Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cstvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!gdmr From: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: What is 'Charon's boat'? Message-ID: <346@cstvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 07:48:20 EDT Article-I.D.: cstvax.346 Posted: Sat Sep 14 07:48:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 03:17:53 EDT References: <5540@fortune.UUCP> Reply-To: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) Distribution: net Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland Lines: 14 In article <5540@fortune.UUCP> boozer@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Boozer) writes: >4 4122 boozer-W quit on dungeon level 7 while already on Charon's boat. >I was loosing to a beatle. I quit during a 'MORE' while I had fainted due to >hunger. The beatle was killing me as I slept. I quit with a pending MORE on >the screen and got the Charon's boat message. >Any ideas?? Sounds like you'd succumbed to the beatle (which one of them was it, BTW :-) and your soul was already on its way across the Styx when you quit.... -- George D M Ross, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh Phone: +44 31-667 1081 x2730 UUCP:!ukc!cstvax!gdmr JANET: gdmr@UK.AC.ed.cstvax