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