quit "while already on Charon's boat"?
Chaos Master
computer.
I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
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Bruce
> What does that message means? I found it in some logfiles in my older
> computer.
> I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
Polymorph into something, geno your original race, quit. Check out this
post on google groups:
http://tinyurl.com/gi42
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Chaos Master
says...
> Chaos Master <rod...@toligado.com.br> deserves a cookie for saying:
> > What does that message means? I found it in some logfiles in my older
> > computer.
> > I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
>
> Polymorph into something, geno your original race, quit. Check out this
> post on google groups:
> http://tinyurl.com/gi42
Thanks, I did the same in wizmode, and it gave that message too.
and it ended with:
Goodbye wizard the Healer...
You died in The Dungeons of Doom blahblahblah
wizard
1982 au
quit while already on Charon's boat
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Aaron A. Stevenson
> Chaos Master <rod...@toligado.com.br> deserves a cookie for saying:
>> What does that message means? I found it in some logfiles in my older
>> computer.
>> I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
>
> Polymorph into something, geno your original race, quit. Check out this
> post on google groups:
> http://tinyurl.com/gi42
>
From the source:
if (how == QUIT) {
killer_format = NO_KILLER_PREFIX;
if (u.uhp < 1) {
how = DIED;
u.umortality++; /* skipped above when how==QUIT */
/* note that killer is pointing at kilbuf */
Strcpy(kilbuf, "quit while already on Charon's boat");
}
}
So it looks like this will also be caused by quitting when your HP is 0 or
less. Actually achieving this is left as an exercise for the reader. =)
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> What does that message means? I found it in some logfiles in my older
> computer.
> I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
>
But what I'd like to know is what exactly is a Charon's Boat?
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jarkko
David Corbett
Charon's the guy who ferries dead people to the underworld in Greek
mythology.
Jens Schmalzing
Jarkko Heiliö writes:
> But what I'd like to know is what exactly is a Charon's Boat?
In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Charon (Cheiron) is the ferryman
who takes the souls of the dead to Hades, the underworld, which is
separated from the world of the living by the river Styx. And in
order to be able to pay for the passage, Romans were buried with a
small coin in their mouth. I know NHINAGARM, but the code should
actually check whether the character has any gold left :)
Regards, Jens.
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Michael Clarke
<jens.sc...@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Jarkko Heiliö writes:
>
>> But what I'd like to know is what exactly is a Charon's Boat?
>
>In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Charon (Cheiron) is the ferryman
>who takes the souls of the dead to Hades, the underworld, which is
>separated from the world of the living by the river Styx. And in
>order to be able to pay for the passage, Romans were buried with a
>small coin in their mouth. I know NHINAGARM, but the code should
>actually check whether the character has any gold left :)
And they end up stuck on the banks of the Styx if they don't?
Mik
Jens Schmalzing
Michael Clarke writes:
> > And in order to be able to pay for the passage, Romans were buried
> > with a small coin in their mouth.
> And they end up stuck on the banks of the Styx if they don't?
Indeed. Some sources indicate that they would be taken over anyway
after a hundred years.
updoc
> Indeed. Some sources indicate that they would be taken over anyway
> after a hundred years.
So it's not so much paying the ferryman as tipping the waiter.
Brandon
--
Pick spot. Shut up. Wait.
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K. Bailey
> Jarkko Heiliö writes:
> > But what I'd like to know is what exactly is a Charon's Boat?
> In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Charon (Cheiron) is the ferryman
> who takes the souls of the dead to Hades, the underworld, which is
> separated from the world of the living by the river Styx. And in
> order to be able to pay for the passage, Romans were buried with a
> small coin in their mouth. I know NHINAGARM, but the code should
> actually check whether the character has any gold left :)
Well presumably they would need to have the zorkmid in their mouths,
perhaps placed there by some friendly passing monster.
Who DOES dig those graves and make those headstones, after all?
I bet it's the newts.
--
kb
Geoduck
And although he doesn't currently appear in the game, he is used as a
"placeholder" in the tile set.
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Chaos Master
posting to rec.games.roguelike.nethack at Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:32:04 -0600
".
> Bruce wrote:
>
> > Chaos Master <rod...@toligado.com.br> deserves a cookie for saying:
> >> What does that message means? I found it in some logfiles in my older
> >> computer.
> >> I searched on google, but I got no results related to NetHack.
> >
> > Polymorph into something, geno your original race, quit. Check out this
> > post on google groups:
> > http://tinyurl.com/gi42
> >
>
> From the source:
>
> if (how == QUIT) {
> killer_format = NO_KILLER_PREFIX;
> if (u.uhp < 1) {
> how = DIED;
> u.umortality++; /* skipped above when how==QUIT */
> /* note that killer is pointing at kilbuf */
> Strcpy(kilbuf, "quit while already on Charon's boat");
> }
> }
>
> So it looks like this will also be caused by quitting when your HP is 0 or
> less. Actually achieving this is left as an exercise for the reader. =)
AFAIK, it is impossible. :D
"Yeech! This stuff tastes like poison! You gave up on the game." (ultra-
stale juice :)
Kevin R
>
> Jarkko Heiliö writes:
>
> > But what I'd like to know is what exactly is a Charon's Boat?
>
> In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Charon (Cheiron) is the ferryman
> who takes the souls of the dead to Hades, the underworld, which is
> separated from the world of the living by the river Styx. And in
Charon ferried souls across the river Acheron, not the Styx.
Kevin
Michael Clarke
<jens.sc...@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Michael Clarke writes:
>
>> > And in order to be able to pay for the passage, Romans were buried
>> > with a small coin in their mouth.
>
>> And they end up stuck on the banks of the Styx if they don't?
>
>Indeed. Some sources indicate that they would be taken over anyway
>after a hundred years.
Sounds like an automatic bones level...
Mik
Mark Adamson
> >
> > In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Charon (Cheiron) is the ferryman
> > who takes the souls of the dead to Hades, the underworld, which is
> > separated from the world of the living by the river Styx. And in
>
> Charon ferried souls across the river Acheron, not the Styx.
>
> Kevin
Styx is the more commonly known river, but the mythology says both.
Encyclopedia Britannica says this about Charon:
in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it
was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the
deceased who had received the rites of burial. In payment he received
the coin that was placed in the mouth of the corpse.
Dylan O'Donnell
> There's a grave here. You feel the words: " Aaron A. Stevenson, killed by
> posting to rec.games.roguelike.nethack at Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:32:04 -0600
> ".
> >
> > if (how == QUIT) {
> > killer_format = NO_KILLER_PREFIX;
> > if (u.uhp < 1) {
> > how = DIED;
> > u.umortality++; /* skipped above when how==QUIT */
> > /* note that killer is pointing at kilbuf */
> > Strcpy(kilbuf, "quit while already on Charon's boat");
> > }
> > }
> >
> > So it looks like this will also be caused by quitting when your HP is 0 or
> > less. Actually achieving this is left as an exercise for the reader. =)
>
> AFAIK, it is impossible. :D
Not at all; try hitting ^C at the --More-- prompt after taking a fatal
blow or otherwise losing all your HP, but before the "You die..."
message.
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