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[Purina Line-Eater chow]

Here's the scenario:
I was polymorphing large piles of rocks into gems.  I had two sizable
piles, one of jade stones and one of worthless red glass.  Each had
about 200 or so gems.  I decided to go down another level to get more
rocks to make each polymorph zap more productive.  I picked up all of
the jade stones, but was only able to pick up about 100 of the worth-
less pieces of glass.  Although the jade wasn't worth that much, I 
decided to take the glass with me and leave most of the jade behind
te retrieve on my way back to the surface.  I dropped 100 jade stones
and tried to move onto the remaining red glass, but collapsed under
my load!  Why did my load get heavier when I dropped the stones?  I
then dropped all the jade stones, was able to move, tried to pick them
up again and was only able to carry 13.  
I spent most of the game playing with gems, rocks and wands of polymorph
and experienced this sort of thing several times.  It was as though
I was losing strength.  

Any theories?

--pat traynor--

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