johnp@oliveb.UUCP (John Pew) (03/22/84)
While playing rogue the other day I found a scroll of scare monster and
a staff of polymorph. I was on about level 6 and was being followed by
two monsters, an orc and a gnome. I stopped and dropped my scroll of
scare monster and then zapped the gnome with my polymorph staff. The
gnome turned into a dragon. This is exactly what I was hoping for
because I had plenty of food and felt certain that I could kill him
eventually. I did get flamed by the dragon but this didn't seem to
damage me too much. I hit the dragon once and he disappeared (without
being killed). Having come across only one dragon before in my rogue
playing career I was uncertain of the attributes of dragons and
supposed that perhaps he had just moved off and would return if I
rested. So, without moving off the scroll of scare monster I rested.
I had approximately 35 hit points left, but suddenly after about five
rests I got killed by God!!
What does this mean? Does this sound like a bug in our version? (5.2)
Is God a regular character?
Whoever can shed some light on this matter I would appreciate some
mail or a response posted to the net.
Thanks
John Pew
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