[net.games.rogue] teleportation scrolls

ryl (12/17/82)

Hey! I think I'm on to something.
There are really two teleportation scrolls.
One is called teleportation, and moves you
to some random location on the same level.
The other is called transportation, and only
moves you around *in the same room*
(or at least nowhere near far enough to
escape, say, a Xorn).
You can tell the transportation scroll
because you have to name it when you
read the unidentified scroll.

Am I right, or has CRT radiation performed an
effectual lobotomy on me?

		Bob "Play Games Much?" Lied
		<however!>ihuxe!ryl

mjl (01/05/83)

My own experience bears you out on the two types of teleportation scrolls, 
though I never noticed that you only had to name one of them.  By the way,
are "teleportation" and "transportation" the internal names (i.e. those
supplied by an identify scroll)?  I've never seen "transportation", and 
always thought it was just a teleportation scroll that happenned to select
a spot in the current room as your random destination.  If it's a separate
scroll, what good is it?
					Matt (Tyrian Scarlet) Landau
					

arnold (01/07/83)

I am amazed.  Let me get this straight.  People are hypothesizing the
following:
	1)	There are two kinds of teleport scrolls; ones which
		teleport you to a different room and ones which
		move you to another place in the same room
	2)	They have two different names, "teleport" and
		"transports"
	3)	You only have to "call" one of them.
	4)	Nobody has ever seens a "transport" scroll.
Now, just apply Occam's razor.  What is the obvious conclusion?

		Ken

clp (01/23/83)

Come on guys...are you REAL rogue players?!?

There is only ONE scroll of teleportation! If you have not identified
 the scroll, and it moves you into another room, then it names it for
 you (since it is obvious what it did). However, if it only moved you
 around in the same room, then it asked you to name it (in case you
 hadn't been observant enough to notice what it was...rogue is harsh).

Anyway, any of you who don't believe me can try identifying them to see
 they are the same (or run strings on rogue and see there's no such
 scroll). Anyway, deduction is enough to realize there is only one...

							Charles L. Perkins
							3.4 winner and proud
							 of it (not 3.6!)
						...decvax!genradb!wjh12!clp

P.S. -- For those toughened roguers out there, you should try 3.4. It is
 the ultimate in harsh without giving you any powerful weapons to play with.
 (As far as I know, only a few people have EVER won it)