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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Rogue
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 13:59:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 13:59:40 1985
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In article <1367@watdcsu.UUCP> herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) writes:
>In article <310@osiris.UUCP> rob@osiris.UUCP (Robert St. Amant) writes:
>>Richard Brown writes:
>>
>>                           ...I was down to 1 hp, and as a move of
>>desperation I read an unidentified scroll.  The response was:
>>"You hear a small cry of anguish in the distance"  and I died.
>
>the scroll that was read was a scroll of create monster.  since there
>was no space next to you to place one, it was put in a random room
>on the level.
>
>Herb Chong...

Doesn't this mean that it wasn't created at all?  (I.e., created in a
wall since there were no non-wall, non-adjacent squares, and hence killed
immediately (flesh doesn't like to coexist with stone :-), giving the
small cry of anguish).  Not that it matters much one way or another.

    Scott R. Turner
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