[net.games.hack] Strange Engravings in 1.0.2

lautzy@nmtvax.UUCP (05/04/85)

Several times while playing hack I've run across rocks, and when I pushed
them aside it said there was an engraving there.  The engraving was always:

        ad ae?ar um

Is this a bug?  If not, what the heck does it mean?

-- 
                                -Lautzy (Romulan)
                              ...unmvax!nmtvax!lautzy

colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (05/13/85)

["Treasure beyond your wildest dreams!  But first you must kill the Colonel."]

> Several times while playing hack I've run across rocks, and when I pushed
> them aside it said there was an engraving there.  The engraving was always:
> 
>         ad ae?ar um
> 
> Is this a bug?  If not, what the heck does it mean?
> 
>                                 -Lautzy (Romulan)

aes = bronze
aerarium = a place where metal is stored

"Ad aerarium" is Latin for "to the treasure-house." If you search, you'll
find a door to a teleport trap to a vault.  (Getting out again is not so
easy.)

You ought to get it installed with an English version - something like
"To ?he ??u?t".
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel