fleeing bug

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Version 3.4.3

You hit the chickatrice! the chickatrice turns to flee!
<I wander around for a couple of turns>
The chickatrice misses. The chickatrice touches you!
You caitiff! You kill the chickatrice!

A "fleeing" creature attacks me and I am penalized for defending myself!
What is a poor Knight to do to maintain alignment?

 

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Nick Hounsome wrote:
> Version 3.4.3

> A "fleeing" creature attacks me and I am penalized for defending myself!

Did you corner it? IIRC fleeing monsters still attack you if you stand
next to them and they have no obvious way of escape. This doesn't set
the mavenge flag like stealing would, and unfortunately there is no
'agressor' flag to keep track of who attacked you in the last turn.

> What is a poor Knight to do to maintain alignment?

use a stethoscope, a wand of probing, kill a few infidels (that 1 point
alignment hit is barely noticable to non-pacifists) or convert.

Lars

 

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"Lars Kecke" <kecke@physik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
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> Nick Hounsome wrote:
>> Version 3.4.3
>
>> A "fleeing" creature attacks me and I am penalized for defending myself!
>
> Did you corner it? IIRC fleeing monsters still attack you if you stand
> next to them and they have no obvious way of escape. This doesn't set the
> mavenge flag like stealing would, and unfortunately there is no 'agressor'
> flag to keep track of who attacked you in the last turn.

It could move but not away from me - we were in a T junction in maze . I
tried to go around it.

>
>> What is a poor Knight to do to maintain alignment?
>
> use a stethoscope,

too tedious with the number that I'm getting and I ahven't got one anyway.
> a wand of probing,

too wasteful

> kill a few infidels (that 1 point alignment hit is barely noticable to
> non-pacifists)

as I say I'm getting quite a few and anyway I'm trying to be good.

>or convert.

I usually prefer to play chaotic but I thought I would try a lawful knight
for a change.

 

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Quoting Nick Hounsome <nh002@blueyonder.co.uk>:
>A "fleeing" creature attacks me and I am penalized for defending myself!
>What is a poor Knight to do to maintain alignment?

Don't worry. The alignment hit is trivial.
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