Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!qantel!ken From: ken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols@ex6193) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: To Jamie re: possible bug? Message-ID: <231@qantel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 19:49:58 EDT Article-I.D.: qantel.231 Posted: Mon Oct 8 19:49:58 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 03:53:28 EDT References: <1802@uw-june> Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA Lines: 27 (+-+-+-+-+-+) > Recently, I was exploring level 17 when I happened upon a what I assume to > have been a party room, which looked like this from the doorway: > > UFY > -@- > # > # > > I recoiled instinctively, though as I did I realized that I probably wouldn't > be able to move because the Venus' Flytrap was likely to be holding me (we > have 5.3, if you haven't guessed by now). > However, I did manage to back up, *but the flytrap followed me into the > corridor*! After that move, I was in fact held, and had to fight my way loose. > > The Great Green Arkleseizure > Jamie Green > No, this is not a bug. The venus flytrap does not have to hold you when you first encounter it. It is a random thing (like everything else in rogue :-) It simply didn't hit you the first time. Ken Nichols ...!ucbvax!dual!qantel!ken ------------