raman (03/12/83)
#N:uicsl:5100003:000:527 uicsl!raman Mar 11 16:14:00 1983 A strange thing happened to me just now. I was playing a version of rogue 5.2 and encountered a rust monster on level 8. I assumed I had found a treasure room, but no such luck. I had no cursed ring on and did not read an agravate monster scroll either. so, what was the rust monster doing on level 8? I thought they did not appear till level 9. Is it possible that I was in treasure room with many monsters and no treasure? I found only food, and all the monsters (about 5 of them) fought me at the doorway.
dan (03/15/83)
Yes, it is possible in rogue 5.2 to have a treasure room with almost no treasure but a whole bunch of monsters. What the code guarantees is that there will be at least 2 more monsters than treasures (size of room permitting). I wish it was the other way around.
goldfarb (03/15/83)
My experience with treasure rooms has been mixed. Rings of stealth are very nice to have on the lower levels for use in treasure rooms, as are scrolls of hold monster. Next to the ones on levels 20 and below (where the result for me has always involved a fatal confrontation with some permutation of purple worms, dragons, and vampires) I think the worst ones to encounter are those on level 12. You've gotten there and are breathing fairly easy before gathering the guts to mix it up with the trolls on 13, so you get a bit complacent. Then you walk into a treasure room and you are promptly introduced to your maker at the behest of two or three damn trolls.