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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
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 07:48:20 1985
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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
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