denn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Dennis Cornell ) (02/20/85)
Here's my strange situation:
I was cruising along in the 23 level of the dungeon when I started
running out of food. My strength was 18/**, which I presumed meant
max strength (18/00). When I became weak, my strength dropped to a
-124. Huh? I couldn't believe this. I tried a potion of restore strength,
but that only brought it to -122. After fainting a few times, an Umber
Hulk walked up and kicked the sh*t out of me. Any ideas?
Dazed and Confused (Umber Hulk style)jona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham) (02/25/85)
> Here's my strange situation: > > I was cruising along in the 23 level of the dungeon when I started > running out of food. My strength was 18/**, which I presumed meant > max strength (18/00). When I became weak, my strength dropped to a > -124. Huh? I couldn't believe this. I tried a potion of restore strength, > but that only brought it to -122. After fainting a few times, an Umber > Hulk walked up and kicked the sh*t out of me. Any ideas? > > > Dazed and Confused (Umber Hulk style) That's an easy one. Strength is obviously a short integer which overflowed into the negative when you quaffed that potion of restore strength. This is a feature/bug to occasionally catch people have such high strengths. -- Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"