Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stat-l Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Stat-L:ab3 From: ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: scare phantom question Message-ID: <119@stat-l> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:27:41 EDT Article-I.D.: stat-l.119 Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:27:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 07:20:29 EDT References: <174@mako.UUCP> Organization: Pucc Unix Systems Group Lines: 19 Phantoms are "slightly-confused"; they do not necessarily move in the direction most conducive to following you around and bashing you. The best way to explain this is to note that Bats are somehwat-more-confused, and really have a hard time following you around. A number of monsters will move around you if you are standing on "Scare Monster"; they'll try to get you to step off of it by feinting around it...Trolls seem to be especially nasty at this. What seems to have happened to you is due to one of the two of these phenomena...either the Phantom moved 'cause it was reeling around at random, or it tried to draw you off the scroll... -- Rsk the Wombat UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk { allegra, cornell, decvax, hplabs, ihnp4, ucbvax} !purdue!rsk "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."