How to release of a bear trap?
Wolfgang Keller
trap. How can I release of it?
Toni Keskitalo
>I am playing a babarian (3rd level) and accidently I have fallen into a bear
>trap. How can I release of it?
Just keep trying to move -- you'll get eventually released. There's a
trick to make that to happen faster: move diagonally (if you can).
Toni
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David Ploog
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> I am playing a babarian (3rd level) and accidently I have fallen into a
bear
> trap. How can I release of it?
>
...by simply walking out of it (or trying to do so over and over again).
Don't walk in the direction of your pet if it is standing directly next
to you, otherwise you might push it into the trap and it won't like that
at all.
Note that you can (u)ntrap a bear trap, while not trapped by it. This
will probably catch you in it again, though.
If you have managed to untrap it, you can take it with you, and (a)pply
it to set it up again somewhere else.
David
dSb
Toni Keskitalo <tpke...@st.jyu.invalid> replied:
> Just keep trying to move -- you'll get eventually released. There's
> a trick to make that to happen faster: move diagonally (if you can).
Really? I've never heard that....
- dSb
Sam Dennis
> When asked, "Where were you on Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:59:08 +0000 (UTC)?",
> Toni Keskitalo <tpke...@st.jyu.invalid> replied:
>> Just keep trying to move -- you'll get eventually released. There's
>> a trick to make that to happen faster: move diagonally (if you can).
>
> Really? I've never heard that....
Yes: really; just don't ask why.
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dSb
Sam Dennis <s...@malfunction.screaming.net> replied:
*twitches spasmodically*
- dSb
Martin Crisp
(in message <slrnbea15...@localhost.loopback>):
OK, I won't.
Why isn't moving horizontally or vertically as effective?
Have Fun
Martin
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David Ploog
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> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 8:05:35 +1000, Sam Dennis wrote
> (in message <slrnbea15...@localhost.loopback>):
>
> > dSb wrote:
> >> When asked, "Where were you on Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:59:08 +0000 (UTC)?",
> >> Toni Keskitalo <tpke...@st.jyu.invalid> replied:
> >>> [bear traps]
> >>> Just keep trying to move -- you'll get eventually released. There's
> >>> a trick to make that to happen faster: move diagonally (if you can).
> >>
> >> Really? I've never heard that....
> >
> > Yes: really; just don't ask why.
>
> OK, I won't.
>
> Why isn't moving horizontally or vertically as effective?
>
corner of the hole (supposing it's a square hole) because there you can
heave yourself up easier (pressing your legs against the walls).
At least I always used this technique when climbing out of a swimming
pool and the ladder was too far away for my liking.
I never knew that this also works for bear traps...
David
Dylan O'Donnell
> Martin Crisp <Spam....@tesseract.com.au> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> 0001HW.BB0BAE70...@news.ozemail.com.au...
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 8:05:35 +1000, Sam Dennis wrote
> > (in message <slrnbea15...@localhost.loopback>):
[moving diagonally to escape bear traps more quickly]
> > > Yes: really; just don't ask why.
> >
> > OK, I won't.
> >
> > Why isn't moving horizontally or vertically as effective?
> >
> With pits it makes sense: you make climbing out easier if you chose the
> corner of the hole (supposing it's a square hole) because there you can
> heave yourself up easier (pressing your legs against the walls).
Except that moving diagonally _doesn't_ help you escape pits any
more effectively in NetHack.
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Rast
<bc1sqc$g41$1...@mordred.cc.jyu.fi>:
> Wolfgang Keller <mail.wolfg...@web.de> engraved on the floor:
> >I am playing a babarian (3rd level) and accidently I have fallen into a bear
> >trap. How can I release of it?
>
> Just keep trying to move -- you'll get eventually released. There's a
> trick to make that to happen faster: move diagonally (if you can).
I think that you don't need to have a free path diagonally to escape faster
by trying to move diagonally. But I could be wrong.
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