[Crawl] Untrue Message...

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(Backround: found a weapon of distortion by wielding it, went to
save harbour to unwield it, and of course landed in the Abyss, but
found a gate out less than 20 lines of messages later...)

There is a gateway leading out of the Abyss here.
Entering...
You pass through the gate, and find yourself at the top of a staircase.
You climb downwards.

..... .....
...... .........
....... ...........
....... .............
........ ...............
........ ...............
........ .................
........ ..........._.....
........ ........@........
........ ...._............
........ .................
........ ...............
........ ...............
......._ .............
........ ........}..
......... .........
......... .....

You are in the Ecumenical Temple.

I did not find myself on top of a staircase (as you can see), and
something about the order of the messages seems off, too.

--
Tina the Lancer - an Initiate of the Roving National Greebling

 

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In article <MSGID_2=3A240=2F2199.13=40fidonet_289ee123@fidonet.org>,
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
//
// There is a gateway leading out of the Abyss here.
// Entering...
// You pass through the gate, and find yourself at the top of a staircase.
// You climb downwards.
//
// You are in the Ecumenical Temple.
//
// I did not find myself on top of a staircase (as you can see), and
// something about the order of the messages seems off, too.

Actually it's quite correct (the order too). What happens is that you
go through the gate, and find a set of stairs doing down. Which you
then take (climbing down these mystical stairs in the gate itself).
Normally, that leaves you at the *bottom* of a set of stairs going up
(which is a sign that you've just descended)... but the Ecumenical Temple
doesn't have any normal stairs, and so in order to avoid hanging your
game (like it used to), it gives up and drops you on a free empty square
(instead of in the middle of some piece of rock... something else it
used to do in these situations). Since we're talking about a set of
stairs that exists only in an interdimensional gate to begin with it
isn't such a big deal that they need to line up at all (and as you can
see, it's far better than previous behaviour).

Brent Ross