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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Strange Engravings in 1.0.2
Message-ID: <726@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-May-85 21:32:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 21:32:11 1985
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["Treasure beyond your wildest dreams!  But first you must kill the Colonel."]

> Several times while playing hack I've run across rocks, and when I pushed
> them aside it said there was an engraving there.  The engraving was always:
> 
>         ad ae?ar um
> 
> Is this a bug?  If not, what the heck does it mean?
> 
>                                 -Lautzy (Romulan)

aes = bronze
aerarium = a place where metal is stored

"Ad aerarium" is Latin for "to the treasure-house." If you search, you'll
find a door to a teleport trap to a vault.  (Getting out again is not so
easy.)

You ought to get it installed with an English version - something like
"To ?he ??u?t".
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel