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> 1) What determines is a ghost is created from your character?  Is it
>    an unusually violent death?

Nope.  If you're killed, or starve to death or choke, a ghost is always
created.  The seeming randomness occurs later when you (or someone else)
starts another game.  Whenever they go down a level, there's a one in
three chance that the level they end up on has a ghost (assume that someone
died on that level previously).  There are a other modifiers, like no
ghosts are saved on the earlier levels and things like that.

> 
> 2) What determines if a rabid dog from a previous character stays
>    in the game?  Do all abandoned dogs stick around?
> 

Dogs are saved with their ghosts (assuming the deceased had a dog).

				robert
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    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
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