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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy <Brian Westley>)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Interesting deaths (killed by a jelly sandwich)
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 16:08:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 16:08:27 1984
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<eat these jellies JJJJJJJ>

On the topic of interesting deaths...first, some background.
We are running a customized version of rogue (5.2 with many mods).
Two of the changes are:
cursed weapons may have 0, -1, or -2 damage
The monster J is an ochre jelly; this monster will split when struck
    if it is not killed by the blow.

Now, an interesting thing happens when you wield a cursed bow/crossbow
which has a -1 or -2 damage; since the wielding damage of them is normally
1d1, the minus on the damage makes it do NO damage at all.  And, being
cursed, you can't wield anything else.  This led to the following
predicament (standing on top of a scare monster scroll)...

-------
|...JJ|
|..JJJ|
|..JJJ|
|..JJJ|
|..JJ@R##
|..JJB|
--+----

We have since changed the minimum damage of weapons from 0 to
be 50% chance 0, 50% chance 1 (for each hit).  This will still leave
you helpless against monsters that regenerate (Trolls and Vampires),
but it's better than a wand of nothing.
							Merlyn Leroy
If I only had some peanut butter...