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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: What is 'Charon's boat'?
Message-ID: <68@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 20:41:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 20:41:44 1985
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> 
> I have this line in my score file.  I made number 4 on the list.
> 
> 4 4122  boozer-W quit on dungeon level 7 while already on Charon's boat.
> 
> 
> This is a strange entry.  No Hp entry or Max Hp entry.
> 
> I was loosing to a beatle.  I quit during a 'MORE' while I had fainted due to
> hunger.  The beatle was killing me as I slept.  I quit with a pending MORE on
> the screen and got the Charon's boat message.
>           {ihnp4, ucbvax!dual}!fortune!sixpack!boozer 

Look to Greek mythology for an answer.  Charon was the ferryman who
took you over the river Styx, to the land of the dead.  The remark
was probably due to the fact that you were already almost dead,
i.e. on Charon's boat.

			Lord Kahless