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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Interesting bug in 5.2 blindness potion
Message-ID: <181@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 01:10:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.181
Posted: Tue Sep 11 01:10:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 08:14:31 EDT
Organization: Georgia Tech: Office of Computing Services (Atlanta, Georgia)
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An interesting thing happened to me while wandering around rogue one day.
I was on level 5 and I found an unidentified potion, which I drank to
identify.  Well, it was a potion of blindness.  Not having any cures
and not willing to wait until it wore off, I pulled a magic-mapping
scroll and proceeded to step on every square foot of the level (at level
5, you don't worry to much about nasty traps).  In no time, I filled
three quarters of the entire level with "."'s from the trail I was
making.  Then the lights came on.  "Fine", says I, and continued my
exploration.  Then I noticed some of the periods were disappearing
in a room I was not in.  Further observation showed that the periods
were disappearing in a trail, as if *something* was walking over them.
I immediately surmised that a) that must be a dark room, and b) that
trail is being caused by a random monster that was just generated in
that room.  Well, the trail of disappearing periods went straight to
a doorway, through the hall, into another room, basically making a
beeline path straight for me.  It turned out to be a hobgoblin, which
I promptly wasted.  
It seems that in Version 5.2, when a random monster is created, the
program actually prints its position on your screen, even when it's
in a different room.  My guess is that it prints either as a blank,
if the room it's in is a dark room, as a period if the room is lit,
as a pound-sign if it's in a hallway, as a plus if it's in a door-
way, or as a percent if it's on the stairs.  Has anyone else noticed
this, and, if so, could you confirm this?

				robert


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Robert Viduya
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
Phone:  (404) 894-4669

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