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Article #1289drowning and teleportation
From: Jim Barnes
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1986 17:32
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1986 17:32
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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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