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Old 02-27-2005, 09:52 AM   #1
Molly
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I have to share this story:
A player just asked me: 'Can you answer me this?  Is there a way out of the Place of Happy Death?  It has no exit, and every mob in the area seem to have entered it and died.'

The background is this:
'The Place of Happy Death' used to be a DeathTrap. You know, one of those nasty places where you not only die on the spot, but also lose all your equipment. The IC explanation to it was, that the poor wretched slaves of the area used to commit suicide by jumping into the elevator shaft.

Like all DTs on our Mud it was very well marked, because we really only want the stupid players to fall into them. So there were large signs everywhere, saying in red capital letters 'GOING WEST FROM HERE MEANS CERTAIN DEATH!' or 'ENTERING THIS ROOM MEANS INSTANT DEATH!'
And still so many Newbies kept falling into it that we decided to remove the DT Flag.

Mobs cannot enter DTs, so when I got the report, I figured that my Head Builder Sonya, who removed the DT flag, had just forgotten to set a !mob flag on the room. So I went there to fix the glitch, and this is what I found:

The Place Of Happy Death
[ Exits: None!]
The bones of the long dead lie among rotting corpses in various stages of decay,
the stench is nauseating.  In the center of the area is a large drain where the
oozing matter can slowly make its way.  What were you thinking when you came in
here?  
Corpses of slaves are everywhere.
Corpses have been piled up around the edge of the room.

Checking it a bit closer I discovered that the pile of corpses was the exit, one of our extended 'portal types'.
You had to climb the pile to get out. (Looking at the corpses provided that info).

I found it ingenious and also hilarious.
Just wish that I had thought about it myself...
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