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From: ken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols@ex6193)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: To Jamie re: possible bug?
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 19:49:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 19:49:58 1984
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> 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
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