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From: wcs@vax135.UUCP (William Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: 5.3 Nymph Bugs and Ways to Die
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 20:36:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 20:36:30 1984
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A collection of miscellany, mostly from version 5.3:
	
	I haven't won 5.3 yet, but my 22000-point game *is* the
high score on this machine (soon after I hit the nymph bug, I
killed something and found 23000+ gold pieces; I lost 10% for
getting killed on level 20.)

	Well, I was having this decent game, and hit a treasure
room around level 12, which had lots of hardware and a couple
of angry nymphs.  I killed one of them safely, but the other one took
2 scrolls of teleportation, and I think some other stuff also
disappeared.  One of the lines in my pack was blank.  Since 5.2
maintains the order of items in your pack by category, I think it
was a scroll.  Anyway, I couldn't read it, but the blank line moved
up and down as I acquired and used items.  It stuck around until I
got killed.

Some ways to die:

	In the above game, I died because it was late at night and
	I forgot to put on my good armor after I reached level 19.  Dumb.
	For some less dumb, but still spectacular deaths,
	------
	|%@T..    I was levitated, and had about 10 HP left
		  as I ran away from the Troll.  I moved onto the 
		  stairs, typed >, and
	______	
	|@T...		You can't - you're floating in the air! - More -
			The troll hit
	_______
	|......	  This was only a level 2 death.  I had landed next
	|@H....	  a Hobgoblin, who was beating the tar out of me, and
	|......	  made a last-remaining-HP move to try and recover.
		  I quaffed an unknown potion, hoping it would heal me;

			A cloak of darkness falls around you!

				R.I.P.

					BILL!!