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From: wsl@eosp1.UUCP (Warren Lobel)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Transfixed for good?
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 15:53:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 27 15:53:29 1984
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I have been playing 5.2 for a while now (after playing 3.6 for a longer while)
and have noticed a very annoying bug (its not a bug its a feature!).

The floating eyes (or floating pain-in-the-asses as I call them) seem to have
the ability to permanently transfix you (a state where you can do nothing but
quit) in version 5.2 whereas in version 3.6 the state of immobilization lasted
only a few turns. In 5.2 I wasn't always permanently transfixed just sometimes.
But it has occurred often enough to scare me away from attacking any more
floating eyes whereas in 3.6 the eyes only presented a real problem if there
were any other monsters in the same room at the time you got transfixed (though
the state of immobilization still wasn't permanent regardless of how many
monsters are present in the room).

What I would like to know is if the eyes in 5.2 really do have the ability
to permanently transfix you or was it that I got too impatient and if I
waited long enough I would have been free to move again.

			Thanks in advance,

				Warren Lobel