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From: wallace@ucbvax.ARPA (David E. Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Rogue Trivia (V 5.2) SPOILERS
Message-ID: <5125@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 21:44:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 21:44:35 1985
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Reply-To: wallace@ucbvax.UUCP (David E. wallace)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

In article <189@sdcc12.UUCP> guy@sdcc12.UUCP (Guy A. Lewis) writes:
>> 	Only problem, we have an old version of rogue here, the m(ove)
>> command does *not* exist, so how on blazes am I supposed to stand on
>> something without picking it up??
>> -- 
>> 
>> 				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
>> 
> On older versions of rogue (like 5.2) if you merely drop a scare
> monster scroll and don't move off of it, you will be standing on it.
> This is the only way since the move command does not work.

Not quite the only way.  If your pack is full, you won't pick up any object you
move onto.  Thus if your pack was originally full (or nearly full) when you
dropped the scare monster scroll, you can fill your pack during your
exploration of the level, and return to the scare monster scroll (often with
monsters in tow) without destroying it.  In the extreme case, you can use
a scare monster scroll on two different levels: the level you found it on
(before you pick it up), and the level you drop it on.  This is one way to
get some use out of otherwise useless items (such as potions of poison) in
your pack.

Also keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to stand on a scare
monster scroll to get some use out of it: monsters will never enter a
square containing a scare monster scroll, so you can use one to run
interference for you in various ways (for example, you can play the old
"sleeping monster" ploy with a scroll instead of a sleeping monster, where
you play ring-around-the-sleeper to get some breathing space while fighting
another monster.  This has the additional advantage that there is never any
risk of the scroll waking up!)

Dave Wallace
(...!ucbvax!wallace,  wallace@Berkeley)