[rec.games.hack] killed by a bug, again

jhh@pupthy.PRINCETON.EDU (Jim Horne) (09/04/89)

I was playing nethack, version 3.0f, patchlevel 2 on a ridge 3200,
doing very well, -9 armor class, blessed +3 long sword named Excalibur,
blessed broadsword named Stormbringer, and so forth, when I got eaten
by a chameleon which was pretending to be an ice vortex.  When it
changed into something else, I got the message Really hit the invisible
reflex action? or something like that.  The game proceeded to abort,
but it gave me the message that I might be able to restore it if I
talked to jhh, which is me since I installed the game. It seems that a
save file with a .e appendix was created, but I have no idea how to
restore the file.  What was the bug, and how do I restore the game?

Another question: does Stormbringer make me use up food faster?  I have
been praying whenever I get weak, but now that I have Stormbringer, the
gods often get angry.


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Jim Horne                              A quote? I'm supposed to have a quote?
jhh@pupthy.Princeton.EDU