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>From peterm@soda.berkeley.edu Thu Jun  2 16:17:33 1994
>  This is bizarre.  Monsters cannot step on places where people have
>quit out?  BIZARRE.  Definitely a bug.  How would anyone discover this?
>Weirdness......

Sorry I did not mean that the squares were unusable by monsters.  Ill try to
explain more cogently.  Lets see now ..... when a player types 'quit the game
pauses asking the player y/n for safety.  Now while this is happening the
players character is not removed from the world as he has not yet determined
if he should quit or not.  Also this suspended character cannot be harmed in
any way but the game behaves as though he is still there as nobody including
monsters can move through or into the square occupied by the suspended character
So now you get a bunch of low level characters and trap a large monster by the
following steps ::
1) get someone to bring on low level dummy characters and quit these without
typing y/n.
2) now bring in your xx level character and push these suspended characters
into strategic positions around the monster hedging it into a corner.
3) now kill the monster from a safe distance with long range weapons and magic.

Due to the inherent nature of the ruse it will work with monsters that are made
up of multiple squares.  Single square monsters would be virtually impossible
unless in a narrow corridor or someplace else.

Hope this is a clearer explanation.

Have a nice day
Ripclaw
(Lev 14; Maintainer)