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From: barnes@infinet.UUCP (Jim Barnes)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: drowning and teleportation
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 12:32:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 12:32:34 1986
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In the two best games I have played to date, I have died in the same
way:  I have used the CTRL-T command to escape from a particular monster
I did not wish to kill (like a nurse or dog) and landed in a pool.
One time it was a pool in a swamp, the other time was in the moat on
a maze level.  "You land in a pool, more ...  You drown".  I had no
opportunity to do anything more after teleporting, and I wasn't able
to teleport away from the pool.

However, in another game, I had eaten a Leprechaun with the usual
results.  At one point my character had randomly teleported (no action
on my part) and landed in a pool in a swamp.  I got "You land in a
pool. ... You attempt to cast a spell of teleportation. More - "
and I teleported out of the pool.  Again, I did not do anything directly,
the program did all the actions.

My question is, why don't I have the opportunity to teleport out of
a pool if I land in one?  Or maybe there is an opportunity and I'm
not seeing it?  Why this seeming inconsistency between my direct action
and some randomly generated action?

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decvax!{cca!emacs,wanginst}!infinet!barnes 		Jim Barnes