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You could type "time" during the contest to see how close the end was. A gong sounded across the grid at five minutes and at one minute.
There were tons of other sounds too, indicating something happening in a certain direction. A "low horrid wail" meant someone was casting the death spell, for example. An explosion occurred when someone busted a wall or a crunching sound when someone was creating one with a wall spell. You could hear when someone died and in what direction they had fallen (some of this is shown in the pic). Sounds are valuable information to the shrewd, wiley player. If there were orbs fairly close together, we would push them into the same spot, cast a lingering teleport spell in the square and wall it in so that the orbs couldn't be touched without the wall being busted first. Someone would sit in sight, invisible, and lob red crystals at enemies while they attempted to get to the orbs. In the case that someone did break the wall down and step onto the square with the orbs, he'd be teleported away by the lingering teleport spell. So, the guardian casts another one and walls it up again. The way around that trap is to take a blue crystal, cast the phase spell, walk through the walls to the walled spot where the orbs are and toss the crystal "SN" (or, south and north) right on top of your head. The blast would go right through your phased body and explode the wall where you're standing to rubble. Then you can touch the spheres once the phase wears off. Now, if you're really good, you cast phase, walk onto the orbs, toss the crystal, let the phase wear off and touch the orbs, phase again, run ssn so that you're south of the orbs and facing them, prep and cast a lingering tele (or use a wand, if you've obtained one), prep and cast a wall spell and get back into clear space before your phase wears off. Crystals did more damage the closer to you they hit, so phasing onto someone while invisible and dtossing crystals on your own head was a great way to kill people.
Ah, man. Those were the days.
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