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From: djsalomon@watdaisy.UUCP (Daniel J. Salomon)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: scare monster
Message-ID: <6736@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 13:37:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 13:37:47 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 07:35:55 EST
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I had an identical experience: I killed a centaur and a found a
scroll beneath him.  I read the scroll only to find that I had
wasted a "scare monster".  He was asleep when I found him, because
I rested a while before the attack.  He wasn't carrying it because
when you kill a monster carrying an object, that object never
falls on the spot where the monster was standing, it only falls
into one of the eight adjacent squares.  Therefore the centaur
must have been created on top of the scare monster scroll.

Unfortunately, in this type of game, almost any bug like this could be
classified as a feature.