Re: Crypts & Wraiths (* spoiler *)

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From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1985 01:08

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> Why the HELL are wraiths in crypts automatically tainted?  One thing I hate
> about Adventure-style games is that they are filled with completely
> arbitrary gotchas (just like this).  Why put this kind of stupid trick into
> hack?  Just to screw a person's game up (once)?

This isn't arbitrary, it's completely consistent with this world.  All
corpses older than 50 turns (except lizards) are potentially tainted.
It's unreasonable to expect that a corpse in a morgue died within the
last 50 turns.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: Crypts & Wraiths (* spoiler *)
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 21:08:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 21:08:22 1985
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