wcs@vax135.UUCP (William Stewart) (09/08/84)
< white space to attract bugs > A collection of miscellany, mostly from version 5.3: I haven't won 5.3 yet, but my 22000-point game *is* the high score on this machine (soon after I hit the nymph bug, I killed something and found 23000+ gold pieces; I lost 10% for getting killed on level 20.) Well, I was having this decent game, and hit a treasure room around level 12, which had lots of hardware and a couple of angry nymphs. I killed one of them safely, but the other one took 2 scrolls of teleportation, and I think some other stuff also disappeared. One of the lines in my pack was blank. Since 5.2 maintains the order of items in your pack by category, I think it was a scroll. Anyway, I couldn't read it, but the blank line moved up and down as I acquired and used items. It stuck around until I got killed. Some ways to die: In the above game, I died because it was late at night and I forgot to put on my good armor after I reached level 19. Dumb. For some less dumb, but still spectacular deaths, ------ |%@T.. I was levitated, and had about 10 HP left as I ran away from the Troll. I moved onto the stairs, typed >, and ______ |@T... You can't - you're floating in the air! - More - The troll hit _______ |...... This was only a level 2 death. I had landed next |@H.... a Hobgoblin, who was beating the tar out of me, and |...... made a last-remaining-HP move to try and recover. I quaffed an unknown potion, hoping it would heal me; A cloak of darkness falls around you! R.I.P. BILL!!