newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman) (09/04/83)
We're having a problem with Hyper-Rogue 11.4. Specifically, no one here has been able to figure out how to use the anti-matter pods or the time portals. Also, the wand of Satan's Fury seems to do nothing more than fill a random room with chocolate pudding. Then, when I read a scroll of Pinochio, the rogue's nose grew so much I couldn't fit through any doorways. Is there an antidote? Another player discovered the potion of neutron bombardment that nukes all the Cosmic Kumquats that keep dropping eggs on you, but then you mutate at random times into a disfigured gnome and start hitting yourself with your mace. Also we found a bug with warp travel; when you emerge into sub-warp space, the monsters haven't aged accurately in relativistic terms, which is at odds with the reality of the rest of the game. <snicker> The super-rogues around are simply locally hacked versions of an old rogue source that is by now all over the place. There is no guarantee that these games work at all, and were just done for laughs when people got bored of the old rogue. (I have nothing to do with any of them, so don't bug me).