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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: Re: killing ghosts in hack
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 21:30:55 EST
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I guess I wasn't clear.  When I said I have seen bones files go away of their
own accord, I really mean that -- I didn't kill the ghosts (I never have),
and they didn't get out of date (the modification times were within a few
hours, and in any case I got no out-of-date message).  I am on a single-user
machine, so nobody else could have killed the ghosts either.

One possibility is that the saved level goes away when too many ghosts are on
it.

A bit of advice -- if you do encounter a ghost, don't retreat towards an
upwards staircase ("<").  When you get killed near the staircase, you join
the ghost, and the next person down the stairway gets attacked by two ghosts
(and probably two dogs).  Frequently the end result is four or five ghosts
clustered around the stairs, and when you descend, they hit so hard and often
that you die before you can do anything.  The only solution I have found is
to keep trying until the bones file goes away of its own accord (usually no
more than 5 or 6 games).
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	Unix Consultant
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