "no good" from a fountain. - Falling onto a weapon on a sink (i.e. levitating over one and crashing) - Being hit by a monster attack which causes disease - Becoming lycanthropic (i.e. "You feel feverish") - Being hit by the monster Famine - When "you feel drained of energy" or "you are down in the dumps" after an encounter with a succubus/incubus - Being hit by a silver arrow if lycanthropic or polymorphed into a vampire, demon, minor demon (except tengus), or shade - When you have system shock from polymorphing (i.e. "You shudder for a moment") - Polymorphing - Sitting in a throne and having electricity shoot through your body - Getting caught in a cloud of poison gas or getting pricked by a poison needle from a chest trap - Being hit by lightning from a wand of lightning WISDOM The following activities exercise your wisdom: - Being clairvoyant - Finding a secret door, passage, or a trap - Finding a hidden or invisible monster - Kicking a sink and finding a ring - Engraving Elbereth - Spotting a gem in a fountain - Drinking from a magic fountain (i.e. "A wisp of vapor escapes the fountain....") - Gaining self knowledge, intrinsic see invisible, or detecting monsters by drinking from a fountain - Getting Excalibur by dipping a longsword in a fountain - Finding some coins when dipping an item in a fountain - When you have a "very educational experience" with a succubus/incubus, or "will always remember the incubus/succubus" - Trying to find the right tune to get into the castle - Trying to polymorph into something that's been genocided ("You feel rath x-ish") - Polymorphing - Summoning creatures when lycanthropic - Sacrificing - Sacrificing a human corpse if you are polymorphed into a demon - Converting an altar - Being given something (i.e. an artifact or spellbook) by a deity - Using your turn undead ability if a priest of knight. - Talking to a coaligned priest when you have no money - Giving between half your gold and 200 times your experience level in gold to a coaligned priest - Touching a quest artifact for the first time - Being rejected from the Quest for other than alignment problems - Being accepted on the Quest - Hearing a true rumor (i.e. fortune cookie or Oracle) - Studying a spellbook - Trying to cast a spell - Writing a scroll - Zapping a wand The following activities abuse your wisdom: - Touching an artifact of opposite alignment ("You feel a blast of power") - Being confused - Hallucinating - Trying to cheat the lady of the lake (i.e. dipping to get Excalibur if not lawful) - Losing some gold when dipping an item in a fountain - Having your brain eaten by a mind flayer - When "your senses are dulled" after an encounter with a succubus/incubus - Playing a tooled horn, bugle, or leather drum - Touching the corpse of a rider - Sacrificing a human corpse if not chaotic or polymorphed into a demon - Attempting to convert an altar and failing - Trying to turn undead when your God is mad at you or you're non-chaotic and polymorphed into a demon or undead creature - Attacking a temple priest(ess) - Hearing a false rumor (i.e. fortune cookie)