Bizarre in the extreme!

[theadder]

I can't think what could have caused this one.

I descended the stairs onto the level with the treasure stores where you meet the green slime monsters for the first time. I had been practicing my ninja skills and had just thrown a bunch of stuff down the stairs so there were a pile of 35-40 objects at my feet.
When I saw the green slime things coming, I starting picking things up from the floor and throwing them at the oncoming nasties. This is where it got wierd. The items I was throwing landed one square in front of me BUT ALSO CONTINUED DOWN THE CORRIDOR FOR ANOTHER TWO SPACES. For every item I threw, it split into two identical items and landed on two different squares until the corridor in front of me was littered with clones.
When I went to pick up one of the items that had landed further along the corridor, its clone vanished at the same time. When I put it down again, the clone reappeared where I had come from. Obviously the game was only treating each item as a single object, but drawing them in two places.
Even more bizarre, when I stood a couple of spaces from the bottom of the stairs after this had happened and threw objects, they bounced off the empty space in front of me as though it was a wall, made a thumping sound and I took damage!!!

I don't know if this is unique to the area or a general bug, but boy was it strange!

[Gambit37]

I think you should get an award for that - gotta be the most spectacular bug so far...

[theadder]

Come to think of it, I also noticed that the slime monsters reappeared a second or two after I killed them and then vanished again after another moment - sort of a latent ghosting! I would imagine whatever caused that was what went on to cause the rest - perhaps the game didn't like the fact that there were so many items in the corridor+monsters+things flying through the air.

Hasn't happened since. Thank god

[George Gilbert]

Sounds very wierd to me. If this sort of thing ever happens again, can you save the game and send the *.sav file to me and then I can have a look and try to see what's causing it. Preferably though, can you find a set of repeatable commands (i.e. pile up 3 throwing stars on square 4,6 on level 4 and throw then south) that always reproduces the bug?

Clearly if it's not repeatable then that makes it tricky!

Hmm - probably my second fave bug so far - the dragon still wins

[theadder]

I'll let you know if it happens again. I have to say my play style is very unique - I had just thrown those objects right the way across the level above just to train my ninja skills. By level 3, all my characters were expert ninjas.

[George Gilbert]

Fixed for V0.08