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From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: fainting
Message-ID: <753@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 11:45:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcvax.753
Posted: Mon Jul 15 11:45:26 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 03:23:40 EDT
Reply-To: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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>   Why have a person starving to death regain consciousness only to faint the
> moment the keyboard is touched?  It is quite irritating, I may as well have 
> remained unconscious rather than get the "you are conscious again" and then
> only faint again without a move of any kind other than "v" or ")".  I may
> sound a little peeved, I just died on level 2 coming up with mega money and
> as many diamonds possible from a wand of wishing.  AArgh.
> 
When I am not mistaken, the state of affairs is the following:
After "you are conscious again" you are guaranteed to have enough energy
to do at least one thing (drink a potion, read a scroll, move one step, ...);
however, fighting takes more energy than moving, and it may well be that if
you try to hit a monster, you faint again without hearing "you hit/miss the x".