kwan@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (06/12/85)
While I was playing hack 1.0.2 in level 13 as a wizard, something pretty strange happened to me: after explored all the rooms through the level, I was, as usual, ready to explore the next level. I stood on the stairs, accompanied with my two dogs, Zorin and May Day, ready to proceed. However, the game didn't let me went down the next level! The message said: A mysterious force prevents you from going down! I had an experience of 8 at that time, so I assumed that my experience was not good enough to explore the next level. So, I thought I might go up to kill some beasts and got some more experience before going any further, but it didn't let me went up either!! The message was: A mysterious force prevents you from going up! I was then lucky enough to kill a wraith, went up to Exp 9, eat the corpse of the wraith and I was level 10. I tried to go down again, but no avail! What is this "mysterious force" stuff?? Most of my Exp is genuine experience points and not by quaffing potions of gain level. I was such a nice wizard that I never loot a shopkeeper nor I had mess with a ghost. Am I too nice a wizard to go down the next level? Any comment? Can anybody explain this force? Eric Kwan.
peterb@pbear.UUCP (06/12/85)
I know that in pdp-11 hack, you can not go up or down stairz if wearing a
ring of floatation... Maybe its a side effect of something your character
or one of the dogs has.
Peter Barada
{ihnp4!Inmet|{harvard|cca}!ima}!pbear!peterbkimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) (06/13/85)
In article <450@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> kwan@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Eric Kwan) writes: > A mysterious force prevents you from going down! If you're running QUOTAS on your system or hack can't allocate enough diskspace to create a new level-file then the message appears -- and you can't go up either because hack creates a new file for the previous level plus possible extensions. -- Kim Chr. Madsen Datalogisk Institut (Institute of Datalogy) University of Copenhagen {decvax,philabs,seismo}!mcvax!diku!kimcm