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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: What's happening here? (version 5.3)
Message-ID: <1190@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 22:15:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1190
Posted: Mon Jul  9 22:15:49 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 00:25:45 EDT
References: <204@mako.UUCP>
Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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In article <204@mako.UUCP> tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) writes:
>The other day I was playing rogue, and as I dropped down from level 1, I was
>plopped right into the middle of a party room.  I tried to boogy out of there
>but to no avail.  Then, out of desperation, I read an unidentified scroll in
>the hopes that it would be a teleport, and, miracle of miracles, it was.  So,
>I wandered around and finally cleared the monsters out of the party room except
>for a single bat, and an orc, who kept moving diagonally back and forth between
>two spots.  It looked like this:
>
>      ###########
>	 ----@---
>	 +......|
>	 |...*..|
>	 |BO.?*.|
>	 --------
>	
>The bat didn't move, but
>every time I moved, the orc would just move to the position up and left of the
>one shown above, and then back again when I moved again.  It would make this
>move about 80% of the times I moved.  It didn't move until I made a run for the
>gold in the middle of the room.  Anyone know what's happening here?

The most likely explaination is that there is a pot of gold under the bat
and the poor orc can't make up his mind which pot he should run to.
Tho why he would try to run to the pot under the bat when the other one is
closer is beyond me, so this is possibly a bug.

Mark Biggar
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