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2 total messages Started by kwan Wed, 12 Jun 1985 07:21
Mysterious force!?
#764
Author: kwan
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1985 07:21
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	While I was playing hack 1.0.2 in level 13 as a wizard, something
pretty strange happened to me: after explored all the rooms through the
level, I was, as usual, ready to explore the next level. I stood on the
stairs, accompanied with my two dogs, Zorin and May Day, ready to proceed.
However, the game didn't let me went down the next level! The message said:

	A mysterious force prevents you from going down!

I had an experience of 8 at that time, so I assumed that my experience was
not good enough to explore the next level. So, I thought I might go up to
kill some beasts and got some more experience before going any further, but
it didn't let me went up either!! The message was:

	A mysterious force prevents you from going up!

I was then lucky enough to kill a wraith, went up to Exp 9, eat the corpse
of the wraith and I was level 10. I tried to go down again, but no avail!
What is this "mysterious force" stuff?? Most of my Exp is genuine experience
points and not by quaffing potions of gain level. I was such a nice wizard
that I never loot a shopkeeper nor I had mess with a ghost. Am I too nice a
wizard to go down the next level? Any comment? Can anybody explain this
force?

						Eric Kwan.
Re: Mysterious force!?
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Author: Kim Christian Madsen
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1985 18:43
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In article <450@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> kwan@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Eric Kwan) writes:
>	A mysterious force prevents you from going down!

If you're running QUOTAS on your system or hack can't allocate enough
diskspace to create a new level-file then the message appears -- and you 
can't go up either because hack creates a new file for the previous level
plus possible extensions.
-- 
Kim Chr. Madsen   Datalogisk Institut (Institute of Datalogy)
		  University of Copenhagen
{decvax,philabs,seismo}!mcvax!diku!kimcm			  
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