phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (09/10/84)
Re 5.3 rogue on VAX 750 running 4.2bsd.
Has anyone noticed that there are monsters even on level 1 that
are hastened? What I mean is that if you meet one at the other end
of a lighted room and wait by doing ., you see the monster moving
two spaces each time. When they hit you they seem to do a
disproportionately large amount of damage. However if you run
from them they don't get any hits in. This is a little confusing.
I have seen H, S and K do this.
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Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554
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ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPAken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols) (09/11/84)
The monsters on lower levels that seem to be hastened are the monsters that
fly. Bats and Kestrels are flying creatures and so may move 1, 2 or 3 spaces
at a time. However, they only get one hit at a time after they reach you,
thank goodness.
Ken Nichols
...!ucbvax!dual!qantel!ken
______kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (09/11/84)
#R:amd:-29600:uiucdcs:34500037:000:938 uiucdcs!kaufman Sep 11 13:42:00 1984 /* Written 11:11 am Sep 10, 1984 by phil@amd in uiucdcs:net.games.rogue */ /* ---------- "hastened monsters" ---------- */ Has anyone noticed that there are monsters even on level 1 that are hastened? What I mean is that if you meet one at the other end of a lighted room and wait by doing ., you see the monster moving two spaces each time. When they hit you they seem to do a disproportionately large amount of damage. However if you run from them they don't get any hits in. This is a little confusing. I have seen H, S and K do this. /* End of text from uiucdcs:net.games.rogue */ Not H and S, unless you've zapped them with a wand of haste. What you're thinking of is the ability of K and sometimes B to move two spaces at a time. They run fast, but are not truly hasted, since in battle, they get only one swing in as opposed to two by hasted creatures. Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) "How do you like my new ring of telepor
phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (09/14/84)
> No you haven't. On the first few levels, K and B are both > flying monsters, so they can travel two 'squares' for every one of yours, > but they still only get one attack. Ok, maybe I used the wrong word when I said they were hastened. I thought they were, based on their movements and the fact that they seemed to do a lot of damage when they hit. The "extra" damage may just have been a coincidence. The flying explanation makes a lot of sense. At least I know people are reading this newsgroup. -- Legalized gambling is a tax on the stupid. Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPA