[net.games.hack] Pools in hack

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

I made it down to level 23 last night, and died in a room that looked like
this (approximately):

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    |} } } } } }|   The }'s are pools of water which harbor invisible
    | } } } } } |   eels.  I walked in (I had ~100 hit points) and an
    |} } } } } }|   eel did quite a bit of damage (in respect to the 
    ----------+--   amount of damage the other monsters did), but I 
                    wasn't worried, so I beat on some of them for a 
    while, and when my hit points got low I backed off and put on my
    ring of conflict and let 'em go to work on each other.  Good situation,
    right?  Uh uh.  I started to fight another one, only to realize that
    there wasn't one there, only water (they're invisible, remember?)!

    You fall in one of the pools! --more--
    You can't swim! --more--
    You die! --more--


Argghhhhhh!  Yet another way to die in hack...

    
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                                -Lautzy (Romulan)
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