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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Which monsters wander.  (SPOILER) - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 12:59:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!mcewan    Sep  6 11:59:00 1984

> I recently posted my highest score ever (7500+) with excellent armour
> and little else.  This game finally came to an end when I entered a room
> and saw a Dragon.  I immediately backed out and split (not feeling
> confident enough to vanquish dragons), only to have the "foule beaste"
> pursue me.  I was finally done in by the "noxious breath of said worme".
> 
> Anyhow, in my previously limited encounters with Dragons, they had always
> been stationary.  This one definitely moved.  I dunno if this qualifies
> as wandering, but it certainly qualified as motion.

No, this does not qualify as wandering. When you go through a doorway,
every sleeping monster in the room (except those that only wake up
when attacked or agravated, like L's and N's) is "shaken" - i.e., there
is some possibility that it will wake up. It sounds like this is what
happened to you.

			Scott McEwan
			pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan

"Just because something is obvious doesn't mean that it's true."