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  • Strange light in the mines

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Fri Feb 26 14:48:08 2021
    On 26.02.2021 14:39, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    Dark mines. Ordinary mines level. There's a lit area shaped like an L
    in the map below (close to my character).

    | |-< | |
    - | ---| |--
    | ---- --- --|
    --- -- -xxx --- --
    -- -----.ox ----
    | ..x----
    -- | -.. ^
    ---| .@. ------ --
    ---..-- ----
    ----

    I stepped there on every square, searched, but didn't find anything.
    Also (this is Slashem) no invisible objects there. Searched for any indication of a bones level, but no. My next guess or try would be
    to dig for some buried lit objects. (There's also no grave there.)

    Update: digging the walls around this lit region showed that the area
    marked above in the map by 'x' is all lit, so I dug at square 'o' but
    could not find anything buried. Strange.

    Any idea what could be going on there?

    Janis


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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 26 14:39:49 2021
    Dark mines. Ordinary mines level. There's a lit area shaped like an L
    in the map below (close to my character).

    | |-< | |
    - | ---| |--
    | ---- --- --|
    --- -- ---- --- --
    -- -----.-- ----
    | ..-----
    -- | -.. ^
    ---| .@. ------ --
    ---..-- ----
    ----

    I stepped there on every square, searched, but didn't find anything.
    Also (this is Slashem) no invisible objects there. Searched for any
    indication of a bones level, but no. My next guess or try would be
    to dig for some buried lit objects. (There's also no grave there.)

    Any idea what could be going on there?

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Fri Feb 26 15:52:17 2021
    On 26.02.2021 14:48, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    On 26.02.2021 14:39, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    Dark mines. Ordinary mines level. There's a lit area shaped like an L
    in the map below (close to my character).

    | |-< | |
    - | ---| |--
    | ---- --- --|
    --- -- -xxx --- --
    -- -----.ox ----
    | ..x----
    -- | -.. ^
    ---| .@. ------ --
    ---..-- ----
    ----

    I stepped there on every square, searched, but didn't find anything.
    Also (this is Slashem) no invisible objects there. Searched for any
    indication of a bones level, but no. My next guess or try would be
    to dig for some buried lit objects. (There's also no grave there.)

    Update: digging the walls around this lit region showed that the area
    marked above in the map by 'x' is all lit, so I dug at square 'o' but
    could not find anything buried. Strange.

    Another update: exploring the levels above showed that the area at
    these coordinates seems to be generally lit. I found this "light
    hotspot" also in the ordinary dungeon level above.

    Any idea what could be going on there?

    Probably a bug. Saving and restarting the game made that light spot
    vanish (on a few levels I checked).

    Janis

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  • From Eric Pozharski@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Sat Feb 27 16:22:27 2021
    with <s1b1v2$o4f$1@news-1.m-online.net> Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    On 26.02.2021 14:48, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    On 26.02.2021 14:39, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

    *SKIP*
    I stepped there on every square, searched, but didn't find anything.
    Also (this is Slashem) no invisible objects there. Searched for any
    indication of a bones level, but no. My next guess or try would be
    to dig for some buried lit objects. (There's also no grave there.)
    Update: digging the walls around this lit region showed that the area
    marked above in the map by 'x' is all lit, so I dug at square 'o' but
    could not find anything buried. Strange.
    Another update: exploring the levels above showed that the area at
    these coordinates seems to be generally lit. I found this "light
    hotspot" also in the ordinary dungeon level above.
    *SKIP*
    Probably a bug. Saving and restarting the game made that light spot
    vanish (on a few levels I checked).

    If it's a bug it should be turned into a feature (as if slashem doesn't
    fsck with you enough). Also, I've never dealt with them (so I believe)
    but: <https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Black_light>. Can you check
    #vanquished for unfamiliar y?

    p.s. IIRC, I was teleported from Mines back to some other explored
    level twice, for no reason and no messages. Next time it will happen
    I'll check #vanquished immediately.

    --
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    Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

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