[net.games.hack] Strange message

kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) (05/17/85)

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I was fooling around with hack, playing with the -D option, and digging with a
wand of digging to see how deep I can reach. Anyway, on level 2 I fell into a
shop, where someone (OK, me, but under a different name) had emptied it and
then got killed, leaving a ghost. I killed the ghost, picked up some of its
treasure, and then dropped my leather armor. The message I got was:

You dropped a +0 leather armor. onbill: paid obj on bill?

Does this mean anything? Can it be useful when playing an honest (i.e. not -D)
game?

While we're on the topic of strange messages, I recently got a message that
went something like "Strange, this level is not as I remember it, this game is
void". The game ended, and when the score was printed, it said "tricked at
level xx". The bones_xx file for that level was not deleted. Deleting it cured
the problem. Does this simply mean that the bones_xx file had become
corrupted?

The above refers to hack 1.0.2

Thanks,

-- 

	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)

ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (ccs020 -- Kevin Chu) (05/21/85)

> 
> While we're on the topic of strange messages, I recently got a message that
> went something like "Strange, this level is not as I remember it, this game is
> void". The game ended, and when the score was printed, it said "tricked at
> level xx". The bones_xx file for that level was not deleted. Deleting it cured
> the problem. Does this simply mean that the bones_xx file had become
> corrupted?
> 
> The above refers to hack 1.0.2
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)

The bones file had nothing to do with that.  It sounds like someone
deleted your saved level(s).  When you went back up, it had no file to
reference, so it ended.  I beleive the saved levels are named after
your character name, name.lv,  where lv is the number of the level.

Either something is wrong with your version, or the owner felt like
being nasty.

Kevin Chu
ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020

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