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From: vallury@dartvax.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
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Subject: Re: LARN Version 12 Distribution
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 11:07:39 EDT
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In article <1028@bucsd.bu-cs.BU.EDU> jim@bucsd.UUCP (James D. McNamara) writes:
>
>REGARDING BUG FIXES:
>
>My primary interest in Larn 12.0 is to assemble bug-reports from Larn
>installers (and players).  These have been forwarded to Noah, and most
>of the grousing I received from youse guys has been FIXED in 12.0--


This isn't necessarily in response to the above mail, but it seems as good a
time as any to point out one interesting experience that I've been having with
Larn (11.0 or 12.0). 

The thing is this.  I normally use either a VT220 or a terminal emulator like
the VERSATERM-PRO on the Macintosh to play larn.  And have discovered that 
one may easily overcome the dilemma or whether or not to give money at the
altars.  I'm not overly ambitious of being heard, especially at the risk of
creating an inconvenient demon-lord or any monster for that matter, when I'm
not ready for 'em.  At the same time, I have no intentions of giving away most
of my gold for this purpose, greedy capitalist swine that I am.  So I have
found this rather convenient way (bug??) of avoiding the whole situation.

When I have to pass across and altar, I first indicate that I want to pray.
However when I'm asked whether I want to give money or just pray, I simply
use the escape key (F11 on the vt220 or ^[ on the mac) which simply puts
my cursor back in the maze as if nothing happened, and I go scot-free.

Maybe I shouldn't have written this.  But hey, one gets bored of reaching level
100 every once so often, so here I am.  I don't know if this little blessing
in disguise could be rectified to make the game of larn, the cold-blooded,
cruel and brilliant creation of evil master NM even more interesting.  Hope it
does. Bye for now.

Note: Date a wraith !!! They're fun...and they drain you in the process too..!!