🚀 go-pugleaf

During one of my better games of hack (v1.0.3.), I was on the
way back up with the the amulet, ~70,000 gold pieces and other
assorted goodies.  I had left a pile of useless wands at an earlier
level and on reaching this level decided to do a bit of polymorphing
of wands in order to get more wands of wishing.

So that I could move the wands about etc. I dumped my gold in the
corner of the room.  While I was involved in polymorphing the wands a
bunch of Orcs appeared in the room near the gold.  One of them moved
straight on to it and picked it up. I immediately rushed over and polished
them off with my 3 +5 crysknives, and picked up the pile of gold. Lo
and behold! there was only ~10,000 gold pieces there.

The question is where did it go?  None of the Orcs escaped,  there were
no trapdoors, and anyway the first one grabbed the whole lot.  This
suggests a bug of some kind.  Does anyone know if there is a limit
to the amount of gold a monster may carry, has Andries put the amount
of gold a monster can carry in some horribly small bit field that
clipped a bit or two off the top?

I'll wait for replies from all you Hack source delvers, and if no-one
has the answer I suppose I'll have to do it myself.

Meanwhile the moral is never go far away from a nice big pile of gold.
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Regards,
Bruce Munro.  <bruce@stc.UUCP>
...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!bruce