Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!olson From: olson@rochester.UUCP (Thomas J. Olson) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: What is 'Charon's boat'? Message-ID: <11574@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 09:16:04 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.11574 Posted: Thu Sep 12 09:16:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 09:38:49 EDT References: <5540@fortune.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 21 Glenn Boozer writes : > > I have this line in my score file. I made number 4 on the list. > > 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?? ... In Greek mythology, Charon is the guy who ferries your soul across the river Styx to Hades in his rowboat. You are, of course, dead... In some accounts you have to pay for the privilege, which may have something to do with the custom of putting coins on dead people's eyes - or is that some other mythology? In any event, hack had apparently already rolled the dice and decided that you were going to die, hence the "Charon's boat" message. - tom (no END of cute hacks in hack!) olson