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From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: What's happening here? (version 5.3)
Message-ID: <904@t4test.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 14:17:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: t4test.904
Posted: Wed Jul 18 14:17:17 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 03:42:37 EDT
References: <204@mako.UUCP>
Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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Summary: the orc was running to the gold under the bat

--- REFERENCED ARTICLE ---------------------------------------------

>From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
>
>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.?*.|
>	 --------
>	

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There have been two answers proposed:

1)  The orc didn't know which of the two visible pots of gold to go for.
2)  There was gold under the bat.

The latter is true.  When a monster is set running, it is told to run
and where to run to.  In most cases, it is "run at the rogue".  However,
in the case of the greedy little orcs they might be told to run to a
specific pot of gold.  Note that this instruction is "run to a specific
location", and not "get greedy and run to any pot of gold."  In this
case, the orc was told to run to some gold sitting underneath the bat.

-- 
Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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